So today by request I'm going to be having a look at a product that I have
to confess I do not have a lot of experience with this category. I have
never used a set of surround sound headphones but by request I'm having a
look at the AX51 Pro from Triton. This is an analog 5.1 surround sound 3D
directional precision gaming headset. So basically their whole thing is that they
have four speakers in each one of these ear cups. They have a center channel, a
front channel, and a rear channel, as well as a subwoofer in each side. So,
that means that you've actually got a full analog output. So, a lot of the
5.1s out there do use drivers and they use software emulation or whatever else,
or they might even connect by USB, but this one actually just uses your
conventional uh mic, front, center, sub,
and then rear speaker jacks. So, it just
plugs right into your sound card. All right. So, let's just have a look at
their packaging here. So, in the package, you can see they outline all of
the features, which includes where the speakers are positioned in a traditional
5.1 setup. Okay, thanks for that. It shows that you can independently control
each sound field via the back lit inline controller. So, that's kind of nice.
Okay, you can have a look at that. And then what else do we have here? Okay,
you can plug two of them into the AX Pro to game with a friend on a console. Uh,
whyever you'd want to do that. I'm not 100% sure. You can interchange the ear
cup padding. You can change the headrail padding. You can change you has a
removable flexible microphone and it has
an Xbox Live port. Okay, I'm guessing that's why you would want to use it with
a friend if you're a console gamer. And then, okay, that's pretty much
everything that we've got here. So, why don't we get started on opening this thing up? And I hope that my knife is
handy because otherwise this is going to be somewhat problematic. There it is. I
do have my blade. All right, there we go. So, let's get this open and open it
up. I'm going to try and update with annotations once I've had a chance to try these things because I have to
confess I am a little bit curious how the whole 5.1 headphone thing works.
I've never tried it before. I have used 5.1 speakers and then I have used, you
know, your standard stereo headphones for gaming, but just never this way. Oh,
actually, there's something that I did want to show that was in here that I didn't have a good look at. So, this is
the speaker configuration within the earphones. So, you can kind of have a
look. I can't tell which is which, just off sort of the top of my head here, but
I'm guessing the big one is the sub and the small ones are not, for one thing.
All right. Inside we have a What is this? Okay. Product
registration as well as a quick start guide. This is a quick start guide.
Okay. So, it shows you how to plug in your analog connections, how to use the
little inline thing. They're actually powered. Oh, that's interesting. So, you
have an AC jack that plugs into your headphones. Wow. Okay. And then slide
pad. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That's interesting. Quick start guide. Thank
you, Triton. Okay. And then we have in here we have a little booklet that shows
you other Triton products. Okay. There we go. So, that's what's in there. Other
stuff that you can also buy from them. And then we get down to the product
itself. So, here is what I'm assuming is the AC adapter. Yeah. So, that's a
that's a reasonable size adapter right there. That's like pretty big. Okay. So,
that plugs right into the headphones themselves. And then we can take off
the Let me see what else is in here. There's got to be more stuff, right?
There's got to be more stuff. Ah, okay. So, in one of the boxes inside, we
find Okay, we find an analog set of
inputs connected to a custom connector here. Okay. So, that's a little adapter
there for us. Okay. And then we have uh Oh, this is the
mic. Okay. So, it's kind of flexible.
See, you can bend the mic and it'll stay where you sort of put it. Okay. So, that
plugs into the bottom of one of the ear cups. All right. And then we have a
couple of exchangeable ear cups as well as an exchangeable piece for the for the
top of the head for the top of the headset. Okay. So, if you don't find the stock one comfortable, you can change it
to that. That's very nice. Okay. And then that pretty much does it for our
accessories. All right. So, let's get this
open. And ah, I get it. Okay. So, all of the exchangeable ones there that I just
looked at, those are kind of pleathery ones, whereas the ones that actually
come on the headphones are um are more
of a cloth type. Okay. So, I'm just
trying to get this out of the box here. Wow, that is a nice long cord. I like to
see that actually because if you have a long cord then you uh won't run out of
cord if you sit far away from your computer while you're gaming or doing
whatever else it is doing. Okay, so pull that through there and then we're
finally getting to the point where we can talk about this thing a little bit.
So at the end of the long cord you'll find that custom connector right here.
Okay, so that plugs in to adapt to the uh to the 7.1 five, excuse me, 5.1 and
then you've got the DC in. Okay, so that's for our AC adapter. And then here
is our inline controller. Okay, so it gives us a little color coding uh color
scheme code thing. So red is the max, cyan is high, white is medium, blue is
low, and green is the minimum. All right, so that's really good to know.
And then we have a little volume control thing right here on the side. Okay, and
then over here, oh, voice volume. Ooh, that's nice. Most of these I've seen
only have on off, but this actually has a volume slider for that. And then this
is to turn the microphone on and off. Just right there. Okay. So then you can
press each of the buttons and it's colorcoded for how high you've got the
volume. Very cool. There's your Xbox 360 jack right there at the bottom. And now
let's have a look at the headset itself. So first of all, I should figure out
which way it goes. Ah, the labels are on the inside here. So you can see that's
the right ear cup. So I'll just put that on like that. Okay. So it adjusts at the
top just like most headsets. And it's uh quite adjustable. It can be adjusted
quite far. So, even if my head was like this big, then it would fit quite
comfortably. But, I'm probably going to have it at about the medium setting,
just like that. It's really It's It's kind of heavy, actually, is my first
observation. But, I guess it has to have some weight to it if you're going to be
able to stuff all of that extra electronics and speaker gear inside. I
mean, I guess there's not a whole lot to say about it. It seems pretty pretty
well built. I wouldn't expect it to break if you accidentally drop it off your desk or do anything like that. I
can't figure out just sort of like right now immediately how to change out the uh
Oh, yeah. Okay. So, these just come off like that. Okay, that was pretty simple. So, you can take off the cloth ones. You
can replace it with the ply ones. Oh, and you can see there there there's a
way better view of the speaker configuration. So, you can see where all
of the speakers are inside of the earphones or headphones, excuse me. And
then this one, I guess, is Oh, I don't want to break this. Okay, I can't really
figure out how to take this one off. Yeah, you can exchange this one with the
plasticky one as well. Okay, so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
Triton AX51 Pro 5.1 headphones. Oh,
that's really uncomfortable without the foam piece