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NZXT sponsored this video today to talk about their new relay audio solution

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it's a full stack solution for your computer you got your headphone stand

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the most important part your speakers your subwoofer and the headphones

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their new relay lineup is absolutely named as it's all about working together

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and handing off your audio you can switch from your headphones to your

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speakers by just putting them on the stand but get out but a chain is only as

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strong as its weakest link and I'm hoping that nothing here is going to be weak because they sponsored it let's

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start with the relay gaming headset the headphones cover 20 Hertz to 40

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kilohertz they got less than one percent total harmonic Distortion the microphone

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is 100 Hertz to 10 kilohertz and also

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less than one percent uh total harmonic Distortion we have DTS headphone X which

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is a surround audio solution kind of like Dolby Atmos but it's from DTS you

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might have heard of DTS X for like some of your home theater setups this is just

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the headphone version inside the box we have our

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gaming headset there it is look at that but I'm getting ahead of myself

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look inside and see what kind of goodies

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we have we got a nice braided three and a half millimeter combo Jack for your

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combo headphone microphone Jack with an inline microphone and a volume adjust

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there's a switch right there for mute and unmute and a short clip the shirt

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clip feels a little flimsy not gonna lie you also have a splitter for your

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headphone and microphone inputs and what is this oh a USB adapter

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and ah yes a removable boom ARM with a what

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looks to be like a two and a half millimeter I love a removable boom mic

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because that means that you can actually just kind of take these out as normal

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headphones you don't have to walk around with a stupid boom mic making everyone

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know you're a gamer now people will only suspect you're a gamer

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you'll notice that this is an adapter not a wireless dongle that's because

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these are wired headphones which is great for keeping costs down we have

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adjustable ear cups uh they're stepped

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though the stepping is not very rigid we also have tilt on the ear cups but no

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swivel that means they won't turn this way they only go up and down uh swivel

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would have been nice it's made of a metal we have aluminum probably here the

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top of the headset is plastic with a plastic leather on the inside with a

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relatively plush cushion that feels something like a memory foam the ear

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cups are also made of that same plastic leather and on the inside you have your

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right and left designations cool I mean I guess I might as well give

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them a try in terms of fit and feel they're pretty comfortable on the head

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if you have a larger head you might have some problems I have a medium to large

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head and the clamping force on the sides a little tight for my liking so your

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mileage may vary and they're a very light headphone which is great for

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longer listening sessions or gaming sessions the memory foam that they give

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you it's a lot of cushion so it uh I

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wouldn't be too worried about the Comfort on this isolation wise they seem to block out a

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decent amount of sound just passively they don't have any form of active noise

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cancellation in the headset so passive is all you get but they seem to be doing

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a good job I hope I'm not yelling too loud we'll get to listening to these in

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a moment but I want to take a look at their speakers so these are their relay

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speakers we have high dynamic range gaming speakers with premium

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resonance-free Cabinetry and a universal connectivity

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um Universal huh I wonder what they mean by that the outer dimensions of the

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speaker are 4.5 by 7.3 by 5.9 inches so

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pretty small their total harmonic Distortion is less than 5.5 percent

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their frequency response is 70 Hertz to 20 kilohertz not the deepest speakers so

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these will probably not sound that great unless paired with a subwoofer which

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NZXT conveniently sells and 80 Watts

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maximum 40 Watts average for power draw they are powered speakers which means

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you don't need like a receiver or anything to power them they'll just plug into the wall and power themselves they

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have three inch glass fiber drivers combined with a 20 millimeter silk Dome

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and high-end construction that's the two big features on the back let's take a

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look

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oh look at that inside an unmarked brown box we have

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power cable speaker wire power supply

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and RCA and 3.5 millimeter cables

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there are very small speakers but I always prefer it when they have the

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power supply integrated I Don't Need Another Brick under my desk some

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concessions had to be made to make these fit on more desks speaking of which

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let's take a look at the back of them the right one has nothing on it the left

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one this is where the action's at we have

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our outputs to the left speaker we have our power button oh that does not press

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it as far as I wanted it to I was sorry to get a big chunk we have our volume

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knob RCA inputs or TRS input and DC in

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they have some ports on the back of both of them to help with the bass response

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on them and no speaker grilles so you better

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like the idea of bear drivers and there's a light on the front

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and since these only go down to 70 Hertz we will need a subwoofer this subwoofer

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is not that big which is again a

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concession to allow it in more spaces and it's not always a bad thing you can

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have pretty great sound out of pretty small speakers

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this is a low end extension 140 watt

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subwoofer with a 6.5 inch down firing speaker

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and a big chunky port on the end

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when do they have the knife bit set for the LTT screwdriver

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lttstore.com power cable oh no oh wait no we're good

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thank God I was gonna be really mad if they included another power brick I was

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gonna be not happy but we're good

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and RCB take a look at that take a look at that

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big old speaker pretty slick pretty subtle it's not

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going to be offending anybody in your house or it's not going to ruin your Decor as you saw on the box

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we have our volume

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our crossover adjustment and their phase

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adjustment here's what I don't get on the subwoofer

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they have crossover Min and Max

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what just tell me what the crossover point is just tell me the hurts we're

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about 50 volume on it

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uh Color Me impressed these are sold separately from the subwoofer so I do

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want to take a listen without the subwoofer on

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out of the box these Dukes sounded like a little bit kind of bloated in the bass

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they're really pushing the base it's a lot for such a small driver the

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subwoofer helps with that a lot I have yet to adjust the Crossovers and Fiddle

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with that stuff but out of the gate they sound fine they're

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not exactly detailed and I think at max volume I heard a little bit of

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uh Distortion I think like like we were almost blowing the speakers out if you

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don't like the sound good thing you're just on your computer so you can EQ the

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crap out of these to make them sound however you want enter XT also says that

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in their software they have an EQ but it might not work for this because we're

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only plugged in through this Jack it might be with their USB audio which

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these don't have and thank you NZXT for using just standard audio connectors

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that makes these way more flexible damn they're very they're very very loud for

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the size apparently they could be heard across the studio there's a song by Big

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Krit called my sub part 3 which I always use is a great test to tell how low

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speakers can actually go because it just sounds like crickets if you don't

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actually have a subwoofer after listening to like a proper low very sub

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bass heavy track you do see that these lack a little bit of impact because they

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only go down to 40 Hertz as opposed to the 20 Hertz region which is where you

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feel the rumble like in your chest that's at the very bottom of our hearing

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for most music you're probably going to be fine but if you really really care about that low theatrical Rumble these

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speakers won't get you there but if you care about your neighbors then they

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should do just fine or if you hate them because they're also loud how does the

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headset sound I threw it over here there's one way to

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find out but before we listen to that let's get the coolest part of this whole

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package the switch mix what this is is

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like a combo headphone stand a DAC thing that will allow you to seamlessly

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switch between your headphones and your speakers

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oh look at that that's pretty neat this is a lot of foam in here

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it's just the one thing

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here's the really cool thing about is that a fork it was

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got it I need to clean up the really cool thing about this is that they're

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not trying to lock you into their NZXT ecosystem this will work with any

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headphones because it's just a little button on the top they have the little

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they have a little cable routed in here

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so you can have it come out to the back that's a cute little place to store that

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it can come out the side or it can come up the back we can have

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it come out the back because that's where the headphone input is that's actually kind of nice so there's these

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little there's all these little circles classic and zxt circles

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um they're famous for their circles truly in the front you can have your

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headphones then you just hang them like that when

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you're using your speakers USBC to usba editor put that in as jarringly as

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possible okay okay I'm gonna try and Route it so

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it looks a little clean and then we got our speaker input that we're gonna get

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in there it would be cool if they also released another version of this where you could have it hanging under your

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desk and it would do the same thing and then you could just run all your cables

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under the desk that would be NZXT that's the next one okay that's the next thing

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you make you don't make anything else till you make that you stop what you're

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doing and you make that for me I will buy it

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yeah that's it works great and it's it's

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playing in here other features you can adjust the volume of your headset and

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speakers with the knob touch to mute you have a voice and game slider for your

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audio to get your audio sources voice also apparently detects uh your browser

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so you can actually mix your browser audio too oh my God and it remembers the

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levels between each setting which is awesome so you're never going to accidentally blast your ears

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right because it has the settings

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it didn't change it

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well I I tricked it there I did get it once but no one's using it like that

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um that was kind of weird did you see that so one thing is that it seems that the

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switch the switch is a little bit faster than the uh the volume

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see it goes oh we're full let's talk about

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the audio on the headphones the audio on the gaming headset is surprise surprise

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tuned for gaming so we have a big lift in the highs so we can hear the details

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say like crackles and footsteps so that you can hear your opponents when they're

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coming towards you as well as a bit of a boost in the bass to add to that kind of

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thrill you're now listening to me through the headset microphone of the

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NZXT relay and looking at our Target curve we can see that uh well things

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deviate pretty badly above 1000 Hertz and Below 50 hertz luckily you have an

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EQ that allows you to adjust the sound to hopefully remedy any issues you have

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with the profile microphone response however is relatively flat and I mean

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you can hear the sample now I hope it sounds good to you the best part about

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this ecosystem is that you're not locked in in any way you could get this and not

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have the speakers you can just get this and this is actually so sick another great feature

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is that this is a combo Jack at the front so if you have something like nzxt's capsule mini microphone you can

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just plug that in and it's already going to work and integrate with the system what would be nice

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is if they had maybe an extra input I will say that much an extra input on the

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front so you could have a separate microphone and a separate headphone go

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in there instead of having to use a combonifier a combo Jack would have been

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a nice addition this is also a great feature for clutter bugs like me because

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it forces you to have to put your headphones away you actually have to put

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them on the stand or else the speakers will not play I need this in my life in

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the NZXT software with the switch mix you have some different audio profiles

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that are tuned via DTS there is a side tone adjustment as well as

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RGB you can adjust the little lights in there oh here we go custom EQ under DTS

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custom EQ you get a one two three four five six seven eight nine ten band

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graphic EQ uh you have some presets you

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have a surround sound effect ooh front wide and traditional

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interesting what is traditionally surround so yeah as we thought the EQ

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only applies to the headphones but you can EQ your whole computer let's

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check out this DTS surround I've never been blown away with headphone surround

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audio this does a fine job though

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it's if it's a feature that you love I encourage you to use it having dtsx is

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great but I am not moved the headphones are

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going to run you a hundred dollars the speakers are going to run you 250 and

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the headphone DAC and

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130 and let's not forget about the sub which is going to run you

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150. I'm going to be frank I came in here with pretty low expectations and I

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am rather impressed thanks for watching if you liked this video send it to your

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friends if you didn't like it send it to your enemies uh why don't you watch

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another video of ours it's about the Sony speaker that's very very loud and

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Dan did it