Steelseries FLUX Luxury Edition Headphones Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,365 words · ~6 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the steel series flux luxury
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edition so steel series is becoming more and more focused I mean like okay I've
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talked about this again and again and again I love the 7h it's a gaming
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headset that's actually legitimately not just good for like you know rattling
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your skull uh because it's an actual audio
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headphone aside from being a headset so they're becoming more and more about
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different kinds of Audio Solutions so this is their Mobile Audio sort of their
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mobile headphone although it's steel Series so it's got a mic included with
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it anyway just in case you wanted to use it with your phone or your well your
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phone or your computer or whatever else you want to actually use it for I don't
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know Skype calls or anything like that so it does have an integrated microphone
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but it's mostly for the the out and about experience listening to music
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these guys have 40 mm drivers which means that you can expect them to
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actually be able to deliver some Bas in
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spite of the very very lightweight sort of construction and I'm just going to
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open it up like the headphones that you can buy
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at your local Big Box store that are sort of overpriced and sort of you know
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look nice but actually sound like crap they look nice
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so my expectation for a product like this from steel series from a brand that
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I actually trust unlike sort of no-name brand on the Shelf at you know best
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buyer or wherever else is that besides being sort of that fashion statement
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lightweight mobile headphone it'll actually sound decent as well so I
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haven't tried them yet although I will before this unboxing is over but first I
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want to show you guys what we have in terms of accessories included so the
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cables are a stylish orange although what's cool is you can configure it the
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way you want if you order from their web shop so you can actually swap out things
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like the uh cords the side plates on the
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headphones themselves so you can swap these out and you can even swap out the
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cushions they're actually made to order so so very very neat so the luxury
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edition like I said comes with an orange cord so this one right here you can see
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includes a microphone and plugs into the
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bottom with a detachable cable so you just plug that guy in right there and
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there you have it the other one that's included is a straight um four pole
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to hold on just a gosh darn minute we'll be back in a
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moment and we're back so sorry about that I did get a little bit confused
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it's very straightforward so in line is a single button with a microphone for
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the one that is four pole for your phone so that single button can do a number of
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things it can answer calls play pause depending on your phone it can do things
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like pressing it multiple times for fast forward or rewind or whatever else this
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one right right here with the split connectors plugs in here
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and whatever it plugs in there and then has two separate prongs for your uh for
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your input and your outputs for your mic and your headphones this right here is
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just an included 3 and a half in extension cable because the PC one is
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not actually necessarily an appropriate length to reach around to the back of
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your computer so you can just go ahead and plug these in here in order to make
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sure that you can actually reach the back of your PC so that's all fine and
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good now let's get into some of the really cool features so this is this is
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awesome so their whole marketing thing for this is go flux yourself which is I
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think amazing so it shows you all the different customizability that you can
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so there's all the different cable colors and headphone colors and ear muff
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colors and all that good stuff okay really neat stuff number one is padding
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wise so these are just rubber pads now my initial impression when I put them on
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was oh yeah these uh these seem like
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they're optimized for someone with more of a square head like they sit kind of
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flat on the top of my head and then they don't they don't really hug the shape of
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my head there's a reason for that all you do is you take the flux and you
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gently bend them and you go kind of one
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one Bend at a time and you are able to oh even that's better already you're
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actually able to change the shape of the
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headband to get it to fit you just right which means that while it doesn't have a
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soft cushiony padding it does have soft rubber and if the shape is perfect on
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your head it's it's actually not a bad experience um the next thing check this
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out so you've actually got two 3 and 1 12 mm Jacks when I first saw that I got
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a little bit confused but once I sort of encountered this little manual right
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diagram right here that shows no it's not for two different input sources it
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is for okay you guys you guys are going to love this if you and if you have a
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friend who also has a pair of headphones and you want to sit on the bus and share
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the same music or you want to sit and watch a movie together on a tablet or
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something like that guys if you have a girlfriend then you know that this stuff
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happens if you don't have a girlfriend then you're probably watching this video
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right now instead of spending time with her um sorry that's mean um you can
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actually output to a second set of headphones it's just a standard 3 and a
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half mimer steel series hasn't built in any proprietary connectors or anything
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like that so you can easily use the flux headphones to share your content with
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someone else at the same time so input here output there very very cool feature
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love it I also haven't shown the carrying case yet so there's just a
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little like nice carry bag that you can put the flux headphones inside and they
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also include these are magnetic replacements for the stock ones that
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come with it so you can actually put black ones on and you can swap them out
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to something else later on down the line if you'd like but I personally like the
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ones that come with the luxury edition here they do fold so there you go you
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can just fold them up like well like that apparently put them in
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there and I think that pretty much covers it I think I'm mentioned the 40mm
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drivers I think I mentioned the travel friendliness detachable cables nothing
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proprietary I mean for me the killer app is being able to customize the fit the
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fact that they aren't like sort of just those stupid fashion headphones that so
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they're actually worth a couple bucks compared to what you normally Buy in
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this kind of a category oh yeah I haven't shown the sort of the softness
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of the ear cups at all so there's that and being able to share my music or my
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movie or whatever else it happens to be with someone is the killer app for me
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that is outstanding thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the flux
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