are you a gamer do you like gaming on your gaming computer does it have RGB is
your sound crap we can add more RGB to your desk with the razer leviathan v2
this is our bar here oh it feels cheap and plasticky
of course okay we've got a nice braided usb cable here power brick two
power cables probably for the subwoofer it comes with a subwoofer which is really quite nice and i guess this will
be our support there we go look at that
that is a nice little sub quite a quite a pleasant driver down here no covering
on it which isn't the end of the world nice big bass reflex port there's a nice
subtle embossed logo at the top it's not piano black which makes me very happy
got a little rubberized feet that looks way too light
it's pretty hefty honestly okay let's have a look at the main event the sound bar
which does not feel quite as nice as this chap
very light look at that it's nice and thin honestly look great sort of on your
desk with your monitor above it four in the front
two in the back so four channels razer claiming that it's a
7.1 system you're not allowed to count the subwoofer as a 7.1 because it's the
0.1 so it's a 6.1 ports on the back
we've got power in usbc which is nice going to the computer i believe the
previous version had usb-b which is kind of on the wayside everything's usb-c now
it's awesome and then our proprietary little plug
for the subwoofer nice they give you a cable for your computer
got some end caps here green ends nice fabric cable
ends are coming out of it already quite lengthy on the connection cable that
could go off the back of the desk and sit on the floor nicely so i have no
problems with that it's got bluetooth 5.2 it's claiming that they have a 60
millisecond response time and when we get the lab set up we'll be able to
actually do real world testing of bluetooth audio latency if you're gaming
you want low latency so that the sounds you hear in your game are actually
happening when they are it's more important for controllers and stuff but
it's really nice if you're playing rhythm games or other games that require
very precisely timed inputs to match audio does have usb though so we'll
probably be throwing it in through usb to the computer there's an app we get to
try and set up all the RGB and equalizers and that sort of thing but
for bluetooth audio and for just having it around as a bluetooth
speaker or pairing your phone with it you know 60 milliseconds is totally fine
it's got a couple different feats if you want to angle it right now it's sitting
absolutely flat it looks rather elegant on the desk honestly these just sort of
slide in there they're actually quite nice you can remove them completely and
then it's got another four little feet on the bottom here so it can sit even
lower to the desk yeah there we are so now it's firing
upwards slightly at a nice angle yeah okay
nice got a nice bundle of bananas you get
them as a bulk deal no no
well you'll just buy for the price of five five for the price of five order now at
ShortCircuit dog no and your nice new sweater oh yeah where
can i get this ltdstore.com if you buy it i get to stay employed
one banana two banana about two and a half bananas
long and maybe a half-ish banana
deep it's a pretty beefy sound bar for
just normal gamers i think this would be great for somebody who wants a much
better desktop experience without having to go through the rigmarole of getting
multiple speakers and having to worry about audio channels and extra power and
all that sort of stuff this just has one cable that goes to your computer and
then you have speakers and a sub they're claiming that
it's got atmos support with the 3d sound all around you but to do that you really
need dedicated speakers positioned around you i think it's just going to
throw them to the side and fake it before we plug it in and see how it
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what's up gamers we're here at the ShortCircuit computer gaming desk to start
gamering uh in all seriousness we have it set up in the center here i've got my
sub on the left just so you can see it we'll try it on the floor as well
i've got the angled feets because i'm a little bit above and i want it facing
towards my ears you already know there's absolutely no chance whatsoever that
you're going to like this why are you even trying it well because that man told me to oh it's thx certified yeah
and they're saying it's like razer owns thx they do
you didn't know that i didn't know that yeah that's good info yeah and it says
everything from razer is thx certified well that's wonderful they can just slap
that a label on there well no i think in theory they still operate independently
mm-hmm that makes sense well it's 7.1 it has
six speakers in it so that counts as a speaker and the
point one to make seven shut up it does not does it no
so it's a 6.1 system but they're labeling it as 7.1 can you explain that
yeah the center channel is just the two front channels
ah i i don't know i made that no that actually makes sense so they're
combining two of the channels into speakers uh and they're all in front of
us it seems disingenuous that's facial sound go just make it go to blink
yeah that's a speaker bye you can already tell from the Windows test sound
that it's not going to be good i'm excited
i am not well our lovely soundbar thing
comes with this program called razer synapse synapse synapse i'm synapse sure
where we can enable all sorts of fun features let's get that full screen here
thx spatial sound which Linus so
generously enabled and we'll try it just in stereo mode
first before we go to that and then our lighting mode so it does have RGB yeah
let's play with some quick effects it's got spectrum cycling it's got breathing
it does have multiple RGB leds in there it's not just one color that's kind of
cool not really strong enough to show much
under my desk we can adjust the audio through these very clicky buttons at the
top oh yeah we got an eq we can enable center focus we'll try some music or
maybe some videos does sound like four speakers
it's punchy
god well it's basically i'll give it that we do have a music equalizer open
here so i'm going to set that to custom just everything flat and we'll play that
same section again sounds like it's coming from the center here there's no
spatial anything right now we do have it on stereo mode we'll try the spatial
audio see if it widens it up
the audio equalizer also does nothing i don't know if we have to set it to make
it do that yeah nothing's changing
nothing's changing
i've got everything enabled i've got thx spatial audio center focus on i've been
playing with the equalizer and nothing's happening i gave it what was that 10 15
30 seconds and it still sounds exactly the same bless that i've restarted the
computer let's see if our settings are back let's go back and test more crab
rave
okay eq is working now good
all of them sound like let's try our thx spatial audio combined
with stereo here so this is
stereo mode very bad thx spatial audio actually doesn't sound too bad it still
sounds like it's all coming from here there's no way this is a 7.1 because i
don't have any speakers behind me let's uh let's turn it around and see what
these guys at the back are doing
you know flat isn't too bad on thx
spatial audio if i turn on center focus let's have a listen to that
it puts out some power why don't we have a look and see what the sub does
can we get that thumping
well we're shaking boys one of the good things that i can say is
that this is a nice long eq so you could probably adjust it i'm not hearing
really any frequencies that it's lacking it's certainly not tuned right
flat eq response is not where i would want it at all why don't we try a sign
sweep really nice response from the low end that sub is helping a hell of a lot and
i'm getting a lot of it from the back here too see those boys are moving
some dips around 60. i don't know where the crossover point is
but it sounds like it's a lot coming from both of these might not even need
the sub honestly desk is shaking
remember when we're doing sign sweeps we're looking for changes in volume
at our current location in the sweep if we reduce the volume it shouldn't really
affect anything
so we've got some dips there big dip there around 1400 you'd have to spend
ages fine tuning this to get all the volumes nice and even if you wanted
something with a more flat response but you know we're playing games with this
this isn't for making music you're going to use headphones or like proper dedicated monitors for that so shall we
try some games with it yeah yeah
okay
the thumps are nice and thumpy do i gotta kill everything i'm just gonna
disable the music because that's kind of taking over
what i wanna hear for
you know environmental sounds if they're positioned nicely
no all the sounds come from here i don't even have enough stereo separation to
figure out if they're on my left or if they're on my right let's head over into
stereo mode and see if that improves things at all
oh god god that is so bad oh my gosh
okay well you need to have dhx spatial audio enabled for that i'll tell you
that let's set it to game mode as well in the eq
okay that sounds absolutely disgusting we've lost all the bass and the nice
thumpy weapon that we've got there the doom sound design is like dude's my idol
it's amazing yeah that's that's nice and punchy flat
i don't know why they would think like game mode takes all the bass out of it why even give me a sub if you're just
going to cut out 60ds of bass when the sounds are to my right they just sort of
get quieter how much did you say this was 200 and 250 us dollars well that was
awful i wouldn't want to play games using this certainly not a competitive
shooter like counter strike i mean even that do maternal is a
reaction based game and you need to know where the enemies are around you so that
you can properly prioritize who you're gonna kill so bad bad out of bad let's
try thumper this is a more straight line game rhythm game so we can make sure
that there's no real latency or anything like that
no latency this is this is easy to play
there's absolutely no problems with this at all
yeah no issues with that at all i'm getting a lot better
sound field from thumper than i was do maternal so let's just go quickly back
and check the audio settings because there may be a dolby atmos spy specific
setting okay we're in the doom menu now and it looks like our only two options
are speakers or headphones and these aren't headphones what's interesting to
me is they're claiming 7.1 but it's not appearing as a multi-channel device in
Windows Windows can only feed its stereo if you have a game or if you have a
video that supports dolby atmos it's not going to
register to Windows or your player that this is a dolby atmos compatible device
dolby atmos is a special technology that has a digital imprint of a sphere around
the listener if you want to think about it that way and then your device will
just pick the speakers that you have so it's going to put the 3d audio in a line
in front of your face if they weren't claiming
to support all these features and were hyping it up so much i think it'd be
easier on it for 250 bucks it's kind of a nice little thing to have on your desk
this is the world's first object-based cinematic audio
with powerful moving audio that transcends from channels
to moving around you with 10-point accuracy
that's not too bad that's not too bad at all it doesn't go behind me like they're
saying but you know the wall is all the way over there and i'm sitting here so
there's not really anything to bounce off of and what are you going to bounce off it anyway but stereo separation for
that was actually quite good i don't know what the speaker layout in here is
like i don't think we can rip it open unless we get a hacksaw but not not that
bad not 7.1 but certainly stereo
i don't think i could recommend this to anybody it's rather too expensive
it's very very close in here if you're
playing games i would want speakers over here so that i could get better stereo
separation so that i could understand where the things to shoot at are
the sub is kind of small and anemic and most of the
sub bass seems to be handled by the ones at the back anyway if i was a
gamer i wouldn't want to play games with this and
if i was a content creator i wouldn't want to edit or listen to music or
videos with this i don't know it's uh it's a waste of money and uh it's a
terrible product thanks for watching me terror apart another one of these
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