Corsair Vengeance 1100 Around the Neck Gaming Headset Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2012-05-07
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this is very exciting this is the Corsair vengeance 1100
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gaming communication headset what i really think they mean to say is gaming
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headset because no headset for gaming is not for communication so it's a little
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redundant but i get where they're coming from online gaming and chat with
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outstanding comfort now that is a very interesting point because even though
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this is my first unboxing and it is my first encounter with the retail package
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for the vengeance 1100 i have had the pleasure of listening to one already
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down at the Corsair headquarters and i'm gonna go ahead and spoil the surprise
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the thing is freaking awesome considering the price point it's
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lightweight actually which happens to be the very first word on the back as far
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as what Corsair has to say about it lightweight behind the head design for
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outstanding comfort during long sessions online it is also extremely good
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sounding so it features 40 millimeter drivers and high sensitivity noise
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canceling cardoid microphone for clear unambiguous voice communication okay
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digital usb and three and a half mil analog connectors which is awesome
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considering the price point once again and it's compatible with pcs laptops and
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sound cards i think what they mean by sound cards is pcs
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via the analog connection
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so laptops they're intending you to
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use the usb connection because let's face it almost every laptop in the world
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has terrible terrible sound and then for your pc depending on
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whether you're using on-board sound or whether you are using a dedicated sound
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card you're going to want to go with the usb for your onboard sound replacement
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and then you're going to want to go with those analog jacks
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if you already have a decent dedicated sound card
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so wow this is very challenging to remove there we go
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and good riddance to you packaging all right oh look at that it comes with
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a little carrying case a little corset hey i think this is the same as their power supply one hold on let me see if a
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power supply fits in it hold on hold on
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you got a power supply here there's an ax850 power supply
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and no it would appear Corsair has
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actually redesigned the Corsair bag to
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fit things other than power supplies more specifically the vengeance 1100
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headset so let's start with you know what let's not start with the headset
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itself i'm just going to put these on here and let's start with the features
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overall okay so we have first of all
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let's go all the way down the cord to find all of the relevant features hold
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on a second i think i got it on it's a little bit wrong here there we go that's
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where the ears are supposed to go so the first thing we find down the very
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flexible very nice braided cord is volume control as well as a mic mute so
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be careful with that oh actually ah check this out this is like the littlest
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thing that nobody ever thought of before at least i haven't seen it before look
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at that see green green red which one do you think is on
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and which one do you think is off how many people have not been able to tell
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when glancing down at their inline control whether their mic is on or
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whether it's muted which could be relevant it's like you know uh you know oh hey guys uh brb
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mom i can't come up for dinner i'm raining you know and then you yelled
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that in everyone's ear because you couldn't tell if your mic was muted or
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not so there you go now that problem is solved so we're going to keep going down
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this nice long cord here features inline cable management so
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there you go there's your little velcro strap that you can use to bundle it up
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if you so desire here's where the one splits into two where we get our analog
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connections so there's your microphone there is your headphone jack and then
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finally we have the usb sound card so there this is
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see another thing that it's just insane that nobody ever thought of before but
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here is Corsair doing it look at this it has the diagrams
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on both sides amazing see it doesn't cost more when
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you're molding a plastic piece like this to label it better but for some reason
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everyone only labels one side and leaves the other side blank
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but now now that they've done it now that they've invested in their own piece
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of plastic it'll be unique and it'll be better forever all right here's the usb
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plug so that's what you plug into your laptop or whatever else the case may be
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i mean if you're going to use your you know ipod or iphone or whatever else
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then you obviously won't need that so go ahead and see plug that in there it's
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compatible with anything that features a headphone jack that's pretty much it i'm
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not actually going to play anything on it right now but let's have a look at
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the headphones themselves so why don't i why don't i just model them for you here
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for a little bit here guys
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is that dramatic enough okay here i'll take them off for a minute so features
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as they i mentioned before a very lightweight behind the head design so
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there's your little Corsair logo there's your chromed accents this is going to
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rest on the back of your neck and check this out once again another smart thing
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that evidently nobody ever thought of um and that well actually okay i'm not a
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headphone i'm not an over-the-ear headphone expert so maybe someone else thought of this but you got nice
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rubberized grippy stuff going all the way around the inside of the headset so
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what that means is it is extremely comfortable and wherever you put it it
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tends to just sort of it tends to just sort of stay like it
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kind of it kind of holds on to you there okay you can also oh check this out this
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goes how many degrees that looks like 270 degrees around so you can actually
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tuck it way back away over here or you can put it up here if you want to look
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like you have a little antenna or you can put it down here in front of your mouth if you want to talk i'm not sure
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if this is flexible turns out it is Corsair thinks of everything so you can
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either move it away from your mouth if everyone says hey your voice you know doesn't sound good your volume's too
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high you don't have time to adjust your volume you're too busy gaming just move
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it away from your mouth a little bit bam problem fixed right okay but otherwise
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normally you would just put it there okay let's go keep going around the
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overall design of it so you've got a nice brushed metal finish look here on
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the Corsair logo you've got your microphone is ported actually on both
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sides check that out there you go and then this part as i
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showed you before is quite flexible as well all right and then the 40 ml oh
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okay okay other side we got a Corsair logo we got some blue accents to go
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along with the other blue and chromy metally accents it's a really sharp
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looking little unit and then finally we have the secret which is the secret not
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only to the sound quality but also the comfort and that is the 40 mil drivers
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surrounded by what is this
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hold on is this memory foam
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okay they're not saying it's memory foam so it's probably not i'm sure they would
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say it if it was but that is really nice foam here cameraman feel the phone
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does that feel like more comfortable than normal foam cameraman says yes he also agrees with
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me so i think that's actually pretty much it
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that's the vengeance 1100 thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look
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