Corsair Vengeance 1300 Gaming Headset Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,175 words · ~5 min read
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today I have the Vengeance 1300 this is an analog gaming headset made by Corsair
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company you may or may not have heard of they make some RAM and some cases and
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power supplies some coolers and now they
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make peripherals including keyboards mice and headsets so this is for
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intensive gaming with audio file quality it comes with a two-year warranty
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and let's see what they have to say for themselves on the back the Vengeance 1300 gives you gaming audio the way it
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was meant to sound accurate detailed and compelling the Custom Engineered 50 mm
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drivers and careful acoustic tuning work in harmony to deliver the audio file
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grade sound you need for an immersive rewarding gaming experience so what they
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mean to say is they're pretty freaking sweet and uh let's open these up and
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have a look now head headset packaging has been
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a bane of my existence for as long as I've been doing unboxing video so let's
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see how difficult it is to get the Vengeance 1300 wow these look really
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nice out of the packaging oh wow no
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way it was that easy that's amazing okay let's see what
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else they've got included here not much in terms of uh stop do not return this
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product to the store return it to Corsair or talk to us first before uh
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returning it there's your little warranty guide okay now let's have a
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look at the headset itself so I'm going to go in the opposite order of my
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Vengeance 1100 unboxing and I'm going to show you the headset first so we've got
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very comfortable Patty looking foam here I'm not quite 100% certain why they
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bothered to pad the top of it but I'm sure there is a reason for it if anyone
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can figure that out please go ahead and tell me but at least they did not put
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padding on the top and then neglect to put padding on the bottom in fact the
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padding on the bottom feels significantly thicker than the padding
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on the top and gaming for long sessions you are going to find that the comfort
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of your headset is a huge factor in the
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comfort of your gaming overall so nice thick padding there nice thick padding
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around the ears look at these check that out look at how long it takes to come
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back out after I press on it that is a very very nice very soft foam there that
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is going to provide excellent Comfort compared to competing Solutions there
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also a bit of a of a pley feel to it so my initial impression of these just
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based on looking at them is that they're probably more of a closed design so
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they're going to be less audible to people around you and they're going to
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isolate outside noises better than other
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headsets that are not although I don't have any confirmation on that based on
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the packaging itself or based on anything else that I have access to that
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is just my oh oh okay hold on the Clos back cup design helps you enjoy private
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Interruption free gaming with the comfort you need for hours of Play If I had read further into this I would have
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the confirmation I needed so yes these are closed headphones
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all right next we have the microphone itself which has a nice hey look at this
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look how long the flexible part of this microphone is so you can actually adjust
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it to whatever angle you desire even if
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you want it to stick straight out like this you can do that because the
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flexibility is all the way here and even all the way over here so you have a very
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wide uh wide range of angles that you can adjust to you have your ports on the
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one side you got your ports on the other side okay and then let's have a look at
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the overall aesthetic I mean the HS On's are a nice product they sound
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good good value however they didn't have
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as good of a look as the Vengeance 1300s
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have so I'm going to go ahead and put these on I'll do a little bit of modeling for you guys here so I'll show
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you how you can adjust these to be ah right in your mouth if you want or you
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know sticking way away from your mouth if you want that for whatever reason
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okay so go ahead show you what they look like from the back okay show you what they look like
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when you're intensely
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concentrating okay that's what they'll look like okay and then finally let's
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work our way down the chord to the features that are included okay so first
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of all very long chord you're going to be able to reach around the back of your computer the back of your desk the back
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of your house very very long cord see okay and moving on further down we
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have a microphone mute switch and we
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have have volume control these are both in
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line and the warranty is void if you break the seal interesting okay and then
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finally at the very bottom we find headphone jack and microphone Jack
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these are going to go into the back of your computer or the back of uh anything
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else that connects two headphones and a microphone I suppose all right I think
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that pretty much covers it cameraman can you think of anything I missed cameraman
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says no so I think we're good to go thank you for checking out my unboxing
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of the Vengeance 1300 remember this version does not come with a USB uh
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audio adapter but I believe there is a
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version that will so don't quote me on
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that but leave a comment I think it'll be like a Vengeance something slightly
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higher number and it will include that which basically plugs into these and
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plugs into a USB port you always have that option remember the hs1 was the USB
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one and the hs1 a was the non USB one so this is an a an analog
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equivalent and after we turned off the camera we both realize something we
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missed so these hinges here are very
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very flexible which means no matter what the shape of your head is even if your head's shaped like this the headphones
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are going to sit comfortably on your head even if your ears are on the back of your head okay so there will be no
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issues there and if you have a really tall
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head that'll be fine too so if you have a really tall head or your ears are
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positioned along your jawline you'll be in good
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shape