all right guys so today I have a very exciting product I recently unboxed the
rest of the Vengeance series headsets from Corsair but now I have the cream of
the crop the Vengeance 1500 this is a Dolby 7.1 gaming headset so yes it uses
Dolby technology through software to enable a surround gaming experience in
spite of the fact that it does have only two speakers it is for okay immersive
intensive online gaming got that all right let's see what course there has to
say for themselves on the back of the box you can experience immersive multi
Channel gaming put on the Vengeance 1500 enjoy gaming the way it was intended 50
mm drivers which is Awesome by the way uh deliver pristine audio reproduction
and 7.1 Channel Dolby Digital USB Sound Processing gives you the Tactical
advantage of pinpoint accuracy not everyone prefers virtual surround
effects I personally prefer just leaving it in stereo but if you do like the
virtual surround effects then this headset has it whereas something like
the Vengeance 1300 if you're using it with your onboard audio or whatever the
case may be doesn't have that option uh
okay over here we've got sort of more General technical specifications so you
can go ahead and pause the video If you really want to watch that this part is
important for this one though is the fact that it's not going to work on a
Mac it will only work on Windows 7 Vista or XP because it does require a driver
for the built-in USB sound card okay Dolby headphone technology for 7.1
surround we've talked about that so far oh this is interesting the subwoofer
signal is mixed into the left and right channels in equal proportions so that
means that regardless of uh where a base
sort of noise is coming from you're actually going to get that encompassing
sort of surround Rumble effect with the lows
which is interesting because as you guys probably know Bas is supposed to be
pretty non-directional so if you have a oops I unboxed it the wrong way so if
you have a subwoofer in the corner of the room for example which is often the
recommended setup for home theater setups then you know something like an
explosion is not coming into only your right ear you're going to be sort of
feeling it and hearing it all over so that's uh that's an interesting way to
approach that so I'm going to take the headset out of the packaging this was
actually a relatively easy to extract headset some headsets come in just
brutal packaging that I can't figure out how to open and I'm just going to have a
look at the documentation that corser includes so we've got a little warranty
guide here so this headset includes
a non-transferable warranty which is
fine very few people are interested in Sharing headsets anyhow
and for a specific length of time okay give me a second I'm going to find it
just go ahead and cut it for
now so guys it's not in here that's why I couldn't find it the specific length
of time is outlined on the box itself Corsair guarantee of 2 years all right
the next one is stop do not return this product to the store Corsair prefers
that you contact them for technical support in order to give them a chance
to resolve any issues you may have with the product before returning it which is
great because Corsair is all about the support
and uh giving them a chance to actually leverage that aspect of their business
is definitely a good idea because they will usually 99% of the time find a way
to make you happy so the Vengeance 1500
besides using USB which we'll talk a little bit more about later has a
slightly different overall build quality than the Vengeance 1300 so I'm just
going to grab the Vengeance 1300 here for side by-side comparison so you guys
can see and the first thing that stands out to me about the 50 1500 versus the
1300 is the metal side so that looks
really really sharp on the 1500 so you can tell that the 1300 is a slightly
less expensive product you can also see that on the boom mics the Vengeance 1300
uses shiny plastic here and the Vengeance 1500 uses a metal a metal
which is yeah it's actually okay hold
on I can't actually tell if it's made of metal or if it's more like a metallic
looking plastic somewhat cold to the touch but then on the sides it looks
like it looks like plastic so it's possible it's like a thin piece of metal
over the plastic that would be my guess right about now but you know what if you
guys know for sure let me know let me know uh okay another thing too is it
uses matte accents instead of glossy Accents in certain places like here as
well as actually that's about it okay so
that covers the physical differences in terms of the headset itself so I'm going
to go ahead I'm going to put it on I'll model it for you oh no wait I'll I'll do
this first so I want to show you guys the uh the foam that Corsair is using on
the ear pads so this is a nice soft foam
that is actually very very
um I I mean I want to call it memory
like because I don't know that they're using memory foam but you can see that
once I push on it it actually takes quite a while to rebound back to its
original position this is much more comfortable than a foam that just flexes
right back to the original position after you press it because what that'll
do is it'll give constant pressure on your head and on your ears whereas this
is going to mold itself to you and create more like a cushioning layer as
opposed to pressing on you so the 50 mil drivers are here you can clearly see
they're 5 cm in diameter and then also
on the headset itself I want to show you guys the foam that's in the top here
quite thick very soft uh shouldn't be
too much of a difficulty in terms of uh of comfort corer headsets at this point
are well known for the comfort that they provide so now I'm going to put the unit
on before I talk about it anymore so in terms of adjustments you can adjust
either side this much so if you have a very tall head and I mean a tall head I
mean even with my hair all tall like this you can see I can here hold on I'm
going to put it on my ears properly I can clearly stick my hand in between the
headset and the top of my head so or I can pull the the earphones down to here
whichever the case may be I'd use it pretty much in its smallest
configuration or maybe couple notches out on either side very fine adjustments
on both sides and it does stay in place quite well it's hard to move it which I
think is a good thing because you don't want to be adjusting your headset every
time you put it on the boom mic is adjustable this way so you can move it
further or closer to your mouth depending on what you prefer and it can
either go up all the way or it can come down to about here so if your mouth is
located around the sort of Adam apple area then you will be able to easily
talk into the mic regardless okay all right um what else do I want to say
about this one I think that's pretty much it for the headset I mean if you guys want to see sort of the look from
either side oh yeah having a little bit of trouble with
that oh yeah so they are flexible this way so that means that if your head has
sort of a different shape to it or your ears are further back or further forward
on your head it's going to fit quite comfortably either way and let's have a
look at the included options on this this side of
things so we've got our volume down and our volume up as well as our microphone
mute button here so these are in line and they come down about this far from
where they attach to the headset so they'll hang comfortably somewhere where
you can reach them at a moment's notice the cord itself is quite long so you can
plug it into the front of your case or you can plug it into the back of your
case or you can plug it into like the back of your neighbor's case should you
so desire because it's really really long and it's a nice high quality
braided cord so it's not going to s egg on anything and I wouldn't expect it to
sustain any damage if you accidentally hit it with something sharp either
although your cats could probably do a number on it I've lost a couple headsets to my CS the USB connector at the bottom
so you can see this is a purely USB
headset there's no analog options some headsets like the Vengeance here it is
the Vengeance 1100 come with a little USB sound card and then analog
connectors but this one just terminates straight to a USB connection because it
is meant to be used with the included software and which I guess you download
from Corsair's website because I don't see a dis included which is what I would
tell you to do anyway download the latest software from the cors our
website and it is not meant to be used with an analog sound card so I'll just
kind of show you guys from all angles what it looks
like you know here's with the mic down this is the part that people watch
these videos for I suppose you know what does the product actually look like when
it's installed in this case it's installed on a user and thank you for
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videos here's another difference that we didn't notice until after we stopped
filming and that check this out so the 1300 actually uses more like they seem
to use the same foam so I can tell you guys that right off the bat but the 1300
uses like a pley material here whereas the 1500 uses a cloth material so these
are going to sound more closed and these are going to sound more open so they are
going to have slightly different audio characteristics even if you hook these
two headsets up to the same source so these are very different products and it
comes down to what the individual user is looking for whether they would want
to choose a Vengeance 1500 or a Vengeance 1300 so a quick guide would be
if you're using a notebook you don't have an you don't have a dedicated sound
card I'd go with the, 1500 right off the bat especially if you don't want to buy
a sound card if you do have a dedicated sound card it's probably going to be
better than the USB audio solution um especially if it's a halfway decent card
so then I'd go with something like the 1300 so that you can make use of the
processing power of your sound card