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this is a new product or rather new product category from Corsair this is

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from their gaming audio series which until now didn't exist it's the hs1

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which I'm going to go ahead and guess stands for headset one it is their first

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headset and it is a USB gaming headset Corsair is of course a gaming oriented

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company so it stands to reason they would want a gaming headset you can see

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actually here on the front it's got a little duby logo here with a headphone

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on it so that's to indicate that it does feature duby headphone technology so you

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can enjoy multi- chnnel games and movies in a way that ordinary stereo headsets

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can't match that means that this does support 7.1 virtual surround so even

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though it only has two speakers it uses the built-in digital decoder to actually

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convert your USB port to the audio chip

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built in and then take that digital signal and turn it into an analog output

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for your ears okay let's talk a little bit about some of the other points while

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we open up the box cuz that is what I do

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I unbox products and since headsets are a bit of a passion of mine I'm actually

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going to test this one out and I will let you know what I think I'll either do

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it via annotations over top of this unboxing or I will do a separate review

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video but uh I've tinkered around with

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most of the gaming headsets from the key uh gaming peripheral companies and I'm

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very interested to see how this one Stacks up especially because because

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it's the first one that's actually a dedicated USB headset that I have had a

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look at I mean I've used some of the steel series ones that are analog

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headsets with little USB adapters but uh

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yeah never one that's just purely USB so

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it has massive 50 mm drivers which is competitive with some of the other

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high-end headsets on the market right now and it is built for comfort and I

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can already tell you that based on the construction of it right here um I think

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that's pretty much all I wanted to say about what is on the box so why don't we

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go ahead and get started removing it

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from the packaging so first of all at the

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back because it's a digital product and it uses USB I'm going to go ahead and

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assume there's a driver CD in here stop do not return this product to the store

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contact cors our support please disable your antivirus software

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huh there you go disable your antivirus software while you install the product

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and then reenable it apparently their software can be accidentally detected as

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a virus so here's a quick start guide shows you how to put a disc in your

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computer shows you how to use the volume controls and whatnot wow that was it

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that was the whole thing awesome using the software okay

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allows you to enable and configure dby headphone and dby prologic

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2x all right well that's pretty much it oh did I mention throw this away and

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download the latest from the Corsair website mind you this product's so new

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uh there probably aren't any driver updates yet so it may actually be safe

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to use an included uh driver disc for

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the first time ever on lineus Tech

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tips okay wow they're quite heavy which

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uh I guess is both good and bad because heavy usually to me anyway indicates um

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you know some actual materials went into the construction but on the other hand a

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heavy headset is you know there's a fine line cuz you don't want a headset that

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weighs like 30 lb either that would get tiring fast I I'm still trying to figure

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out this box because a professional

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unboxer um so yeah the battery ran out I know this is a common occurrence uh on

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my blog anyway like I was saying though I am a professional unboxer I am having

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quite a bit of difficulty with this box because it doesn't appear to come away

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come away come apart in any straightforward

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Manner and that's making unboxing it a

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bit of a challenge so as far as I can tell there's a little door here okay so

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from there I'm supposed to maybe pull out these cables and then

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what then what indeed maybe this comes

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off no don't want to force

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it uh okay well I'm going to do some so

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I'm doing something I rarely do and I'm just completely destroying the box here

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there seem to be some perforations for you to more easily destroy it but

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they're not even really that helpful it's a very strange box design never

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seen one quite like it so here we are this is the hs1 from Corsair the first

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thing I want you to notice about it and because it's the first thing I notice

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about it is look how puffy the headband

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is it's actually it's actually okay not

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only very thick here you want to come in a little bit closer don't use the zoom

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it's better not to use that um not only is it very thick but you can see there's

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kind of a a very very soft foam like no

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matter how lightly I press on this it easily gives away and it's quite deep as

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well so the hard part of the headband is actually quite deep inside there and it

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feels like that would be very comfortable for extended uh gaming

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periods up at the top is also puffy although that I can't imagine would have

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any effect on on Comfort all right let's have a look at the design of the

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headphones themselves you can see they do fold up so that would be helpful if

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you're packing them up to take to a lan or for some other reason packing them up

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they swivel so they swivel this way okay so

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that will give you some flexibility if your head is shaped kind of like this or

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like this or like this or you know if your head's shaped like this then you'll also be able to wear the hs1 quite

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comfortably indeed these uh these hinges

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right here look very robust so you can see the construction in them there they

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are plastic but you can see they use quite thick plastic pieces in their

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construction and I really can't imagine you'd have much success breaking these

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even if you tried there are many metal elements to these as well which would

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explain the considerable weight to them so this is metal this is metal this

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piece right here oh hard to say cuz it's quite

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cold so it's cold but it sounds like plastic so I'm not really

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sure I'm like 99% sure these are metal

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though okay let me just see so okay you can see

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you've got a boom mic right here so it goes all the way down this

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way and um it's adjustable okay so it's not the first

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time I've seen a design like that but you can tuck it up out of the way just

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like that all right he uses one cord

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okay so it's a lot more convenient than some headsets that do use one cord to

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each earphone and then but rather it has

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one cord and then it goes up through the head piece and then down to the other

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ear all right so why don't I go ahead and put these on and then we can see

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what kind of a fashion statement they are oh those really comfy actually those

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are nice so you got some adjustments in here so if you have kind of a taller

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head wow you can see they're actually very adjustable so even if I had that

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much more like that much more of a tall head

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I'd be able to wear these quite comfortably and uh so yeah I mean I'm

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going to adjust them to more like a smaller head size right there so

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you can see I've gone ahead and adjusted that out a little bit and the ear cups

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are absolutely huge so I don't know if you you can compare it to the size of my

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ears here but it fits over very comfortably even with my earrings on

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hanging down below my ears so it doesn't put any pressure on the earrings which

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is uh actually kind of a a nice thing uh

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based on how much I can hear outside they're fairly open although it's uh

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hard to say 100% for sure because I don't know if I saw any notes on the Box

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about whether these are an open or a closed

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headset ah they noise isolating okay so there are they are going to call these

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closed but I can tell you one thing is

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that the closed headphones I've used in the past that have been more effective

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at isolating noise don't use a foam earpiece but they usually use like a

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fake leather like a pley material and that will cause it to isolate the sound

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a little bit better although one advantage you do get from like a hybrid

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design where it's using a closed ear cup

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but then you've got a little bit of sound leakage here is that you will actually be able to hear people who are

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talking to you in the same room room a little bit better although you will get

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a little bit more sound leakage out from the headphones to the people around you

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so they'll be able to hear what you're listening to uh which should be fine as

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long as it's nothing you know too outlandish okay so you can see that's

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where the mic sits so it's a very comfortable distance from my mouth

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anyway and uh what's nice about it sitting off to the side like this is

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that when I breathe out when I talk it's not going to uh have air brushing past

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the mic and create that whooing noise so it should pick Pi up the sound really

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well because of the distance to my mouth but the fact that it's not sitting right

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in front of it means that it should be a more clear sound so we'll have a look at

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the cord itself it's a braided covered

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sleeved cord very very nice uh very tangle resistant I mean you probably

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can't even tie this in a knot if you try to I mean maybe you could but it would

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come out quite easily even if you did that so that's a pretty good design

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feature and then here we have a mute button audio control These are nice big

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buttons so they should be fairly easy to find should you be concerned about how

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to find them and then last but not least there we go the uh the unique feature of

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these headphones is that they are entirely USB powered entirely USB

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driven so what that means is that you don't even need a sound card to use this

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headset so that means if you have like a laptop with crummy sound and let's face

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it most laptops have crummy onboard sound uh then this is a perfect solution

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because you go ahead and plug it into a USB port and all the Sound Processing is

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done up here so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the hs1 once I have a

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chance to play around with them a little bit I will let you know my Impressions and don't forget to subscribe to Linus

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