welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Orion Pro Rog gaming headset from
ASUS well I mean it makes sense that it's from ASUS because it is Republic of
Gamers the main difference between the Orion and the Orion Pro is the
inclusion of the Rog Spitfire so the
Spitfire is a driverless USB Hardware DSP Digital Signal processor which
basically means it's a USB sound card I think the important thing is that it's
driverless because it means you don't have to worry about plugging it in and
go to the website and download the driver no no you just plug it in it goes
uh easy access immersive 7.1 virtual surround I'm actually okay if you H if
you must have surround personally I prefer just leaving the headphones in
Stereo mode but if you want surround effects I do prefer virtual surround to
actually putting more speakers inside headphones if you're going to run real
speakers then yeah you probably want dedicated surround speakers but for
headphones the speakers are so CL the drivers are so close to your ear you're
not going to get the same effect that you get from surround speakers from
headphones anyway and you end up with these tiny little drivers that aren't
capable of producing the Deep sounds
that you want for movies gaming music I
mean basically drivers that aren't capable of producing deep sounds you
pretty much don't really don't really want them so the first thing we find
inside because this is the pro version is the Spitfire itself and I'm trying
really hard to remove the packaging there so it comes with a braided cable
and a USB connector and then it just has
on the other end a microphone in and a headphone outport so you could actually
use this Spitfire with anything you wanted you could even change up the
headphones you're using I really like this approach because it drives me crazy
when manufacturers lock you into buying an analog headset or a USB headset this
is elegant because it doesn't cost them that much more it does cost a little bit
more to terminate the ends and then do this and do that but it gives you that
flexibility maybe you really like this maybe you upgrade your oryan pro to a
Sagittarius Pro or I I don't know what's coming in the future but maybe you
upgrade it maybe you want to keep using this there you go so on here there's an
FPS mode button a surround Button as well as an amp button so that gives you
Hardware access to whatever functionality you might need on the
Spitfire so let's move on to the headphones themselves and before we do
that let's have a look at this what the heck is this hopefully they say
something about what this is it appears to be I have no idea we'll be back so
this guy right here is a cable organizer which is basically just a rubber piece
that has two clips so you can organize
the actually quite long cable so this is must be at least about an 8T long cable
so you're able to reach around to the back of your case or if you don't want
to reach to the back of your case and you can just coil it up jam it in here
and then have it stay presumably sort of
coiled up and jammed in here and not have to think about that so at the end
you find your standard termination so there's your headphone as well as
microphone so again options gives you the option to plug it into the Spitfire
just like that or plug it into your front panel audio or even the back of
your sound card I mean ASUS unlike a lot of the headphone companies actually
makes high-end sound cards which might be part of the reason why they care
about giving you the option to use their audio products with their other audio
products so now let's get into the headset itself the top has a nice big
cushion on it this is refreshing to see it goes all the way from here to here
and is quite soft although the foam inside here doesn't seem to be quite as
thick or Supple as the foam on the ear cups themselves so that's a memory foam
ear cup you can clearly tell from how squishy and soft it is and how long it
takes to retract however to sort of uh
to perfect the the fit of these
headphones I would have preferred to see some rotation this way they do go up and
down but the only rotation side to side here is from the uh the metal pieces
here having a little bit of flex in them I wouldn't have minded seeing some actual rotation they have a very
striking looking Rog logo on the side of each of the ear cups looks very very
nice and I mean as always all Rog stuff looks so sharp with a mixture of glossy
metal um matte plastic and red ACC sense
even the microphone looks just like boss and I love retractable microphones so
hold on more on the retractable microphone in a moment sizewise you can
go all the way from sort of ginormous
head size here you can clearly see how big that is for me to pretty much kid
size because this is not even close like that's where it sits my ears are hanging
right out the uh right out the bottom here so I found somewhere in the middle was about right for me which makes sense
I wear a medium motorcycle helmet the retractable mic is as I said before
awesome I love retractable mics it means you can wear it somewhere when you're
out and about without looking ridiculous and hold on a minute there we go and
it's got a flexible sort of snake wire thing on it so that you can position it
exactly where you need it next to your mouth actually my understanding is the
corner of your mouth is where it's supposed to sit I think that pretty much
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