Razer Kraken Black Signature Edition Headphones Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,548 words · ~7 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at something very special so I haven't
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checked out the Kraken before it's a razor headset emphasis on comfort and
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sound quality but especially Comfort
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this right here is a very special
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edition of the Razer Kraken headset this is the signature
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Black Edition so every signature Black Edition is numbered they only make
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1,337 each year for their select special
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partners and you can't buy these you cannot buy this so there will be no link
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to buy or if there is a link it won't work but you can experience the unboxing
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with me there you go each one of them comes with a little signed letter from
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minang tan who is their CEO and chief
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gamer so that is a very cool title but I
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guess when you're the EO you can give yourself whatever title you want like
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I'm the chief gamer of you know Sony or
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something you know like why not uh so as with our current gener the Kraken has
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evolved from a Razer classic so the yeah took several years of sampling y so
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basically several years and this is a signature Black Edition which is an all
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black version of the Kraken so here we
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go we're going to go ahead and uh pull this guy out so we'll have a look at
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what there is in here in terms of document razor packaging is always like
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So Pro it's like so good just love it so
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stylish you know glossy text on the matte
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paper all right what we got here so
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congratulations there's no turning back quick start guide for the Kraken as well
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as a razor sticker there you go shows you how to sort of do things and uh and
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operate stuff also shows you how to extending your headphones lifespan oh we
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recommend stretching the headphones gently apart before placing them over
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your head so a few little cool little tips and tricks there now we can go
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ahead and oh look at these like little rubber elastics to hold it in place see
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integrated into the packaging ooh I can
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tell you already the materials feel very very comfy so it's quite light this is
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folding so there's two ver two versions of the Kraken there's the Kraken and the
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Kraken Pro so this is the folding version uh both of them are super
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optimized for music or games I've said this before but I'll say it as many
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times as it takes until people start listening there's no such thing as a
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good premium gaming headphone or gaming
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headset it's called a good headset or
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headphones if they're good that means their audio reproduction quality is good
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which means that game audio will be good so good is good and bad is not good so
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that's all there is to it so these are
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with 40 mil drivers and supremely comfortable position I don't remember
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where I was going with that so the point is good is good so when they say ah yes
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so when Razer Brands it as good for music and good for games that means it's
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good for movies too don't worry about it okay so check this out guys look at all
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the look at all the cushioning up here so they've got like a mesh uh like kind
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of a sporty type material here which means that if your head gets hot or
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you're sweating or whatever else it should be quite breathable a lot of
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headphones make this mistake where they use like a pleather or some kind of
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non-breathable surface here not everyone has such long hair that they're going to
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get air flow in there so if you don't then will still breathe quite nicely and
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the cups themselves they don't rotate much now this is something I haven't
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seen in a while however I mean the joke I always make when I when I unbox
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headphones and headsets that rotate a lot is if your ears are positioned here
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then this will fit just fine so I think this will be just fine for 99.9% of
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people plus you can probably get away without it because there's so much
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flexibility in the ear Cup itself so it's it's hard to hold these I mean the
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folding mechanism Works quite well they fold very easily so there you go that's
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how I can show you that it will position on your head correctly no matter what
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even though there's no flexibility here but that gives it a stronger hinge so
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let's see what's that made
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of not quite sure if that's metal construction or not does not appear to
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be no it looks like plastic construction but it does look reasonably strong so me
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here let's just see how much Flex there is to that so the hinge feels pretty
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good actually shouldn't be any reason for it to get damaged in normal in
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normal sort of wear uh the extensions go quite far you can see like that so I
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could wear these realistically if my head was this big which probably looks
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kind of ridiculous I have about a mediumsized head like literally I have a mediumsized head I wear a mediumsized
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motorcycle helmet so that should give you guys some idea how it'll fit on you
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these are obviously open or are they hold on guess I'll be able to hear hey
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slick say something hello say something quieter than that don't yell hello go
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again hello okay yeah they're they're relatively open they're not they're not
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super closed by any stretch of the imagination but uh 40 mil drivers did I
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mention that before okay okay okay so I've talked about how comfortable they look let's see how comfortable they
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actually are here's how deep the foam on them goes check that
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out if that doesn't if that doesn't get the point across then I don't know what
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does so let's go ahead and get these adjusted the carcarius headset actually
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is one of the headsets that I've looked at in the past that was extremely
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impressive in terms of comfort sound quality wasn't necessarily you know up
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there with something from like you know something that costs more or is like
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more like a sort of a premium music headphones but Comfort it could never
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fault the carcarius for that actually no they are they are hold on I'll be
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back so we did figure it out after some
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sort of listening testing base is outstanding and then next they're closed
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okay so once you put them on the surroundings around you like they become
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muffled but you can still hear pretty well so they're not super sounded
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isolating but we did notice that when
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some when someone's when you're listening to it the sound is being delivered sort of to your ears and not
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so much to your surroundings around you so if you were using these for your
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daily commute number one is they're extremely comfortable number two is
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you're not going to put the people around you to an extreme level of
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discomfort so yeah all the stuff I said about this headband this is probably the
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best headband I've yet encountered because the design of it is just super
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smart like there's two solid pieces in here there's one up here and there's one
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at the bottom and then what they have is they have like a foam middle in between
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them so this right here is like one big fat cushion so there's there's harder
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stuff here and there's harder stuff here but this just sits on your head like a
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cloud there's a lot of flex to it and then that combined with the overall
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lightness of the headphones in spite of how large they are and the uh softness
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of the ear cups makes them extremely comfortable I mean I think if razer's
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trying to make a comfortable headphone then mission accomplished so guys
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remember there's two versions there's the Kraken and the Kraken Pro the pro
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has an actual mic which this one doesn't
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have and the CRA and the Kraken folds so
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the pro is more like optimized for gaming and the Kraken is more of a more
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of a headphone so I understand how it's not optimized for gaming in that sense
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but if you did use a snowball mic or some other kind of mic then it would
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still be just fine for gaming because remember guys good headphones are good
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headphones thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Kraken
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