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now to learn more. Welcome to my unboxing and overview of the Steel

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Series 5HV3. So, as you may or may not have figured

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out, the 5HV3 comes after the two and

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before presumably the four because if Steeler is going to keep rolling the way

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that they've been rolling for this last little while with more better audio

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products all the time, we'll probably see a new revision at some point. But in

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the meantime, this is what we've got, folks. So, packaging wise, it's pretty

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straightforward. You take it out and then you have the headset sitting there.

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Undo the little clips at the back.

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That's hot. All twisted up in there. Get

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that undone. Okay. Anyway, u So, what's different about the V3? Number one is

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they have upgraded the drivers. So, the drivers, for those of you who are

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uninitiated, are the speakers inside each of the ear cups. So, it should

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offer better audio quality than the outgoing 5HV2. Now, around the outside of those

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drivers, they've also upgraded the materials for the ear cups themselves.

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So, instead of a cloth covering, they're now using a faux leather covering with

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memory foam inside. So, hopefully you guys can get a pretty good idea of how

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cushy those are. This does a couple of things. So, number one is it will make

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them more comfortable. And number two is it actually improves the passive noise

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isolation. So, there's no active noise cancelling or anything like that, but

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there's less sound leaking in and leaking out of these compared to if they

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were using a cloth covering for the ear

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cups. Now, this is uh obviously optimal for something like a tournament

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environment and the H series is their tournament grade headsets. Another thing

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that's optimal for that if you travel around a lot is having it disassembled.

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So, you can take it apart and chuck it in your bag. I suspect many people won't

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use this feature even if they are traveling with it. But hey, it's there

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so you can use it if you want. The contacts are very robust looking so you

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can actually see how the wiring is done between the two ear cups. So, I wouldn't

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worry about those wearing out over time.

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All right, so let's move around to the left side here. Ah, yes. That right

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there, a Steel Series staple, the infinitely poseable. See that? Look at

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that. I love that. Put it wherever you want. The infinitely pososeable

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retractable microphone. The actual reason I switched from my HD555s for

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gaming to the Steel Series 7H's back when I got those a couple years ago. Um,

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as with any Steeler headset, I would expect the microphone to be good

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quality. Some gaming headsets have microphones, but they're terrible. I

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have never yet had this experience with a Steel Series headset. The headphones

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are of course adjustable, so you can go anywhere from sort of super tall cone

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head guy setting, so right about, you know, there down to something that's

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quite a bit too small for me. So, it kind of sits on the bottoms of my

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earlobes. I wear a mediumsiz motorcycle helmet, so that should give you guys

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some idea what's up. There's a little bit of rotation in the ear cups there,

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but not a ton. I think uh for most people, that's really not going to be an

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issue. But if your ears happen to sit very far back or very far forward, then

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uh it's something to bear in mind. And then you've got about this much rotation

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in them this way. So like vertical swiveing or whatever the case may be.

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The cable's very nice. So they're using a double braided cable this time around.

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And that might seem like it doesn't matter, but if you have cats, it might.

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Or if you, you know, run over your cable with your mouse particularly vigorously.

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No, that actually won't matter. But cats definitely if your cats try to chew

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through this cable, they will have less success than a single braided or a

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non-braided cable. And then that leads to the inline control, which hasn't been

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changed since the last generation product. So it's basically got a

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microphone mute or not mute as well as a

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volume dial. Now, this goes all the way down to ah yes, now we're getting into

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the Steel Series, the other Steel Series classic sort of flexibility thing that

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they got going on. So right here is their swappable cable system. So you can

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actually switch from the two connector,

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so two three poles right there, to this

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guy right here, a single four pole. So you can actually use the 5HV3 with a

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mobile device or ultrabook or anything that only has a single audio jack for

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both headphones and microphones. And then they've also got their included

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extension cables. These are really handy. I don't even necessarily use them

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on my headphones because I I usually have something in the front of my case

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or something sitting on my desk, but these are just really handy if you need

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like, you know, audio extension cables. So, I use them all the time. So, there

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you go. You can either extend them or just use the nice short cable here and

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terminate terminate terminate it in whatever type of ending you desire.

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