all right guys if you've followed lonus Tech tips for any sort of extended
period of time you probably know that I'm a bit of an audio geek so this is
something that I am extremely excited about this is the brand new SP 2500 from
Corsair it is from their gaming audio
series which normally I would sort of
turn my nose up to and I'd say blah gaming audio that just means it's not
very good and so they Market it to Gamers who don't know better no
offense to any of our gamers in the
audience but Corsair has taken a
completely different approach to this particular set of gaming audio speakers
this is a 2.1 setup and they have aimed
to build the best overall speaker setup
that they can in a price range that Gamers can still afford so why don't we
find one side of this box or other that has some specifications on it that I can
show you and we'll go through what Corsair has to say for themselves about
this setup so first thing over here we see that Corsair has a 2-year warranty
on it Corsair's warranty is legendary in this industry so you can pretty much
believe that they're going to stand behind it for as long as they say all
right specifications frequency response is from 35 Herz to 20 khz plus orus 3 DB
okay 220 wat total power that is measured via FTC RMS so that what is
that means squared or something along those lines which means that it can do
this for days at a time your speaker
system not the one that they've submitted for rating okay not for two
minutes at a time not for one musical note at a time can do it for days at a
time every single one all right subwoofer Dimensions satellite
Dimensions you can read those if you want the subwoofer is an 8 in 120 watt
subwoofer with durable rubber surround okay so it's a bridge dual 60 wat class
you have Bridge okay so dual amplifi so
this speaker system actually uses a dual amp design which means that you have one
amp that drives the larger speaker on your satellite and then you have one amp
that drives the Tweeter on your satellites so I'll show you guys that
when I actually take it out of the box you've got an ultra efficient integral
power supply with uh Universal input so
imagine that Corsair building something with a good quality power supply in it
go figure satellites are by Amplified as I mentioned before two-way design with
Det able audio cables 3-in 40 W mid-range drivers and 1in 40 W ferof
fluid cooled silk diaphragm tweeters so those are the ones that I was mentioning
before are independently Amplified 50
watts per satellite measured via this method the reviewer's guide for this
actually mentions this a lot it is incredibly important because you can
build a 1,000 watt speaker setup that
basically just sounds like noise because it's not cuz all the sound is just being
corrupted okay so PC input on the subwoofer
okay you can read all this if you want I suppose uh full oh this is kind of
actually we'll talk about headphone mode mode in a bit mod x theatrical audio
processing for Blu-ray and DVD audio that recreates the theater experience that's kind of neat okay so why don't we
go ahead and start getting this out of the box and I am going to refer to my
cheat sheet here because the reviewer's guide is that long and it's actually
chalk full of good information I have read through it a couple times but I
cannot necessarily be expected to remember remember every little thing
every time I am human sorry guys okay so
here in terms of included audio cables we have uh one little headphone jack
straight pass through okay then we
have two power cables so those are using
imagine that a PC company goes and uses four pin CPU power
connectors okay and then we have an RCA
cable just like that okay we have a power cord standard PC power cord no it
isn't look at that it's a two-prong one so there's no ground on this guy I guess
you probably could use a grounded cable it just wouldn't be uh it wouldn't be
grounding out via that third prong so
we're packed using environmentally friendly ow environmentally friendly
cardboard packaging love to see that so I'm just going to go ahead and start
taking this stuff out here and that is the subwoofer that
thing's big oh here we go documentation so let's see what what we have in terms
of documents that Corsair is going to
tell us how to use it with so stop do not return this to the store this is a
quick start guide so the quick guide is like this thick hopefully there are a
few different languages in there so they show us what's in the box how to use the
desktop controller how to make all the necessary connections here's some tips
for the best sound there's tip number one use a high quality sound card bam so
yes please please do not forget to use a high quality sound card and there we go
that's the English part so it looks like it's probably in about eight languages
or so some safety information which you should read but I'm not going to cuz I'm
actually not plugging it in just yet got some more packaging materials here go
ahead and pile that behind
me something in here okay this is what
unboxing is all about right guys having this experience so here I've got a
couple of uh speak stands I think is
what these are but there's only one way to find out for sure and that is to just
try things until something fits okay so these have little rubber
feet on them so we'll go ahead and put those aside for now and then we have our
control pod I'm a big fan of control pods for desktop PC speaker systems
generally gives you a lot of control this one actually has a bunch of
different modes that you can use in order to um optimize it for the kind of
content you're listening to you can can turn on the modx mode which is great for
some movies Etc you can actually turn on a headphone mode which is optimized for
actually believe it or not it's optimized for lowquality headphones
because Corsair uh like myself recognizes that most of the gaming audio
products out there are just code name for low quality so their headphone mode
on their speakers is actually designed to compensate for low
quality gaming headphones so check that out they really thought of everything on
this one so we'll go ahead and take out one
of the satellites here I'll show you guys
this there we are so it's uh pretty
heavy actually not like super heavy like my KS at home but feels feels built
anyway it's a very very plain look what we've pretty much come to expect from
Corsair so here we are there's your power for the Tweeter your power for the
mid-range and they show you that this is the left speaker so there's your power
input and then around on the other side
we find not a whole lot to speak of down on the bottom we see four rubber feet
and let me just see what these are for
do they go like this that doesn't make any sense where's
the picture well we'll figure these out in a
bit okay so there's one of the tweeters or one of the tweeters one of the
satellites rather so here we'll grab the other one and then we'll pull out all of
this packing material so we can get
access to the supper I'll never be able to pack this back together thankfully I
don't have to okay so here's the
sub and we'll go ahead and move the Box thanks
cameraman and once I've got the whole thing unboxed I'm actually going to take
a little bit of time and I'm going to go through my cheat sheet with you guys and
tell you some of the more interesting things things that I learned about this
speaker setup when I was reading through
it oh this is different I had kind of expected this to
uh go from front to back the long way
okay so here is the front of our
subwoofer you can see you got a nice little Corsair logo here you got your
Port here okay the overall finish is the
like I the the rubberized sort of texture that we saw before cameraman's
gone ahead and put his iPhone 4 on the subwoofer for scale so that's how large
the sub is and actually why don't I go ahead and put one of the satellites on
there as well just so you can see for comparison what it will look like on
your desk okay so there's the iPhone so let's go ahead and move around to the
side go ahead and show you guys what it looks like from this side so very very
very plain what you'd expect from a quality piece of audio equipment it
shouldn't really stand out it should be all about the the sound it makes not the
uh appearance of it so here you can see we've got our power input over here on
the left move along with a bunch of warnings and certifications and all that
good stuff then we have of course there's part number here and then we've
got all the business end side of things so we have our remote so that's the uh
here we go the control pod just plugs in like
this okay that's pretty straightforward
next we have our satellites power
okay so those plug in just like that they are colorcoded and it looks like
yep they only go in one way so there's your right and then your left goes in
much the same way all right the other connectivity we
have down here is our line
in so you can see we have our left and right and then an auxiliary input so
that's pretty straight forward and you can see that we have not only the
auxiliary one here but we also have our auxiliary 2 inut on the back of the
control pod as well as a USB
connection so I'll be back in just a
minute so I'm totally going to cheat a little bit because it's an awful lot to
remember there's lots of charts and diagrams so we'll go through some of this together but I'm going to show you
some of the stuff that Corsair has to say for themselves in their reviewer's
guide so I already mentioned the B Amplified satellite speakers oh we did
find out what these are for so these are stands you do want to sure for the best
possible stereo experience that the satellites are mostly pointed at you so
that means if you're sitting at a desk and your desk is kind of below you you
would want to position these under the front two feet of the speakers in order
to have them pointed more at your ears and rather than at your chest so that is
the reason that they've gone ahead and included that okay studio quality
digital crossovers so this is a good thing to talk about a little bit I'll
let cameraman sort of check out the speakers while I drone on over here
oh actually no first thing this has a 1.8 in TFT color display readable in
daylight or at night so I'll go ahead and make sure that you oh rather so I'll
go ahead and make sure that I show you guys what this looks like in one of my
follow-up videos for this uh this speaker
set okay uh studio quality digital crossover so you know what I'd really
recommend going ahead and reading one of the online reviews about this if you
want to read all of this but basically what it means is that you are going to
have have a more you're going to have a much finer control over what part of
your audio signal gets played through the subwoofer what part gets played
through the mid speakers and what part gets played through the tweeters that's
pretty much what it means okay technical overview they're basically saying that
their subwofer uses a fourth order band pass design rather than a simpler ported
base reflex did I say Bass No I said
band pass good rather than a simpler ported base reflex subwoofer so these
two diagrams you know what I'm not not an audio engineer I don't know the
benefits of that design but it's definitely worth mentioning to you guys
in case you do know the difference they talk hold on don't necessarily show them
that I don't know if they can see that so uh they talk an awful lot about why
using the FTC standard for power output matters and I'm going to summarize a
couple pages in the reviewer's guide as well it means that it can provide that
power over an extended period of time it also means that that power is going to
be balanced between the different parts of the speaker system cuz you could buy a 500 watt speaker system that has a 450
W subwoofer and 2 25 watt satellites and it's going to provide a very
unsatisfactory listening experience if you're doing anything other than
listening to explosions so that's why that is important you have a late night
mode which I should have mentioned before but what it does is it just adjusts the crossfire crossover point so
that the satellites are going to play more of your base than the subwoofer
which means that you're not going to bother your neighbors late at night headphone processing mode I mentioned
before the mod x processing is for
making it sound more like a theater and Corsair really recommends they're
they're not going to go ahead and say that yeah this is the be all and end all
it's that simple they're just saying you have this option you can try it out if
you like it great it'll sound great with certain movies bad with others but
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
applies processing that attempts to remove or significantly reduce the
vocals which is pretty neat maybe I'll do like a karaoke video with these
speakers to show off that uh particular little feature and they've got a bunch
of other equalizer presets as well pop Jazz FPS so let's talk about what the
sp2500 is designed for it is designed to be listened to at close range so it's
not really for your living room it's for a computer okay that's one thing second
of all it is designed to be used with a sweet spot so if you have multiple
listeners this is not marketed as you know a 360 degree field of listening or
anything like that it has a sweet spot which really any speaker system does and
that is designed to be right where your head is so that's why they include the
stands that's why they include two speakers you aim them at your head you
want to create a sweet spot and you got to play around a little bit to find out
where it is uh one thing they mention in here is why doesn't it have a digital
input well it's completely unnecessary so I think that covers pretty much
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