welcome to another unboxing and first look online as Tech tips we're going to
be using our Fancy Pants dual camera setup and today we're going to be having
a look at the flux inar Pro from steel
series and Slick's getting distracted because he was looking down at the box
but he doesn't have to because we have two cameras now so basically steel
Series has a lot on the go in terms of
audio product they've had got their overthe headphones but this is the first
time we've really seen an in-ear headphone product from them so what
separates this from other headphones in a similar price range well steel series
is saying that the most important things about this guy are the fact that they
have balanced armature drivers okay so what that means is a very flat response
in fact they even have a helpful little graph here on the box that shows you a
more typical head phone frequency response versus the flux iner Pros which
is very very flat so according to diesel who is actually
in some ways a bit more of an audio nerd than slick and who is more of an audio
nerd than myself this is good because it means that you can use a software
equalizer or other kinds of voodoo magic in order to achieve sort of a more poppy
sound or a more bass heavy sound as long as you know that the headphones or
earbuds that you're using are flat then any adjustments you make are not going
to accidentally overcompensate for what was essentially a deficiency in the
product itself we've also got inline
microphone controls so it is still functional as a headset and can be used
for music or gaming with a mobile PC or
a Mac because it just uses three a 3 and 1 12 mm plug not just a 3 and half
millim plug more on that later so here's what they have to say balanced armature
technology offers an incredible audio experience the highly accurate drivers allowed to hear new layers level subtle
details and ReDiscover your games and music so we're not going to let this unboxing finish without slick actually
taking some time to compare these imem against sort of his experience because
he's the one who tried them at the steel series Suite where we picked these up
and overall his Impressions were very very positive although I'd love for
diesel to try them out as well cool thing about these is they actually come
with a variety of different ear tips so it's normal for these earbuds to come
with sort of a small medium and large but these ones actually come with comply
foam tips as well so silicon tips are
good for sort of isolating noise which is which is great and they're reasonably
comfortable yeah well okay a lot of
people don't find silicon tips reasonably or silicon silicone tips
reasonably comfortable at all which is why comply tips are a very very popular
choice so comply tips actually use a foam a memory foam that you can squeeze
and then it will expand in your ear to make it extremely comfortable as well as
to make it uh form a very tight seal so
it comes with a quick start guide although quite frankly if you need a quick start guide to operate your
headphones then you probably need some help although in their defense these
headphones do actually have a couple of nuances that make them a little bit
tricky so in terms of included accessories we've got a carrying case
which has the head earbuds themselves inside so you can see there they are
with their little oh that's kind of cool check this out so it has a velcro
surface here and then the band that you can use to wrap up the headphones has
Velcro on the outside of it as well so it'll actually stick there okay and you
can take things like extra ear tips or extra cable adapters or whatever else
you want and throw them in there nice and soft kind of like a little coin
purse if you catch my drift okay and
we've got the earbuds themselves there's that little carrying strap that we had
with the velcro got a steel series steel series sticker inside all
right uh a couple of little bits and pieces here so this is kind of important
so steel series whole thing with the flux in your Pros is that they went back
to the drawing board in terms of ergonomics and instead they I think what
what did they say they picked up like 150 earbuds or something stupid like
that like some ridiculous number I don't remember how many it was but they bought
a bunch of earbuds when they were trying to figure out the ergonomics and tried
them all and basically went well we don't really like any of them so back to
the drawing board they decided to look back at hearing aids something that's
actually designed to be worn all day in order to determine how they wanted these
to fit so hearing aids often go over the year and I apologize these are slicks
but I'm totally going to put them in so hopefully these aren't the uh these
aren't the silicone tips that he wants to use so the way that they work is
they're they're labeled in terms of left and right so I'm going to hold this one
up so that uh diesel can have a look right here so there's a little r or an L
on the inside hopefully you guys can see that I think that you can oh I'm
covering it that's why you can't see it there it is right there little r and an l and then what it what it does is it
goes over and around your ear much like
some of the very high-end earbuds are out that are out there or like something
like hearing aids they also include an accessory so this is just a little sort
of uh rubber strip thing here that acts as a guide so if you don't like the feel
of the thin wires hanging on your ears then you can actually wrap them in this
there's just a little slit in the top of it and then it'll be a bit of a thicker
piece that sits over top of the ear which should help it be a little bit more comfortable for those who aren't
really used to this whole approach to things so uh where was I going with that
right included accessories so there you go you've got your medium small and
large tips and then these guys right here so these are the compli foam tips
and I'm going to switch to the other camera here so you can have a look at these so the way that you're supposed to
use these is you actually squish them up
into a tighter sort of ball like that
and then you wait for them to expand inside your ear now they don't last
forever unlike normal silicone ear tips which will last for a really really long
time these should be replaced probably every few months if you use them
frequently but they're not actually all that expensive so you know it's it's up
to you both options are included you can try the complies you can use them if you
want or or you can just not end up using them over the long term and you can
stick with the silicone ones which will last pretty much forever or until they
become sort of a hygiene issue which is I don't know for gamers is that an issue
is a hygiene issue a thing all right
other included accessories we're almost done here so there's a little
proprietary connector on the end here that actually serves uh a very distinct
purpose so you can plug in either here we go sorry I know I'm covering up the
camera here and there's nothing diesel can do about it there you can plug in
either a three banded three and a half millimeter so that'll carry your your uh
your microphone and your headphone signals through one connector or you can
use the other included connector to plug it into a PC or other sort of more
conventional device where you have two separate two banded connectors so you
can swap those out and I would like it to be noted that this is actually one of
the better non-tangle cables I've seen in the past so it's quite a bit thicker
which actually gives it some additional weight so when it's hanging off of your
ears the good news is it doesn't hang right out of the ear tips out of your
ear canals themselves because it wraps around your ear but it gives it some
extra weight so it pulls a little more than normal but because of its thickness
you can actually crumple it up in a little ball stuff it in your pocket so
we're going to hope that this live demo actually works pretty well whoops and
then you can untangle it in a matter of sort of less than less than seconds so
that's a good thing as well on the I believe it's the left earbud yep on the
left earbud you've got that inline volume control as well as a microphone
that I had talked about before so here I'm going to give you guys a close look at that so all that is pretty
straightforward so there's the microphone on the back and there is the
Integrated Controls on the front and I don't know if we're missing anything at
this point so let me just see we've got all the accessories we've got the
general features right so basically steel series whole thing with this is
that for the price which is in sort of the mid hundreds range it should pretty
much blow the doors off anything else that's out there so we're going to take a moment and let these guys try it out
after much testing in our audio laboratory well the tech tips studio if
nothing else um actually well slick forgot his phone
at CES so his music library is
conveniently not here however Diesel and I spent some time with it so my point of
comparison is my Clips has four eyes which I know aren't fantastic earbuds by
any stretch of the imagination overall I'd say it's if I had to pick something
where the flux iner Pros just utterly destroyed the S4 I it would be in terms
of bass however it didn't sound just sort of boomy and ridiculous like a lot
of imem or a lot of headphones do especially if they're oriented towards
Gamers uh diesel is a bit of a of an earbuds Diva so he uses Sennheiser i8s
which are obviously a much more expensive pair of earphones than these
ones so his whole take on it was H they're not as good as my IE8 but if we
had to to make you draw a conclusion that wasn't based on just sort of being
a diva uh diesel it would be probably what something along the lines of very
competitive for the price compared to the i8s okay so he's he's G he's giving
me the thumbs up so I'd like to show you guys that I did install the uh the metal
or metal piece yeah the metal piece that like you know straps to your head and
you nail it in place uh no the rubber piece right here that actually for me
made them quite a bit more comfortable now there's the obvious problem where if
you scrunch them up and put them in your pocket and they come off or you have to
adjust them in any way then they might be a little bit inconvenient but I would
say for me personally the comfort factor is definitely improved by uh by adding
those so I think that pretty much wraps things up thanks for checking out this unboxing and first look at the steel
series flux inear Pro guys I've been
saying this for a long time about my 7 hes but it's time to stop thinking of
Steel series as gaming audio because they A Cut Above what anyone else in the
gaming headset space is doing in terms of audio quality with particular
emphasis on the 7 H's and now the flux in ear Pros don't forget to subscribe to
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