Razer Hammerhead Pro Unboxing & Overview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,464 words · ~7 min read
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check the link in the video description for more details maybe it's being
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presumptuous of me but I'm pretty sure that this is a hotly anticipated
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unboxing from me the Razer Hammerhead
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Pro okay so what are they calling this
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expert analog gaming and music inar
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headset so the difference the Hammerhead Pro and the regular Hammerhead is very
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simple it's a microphone so the regular
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Hammerhead is exactly the same product except no inline microphone and no call
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control all right what else do they have to say about this themselves right on
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razer's website it says hammering the
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base it's called the hammer head this is
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made for base heads so it should be noted right out of the B right out of
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the gate that just because I don't particularly like the sound signature
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shouldn't take away from the fact that you may enjoy the sound signature of
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this headset if you enjoy a ton of Bas I
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personally prefer a more balanced sound
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where there's a good mix of high mids and lows but some people just want to
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hear it pound whether it's explosions or whether it's um you know just heavy base
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tracks or whatever else the case may be music movies games you want to hear it
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go so there we we go what's included you get uh little picture of your new
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headphones SL headset as well as a letter all right that's cool you get a
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quick start guide although quite frankly if you need a quick start guide for headphones then uh it should probably
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come with a guide for how to tie your shoes um and then next up we've got the
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actual headphones themselves so there's a hard carrying case I personally don't
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really find myself using these too much I I do prefer to just kind of Chuck my
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headphones in my pocket cuz I'm lazy like that but some people do use them
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and it's nice to have a little uh spot here where you can put some of the
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accessories and keep them separate from the headphones themselves so you don't
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risk losing them speaking of accessories this accessory right here is an audio
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splitter I like seeing this included with headphones I particularly like
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seeing a nice high quality one so there that is machined aluminum and then it
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has like a nice uh a nice knurled finish
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on both of the ends here so that you can really grab onto it and then you've got
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a bright green wire running to the headphone and microphone jacks which are
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both clearly labeled as well as having colorcoded bands on them next up we've
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got the headphones themselves so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to pull those out and put them aside for now Ray
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are so good at packaging look how nicely presented all of this is I love that
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although some of their older packaging used to be a little bit better than some of their newer stuff they used to you
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could tell you just looked at it you went wow they spent a ton on this package and these days they're they're
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moving away from that a little bit and they're giving in and using plastic here
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and there which isn't necessarily a bad thing you know seeing companies spend
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more on the product itself and then finding creative ways to make the
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packaging look good without uh without overspending on it it's definitely
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definitely positive so you get three different sizes of standard silicone ear
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tips so you get a large medium and small this is pretty standard these days with
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most everyone including at least three different sizes I'd love to see you know
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it's kind of like the race to higher DPI on mic or the race to any number of
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different things on mice I'd love to see the race to more ear tip inclusions so
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it's like well you guys are going to have three well I'm going to have seven
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different sizes of ear tips included so everyone from like Andre the Giant down
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to uh my son who's 15 months old will be
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able to have the optimal fit actually it's not even necessarily a bad idea
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Razer if you're watching this let's see the Hammerhead Elite with like 16
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different ear tip sizes because that's my wife's biggest complaint about IMS is
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that none of them really fit or right so there you go uh speaking of ear tips
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that fit correctly let's go ahead and check this out so it uses 9 mm neodium
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drivers so you can actually see those if you go ahead and remove the ear tip and
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then they include a fourth ear TP tip so this is a an optional B flange so Razer
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saying this provides Superior fit noise isolation and base response by giving
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you two two layers here so see there's
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two basically two standard silicone ear tip tips in one so that I don't know
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let's find out by flange you know what they're a little bit big for me I do
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tend to wear the smallest size that's included with whatever earbuds that uh
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that I do use so I'm going going to go ahead and put the small ones on maybe we
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can uh get a little bit of a sort of model shot so you can hopefully see the
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earphones themselves if not we'll do an overlay so they're using the same
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machined aluminum construction a very striking green look to them overall
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razor so good at product Aesthetics I find that with the B flange it doesn't
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go quite as far into my ear canal as it does with the single small ear tip so I
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would probably end up using the small ones but if you were going to use a
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mediumsized one anyway give the band a try because it it might end up being a
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better experience for you so inline controls you only find this on the pro
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version so there is a single omnidirectional microphone right here as
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well as a single button for answering calls and voice control and all those
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things that you'll expect to do on your Android or iOS device so when I first
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fired them up I had a ballad on my phone that was playing and uh I got to say the
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mids and highs they're quite lacking compared to the bass when they said
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hammering the bass that's what they meant made for bass heads whether you
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appreciate bass in your music movies or games you will appreciate the bass here
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the overall Impressions that they leave me with are that compared to most
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fashion headphones that you'd find find in that $50 price range where they're
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all show and no go the razors have as much show as those headphones especially
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with the machined aluminum fittings whether they're down here whether
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they're the housings of the ear tips themselves or whether it's even the
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things like the adapters or the inline microphone without being too heavy
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because they have used aluminum it's a it's a great overall balance so they
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have the show and they have more go than I'd say most headphones do in that sort
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of product category where you go to local Future Shop or Best Buy and you're
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kind of like show me headphones and they start at around $30 to and $50 you get
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kind of stuff that really isn't very good I would definitely recommend these
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over that I want to do a quick microphone test here so we're just going
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to play back a quick audio clip for you guys and I think that pretty much wraps
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it up so here we go recording so thank you for checking out this unboxing and
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first look at the razor Hammerhead don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips for
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forget to leave a comment let me know do you prefer a more balanced Sound Stage
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or do you prefer just rocking it out and having as much base as you can possibly
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have thanks
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guys