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click the link in the video description for more details welcome to my unboxing and first look at

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the steel series flux in-ear now i've been using the in-ear pros for a couple

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of weeks now and i have to say i absolutely love them with that said the

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in-ear pros with their comply tips and all the adapters so you can use the

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microphone on your pc and all that kind of stuff are a more premium option they

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do cost quite a bit more than the in-ears which i haven't had the pleasure to try yet but i am looking forward to

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checking them out so the in-ears like i said more value-oriented product with

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that said they still feature six millimeter drivers which at this kind of

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a price point is a good thing it still has a microphone and my expectation

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because it's a steel series product is that the microphone's not going to be

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that bad for example on the in-ear pros when we did our video about them we actually

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recorded part of the audio from the video

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with the inline microphone that was built into one of the sides

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and the thing that surprised me about it was the audio quality actually wasn't bad even though the microphone wasn't

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sitting right next to my mouth so i'm really excited to check that out so what

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do they have to say for themselves here frequency response 20 hertz to 20

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kilohertz okay 19 ohm impedance this is important because you want that to be a

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low number for mobile devices so that they're able to push audio clearly more

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easily all right 100 decibel sensitivity gotcha 1.2 meter flat cable we'll show

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you that in a moment and the mic pattern is omnidirectional so it is not a

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directional mic which is good because when you have a mic that's built into

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the wire on an in-ear headphone like this

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if it's facing the wrong way for example the only thing it would hear is the

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sound of your shirt moving against it so they include a quick start guide some

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mobile accessories including their flux headphones which you can get in a

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variety of different finishes and whatnot the free um i don't know what this one is but

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this is the free game controller it's a bluetooth game controller

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we've got a steel series sticker as well as

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oh a warning about not damaging your hearing other than that nothing else

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else inside the box so the packaging is pretty bare bones it comes with a little

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pouch to keep your headphones in as well as your accessories so it comes with

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three different sizes of ear tips large extra large and gargantuan no i'm

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just kidding it comes with small medium and large so we can go ahead and check

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that out so it looks like the small ones and the large ones are the ones that

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are not actually pre-attached to the headset so we'll go ahead and open this

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up now unlike the pro it doesn't come with the

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adapter to take the 4-pole to two three

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pulls for plugging into a pc with that said you could use an adapter and you

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could still plug it in should you so desire it also doesn't have quite the

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same thickness of cable as the pro so on

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the left you see the non-pro and on the right you see the pro so that's uh

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that's what makes the cable uh non-tangle is that flatness and that

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thickness so it's not going to be quite as tangle resistant as the pro level

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skew but again this makes sense they're also a little bit lighter weight one

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thing i noticed about the pros is that they do tend to have some some weight on

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your head when you're wearing them but it's okay because they wrap around the

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ear so there's somewhere for that weight to be supported with the non-pros they

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are intended see they're labeled here there's your left and there's your right

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on the inside of the earbud piece they are intended to be worn like normal

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iems which is right inside the ear canal

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hanging down like this so steelseries calls them passively noise cancelling

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which basically means that because of the seal that they have between your ear

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and the outside world there's no there's no background hiss no active noise

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cancellation but they are isolating in that you are less able to hear the noise

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around you you can swap the ear tips relatively

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easily as with pretty much all iemc look you can see there's that those six

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millimeter drivers that's why the end of these are so big compared to most uh

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low-cost headphones that you find out there and by low-cost i sort of mean

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anything under sort of three figures

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and the reason that's so big is because they actually have a bigger speaker in

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it the overall id looks very nice it has kind of a rubberized finish here and

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then the silver steel series logo so it's not just white

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it actually has some shininess to it one advantage that the non-pros have over

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the pros is that the pros switch to a round cord up at the top meaning they

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lose some of their tangle resistance near the top and this is because they wrap around your ear whereas the

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non-pros use a flat cable all the way from the bottom to the top they have an

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inline volume control or rather an inline microphone and then an inline

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control it's not volume control but you can use this to take a call on your

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phone or hang up a call because it does have a built-in microphone and then

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you've also got a little steel series logo on the back there so that's

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pretty much what you'd expect cable length wise uh this is a good test for

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any sort of headphone

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because you always want to know okay so when i'm actually wearing the thing so

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i'll plug into my uh my phone here do i have enough slack so that i can kind of

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make it under a shirt and then sort of up a shirt and then see how it goes from

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there now i think the mediums are a little bit big for me so i'm going to want to switch to the smalls before i

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really listen to them and i'm just going to see if we missed anything else that

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steel series has to say about themselves so i mean they're a gaming company so

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they're obviously saying yeah you can use these for gaming but you're not

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required to you can use them with your phone or other devices as well

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and i think that's pretty much all there is to say about it advanced dynamic

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drivers for detailed sound inline microphone and controls you know what i

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do want to do a quick test of the of the tangle resistance here wow those really

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like suction into your ears that's uh that's a bit different

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so let's go ahead let's give it a good tangle shall we this will be the last

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thing in this video so we're gonna do the whole like tangle

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it up really good put it in the pocket and let's see how the uh the tangle

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resistance holds up for the for the in-ears so it should be noted

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that there's no such thing as a pair of headphones that is completely tangle

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proof which is why whenever i see tangle proof on the box for a product i do say

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tangle resistant but when i compare these to my clip chest for eyes when i

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did those with the s4s i had a much bigger problem than that

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getting them undone so very nice good work to steal series thank you for

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checking out excuse me my unboxing of the flux and ears from steel series

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