okay so today I'll be having a look at the steel series 5H V2 USB so this is
their highest end headset currently it comes with all the bells and whistles of
any of their headsets including a USB sound card now steel series is a gaming
company they specialize in gaming peripherals so this is targeted at
Gamers they're saying this headset is optimized to give you the best possible
sound quality for gaming specific applications
and actually I should mention this one of the reasons that they encourage users
to get these USB sound cards is it means that whether you're playing on your own
machine or on like a tournament Land Machine where everyone's using like a
standardized computer so that no one has an unfair Advantage it retains all of
your settings and gives you the same audio quality actually their mice all of
their current mice feature similar features where as soon as you plug it in
it retains all of your settings and you don't have to you know tweak the
sensitivity within Windows or anything like that so it'll operate the way you
want it to regardless of which computer it's plugged into so that's kind of a
cool feature and an interesting selling point of this particular headset so
let's have a look at the accessory package comes in a little zip tied
plastic baggy here that includes a cord and some other stuff okay so first of
all steel series professional gaming gear this is a little catalog of oh also
includes a steel series sticker okay so
us 2K warning don't turn your headphones up too loud okay awesome and here is a
little uh brochure of all of their different gaming products now this is
one of the only sort of V2 products in
their in their product line the other one they have is the new Siberia V2 and
these are both going to be pretty similar in terms of quality but the 5H
V2 does have a couple things over the Siberia V2 okay here's your USB sound
card you plug that into a USB port and it has two things on it it has a
headphone jack and a mic Jack okay so
that's pretty straightforward and then oh we have a driver disc for the USB
sound card you should definitely be going to Steel series's website and
downloading the latest drivers though I never recommend using a driver disc okay
so I have another little zip tie here I'm going to try and get this off and
then I will be able to show you this okay so we have an inline volume control
it feels quite sturdy actually I like the build quality of this and then the
mic oh this is kind of cool it can be set to high low or off okay you got a
little setting there and then you have a pretty durable feeling metal clip I like
to see a metal clip I mean it's little things like that that distinguish
something like the 5 hv2 from a less expensive headset okay you've got a nice
long braided cable that terminates in a
headphone output and a mic input just like you see on the USB sound card so
this is how it's intended to be used but just because it's a USB headset doesn't
mean you can't use it with a regular analog output and input okay so let's
get down to the headset itself I'm just taking the zip ties off the back here so
that I can actually remove it from their plastic packaging okay so the ear Cups
have huge padding on them you can see the padding here is really soft and it's
actually like I mean it's like almost as thick as the headphone itself so these
are extremely comfortable I've actually used these before in the past but I
never did an unboxing on them and the way they sit on your ear is not the
don't mush down what they do is they sit kind of lightly and once you've used
them for an extended period of time they will start to mold to your head and
that's a mark of any good headset they're quite open sounding actually and
you can tell from the vents on the sides as well as the type of foam they're
using on the ear pads so they're not going to isolate sound much from the
outside and they're also not going to isolate what you're listening to from
the people around you one cool feature of the 5H V2 is actually that you can
disassemble it check this out so you can actually release these clips on the
inside and you can take the whole headset apart for easy Transportation if
you're throwing it in a bag or whatever else like that you can see the contacts
are actually quite durable they're no they seem to be goldplated they might
not be though uh either way they make really good contact in there and you're
not going to have to worry about those wearing out the last feature of the 5 5H
V2 is a pretty distinctive steel series feature and that is a retractable mic
that sits up in one of the ear cups so that means you can actually use them as headon phones unlike a lot of gaming
headsets where you have like this huge mic hanging up the side of it and you'd
look like a total tool if you were to try and listen to music on them in public anyway thank you for checking out
my unboxing of the steel series 5H V2
USB headset