So today on my video blog, I'm going to be unboxing a new product from Steeler.
So this is the Siberia full-size headset. But what you probably can't see
is that there's a little V2 here. So the V2 version of the Siberia headset, which
is quite popular, makes a couple of key changes. First of all, they've done away
with the clip-on mic. So, it used to be it was just kind of a headphone and then
a clip-on mic that you put on the wire or your shirt, which I have always thought was kind of a ghetto solution,
but you still can do that by buying Siberia headphones and then just like a
random third party clip-on mic. Neither here nor there. They've also improved
the comfort level of these heads of this headset as well as the sound quality.
So, they've actually made a lot of improvements over the older Siberia. So,
without further ado, why don't we hurry up and get this box open? So you start
by removing the tab at the back. Now
Steeler is not, you know, uh, uh, known as an audio file class headphone, but
it's not really what they market their products towards. What they do market
them towards is gamers. So what they're saying is that it is pro gaming
optimized, which means crystal clear highs, lows, and mid tones. And these
are also closed type headphones. And what closed means is that when you have
the ear cups over your ears, it blocks out the outside noise so that you don't
get distracted by any other noises that you hear. And it also means that others
cannot hear what's going on inside the earphones or headphones, sorry, either.
Okay. So, I kind of don't know where I was going with that, but without further
ado, here is the Steeler Professional Gaming Gear uh pamphlet, which shows you
a bunch of their other uh products that would go along with this one. Okay,
thank you very much. And then, uh what
is this? To avoid permanent hearing. Oh, it's telling you not to turn it up too
loud to hurt your hearing. Okay, so then you've got a Steel Series sticker. Okay,
and then we get to the cables. So, this is not a USB version of one of their
headsets. This is one of the standard ones that plugs directly into a sound
card. They do have ones that include USB sound cards. Uh it looks like they've
also made some improvements to the inline volume and mic switch, but I'm
not 100% sure about that cuz I have a different one myself. So, you've got a
mic on and off button here. And what I like about this is it's actually quite
hard to hit by accident because it's flush with the rest of it. Um a lot of
gamers tend to bump these and then they go berserk when their mics don't work.
I've seen it happen many times. Then you got your volume control on the side.
Now, one thing that Steeler does with most, if not all of their headsets is
they include kind of a two-length cable. So, here the cable terminates where you
can plug into the back of something like a 7G keyboard or another keyboard that
has a pass through audio. And then it also comes with a nice long extension
cord should you not have a setup like that. So, if you don't use your front
audio or whatever, then it's a long enough cable to go around to the back of
your computer. Very nice. Okay. So then
next thing we need to do is remove these plastic tabs as well as these uh zip
ties at the or not zip ties sorry twist ties at the back and then we can free
the headphones themselves. Now the V2s are available in both black and white
but the version I have here today is the white version as you can see. All right.
So they go on this way. And something to
have a look at before you before you sort of get too far into this is the way
that the headset is suspended. So
Steeler claims, and I'm about to find out whether it's true in a moment, that
the suspension mechanism that they have here makes the headphones much more
lightweight and much more comfortable to wear for extended periods. And while I
can't vouch for extended periods, I can tell you right off the bat that these
are extremely light headphones and that they do fit quite comfortably because
they use an enormous ear cup that is very, very soft. It's kind of a soft
pleathery material. Okay, so then last but not least, oh yeah, it uses 50 mm
drivers. I should probably mention that. So it's quite a large driver for like a
gaming headset. Um, okay. Last thing is
this is where the mic is now included. So rather than having that clip-on mic I
was talking about before, you have a little retractable mic that is totally
adjustable. So you can kind of like play around with where you want it to sit.
And I think that pretty much covers it. Thank you for checking out my unboxing
of the Steeler Siberia V2.