Steelseries Siberia Elite Headset
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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out what steel Series has described to me as their best headphones or headset
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ever if however it features the same
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loose ugly Bas approach as most other
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gaming headsets then I'll just have to say that don't impress me much we say
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that a lot in Canada lots of famous Canadians have said that so let's get
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the Box open inside we'll find all the cables we need to connect via USB to a
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PC or Mac with the included Dolby 7.1
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virtual surround USB sound card via
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analog to a computer or really any other device which allows audio snobs like me
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to use a separate amp and Dack such as an objective 2 and odac from Mayflower
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and finally a mobile adapter using steel
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series's handy dandy swappable cables here so that you can use it on your
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phone or on your tablet both the headphones and the microphone physically
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moving on to the headset itself there's nothing too surprising about the Siberia
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Elites they have a very distinctively Siberia look with their padded no
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adjustments necessary suspension Mount system and the elite part of the
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equation is definitely present as well the top bands are now made of metal
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instead of plastic the ear cups can GL below any of 16.8 million colors when
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you're using USB although it doesn't work on analog the retractable mic now
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has an LED indicator for mute and on top
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of all of that the padding is now thicker and more plush all around they
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are heavier than the Siberia V2s but they're still quite comfortable and I
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feel like all of those upgrades plus the significantly improved drivers for
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better sound quality make them worthy of the new name speaking of sound quality I
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feel like steel series is one of the few gaming brands that actually gets it the
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7h horrible durability issues aside was
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one of the best sounding gaming headsets I've ever heard and it actually won me
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over from my Sennheiser hd555 at the time so when steel series
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told me RA it's the best ever about this
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one it did set some pretty high expectations for
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me after spending some time with the Siberia Elites listening to my customer
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crappy top 40 music and playing some Batman Arkham Origins to get my gaming
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time in with them I can safely say my expectations were met are they
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equivalent to the best $200 audio file grade headphones that don't have on your
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controls for volume or LED lighting effects or a built-in noise cancelling
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microphone or an included sound card with features like virtual surround EQ
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and mic compression for leveling out the transmit volume of your voice no they're
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not but we have to be realistic
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do they get blown out of the water by the aforementioned audio file brand
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headphones no they don't unlike most
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gaming headsets the Siberia Elites aren't a complete mess of loose sloppy
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bass and Tiny highs their response curve is reasonably flat giving them a clean
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natural sound Bas is solid mids are good
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Highs are good they sound good really good even they sound good and they have
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features that Gamers care about like all the stuff I mentioned before excellent
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comfort and even little stuff like this cool little shareport here that lets you
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have a friend plug in and listen to the same thing as you lately I've been using
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Sennheiser hd600s or Den ahd 600
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headphones on my PC so expecting steel series to win me over to their headsets
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again with a product whose MSRP is half as much as those other two isn't
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realistic however good it might sound but for the first time in a while I've
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got a premium gaming headset that while expensive isn't to Total write off and I
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would feel okay if someone bought it if you don't already own a great pair of
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headphones and you're looking for an all around performer with lots of features
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you know like if you just you just want a mic built into your damn headset you
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don't want something on your table you don't want a clip on or whatever else
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lots of people have reasons for wanting headsets the Siberia Elite while
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expensive is a gaming audio product that I can actually recommend great work deel
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series now I'm just looking forward to trying out the H Wireless or have I
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tried it already and that's the reason that I'm teasing it because it's a very
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very interesting product anyway guys like this video if you liked it dislike
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