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fully private click now to learn more the funk HS 260s come in a white box and
we I guess we could do like a sort of pseudo unboxing there's really not much
inside though they have a fairly barebones accessory package which goes
along with the you know fairly value oriented pricing of them so they come
with the headphones the microphone which is right here the cable which has a
black and orange sort of color scheme just like we've seen with their other pereral is quite long it's approximately
you know two Linus ARM spans and finally
replacement pleather ear cups uh the pleather ones are easy to swap and take
less than a minute per ear cup if you use the right technique but I really
prefer the cloth ear cups on the HS 260 I felt they improved sound quality at
the cost of a little bit less noise isolation but that it was a worthwhile
trade-off and apparently Funk thought so too because they Ship by default with
the cloth ones so I I went ahead and I uh I left that I left these off so what
can I say about them well they're a little bit on the heavier side but then
maybe I don't mind them a little on the heavier side and they're I mean they're
not unreasonable or anything they're quite similar to the Vengeance 1400s
from Corsair um with all plastic construction there it's a little tough
to achieve a premium feel but I still think they've done a fairly good job
there the soft touch finish helps a lot and a couple of tap tastfully applied
shiny plastic accents also help a little bit like on the ear cup right here the
ear cups themselves in terms of ergonomics here have a tiny little bit
of swivel but no more than necessary so if you like to fold them flat when you
put your headset around your neck you can pretty much forget about that um the
headband is one area where the build quality looks a little bit janky if you
twist it around like this but it actually holds together quite well now
this is a cool little ergonomic trick you can actually plug the mic or the 3
1/2 mm cable into either port on the bottom of the headset and that's cool I
mean to me it's a bit of a fringe case because I think we're mostly used to the
cable coming up on the left hand side and our you know Cable Management schema
being built around that and I generally don't like detachable stuff it tends to
get lost whenever I'm around but this is something that's very much Personal
Taste and you guys could completely disagree with me about it so let me know
in the comments do you like the flex cable swappable design or do you just
think it doesn't matter at all um the flexible mic on the other hand is a big
Plus in my eyes and gives the HS 260 a big leg up on its main competitor the
Vengeance 1400 which has a boom mic that lowers instead placement of a flexible
mic at the corner of your mouth is much easier than one that just lowers and is
whatever sort of distance in front of your mouth as it wants to be whereas
this one you can put wherever you need to um another great ergonomic choice on
these headphones is the inclusion of on ear controls for both volume and the mic
microphone mute when you compare that with fussing about trying to find an
inline control pod this is a great step forward and something that we've started
to see a little bit more of now in terms of fit um they seal adequately on my
head in spite of the large thickly padded ear cups they're a touch on the
heavy side as I mentioned before but the good news is that the headband is wide
and the padding is thick with that said it's a fairly hard foam in here um so it
will take some Breakin time before it molds to the shape of your head but once
it does it should pretty much fit like a glove um I wish Comfort wise that they
actually had a little bit more clamping Force out of the box this would improve
base response a touch and would also allow the headband to put a little bit
less pressure on my head but the flip side of that is that people with larger
heads mine's a medium would likely be uncomfortable out of the box and you're
better off going with something that feels okay to everyone out of the box
and breaks in than going with something that's uncomfortable to people might
cause them to return it so they get a gold star from me for comfort were no
obvious problems all right so let's get into
listening tests when I fire up gaming headphones I'm basically expecting a
base heavy mess but maybe everyone is just growing out of that now the overall
sound signature of the HS 260s is actually fairly flat and Funk was even
willing to provide the frequency response curve when I asked them it's
nice to be them to see them be so upfront with the specs of their
headphones this is a significant difference at this point in my mind
between Funk and their competition who simply provide that meaningless
frequency response range on the box I
bear in mind though that if I were to compare them to audio file grade
headphones that are available near this price range such as the ever popular
Audio Technica ATM 50s which can sometimes be found for as little as a
hundred bucks the hs6 260s do fall short
I mean I think we're a long way away from a headset an all-in-one type
product made by a gaming company competing at a similar price range with
a dedicated pair of headphones from an experienced Audio company I mean this is
this should be fairly intuitive and is similar to the whole phone versus a
dedicated camera conversation yes a
proper dedicated device is going to take better pictures than this I mean you
could even make the argument that it's better to carry a flip phone a camera a
portable gaming system a flashlight a level I'm sure you see where I'm going
with this um compared to a jack of all trades device and you might be right but
ah it's not for everyone I mean I don't use a headset anymore I've put on my big
boy pants and I now have a mod mic that I can clip with magic I mean a magnet to
whatever pair of audio file grade headphones I happened to be using at the
time and that works great for me but the cold hard truth is that not everyone
wants that solution and so for the folks who are only shopping for 100ish doll
headsets I did all of my comparative listening with the HS 260s against its
competition the Razer Kraken Pro the steel series Siberia V2s and the cors
Vengeance
1400s to start with the HS 260 and the Vengeance 1400 sat about in the middle
for me in terms of Base boom they managed to make explosions and other
action noises you know shake without drowning out everything else the way
that the Kraken Pros did making those um very very difficult for me to listen to
and very difficult for me to recommend um compared to the Siberia V2s they
definitely delivered more punch for me but during my listening tests I actually
made a bit of a personal Discovery I had always wondered what all the fuss was
with the Siberia V2s sure they're incredibly lightweight they're
inexpensive um but they always sounded horrible to me the issue is that they
don't seal correctly on my head there's a gap down here and they use a one-size
fits all suspension system so I can't even adjust them that makes their base
response absolutely abysmal on my head
um by using my hands to to actually push them down onto my head they still don't
Boom the way that any of the others do but the base is quite tight and
responsive and not completely absent so while they're still not a good choice
for me at all I at least get it now uh
as far as mids go they were full and not obscured by bass making them more
suitable for music than the Siberia V2s which even with the manual correction
are stronger in both the high and low ranges and then where highs were
concerned compared to the Siberia V2s the HS 260s didn't seem as clear and
detailed but they did sound better than the Vengeance 1400s in this department
overall if I had to describe them as like something but different I'd say
they are similar to The Vengeance 1400s but with less base oomph and a little
more detail in the highs which is not a bad place for them to be which leaves us
with the mic test go ahead and have a listen this is my microphone test on the
funk HS 260 I hope you guys enjoyed it
okay I think we're back now so considering that they come in at
slightly more expensive than the Siberia V2s and sound better with a much better
mic and that they sound similar to the Vengeance 1400s and are priced similarly
to the Vengeance 1400s with what I'd consider to be a slightly better
sounding mic and improved ergonomics with the onar controls the HS 260 looks
like yet another solid product from Funk
so I think that's pretty much all there is to say like this video if you liked
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