Razer Mako 2.1 Gaming Speaker System First Look & Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,380 words · ~6 min read
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well I'm a little annoyed with myself for not checking how much film I had
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before we started shooting this last time so I have already broken some seals
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which really gives me a headache cuz I hate breaking seals on something I like
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to do all my unboxings in one take however we do have to reattempt this one
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so today I'm having a look at the razor makos as you can well enough imagine
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these are speakers based on how big the box it is and what is unique about these
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speakers are a couple of things that are all focused on guess what gaming it's
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razor it's for gaming okay so first things first is the way the speakers are
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designed they are firing downward and then you can see the speaker grills are
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actually go around the speakers so what
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that means is whether you're sitting close or whether you're sitting to the
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right or to the left of these speakers the positioning is accurate which is so
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important if you want to know where a sound is coming from I mean that's
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important to a lot of uh music enthusiasts but it's also very important
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to Gamers because that way you know where the footsteps are coming from etc
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etc they are only a 2.1 set so you're not going to have full surround but what
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you will have is at least the same degree of accuracy you would get out of
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a set of headphones speaking of headphones one of the other things that
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the speaker set is designed to do very well is output to headphones so we have
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an amplified headphone jack on the control Puck itself and you can see this
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is a touch sensitive control Puck we'll show that to you in a minute when I find
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it inside but that's particularly important if you're using something like
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the PC 350s from Sennheiser these are quite a high impedance headset and high
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impedance means that you need more power to drive it so if you have an amplified
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headphone jack it means that you're going to get overall better sound
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quality out of it so overall this is a 300 W THX speaker set which is fairly
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unimportant as far as specs go but it's always good to know approximately what
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kind of wattage to expect overall
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and something that I have never seen before is this the oh cameraman's
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coughing okay the speaker wires
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themselves look like Ethernet cables there's a warning on here do not insert
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the speaker cables into an Ethernet
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landport and I hope you're not dying
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back there
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okay I've been giving the thumbs up and so these are your speaker cables
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next inside we have another warning do
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not connect this wire to a monitor or PC graphics Port so this is a VGA port
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however what we're going to find on the other side of it is with a nice little
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rubber base here is the control Puck so
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it comes with a little plastic cover on it which I've gone and ripped I'm going
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to try and get the whole thing off here but we've got all of our basic controls
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on the top so you've got your line one line two mute base and volume and the
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volume indicator is I believe here based on the picture we already saw nice
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rubberized razor logo there's your
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headphones and your line in okay so uh
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the next cable we're going to find is just a standard power cable okay so
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there's nothing particularly exceptional about that just a three prong power plug
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cable oh two prong two prom okay and then the next thing we find is
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um a 3 and half mil to 3 and a half mil plug so I guess we'll figure out what
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that's for later all right so let's get down to the speakers themselves so
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inside the protective foam which is quite thick no no thinner than about an
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inch on any side we will find the
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subwoofer and the two Satellite speakers
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so let's see here we've got uh I don't
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know what this is some kind of documentation so maybe we'll have a look
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at that before we actually get to the speakers themselves and the main one
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here is the make Master guide okay so
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this is in a few different languages shows you how to set up your makos gives
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you some guidelines for the positioning um relative to each other on the table
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connect it how to connect them and what you can connect them to
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then it moves on to different languages also inside here you will find a couple
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razor stickers okay I believe these are UV reactor as well which is kind of cool
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as well as a short introductory booklet okay so this explains the technology
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that's used in the mo as well as how to
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operate them briefly okay so let's get
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to a satellite first they're not actually all that heavy I was kind of
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expecting them to be a little bit heavier based on the looks of these
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speakers but um yeah I guess they've got a little bit of heft to them but they're
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not too heavy okay so here's our THX logo right on the front of the speaker
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and then on the front of the speaker there's
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a little bit more of a grill here but you can see that the grill actually goes
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the main one goes all the way around the speaker here's that Ethernet Jack I mean
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one thing I don't like about this is it means that you can't substitute any
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other cable for it so it's kind of an
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odd design decision but I mean the cables that are included look reasonably
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long so it's not really something to worry about too much we've got a razor
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logo on the top and that is the satellite itself it's kind of a
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different looking speaker but I like that um very very stylish looking so
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let's pull out the sub itself now I've owned a fair number of PC speakers in my
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uh in my day including the clips promedia Ultra 51s I had some creative H
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what were they the s700 at one point and
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so I've seen some pretty big PC Subs this is not one of them this is a a
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fairly modest sub this is about what you'd expect for a highend to 2.1 system
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so let me see here is where you will find most of the business end of this
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particular system so there you go that line one that cable I saw before that's
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for plugging into your PC sound card duh
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okay here's the cable port for the control pod here is oh this is kind of
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nice so the line one line two means you can have two separate inputs plugged in
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at the same time so it's just a right left for something like a DVD player or
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a console might be something you want to plug in okay there's your right and left
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speaker outputs your onoff switch and then your power in so as with the
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speaker itself and I don't know if the camera can see this but you can see right through it so the speaker itself
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is housed and pointing down from the top
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okay and then you can see right through the grill that once again goes all the
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way around the speaker there's a few rub there's a razor logo on the top oh it's
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quite heavy now that I'm actually holding it for a while it felt light to
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start with and then at the bottom there's three rubber feet so thank you
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for checking out my unboxing and product overview of the Razer moo speakers