Steelseries 5H V2 USB Gaming Headset Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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996 words · ~4 min read
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okay so today I'll be having a look at the steel series 5H V2 USB so this is
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their highest end headset currently it comes with all the bells and whistles of
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any of their headsets including a USB sound card now steel series is a gaming
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company they specialize in gaming peripherals so this is targeted at
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Gamers they're saying this headset is optimized to give you the best possible
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sound quality for gaming specific applications
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and actually I should mention this one of the reasons that they encourage users
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to get these USB sound cards is it means that whether you're playing on your own
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machine or on like a tournament Land Machine where everyone's using like a
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standardized computer so that no one has an unfair Advantage it retains all of
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your settings and gives you the same audio quality actually their mice all of
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their current mice feature similar features where as soon as you plug it in
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it retains all of your settings and you don't have to you know tweak the
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sensitivity within Windows or anything like that so it'll operate the way you
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want it to regardless of which computer it's plugged into so that's kind of a
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cool feature and an interesting selling point of this particular headset so
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let's have a look at the accessory package comes in a little zip tied
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plastic baggy here that includes a cord and some other stuff okay so first of
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all steel series professional gaming gear this is a little catalog of oh also
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includes a steel series sticker okay so
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us 2K warning don't turn your headphones up too loud okay awesome and here is a
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little uh brochure of all of their different gaming products now this is
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one of the only sort of V2 products in
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their in their product line the other one they have is the new Siberia V2 and
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these are both going to be pretty similar in terms of quality but the 5H
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V2 does have a couple things over the Siberia V2 okay here's your USB sound
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card you plug that into a USB port and it has two things on it it has a
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headphone jack and a mic Jack okay so
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that's pretty straightforward and then oh we have a driver disc for the USB
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sound card you should definitely be going to Steel series's website and
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downloading the latest drivers though I never recommend using a driver disc okay
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so I have another little zip tie here I'm going to try and get this off and
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then I will be able to show you this okay so we have an inline volume control
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it feels quite sturdy actually I like the build quality of this and then the
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mic oh this is kind of cool it can be set to high low or off okay you got a
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little setting there and then you have a pretty durable feeling metal clip I like
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to see a metal clip I mean it's little things like that that distinguish
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something like the 5 hv2 from a less expensive headset okay you've got a nice
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long braided cable that terminates in a
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headphone output and a mic input just like you see on the USB sound card so
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this is how it's intended to be used but just because it's a USB headset doesn't
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mean you can't use it with a regular analog output and input okay so let's
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get down to the headset itself I'm just taking the zip ties off the back here so
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that I can actually remove it from their plastic packaging okay so the ear Cups
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have huge padding on them you can see the padding here is really soft and it's
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actually like I mean it's like almost as thick as the headphone itself so these
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are extremely comfortable I've actually used these before in the past but I
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never did an unboxing on them and the way they sit on your ear is not the
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don't mush down what they do is they sit kind of lightly and once you've used
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them for an extended period of time they will start to mold to your head and
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that's a mark of any good headset they're quite open sounding actually and
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you can tell from the vents on the sides as well as the type of foam they're
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using on the ear pads so they're not going to isolate sound much from the
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outside and they're also not going to isolate what you're listening to from
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the people around you one cool feature of the 5H V2 is actually that you can
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disassemble it check this out so you can actually release these clips on the
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inside and you can take the whole headset apart for easy Transportation if
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you're throwing it in a bag or whatever else like that you can see the contacts
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are actually quite durable they're no they seem to be goldplated they might
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not be though uh either way they make really good contact in there and you're
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not going to have to worry about those wearing out the last feature of the 5 5H
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V2 is a pretty distinctive steel series feature and that is a retractable mic
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that sits up in one of the ear cups so that means you can actually use them as headon phones unlike a lot of gaming
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headsets where you have like this huge mic hanging up the side of it and you'd
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look like a total tool if you were to try and listen to music on them in public anyway thank you for checking out
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my unboxing of the steel series 5H V2
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USB headset