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are you a gamer do you like gaming on your gaming computer does it have RGB is

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your sound crap we can add more RGB to your desk with the razer leviathan v2

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this is our bar here oh it feels cheap and plasticky

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of course okay we've got a nice braided usb cable here power brick two

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power cables probably for the subwoofer it comes with a subwoofer which is really quite nice and i guess this will

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be our support there we go look at that

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that is a nice little sub quite a quite a pleasant driver down here no covering

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on it which isn't the end of the world nice big bass reflex port there's a nice

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subtle embossed logo at the top it's not piano black which makes me very happy

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got a little rubberized feet that looks way too light

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it's pretty hefty honestly okay let's have a look at the main event the sound bar

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which does not feel quite as nice as this chap

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very light look at that it's nice and thin honestly look great sort of on your

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desk with your monitor above it four in the front

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two in the back so four channels razer claiming that it's a

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7.1 system you're not allowed to count the subwoofer as a 7.1 because it's the

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0.1 so it's a 6.1 ports on the back

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we've got power in usbc which is nice going to the computer i believe the

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previous version had usb-b which is kind of on the wayside everything's usb-c now

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it's awesome and then our proprietary little plug

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for the subwoofer nice they give you a cable for your computer

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got some end caps here green ends nice fabric cable

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ends are coming out of it already quite lengthy on the connection cable that

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could go off the back of the desk and sit on the floor nicely so i have no

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problems with that it's got bluetooth 5.2 it's claiming that they have a 60

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millisecond response time and when we get the lab set up we'll be able to

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actually do real world testing of bluetooth audio latency if you're gaming

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you want low latency so that the sounds you hear in your game are actually

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happening when they are it's more important for controllers and stuff but

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it's really nice if you're playing rhythm games or other games that require

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very precisely timed inputs to match audio does have usb though so we'll

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probably be throwing it in through usb to the computer there's an app we get to

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try and set up all the RGB and equalizers and that sort of thing but

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for bluetooth audio and for just having it around as a bluetooth

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speaker or pairing your phone with it you know 60 milliseconds is totally fine

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it's got a couple different feats if you want to angle it right now it's sitting

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absolutely flat it looks rather elegant on the desk honestly these just sort of

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slide in there they're actually quite nice you can remove them completely and

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then it's got another four little feet on the bottom here so it can sit even

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lower to the desk yeah there we are so now it's firing

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upwards slightly at a nice angle yeah okay

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nice got a nice bundle of bananas you get

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them as a bulk deal no no

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well you'll just buy for the price of five five for the price of five order now at

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ShortCircuit dog no and your nice new sweater oh yeah where

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can i get this ltdstore.com if you buy it i get to stay employed

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one banana two banana about two and a half bananas

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long and maybe a half-ish banana

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deep it's a pretty beefy sound bar for

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just normal gamers i think this would be great for somebody who wants a much

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better desktop experience without having to go through the rigmarole of getting

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multiple speakers and having to worry about audio channels and extra power and

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all that sort of stuff this just has one cable that goes to your computer and

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then you have speakers and a sub they're claiming that

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it's got atmos support with the 3d sound all around you but to do that you really

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need dedicated speakers positioned around you i think it's just going to

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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

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gamering uh in all seriousness we have it set up in the center here i've got my

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sub on the left just so you can see it we'll try it on the floor as well

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i've got the angled feets because i'm a little bit above and i want it facing

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towards my ears you already know there's absolutely no chance whatsoever that

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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

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and they're saying it's like razer owns thx they do

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you didn't know that i didn't know that yeah that's good info yeah and it says

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everything from razer is thx certified well that's wonderful they can just slap

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that a label on there well no i think in theory they still operate independently

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mm-hmm that makes sense well it's 7.1 it has

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six speakers in it so that counts as a speaker and the

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point one to make seven shut up it does not does it no

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so it's a 6.1 system but they're labeling it as 7.1 can you explain that

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yeah the center channel is just the two front channels

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ah i i don't know i made that no that actually makes sense so they're

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combining two of the channels into speakers uh and they're all in front of

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us it seems disingenuous that's facial sound go just make it go to blink

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yeah that's a speaker bye you can already tell from the Windows test sound

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that it's not going to be good i'm excited

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i am not well our lovely soundbar thing

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comes with this program called razer synapse synapse synapse i'm synapse sure

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where we can enable all sorts of fun features let's get that full screen here

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thx spatial sound which Linus so

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generously enabled and we'll try it just in stereo mode

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first before we go to that and then our lighting mode so it does have RGB yeah

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let's play with some quick effects it's got spectrum cycling it's got breathing

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it does have multiple RGB leds in there it's not just one color that's kind of

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cool not really strong enough to show much

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under my desk we can adjust the audio through these very clicky buttons at the

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top oh yeah we got an eq we can enable center focus we'll try some music or

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maybe some videos does sound like four speakers

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it's punchy

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god well it's basically i'll give it that we do have a music equalizer open

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here so i'm going to set that to custom just everything flat and we'll play that

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same section again sounds like it's coming from the center here there's no

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spatial anything right now we do have it on stereo mode we'll try the spatial

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audio see if it widens it up

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the audio equalizer also does nothing i don't know if we have to set it to make

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it do that yeah nothing's changing

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nothing's changing

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i've got everything enabled i've got thx spatial audio center focus on i've been

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playing with the equalizer and nothing's happening i gave it what was that 10 15

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30 seconds and it still sounds exactly the same bless that i've restarted the

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computer let's see if our settings are back let's go back and test more crab

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rave

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okay eq is working now good

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all of them sound like let's try our thx spatial audio combined

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with stereo here so this is

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stereo mode very bad thx spatial audio actually doesn't sound too bad it still

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sounds like it's all coming from here there's no way this is a 7.1 because i

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don't have any speakers behind me let's uh let's turn it around and see what

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these guys at the back are doing

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you know flat isn't too bad on thx

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spatial audio if i turn on center focus let's have a listen to that

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it puts out some power why don't we have a look and see what the sub does

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can we get that thumping

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well we're shaking boys one of the good things that i can say is

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that this is a nice long eq so you could probably adjust it i'm not hearing

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really any frequencies that it's lacking it's certainly not tuned right

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flat eq response is not where i would want it at all why don't we try a sign

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sweep really nice response from the low end that sub is helping a hell of a lot and

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i'm getting a lot of it from the back here too see those boys are moving

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some dips around 60. i don't know where the crossover point is

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but it sounds like it's a lot coming from both of these might not even need

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the sub honestly desk is shaking

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remember when we're doing sign sweeps we're looking for changes in volume

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at our current location in the sweep if we reduce the volume it shouldn't really

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affect anything

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so we've got some dips there big dip there around 1400 you'd have to spend

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ages fine tuning this to get all the volumes nice and even if you wanted

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something with a more flat response but you know we're playing games with this

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this isn't for making music you're going to use headphones or like proper dedicated monitors for that so shall we

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try some games with it yeah yeah

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okay

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the thumps are nice and thumpy do i gotta kill everything i'm just gonna

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disable the music because that's kind of taking over

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what i wanna hear for

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you know environmental sounds if they're positioned nicely

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no all the sounds come from here i don't even have enough stereo separation to

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figure out if they're on my left or if they're on my right let's head over into

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stereo mode and see if that improves things at all

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oh god god that is so bad oh my gosh

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okay well you need to have dhx spatial audio enabled for that i'll tell you

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that let's set it to game mode as well in the eq

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okay that sounds absolutely disgusting we've lost all the bass and the nice

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thumpy weapon that we've got there the doom sound design is like dude's my idol

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it's amazing yeah that's that's nice and punchy flat

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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

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going to cut out 60ds of bass when the sounds are to my right they just sort of

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get quieter how much did you say this was 200 and 250 us dollars well that was

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awful i wouldn't want to play games using this certainly not a competitive

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shooter like counter strike i mean even that do maternal is a

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reaction based game and you need to know where the enemies are around you so that

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you can properly prioritize who you're gonna kill so bad bad out of bad let's

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try thumper this is a more straight line game rhythm game so we can make sure

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that there's no real latency or anything like that

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no latency this is this is easy to play

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there's absolutely no problems with this at all

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yeah no issues with that at all i'm getting a lot better

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sound field from thumper than i was do maternal so let's just go quickly back

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and check the audio settings because there may be a dolby atmos spy specific

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setting okay we're in the doom menu now and it looks like our only two options

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are speakers or headphones and these aren't headphones what's interesting to

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me is they're claiming 7.1 but it's not appearing as a multi-channel device in

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Windows Windows can only feed its stereo if you have a game or if you have a

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video that supports dolby atmos it's not going to

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register to Windows or your player that this is a dolby atmos compatible device

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dolby atmos is a special technology that has a digital imprint of a sphere around

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the listener if you want to think about it that way and then your device will

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just pick the speakers that you have so it's going to put the 3d audio in a line

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in front of your face if they weren't claiming

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to support all these features and were hyping it up so much i think it'd be

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easier on it for 250 bucks it's kind of a nice little thing to have on your desk

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this is the world's first object-based cinematic audio

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with powerful moving audio that transcends from channels

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to moving around you with 10-point accuracy

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that's not too bad that's not too bad at all it doesn't go behind me like they're

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saying but you know the wall is all the way over there and i'm sitting here so

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there's not really anything to bounce off of and what are you going to bounce off it anyway but stereo separation for

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that was actually quite good i don't know what the speaker layout in here is

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like i don't think we can rip it open unless we get a hacksaw but not not that

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bad not 7.1 but certainly stereo

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i don't think i could recommend this to anybody it's rather too expensive

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it's very very close in here if you're

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playing games i would want speakers over here so that i could get better stereo

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separation so that i could understand where the things to shoot at are

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the sub is kind of small and anemic and most of the

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sub bass seems to be handled by the ones at the back anyway if i was a

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gamer i wouldn't want to play games with this and

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if i was a content creator i wouldn't want to edit or listen to music or

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videos with this i don't know it's uh it's a waste of money and uh it's a

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terrible product thanks for watching me terror apart another one of these

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horrible horrible sound bars if you want to look at some other crap that razer's

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made adams made a great video on a pair of headphones that were also trash and

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far too expensive so subscribe for more

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terrible razer products