welcome to my unboxing and first look at the steel series flux luxury
edition so steel series is becoming more and more focused I mean like okay I've
talked about this again and again and again I love the 7h it's a gaming
headset that's actually legitimately not just good for like you know rattling
your skull uh because it's an actual audio
headphone aside from being a headset so they're becoming more and more about
different kinds of Audio Solutions so this is their Mobile Audio sort of their
mobile headphone although it's steel Series so it's got a mic included with
it anyway just in case you wanted to use it with your phone or your well your
phone or your computer or whatever else you want to actually use it for I don't
know Skype calls or anything like that so it does have an integrated microphone
but it's mostly for the the out and about experience listening to music
these guys have 40 mm drivers which means that you can expect them to
actually be able to deliver some Bas in
spite of the very very lightweight sort of construction and I'm just going to
open it up like the headphones that you can buy
at your local Big Box store that are sort of overpriced and sort of you know
look nice but actually sound like crap they look nice
so my expectation for a product like this from steel series from a brand that
I actually trust unlike sort of no-name brand on the Shelf at you know best
buyer or wherever else is that besides being sort of that fashion statement
lightweight mobile headphone it'll actually sound decent as well so I
haven't tried them yet although I will before this unboxing is over but first I
want to show you guys what we have in terms of accessories included so the
cables are a stylish orange although what's cool is you can configure it the
way you want if you order from their web shop so you can actually swap out things
like the uh cords the side plates on the
headphones themselves so you can swap these out and you can even swap out the
cushions they're actually made to order so so very very neat so the luxury
edition like I said comes with an orange cord so this one right here you can see
includes a microphone and plugs into the
bottom with a detachable cable so you just plug that guy in right there and
there you have it the other one that's included is a straight um four pole
to hold on just a gosh darn minute we'll be back in a
moment and we're back so sorry about that I did get a little bit confused
it's very straightforward so in line is a single button with a microphone for
the one that is four pole for your phone so that single button can do a number of
things it can answer calls play pause depending on your phone it can do things
like pressing it multiple times for fast forward or rewind or whatever else this
one right right here with the split connectors plugs in here
and whatever it plugs in there and then has two separate prongs for your uh for
your input and your outputs for your mic and your headphones this right here is
just an included 3 and a half in extension cable because the PC one is
not actually necessarily an appropriate length to reach around to the back of
your computer so you can just go ahead and plug these in here in order to make
sure that you can actually reach the back of your PC so that's all fine and
good now let's get into some of the really cool features so this is this is
awesome so their whole marketing thing for this is go flux yourself which is I
think amazing so it shows you all the different customizability that you can
so there's all the different cable colors and headphone colors and ear muff
colors and all that good stuff okay really neat stuff number one is padding
wise so these are just rubber pads now my initial impression when I put them on
was oh yeah these uh these seem like
they're optimized for someone with more of a square head like they sit kind of
flat on the top of my head and then they don't they don't really hug the shape of
my head there's a reason for that all you do is you take the flux and you
gently bend them and you go kind of one
one Bend at a time and you are able to oh even that's better already you're
actually able to change the shape of the
headband to get it to fit you just right which means that while it doesn't have a
soft cushiony padding it does have soft rubber and if the shape is perfect on
your head it's it's actually not a bad experience um the next thing check this
out so you've actually got two 3 and 1 12 mm Jacks when I first saw that I got
a little bit confused but once I sort of encountered this little manual right
diagram right here that shows no it's not for two different input sources it
is for okay you guys you guys are going to love this if you and if you have a
friend who also has a pair of headphones and you want to sit on the bus and share
the same music or you want to sit and watch a movie together on a tablet or
something like that guys if you have a girlfriend then you know that this stuff
happens if you don't have a girlfriend then you're probably watching this video
right now instead of spending time with her um sorry that's mean um you can
actually output to a second set of headphones it's just a standard 3 and a
half mimer steel series hasn't built in any proprietary connectors or anything
like that so you can easily use the flux headphones to share your content with
someone else at the same time so input here output there very very cool feature
love it I also haven't shown the carrying case yet so there's just a
little like nice carry bag that you can put the flux headphones inside and they
also include these are magnetic replacements for the stock ones that
come with it so you can actually put black ones on and you can swap them out
to something else later on down the line if you'd like but I personally like the
ones that come with the luxury edition here they do fold so there you go you
can just fold them up like well like that apparently put them in
there and I think that pretty much covers it I think I'm mentioned the 40mm
drivers I think I mentioned the travel friendliness detachable cables nothing
proprietary I mean for me the killer app is being able to customize the fit the
fact that they aren't like sort of just those stupid fashion headphones that so
they're actually worth a couple bucks compared to what you normally Buy in
this kind of a category oh yeah I haven't shown the sort of the softness
of the ear cups at all so there's that and being able to share my music or my
movie or whatever else it happens to be with someone is the killer app for me
that is outstanding thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the flux
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