today I have a pretty interesting product to unbox this is the analog
version of the Corsair hs1 so it's the
hs1a A is for analog and I will be
opening it up my expectation is that it will be quite similar to the hs1 except
without the built-in USB sound card which for some people may actually be a
benefit rather than a disadvantage so
here are the technical specifications want to come in and have a look so 50 mm
drivers that's an important one extra large circumoral ear cups with closed
back noise isolating design so those make it very comfortable replaceable
memory phone ear pads also for Comfort ooh moisture resistant microfiber covers
excellent so if you're sweating and gaming then won't be a problem 3M cable
okay noise cancelling uh rotation rotating boom mic and that's pretty much
everything that I have to say from there amazing sound for intensive immersive
gaming okay massive 50 mil drivers
basically gives you louder sound deeper
base all of that good stuff that just cannot be achieved because of the
physics of the thing with smaller drivers so let's go ahead and extract
these from their packaging I remember having quite a difficult time with the
hs1 so hopefully the hs1a does not prove
to be quite such a challenge
for after all if you fool me once then shame
on you and if you fool me twice then shame on me
right okay depends who you ask if you ask George W bush then that's really not
how the saying goes but that's how I always heard it all right there I have
extracted it now I have extracted what
appears to be a disc that doesn't contain a disc so we have a quick start
guide which probably pretty much amounts to plug the thing into the thing okay a
warranty guide which tells us that this product has a 2-year warranty which is
also indicated on the side of the box that's it for that now let's have a look
at the only included accessories so these are pley type ear cups these use
memory foam inside wow they're really soft that feels really comfy and nice uh
so you can replace the stock microfiber
cloth ones with these if you should so desire something to be aware of is that
not only is that going to change the feel of the earphones against your head
but it will also change the sound characteristics of the headset so the
pley ones will actually isolate uh outside sounds from you a little bit
more and isolate the sounds you're hearing from the people around you a little bit more will make them sound a
little bit more closed personally I prefer the sound of headphones uh
without the the ple three cups with the uh with the microfiber cups but I prefer
the feel of the leather one so you have to just find what works best for you so
here's what the headset looks like you can see the boom mic is in increments of
approximately this much it goes all the way down here just in case you're one of
those people whose mouth is well down
here um so this is probably the more useful level for most people it is
adjustable in and out so you can make sure that it's always coming down in the
right place for your mouth um in here
you will see the 50 mm drivers you can
see these are also made of memory foam they leave quite an imprint when you
press on them with your finger but then easily relax back into their standard
configuration the hs1 I always found
very very comfortable that could not possibly be a complain I would have
about the hs1 and so the same remains true the hs1a they've changed only a
couple things about the headphones themselves you can see the color scheme is changed slightly where we used to
have silver we now have black so the hs1a does look a little bit different
lot lot of padding up here as well on
the headband okay so they like I said very very comfortable overall build
quality of the hs1a is unsurprisingly about like the hs1 very solid so while
we do have plastic components here they feel very well built and like no matter
how much you toss them around you're not going to manage to crack them or break
them in terms of adjustments you can see they've got marked adjustments here in
increments of approximately that much okay so you can make sure that they are
going to fit on your head even if your
head is shaped like this like if you have like a really tall head bu it just
fine well I guess you could also have like kind of a wider head too so so
either of those scenarios we've accounted for here uh I think that's
pretty much all I had to say about the headphones themselves want I just come in and have kind of a closer look at
them before we move on to the included
oh yeah this adjustment is also present okay okay so let's have a look at the
volume control and mic so there's a volume control dial right here and then
there's also a mic mute right here so uh
you wouldn't be the first person if you accidentally bumped this to the mute position and then uh you know tried to
reconfigure all your audio settings to make them work to realize that you had
hit that switch so watch out for that it is useful though when you know your
mom's calling you and you have to be like I'm coming and you don't want to
scream that into your mic so that's what it's really for uh you've got two
standard uh 3.5 mil Jack so one for
headphones one for mic and that is pretty much it so when it comes down to
it I'd say pretty much hs1a if you have a high-end sound card or really pretty
much any any after uh anything that's not onboard sound card if you do have an
onboard sound card and you don't feel like buying a sound card then the USB is
definitely a great option so thanks for checking out this unboxing don't forget
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