Steelseries 3H V2 Entry Level Gaming Headset Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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check the link in the video description for more details welcome to my unboxing and overview of
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the steelseries 3h v2 gaming headset now
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i normally don't really talk about prices in my videos but i should mention
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that this one is 39.99 so it's around 40 bucks so
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adjust your expectations if you're expecting this to be the most like
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cinematic sounding like awesomest audiophile pair of headphones ever in
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the world then sort of think again but what it is
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it is is it is what i'd consider kind of like um
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i don't know what to call it without it sounding sort of condescending but like like baby's first gaming headphones
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so if you've never used a proper pair of gaming headphones and you're not used to
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the features that you might find on a pair of gaming headphones this will be a
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darn sight better than most else that you'll find in this kind of a price
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range the other thing that i'd consider it perfect for is as like a secondary
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pair of headphones that you use for traveling because it folds up extremely
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tight and it's the kind of thing where because of its flexibility you wouldn't
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worry too much about breaking it and because of its price you
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wouldn't worry too much about breaking it so there's both of those things going
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for it it also has a fair bit of flexibility in terms of the connectors
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that are included this is something steel series has started doing over the last little while here that i actually
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really like so they include an adapter you've either you can either plug
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directly into your pc so it's got a nice feels actually quite good orange rubber
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coated cord should be quite anti-tangle as well and
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then they've actually got two little pieces here that plug in so they've got
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little labels on them there's the corresponding headphone thing so you put
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those together and then the microphone symbols together and boom you've adapted
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it to a 4-pole so you can use it with your mobile device or with your computer
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which i think is quite neat it has inline volume control as well as an
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inline mic mute it's very clearly labeled so mic off
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the mic on just like that volume up and down just like that it's a little bit on
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the bulkier side but i guess you expect that with the more cost effective as
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they like to say options like the 3h v2
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and then the headphones themselves are quite lightweight quite small
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so if you wear an xl size motorcycle helmet for example you might not find
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these are quite optimal for you and you can tell that they're going to sit on
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your ears a little bit as opposed to completely around your ears because the
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ear cups are a little bit on the smaller side as well just like their siberia
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series you've got sort of a couple you've got like a support brace and then
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you've got a separate piece of padding that has got kind of a pleathery
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material on it just like that and then the ear cups themselves also have like
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a synthetic leather material feeling stuff on it it's better than some of the
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synthetic leather i've encountered that has a very plasticky feel but it's
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certainly not quite the real deal so let's go ahead and put them on oh this
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is unusual left side is here so the
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cable actually comes out of the right side that's a little bit a little bit
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different i haven't often seen that in the past so they're adjustable like this
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go ahead and adjust them as needed uh like i said they're not huge so i
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actually have them adjusted to the max in order to have maybe not quite max
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maybe i'll go one click down and it's not the best adjustment mechanism that
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i've ever encountered but again this is a fairly low cost pair of headphones so
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let's go ahead and oh yeah i think we got it now there we go so it sits on
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your ears like that there's actually a fair bit of passive noise cancellation
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or passive noise blocking noise isolation that's the word
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i'm looking for from these headphones and part of that is due to the use of
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the synthetic leather material as opposed to a more open mesh type of
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material this is the feature that is going to be
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the sort of rockum sockham you didn't see this one coming one and that's the
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retractable microphone right here so most headsets in this kind of a price
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range aren't going to have features like that they'll either have like um an
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inline mic that's attached to sort of like a thing down here or they'll have
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like kind of an awkward boom mic or something that's detachable that you can
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lose i really love the retractable microphone thing it's one of the things
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that i've always liked about steelseries headsets and now they've brought that
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feature down to the 3 hv2 you can adjust it wherever you need to with its nice
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little flexible snake cord it doesn't feel as good as the one on my 7h
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obviously but it should be quite functional for you and you can just tuck
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it back away like that i think that's
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pretty much it um i hope i must be talking really really
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loud right now it actually does isolate noise uh quite well so in terms of cable length
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you should be able to reach around to the back of your computer give your computer the old reach around you know
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what i mean um but not not not that long
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so i would probably sort of mostly aim to plug this into the front of your
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computer but in a pinch if you keep your tower on the right it
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might be able to make it back there so i think that pretty much wraps it up thank
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you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the steelseries 3h v2 gaming
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headset don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings
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reviews and other computer videos and i guess i did miss one thing if you really
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do have trouble with that then they've included this guide
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for how to plug these things in
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as far as documentation goes i don't know i don't know if that's the most impressive i've ever seen but yeah it's
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all good you shouldn't need documentation for that anyway don't
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forget to like the video if you liked it don't forget to dislike it if you disliked it and leave me a comment let
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me know where do you think the target market is for this would you recommend this to
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someone more as like a secondary pair of headphones or would you recommend this
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to someone as like i said sort of their their their first gaming headset