Corsair Gaming Headset Extravaganza!!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,226 words · ~6 min read
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Yes my friends We have a whole lineup of
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Corsair Gaming headsets to have a look at Today starting with the raptor Line
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and ending with the vengeance
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2100s lots of New stuff here 2100 are
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Corsair FL ship Wireless headphones They are An updated version of the 2000s and
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honestly there isn't that much That's different included with them We have
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corsairs USB audio Wireless dongle we've
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also got a smaller base Station for it so you can extend have it in the front
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of your PC and then still plug it into the back and finally We have a charging
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cable that can be used to charge the 10h Battery of the Vengeance 2100s or run
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them in wired power Mode so that you can have an Unlimited amount of gameplay
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Time next up we've got the headphones themselves which have an updated ID with
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a brushed Dark look that I actually think looks Much Better Than the
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original Vengeance 2000s They have the same overall softness so a nice cushy
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extremely Wide headband as well as Nice
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cushy And Soft although not um not like
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out of the box Soft but more the type of foam that molds to your head over time
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but nice Deep ear cushions They have been updated for better durability so If
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There was anything that people didn't like about the 2000s it was probably
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that they seemed to have durability issues the 2100s Uh Seek to completely address
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that They have 50 mm Drivers just like the rest of Corsair high-end headphones
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actually the 2000s used to have better Drivers than the rest of the lineup but
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more on that in Just A Moment and finally they use microfiber cloth on the
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memory foam ear cups so that you're going to be nice and comfortable and not
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have Uh you know sweaty plea against
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your skin because for Some people I know that is an issue looking at you Jeremy
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next up We have the vengeance 1500 v2s
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now I don't see these being officially called V2 anywhere but someone said that
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to me at packs or something So I'm Rolling with it and They definitely have
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been updated in enough of a way that I would Say it justifies a V2 moniker so
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they come with doby headphones right out of the box that support 5.1 or 7.1 or something like that you know
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the 2100s it actually sort Of raises The Question Why
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they bothered to change it's like Well we put a Corsair logo here instead of
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here um either way they both look really good so when I say that they look very
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similar I'm not saying That's necessarily A BAD thing just like the previous vengeance 1500s They have
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inline volume control as well as a mute button which has actually been
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streamlined a little bit made a little bit more low profile and just like the
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vengeance 2100s They have microfiber covered memory foam on the ear cups
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Which are going to mold to your head over time in a nice Wide headband as well as a Boom mic that can be adjusted
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according to how you need it to be positioned one thing that I am very i'm
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very sorry I missed on the vengeance 2100 is the volume Wheel as well as the
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power button Over Here the volume Wheel is key because the other headphones have
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inline volume control so i different I Guess at this Point We
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might as well Just stop pretending that We're unboxing things at all here and
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We're going to kick off with the vengeance 1400 it adds the same better
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50 mm Drivers to the 1300s in much the
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same way that the 1500 V2 adds those better Drivers to the 1500s It has the
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same upgraded ID So I'm going to do my little Turn On The
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Catwalk I don't think That's How they normally Turn On The Catwalk but We're
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not to worry about that the inline volume control is also less bulky
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now and unlike the 1500 v2s We have
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Analog connector so If you're using something like your own sound card or an
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external USB dack or something along those Lines then this will be the option
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to go with i actually feel quite strongly that Analog connectors on my
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headphones make more Sense for me Because I am less interested in Fancy
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surround Software and more interested in having a better quality source for the
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audio all Al Although your mileage may vary on all of this and If you want
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Wireless then you don't really have the option of Analog At All Because the whole thing has to be powered by
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something so they tend to be USB And you have to have you know circuitry inside
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the headphones to do things unless you like built like a Battery pack that
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strap to your neck and like you know a sound card into the bottom something and
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Just When you thought our unboxing couldn't get any less unboxing I'm not
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even going to open this one cuz this is the hs40 which Which is Pretty much the
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same thing as the hs30 but with a USB connector rather than An Analog
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connector so i actually have two of these except that I don't Because
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Corsair PR and their marketing each sent me one and then they both sent me just
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the hs40 because it's Pretty much the same as the hs30 thinking that I Could
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Just You Know sort of do without that one and then the funny thing is
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they sent me two headsets but then i ended up with two of the same one instead of two different ones Anyway um
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so the raptor Line is course There's More value oriented Gaming peripherals
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they call them Gaming essentials and I think they've really achieved that
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because they're still comfortable they're The hs40 is surround but not
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Dolby surround so It still has the same implementation that Vengeance 2000 had
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back when it was released they're Lower cost so they come with 40 mm neodymium
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Drivers versus 50 mm Drivers there's no
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memory foam and they use Lea r instead of microfiber cloth but overall they're
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still comfortable they're still lightweight they still have you know a
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Boom mic they still have inline volume control but It's a little bit bulkier so
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it just comes down to how much of a budget Do you have Do you want to spring
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for the higher end vengeance that you know there is a little bit of a nicer like
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matte look or are you okay with the
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raptors and their Lower cost and you know proportionally Lower performance
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Thank you very much for checking out our unboxing and overview of cors New
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headset lineup and That's the door so We're
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going to end this now like the video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked
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