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today I have a pretty interesting product to unbox this is the analog

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version of the Corsair hs1 so it's the

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hs1a A is for analog and I will be

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opening it up my expectation is that it will be quite similar to the hs1 except

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without the built-in USB sound card which for some people may actually be a

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benefit rather than a disadvantage so

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here are the technical specifications want to come in and have a look so 50 mm

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drivers that's an important one extra large circumoral ear cups with closed

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back noise isolating design so those make it very comfortable replaceable

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memory phone ear pads also for Comfort ooh moisture resistant microfiber covers

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excellent so if you're sweating and gaming then won't be a problem 3M cable

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okay noise cancelling uh rotation rotating boom mic and that's pretty much

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everything that I have to say from there amazing sound for intensive immersive

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gaming okay massive 50 mil drivers

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basically gives you louder sound deeper

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base all of that good stuff that just cannot be achieved because of the

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physics of the thing with smaller drivers so let's go ahead and extract

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these from their packaging I remember having quite a difficult time with the

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hs1 so hopefully the hs1a does not prove

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to be quite such a challenge

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for after all if you fool me once then shame

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on you and if you fool me twice then shame on me

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right okay depends who you ask if you ask George W bush then that's really not

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how the saying goes but that's how I always heard it all right there I have

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extracted it now I have extracted what

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appears to be a disc that doesn't contain a disc so we have a quick start

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guide which probably pretty much amounts to plug the thing into the thing okay a

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warranty guide which tells us that this product has a 2-year warranty which is

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also indicated on the side of the box that's it for that now let's have a look

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at the only included accessories so these are pley type ear cups these use

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memory foam inside wow they're really soft that feels really comfy and nice uh

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so you can replace the stock microfiber

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cloth ones with these if you should so desire something to be aware of is that

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not only is that going to change the feel of the earphones against your head

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but it will also change the sound characteristics of the headset so the

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pley ones will actually isolate uh outside sounds from you a little bit

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more and isolate the sounds you're hearing from the people around you a little bit more will make them sound a

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little bit more closed personally I prefer the sound of headphones uh

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without the the ple three cups with the uh with the microfiber cups but I prefer

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the feel of the leather one so you have to just find what works best for you so

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here's what the headset looks like you can see the boom mic is in increments of

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approximately this much it goes all the way down here just in case you're one of

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those people whose mouth is well down

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here um so this is probably the more useful level for most people it is

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adjustable in and out so you can make sure that it's always coming down in the

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right place for your mouth um in here

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you will see the 50 mm drivers you can

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see these are also made of memory foam they leave quite an imprint when you

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press on them with your finger but then easily relax back into their standard

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configuration the hs1 I always found

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very very comfortable that could not possibly be a complain I would have

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about the hs1 and so the same remains true the hs1a they've changed only a

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couple things about the headphones themselves you can see the color scheme is changed slightly where we used to

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have silver we now have black so the hs1a does look a little bit different

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lot lot of padding up here as well on

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the headband okay so they like I said very very comfortable overall build

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quality of the hs1a is unsurprisingly about like the hs1 very solid so while

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we do have plastic components here they feel very well built and like no matter

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how much you toss them around you're not going to manage to crack them or break

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them in terms of adjustments you can see they've got marked adjustments here in

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increments of approximately that much okay so you can make sure that they are

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going to fit on your head even if your

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head is shaped like this like if you have like a really tall head bu it just

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fine well I guess you could also have like kind of a wider head too so so

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either of those scenarios we've accounted for here uh I think that's

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pretty much all I had to say about the headphones themselves want I just come in and have kind of a closer look at

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them before we move on to the included

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oh yeah this adjustment is also present okay okay so let's have a look at the

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volume control and mic so there's a volume control dial right here and then

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there's also a mic mute right here so uh

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you wouldn't be the first person if you accidentally bumped this to the mute position and then uh you know tried to

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reconfigure all your audio settings to make them work to realize that you had

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hit that switch so watch out for that it is useful though when you know your

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mom's calling you and you have to be like I'm coming and you don't want to

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scream that into your mic so that's what it's really for uh you've got two

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standard uh 3.5 mil Jack so one for

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headphones one for mic and that is pretty much it so when it comes down to

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it I'd say pretty much hs1a if you have a high-end sound card or really pretty

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much any any after uh anything that's not onboard sound card if you do have an

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onboard sound card and you don't feel like buying a sound card then the USB is

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definitely a great option so thanks for checking out this unboxing don't forget

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