1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:05,960 all right guys if you've followed lonus Tech tips for any sort of extended 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:12,000 period of time you probably know that I'm a bit of an audio geek so this is 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:18,160 something that I am extremely excited about this is the brand new SP 2500 from 4 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:21,800 Corsair it is from their gaming audio 5 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:24,080 series which normally I would sort of 6 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:28,320 turn my nose up to and I'd say blah gaming audio that just means it's not 7 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:35,000 very good and so they Market it to Gamers who don't know better no 8 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:38,320 offense to any of our gamers in the 9 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:40,800 audience but Corsair has taken a 10 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:47,559 completely different approach to this particular set of gaming audio speakers 11 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:51,120 this is a 2.1 setup and they have aimed 12 00:00:47,559 --> 00:00:54,079 to build the best overall speaker setup 13 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:58,800 that they can in a price range that Gamers can still afford so why don't we 14 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:02,879 find one side of this box or other that has some specifications on it that I can 15 00:01:00,719 --> 00:01:07,200 show you and we'll go through what Corsair has to say for themselves about 16 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:11,880 this setup so first thing over here we see that Corsair has a 2-year warranty 17 00:01:09,119 --> 00:01:14,479 on it Corsair's warranty is legendary in this industry so you can pretty much 18 00:01:13,439 --> 00:01:17,400 believe that they're going to stand behind it for as long as they say all 19 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:25,560 right specifications frequency response is from 35 Herz to 20 khz plus orus 3 DB 20 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:31,400 okay 220 wat total power that is measured via FTC RMS so that what is 21 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:36,960 that means squared or something along those lines which means that it can do 22 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:38,280 this for days at a time your speaker 23 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:43,640 system not the one that they've submitted for rating okay not for two 24 00:01:41,159 --> 00:01:48,280 minutes at a time not for one musical note at a time can do it for days at a 25 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:51,200 time every single one all right subwoofer Dimensions satellite 26 00:01:49,799 --> 00:01:56,680 Dimensions you can read those if you want the subwoofer is an 8 in 120 watt 27 00:01:54,280 --> 00:02:02,159 subwoofer with durable rubber surround okay so it's a bridge dual 60 wat class 28 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:04,399 you have Bridge okay so dual amplifi so 29 00:02:02,159 --> 00:02:09,759 this speaker system actually uses a dual amp design which means that you have one 30 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:13,000 amp that drives the larger speaker on your satellite and then you have one amp 31 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:16,440 that drives the Tweeter on your satellites so I'll show you guys that 32 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:21,720 when I actually take it out of the box you've got an ultra efficient integral 33 00:02:18,519 --> 00:02:23,360 power supply with uh Universal input so 34 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:27,440 imagine that Corsair building something with a good quality power supply in it 35 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:32,360 go figure satellites are by Amplified as I mentioned before two-way design with 36 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:38,360 Det able audio cables 3-in 40 W mid-range drivers and 1in 40 W ferof 37 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:42,920 fluid cooled silk diaphragm tweeters so those are the ones that I was mentioning 38 00:02:39,879 --> 00:02:44,760 before are independently Amplified 50 39 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:48,280 watts per satellite measured via this method the reviewer's guide for this 40 00:02:46,319 --> 00:02:52,720 actually mentions this a lot it is incredibly important because you can 41 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:54,800 build a 1,000 watt speaker setup that 42 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:59,280 basically just sounds like noise because it's not cuz all the sound is just being 43 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:03,400 corrupted okay so PC input on the subwoofer 44 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:07,480 okay you can read all this if you want I suppose uh full oh this is kind of 45 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:12,080 actually we'll talk about headphone mode mode in a bit mod x theatrical audio 46 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:16,159 processing for Blu-ray and DVD audio that recreates the theater experience that's kind of neat okay so why don't we 47 00:03:14,959 --> 00:03:21,200 go ahead and start getting this out of the box and I am going to refer to my 48 00:03:18,799 --> 00:03:25,519 cheat sheet here because the reviewer's guide is that long and it's actually 49 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:29,519 chalk full of good information I have read through it a couple times but I 50 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:35,120 cannot necessarily be expected to remember remember every little thing 51 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:37,040 every time I am human sorry guys okay so 52 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:43,439 here in terms of included audio cables we have uh one little headphone jack 53 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:47,519 straight pass through okay then we 54 00:03:43,439 --> 00:03:49,720 have two power cables so those are using 55 00:03:47,519 --> 00:03:55,680 imagine that a PC company goes and uses four pin CPU power 56 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:58,480 connectors okay and then we have an RCA 57 00:03:55,680 --> 00:04:02,840 cable just like that okay we have a power cord standard PC power cord no it 58 00:04:00,879 --> 00:04:08,200 isn't look at that it's a two-prong one so there's no ground on this guy I guess 59 00:04:05,319 --> 00:04:13,760 you probably could use a grounded cable it just wouldn't be uh it wouldn't be 60 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:15,400 grounding out via that third prong so 61 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:19,959 we're packed using environmentally friendly ow environmentally friendly 62 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:24,080 cardboard packaging love to see that so I'm just going to go ahead and start 63 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:29,199 taking this stuff out here and that is the subwoofer that 64 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:35,800 thing's big oh here we go documentation so let's see what what we have in terms 65 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:38,039 of documents that Corsair is going to 66 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:42,560 tell us how to use it with so stop do not return this to the store this is a 67 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:45,840 quick start guide so the quick guide is like this thick hopefully there are a 68 00:04:44,199 --> 00:04:50,720 few different languages in there so they show us what's in the box how to use the 69 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:54,520 desktop controller how to make all the necessary connections here's some tips 70 00:04:52,800 --> 00:05:01,400 for the best sound there's tip number one use a high quality sound card bam so 71 00:04:58,639 --> 00:05:04,560 yes please please do not forget to use a high quality sound card and there we go 72 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:08,800 that's the English part so it looks like it's probably in about eight languages 73 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:12,720 or so some safety information which you should read but I'm not going to cuz I'm 74 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:18,560 actually not plugging it in just yet got some more packaging materials here go 75 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,560 ahead and pile that behind 76 00:05:19,479 --> 00:05:25,479 me something in here okay this is what 77 00:05:22,639 --> 00:05:30,639 unboxing is all about right guys having this experience so here I've got a 78 00:05:27,639 --> 00:05:32,520 couple of uh speak stands I think is 79 00:05:30,639 --> 00:05:37,680 what these are but there's only one way to find out for sure and that is to just 80 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:41,240 try things until something fits okay so these have little rubber 81 00:05:39,759 --> 00:05:45,120 feet on them so we'll go ahead and put those aside for now and then we have our 82 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:50,360 control pod I'm a big fan of control pods for desktop PC speaker systems 83 00:05:48,759 --> 00:05:55,039 generally gives you a lot of control this one actually has a bunch of 84 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:59,720 different modes that you can use in order to um optimize it for the kind of 85 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:05,080 content you're listening to you can can turn on the modx mode which is great for 86 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:09,080 some movies Etc you can actually turn on a headphone mode which is optimized for 87 00:06:08,199 --> 00:06:14,360 actually believe it or not it's optimized for lowquality headphones 88 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:18,639 because Corsair uh like myself recognizes that most of the gaming audio 89 00:06:16,479 --> 00:06:23,840 products out there are just code name for low quality so their headphone mode 90 00:06:22,039 --> 00:06:30,120 on their speakers is actually designed to compensate for low 91 00:06:27,319 --> 00:06:32,199 quality gaming headphones so check that out they really thought of everything on 92 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:36,199 this one so we'll go ahead and take out one 93 00:06:34,599 --> 00:06:38,479 of the satellites here I'll show you guys 94 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:45,280 this there we are so it's uh pretty 95 00:06:43,039 --> 00:06:50,520 heavy actually not like super heavy like my KS at home but feels feels built 96 00:06:48,199 --> 00:06:54,280 anyway it's a very very plain look what we've pretty much come to expect from 97 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:58,080 Corsair so here we are there's your power for the Tweeter your power for the 98 00:06:55,879 --> 00:07:03,560 mid-range and they show you that this is the left speaker so there's your power 99 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:05,599 input and then around on the other side 100 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:12,039 we find not a whole lot to speak of down on the bottom we see four rubber feet 101 00:07:08,599 --> 00:07:13,520 and let me just see what these are for 102 00:07:12,039 --> 00:07:19,319 do they go like this that doesn't make any sense where's 103 00:07:16,879 --> 00:07:22,680 the picture well we'll figure these out in a 104 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:26,000 bit okay so there's one of the tweeters or one of the tweeters one of the 105 00:07:24,039 --> 00:07:31,080 satellites rather so here we'll grab the other one and then we'll pull out all of 106 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:33,479 this packing material so we can get 107 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:36,919 access to the supper I'll never be able to pack this back together thankfully I 108 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:41,560 don't have to okay so here's the 109 00:07:41,879 --> 00:07:49,259 sub and we'll go ahead and move the Box thanks 110 00:07:49,319 --> 00:07:55,720 cameraman and once I've got the whole thing unboxed I'm actually going to take 111 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:59,240 a little bit of time and I'm going to go through my cheat sheet with you guys and 112 00:07:57,599 --> 00:08:05,680 tell you some of the more interesting things things that I learned about this 113 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:07,919 speaker setup when I was reading through 114 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:11,120 it oh this is different I had kind of expected this to 115 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:18,639 uh go from front to back the long way 116 00:08:14,919 --> 00:08:20,720 okay so here is the front of our 117 00:08:18,639 --> 00:08:26,159 subwoofer you can see you got a nice little Corsair logo here you got your 118 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:27,960 Port here okay the overall finish is the 119 00:08:26,159 --> 00:08:32,560 like I the the rubberized sort of texture that we saw before cameraman's 120 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:36,919 gone ahead and put his iPhone 4 on the subwoofer for scale so that's how large 121 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:40,479 the sub is and actually why don't I go ahead and put one of the satellites on 122 00:08:38,399 --> 00:08:45,880 there as well just so you can see for comparison what it will look like on 123 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:49,839 your desk okay so there's the iPhone so let's go ahead and move around to the 124 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:55,720 side go ahead and show you guys what it looks like from this side so very very 125 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:58,880 very plain what you'd expect from a quality piece of audio equipment it 126 00:08:57,279 --> 00:09:03,519 shouldn't really stand out it should be all about the the sound it makes not the 127 00:09:00,959 --> 00:09:07,640 uh appearance of it so here you can see we've got our power input over here on 128 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:10,920 the left move along with a bunch of warnings and certifications and all that 129 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:15,040 good stuff then we have of course there's part number here and then we've 130 00:09:12,959 --> 00:09:20,519 got all the business end side of things so we have our remote so that's the uh 131 00:09:18,079 --> 00:09:25,760 here we go the control pod just plugs in like 132 00:09:22,399 --> 00:09:29,920 this okay that's pretty straightforward 133 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:31,440 next we have our satellites power 134 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:36,640 okay so those plug in just like that they are colorcoded and it looks like 135 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:39,640 yep they only go in one way so there's your right and then your left goes in 136 00:09:38,399 --> 00:09:46,240 much the same way all right the other connectivity we 137 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:46,240 have down here is our line 138 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:53,920 in so you can see we have our left and right and then an auxiliary input so 139 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:58,320 that's pretty straight forward and you can see that we have not only the 140 00:09:56,040 --> 00:10:04,440 auxiliary one here but we also have our auxiliary 2 inut on the back of the 141 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:08,279 control pod as well as a USB 142 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:10,519 connection so I'll be back in just a 143 00:10:08,279 --> 00:10:13,760 minute so I'm totally going to cheat a little bit because it's an awful lot to 144 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:18,839 remember there's lots of charts and diagrams so we'll go through some of this together but I'm going to show you 145 00:10:17,279 --> 00:10:22,839 some of the stuff that Corsair has to say for themselves in their reviewer's 146 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:27,560 guide so I already mentioned the B Amplified satellite speakers oh we did 147 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:32,079 find out what these are for so these are stands you do want to sure for the best 148 00:10:30,399 --> 00:10:35,920 possible stereo experience that the satellites are mostly pointed at you so 149 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:39,320 that means if you're sitting at a desk and your desk is kind of below you you 150 00:10:37,680 --> 00:10:43,839 would want to position these under the front two feet of the speakers in order 151 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:48,920 to have them pointed more at your ears and rather than at your chest so that is 152 00:10:47,079 --> 00:10:53,800 the reason that they've gone ahead and included that okay studio quality 153 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:56,920 digital crossovers so this is a good thing to talk about a little bit I'll 154 00:10:55,399 --> 00:11:01,839 let cameraman sort of check out the speakers while I drone on over here 155 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:06,800 oh actually no first thing this has a 1.8 in TFT color display readable in 156 00:11:05,079 --> 00:11:11,279 daylight or at night so I'll go ahead and make sure that you oh rather so I'll 157 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:15,360 go ahead and make sure that I show you guys what this looks like in one of my 158 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:19,160 follow-up videos for this uh this speaker 159 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:23,160 set okay uh studio quality digital crossover so you know what I'd really 160 00:11:21,519 --> 00:11:26,800 recommend going ahead and reading one of the online reviews about this if you 161 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:31,519 want to read all of this but basically what it means is that you are going to 162 00:11:29,079 --> 00:11:35,839 have have a more you're going to have a much finer control over what part of 163 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:39,279 your audio signal gets played through the subwoofer what part gets played 164 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:44,120 through the mid speakers and what part gets played through the tweeters that's 165 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:48,000 pretty much what it means okay technical overview they're basically saying that 166 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:53,880 their subwofer uses a fourth order band pass design rather than a simpler ported 167 00:11:50,839 --> 00:11:55,800 base reflex did I say Bass No I said 168 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:59,360 band pass good rather than a simpler ported base reflex subwoofer so these 169 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:02,240 two diagrams you know what I'm not not an audio engineer I don't know the 170 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:06,519 benefits of that design but it's definitely worth mentioning to you guys 171 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:10,279 in case you do know the difference they talk hold on don't necessarily show them 172 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:14,639 that I don't know if they can see that so uh they talk an awful lot about why 173 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:19,760 using the FTC standard for power output matters and I'm going to summarize a 174 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:23,320 couple pages in the reviewer's guide as well it means that it can provide that 175 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:26,279 power over an extended period of time it also means that that power is going to 176 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:33,560 be balanced between the different parts of the speaker system cuz you could buy a 500 watt speaker system that has a 450 177 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:36,720 W subwoofer and 2 25 watt satellites and it's going to provide a very 178 00:12:34,560 --> 00:12:40,920 unsatisfactory listening experience if you're doing anything other than 179 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:44,320 listening to explosions so that's why that is important you have a late night 180 00:12:43,079 --> 00:12:49,399 mode which I should have mentioned before but what it does is it just adjusts the crossfire crossover point so 181 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,079 that the satellites are going to play more of your base than the subwoofer 182 00:12:51,079 --> 00:12:59,399 which means that you're not going to bother your neighbors late at night headphone processing mode I mentioned 183 00:12:55,639 --> 00:13:02,120 before the mod x processing is for 184 00:12:59,399 --> 00:13:05,160 making it sound more like a theater and Corsair really recommends they're 185 00:13:03,839 --> 00:13:08,959 they're not going to go ahead and say that yeah this is the be all and end all 186 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:12,880 it's that simple they're just saying you have this option you can try it out if 187 00:13:10,639 --> 00:13:16,320 you like it great it'll sound great with certain movies bad with others but 188 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:21,120 that's fine that's life they've given you a lot of different modes to play with it also has a karaoke mode which 189 00:13:19,639 --> 00:13:24,480 applies processing that attempts to remove or significantly reduce the 190 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:28,839 vocals which is pretty neat maybe I'll do like a karaoke video with these 191 00:13:26,079 --> 00:13:32,800 speakers to show off that uh particular little feature and they've got a bunch 192 00:13:30,199 --> 00:13:38,720 of other equalizer presets as well pop Jazz FPS so let's talk about what the 193 00:13:36,199 --> 00:13:42,639 sp2500 is designed for it is designed to be listened to at close range so it's 194 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:47,320 not really for your living room it's for a computer okay that's one thing second 195 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:51,759 of all it is designed to be used with a sweet spot so if you have multiple 196 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:56,680 listeners this is not marketed as you know a 360 degree field of listening or 197 00:13:54,920 --> 00:14:01,160 anything like that it has a sweet spot which really any speaker system does and 198 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:04,240 that is designed to be right where your head is so that's why they include the 199 00:14:02,839 --> 00:14:07,759 stands that's why they include two speakers you aim them at your head you 200 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:12,079 want to create a sweet spot and you got to play around a little bit to find out 201 00:14:09,519 --> 00:14:15,839 where it is uh one thing they mention in here is why doesn't it have a digital 202 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:19,279 input well it's completely unnecessary so I think that covers pretty much 203 00:14:18,079 --> 00:14:23,720 everything I want to say about the sp2500 don't forget to subscribe to 204 00:14:21,279 --> 00:14:27,480 lonus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other videos