ASUS Orion Pro Gaming Headset Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Orion Pro Rog gaming headset from
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ASUS well I mean it makes sense that it's from ASUS because it is Republic of
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Gamers the main difference between the Orion and the Orion Pro is the
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inclusion of the Rog Spitfire so the
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Spitfire is a driverless USB Hardware DSP Digital Signal processor which
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basically means it's a USB sound card I think the important thing is that it's
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driverless because it means you don't have to worry about plugging it in and
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go to the website and download the driver no no you just plug it in it goes
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uh easy access immersive 7.1 virtual surround I'm actually okay if you H if
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you must have surround personally I prefer just leaving the headphones in
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Stereo mode but if you want surround effects I do prefer virtual surround to
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actually putting more speakers inside headphones if you're going to run real
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speakers then yeah you probably want dedicated surround speakers but for
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headphones the speakers are so CL the drivers are so close to your ear you're
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not going to get the same effect that you get from surround speakers from
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headphones anyway and you end up with these tiny little drivers that aren't
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capable of producing the Deep sounds
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that you want for movies gaming music I
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mean basically drivers that aren't capable of producing deep sounds you
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pretty much don't really don't really want them so the first thing we find
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inside because this is the pro version is the Spitfire itself and I'm trying
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really hard to remove the packaging there so it comes with a braided cable
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and a USB connector and then it just has
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on the other end a microphone in and a headphone outport so you could actually
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use this Spitfire with anything you wanted you could even change up the
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headphones you're using I really like this approach because it drives me crazy
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when manufacturers lock you into buying an analog headset or a USB headset this
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is elegant because it doesn't cost them that much more it does cost a little bit
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more to terminate the ends and then do this and do that but it gives you that
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flexibility maybe you really like this maybe you upgrade your oryan pro to a
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Sagittarius Pro or I I don't know what's coming in the future but maybe you
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upgrade it maybe you want to keep using this there you go so on here there's an
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FPS mode button a surround Button as well as an amp button so that gives you
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Hardware access to whatever functionality you might need on the
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Spitfire so let's move on to the headphones themselves and before we do
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that let's have a look at this what the heck is this hopefully they say
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something about what this is it appears to be I have no idea we'll be back so
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this guy right here is a cable organizer which is basically just a rubber piece
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that has two clips so you can organize
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the actually quite long cable so this is must be at least about an 8T long cable
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so you're able to reach around to the back of your case or if you don't want
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to reach to the back of your case and you can just coil it up jam it in here
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and then have it stay presumably sort of
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coiled up and jammed in here and not have to think about that so at the end
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you find your standard termination so there's your headphone as well as
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microphone so again options gives you the option to plug it into the Spitfire
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just like that or plug it into your front panel audio or even the back of
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your sound card I mean ASUS unlike a lot of the headphone companies actually
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makes high-end sound cards which might be part of the reason why they care
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about giving you the option to use their audio products with their other audio
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products so now let's get into the headset itself the top has a nice big
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cushion on it this is refreshing to see it goes all the way from here to here
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and is quite soft although the foam inside here doesn't seem to be quite as
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thick or Supple as the foam on the ear cups themselves so that's a memory foam
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ear cup you can clearly tell from how squishy and soft it is and how long it
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takes to retract however to sort of uh
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to perfect the the fit of these
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headphones I would have preferred to see some rotation this way they do go up and
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down but the only rotation side to side here is from the uh the metal pieces
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here having a little bit of flex in them I wouldn't have minded seeing some actual rotation they have a very
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striking looking Rog logo on the side of each of the ear cups looks very very
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nice and I mean as always all Rog stuff looks so sharp with a mixture of glossy
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metal um matte plastic and red ACC sense
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even the microphone looks just like boss and I love retractable microphones so
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hold on more on the retractable microphone in a moment sizewise you can
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go all the way from sort of ginormous
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head size here you can clearly see how big that is for me to pretty much kid
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size because this is not even close like that's where it sits my ears are hanging
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right out the uh right out the bottom here so I found somewhere in the middle was about right for me which makes sense
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I wear a medium motorcycle helmet the retractable mic is as I said before
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awesome I love retractable mics it means you can wear it somewhere when you're
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out and about without looking ridiculous and hold on a minute there we go and
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it's got a flexible sort of snake wire thing on it so that you can position it
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exactly where you need it next to your mouth actually my understanding is the
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corner of your mouth is where it's supposed to sit I think that pretty much
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wraps things up thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Orion Pro from ASUS don't forget to
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