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the steel series flux in-ear now i've been using the in-ear pros for a couple
of weeks now and i have to say i absolutely love them with that said the
in-ear pros with their comply tips and all the adapters so you can use the
microphone on your pc and all that kind of stuff are a more premium option they
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
checking them out so the in-ears like i said more value-oriented product with
that said they still feature six millimeter drivers which at this kind of
a price point is a good thing it still has a microphone and my expectation
because it's a steel series product is that the microphone's not going to be
that bad for example on the in-ear pros when we did our video about them we actually
recorded part of the audio from the video
with the inline microphone that was built into one of the sides
and the thing that surprised me about it was the audio quality actually wasn't bad even though the microphone wasn't
sitting right next to my mouth so i'm really excited to check that out so what
do they have to say for themselves here frequency response 20 hertz to 20
kilohertz okay 19 ohm impedance this is important because you want that to be a
low number for mobile devices so that they're able to push audio clearly more
easily all right 100 decibel sensitivity gotcha 1.2 meter flat cable we'll show
you that in a moment and the mic pattern is omnidirectional so it is not a
directional mic which is good because when you have a mic that's built into
the wire on an in-ear headphone like this
if it's facing the wrong way for example the only thing it would hear is the
sound of your shirt moving against it so they include a quick start guide some
mobile accessories including their flux headphones which you can get in a
variety of different finishes and whatnot the free um i don't know what this one is but
this is the free game controller it's a bluetooth game controller
we've got a steel series sticker as well as
oh a warning about not damaging your hearing other than that nothing else
else inside the box so the packaging is pretty bare bones it comes with a little
pouch to keep your headphones in as well as your accessories so it comes with
three different sizes of ear tips large extra large and gargantuan no i'm
just kidding it comes with small medium and large so we can go ahead and check
that out so it looks like the small ones and the large ones are the ones that
are not actually pre-attached to the headset so we'll go ahead and open this
up now unlike the pro it doesn't come with the
adapter to take the 4-pole to two three
pulls for plugging into a pc with that said you could use an adapter and you
could still plug it in should you so desire it also doesn't have quite the
same thickness of cable as the pro so on
the left you see the non-pro and on the right you see the pro so that's uh
that's what makes the cable uh non-tangle is that flatness and that
thickness so it's not going to be quite as tangle resistant as the pro level
skew but again this makes sense they're also a little bit lighter weight one
thing i noticed about the pros is that they do tend to have some some weight on
your head when you're wearing them but it's okay because they wrap around the
ear so there's somewhere for that weight to be supported with the non-pros they
are intended see they're labeled here there's your left and there's your right
on the inside of the earbud piece they are intended to be worn like normal
iems which is right inside the ear canal
hanging down like this so steelseries calls them passively noise cancelling
which basically means that because of the seal that they have between your ear
and the outside world there's no there's no background hiss no active noise
cancellation but they are isolating in that you are less able to hear the noise
around you you can swap the ear tips relatively
easily as with pretty much all iemc look you can see there's that those six
millimeter drivers that's why the end of these are so big compared to most uh
low-cost headphones that you find out there and by low-cost i sort of mean
anything under sort of three figures
and the reason that's so big is because they actually have a bigger speaker in
it the overall id looks very nice it has kind of a rubberized finish here and
then the silver steel series logo so it's not just white
it actually has some shininess to it one advantage that the non-pros have over
the pros is that the pros switch to a round cord up at the top meaning they
lose some of their tangle resistance near the top and this is because they wrap around your ear whereas the
non-pros use a flat cable all the way from the bottom to the top they have an
inline volume control or rather an inline microphone and then an inline
control it's not volume control but you can use this to take a call on your
phone or hang up a call because it does have a built-in microphone and then
you've also got a little steel series logo on the back there so that's
pretty much what you'd expect cable length wise uh this is a good test for
any sort of headphone
because you always want to know okay so when i'm actually wearing the thing so
i'll plug into my uh my phone here do i have enough slack so that i can kind of
make it under a shirt and then sort of up a shirt and then see how it goes from
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
really listen to them and i'm just going to see if we missed anything else that
steel series has to say about themselves so i mean they're a gaming company so
they're obviously saying yeah you can use these for gaming but you're not
required to you can use them with your phone or other devices as well
and i think that's pretty much all there is to say about it advanced dynamic
drivers for detailed sound inline microphone and controls you know what i
do want to do a quick test of the of the tangle resistance here wow those really
like suction into your ears that's uh that's a bit different
so let's go ahead let's give it a good tangle shall we this will be the last
thing in this video so we're gonna do the whole like tangle
it up really good put it in the pocket and let's see how the uh the tangle
resistance holds up for the for the in-ears so it should be noted
that there's no such thing as a pair of headphones that is completely tangle
proof which is why whenever i see tangle proof on the box for a product i do say
tangle resistant but when i compare these to my clip chest for eyes when i
did those with the s4s i had a much bigger problem than that
getting them undone so very nice good work to steal series thank you for
checking out excuse me my unboxing of the flux and ears from steel series
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