Tritton AX51 Pro 5.1 Surround Gaming Headset Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,556 words · ~7 min read
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So today by request I'm going to be having a look at a product that I have
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to confess I do not have a lot of experience with this category. I have
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never used a set of surround sound headphones but by request I'm having a
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look at the AX51 Pro from Triton. This is an analog 5.1 surround sound 3D
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directional precision gaming headset. So basically their whole thing is that they
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have four speakers in each one of these ear cups. They have a center channel, a
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front channel, and a rear channel, as well as a subwoofer in each side. So,
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that means that you've actually got a full analog output. So, a lot of the
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5.1s out there do use drivers and they use software emulation or whatever else,
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or they might even connect by USB, but this one actually just uses your
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conventional uh mic, front, center, sub,
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and then rear speaker jacks. So, it just
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plugs right into your sound card. All right. So, let's just have a look at
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their packaging here. So, in the package, you can see they outline all of
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the features, which includes where the speakers are positioned in a traditional
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5.1 setup. Okay, thanks for that. It shows that you can independently control
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each sound field via the back lit inline controller. So, that's kind of nice.
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Okay, you can have a look at that. And then what else do we have here? Okay,
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you can plug two of them into the AX Pro to game with a friend on a console. Uh,
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whyever you'd want to do that. I'm not 100% sure. You can interchange the ear
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cup padding. You can change the headrail padding. You can change you has a
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removable flexible microphone and it has
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an Xbox Live port. Okay, I'm guessing that's why you would want to use it with
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a friend if you're a console gamer. And then, okay, that's pretty much
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everything that we've got here. So, why don't we get started on opening this thing up? And I hope that my knife is
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handy because otherwise this is going to be somewhat problematic. There it is. I
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do have my blade. All right, there we go. So, let's get this open and open it
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up. I'm going to try and update with annotations once I've had a chance to try these things because I have to
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confess I am a little bit curious how the whole 5.1 headphone thing works.
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I've never tried it before. I have used 5.1 speakers and then I have used, you
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know, your standard stereo headphones for gaming, but just never this way. Oh,
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actually, there's something that I did want to show that was in here that I didn't have a good look at. So, this is
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the speaker configuration within the earphones. So, you can kind of have a
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look. I can't tell which is which, just off sort of the top of my head here, but
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I'm guessing the big one is the sub and the small ones are not, for one thing.
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All right. Inside we have a What is this? Okay. Product
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registration as well as a quick start guide. This is a quick start guide.
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Okay. So, it shows you how to plug in your analog connections, how to use the
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little inline thing. They're actually powered. Oh, that's interesting. So, you
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have an AC jack that plugs into your headphones. Wow. Okay. And then slide
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pad. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That's interesting. Quick start guide. Thank
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you, Triton. Okay. And then we have in here we have a little booklet that shows
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you other Triton products. Okay. There we go. So, that's what's in there. Other
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stuff that you can also buy from them. And then we get down to the product
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itself. So, here is what I'm assuming is the AC adapter. Yeah. So, that's a
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that's a reasonable size adapter right there. That's like pretty big. Okay. So,
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that plugs right into the headphones themselves. And then we can take off
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the Let me see what else is in here. There's got to be more stuff, right?
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There's got to be more stuff. Ah, okay. So, in one of the boxes inside, we
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find Okay, we find an analog set of
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inputs connected to a custom connector here. Okay. So, that's a little adapter
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there for us. Okay. And then we have uh Oh, this is the
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mic. Okay. So, it's kind of flexible.
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See, you can bend the mic and it'll stay where you sort of put it. Okay. So, that
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plugs into the bottom of one of the ear cups. All right. And then we have a
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couple of exchangeable ear cups as well as an exchangeable piece for the for the
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top of the head for the top of the headset. Okay. So, if you don't find the stock one comfortable, you can change it
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to that. That's very nice. Okay. And then that pretty much does it for our
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accessories. All right. So, let's get this
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open. And ah, I get it. Okay. So, all of the exchangeable ones there that I just
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looked at, those are kind of pleathery ones, whereas the ones that actually
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come on the headphones are um are more
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of a cloth type. Okay. So, I'm just
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trying to get this out of the box here. Wow, that is a nice long cord. I like to
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see that actually because if you have a long cord then you uh won't run out of
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cord if you sit far away from your computer while you're gaming or doing
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whatever else it is doing. Okay, so pull that through there and then we're
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finally getting to the point where we can talk about this thing a little bit.
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So at the end of the long cord you'll find that custom connector right here.
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Okay, so that plugs in to adapt to the uh to the 7.1 five, excuse me, 5.1 and
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then you've got the DC in. Okay, so that's for our AC adapter. And then here
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is our inline controller. Okay, so it gives us a little color coding uh color
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scheme code thing. So red is the max, cyan is high, white is medium, blue is
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low, and green is the minimum. All right, so that's really good to know.
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And then we have a little volume control thing right here on the side. Okay, and
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then over here, oh, voice volume. Ooh, that's nice. Most of these I've seen
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only have on off, but this actually has a volume slider for that. And then this
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is to turn the microphone on and off. Just right there. Okay. So then you can
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press each of the buttons and it's colorcoded for how high you've got the
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volume. Very cool. There's your Xbox 360 jack right there at the bottom. And now
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let's have a look at the headset itself. So first of all, I should figure out
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which way it goes. Ah, the labels are on the inside here. So you can see that's
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the right ear cup. So I'll just put that on like that. Okay. So it adjusts at the
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top just like most headsets. And it's uh quite adjustable. It can be adjusted
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quite far. So, even if my head was like this big, then it would fit quite
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comfortably. But, I'm probably going to have it at about the medium setting,
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just like that. It's really It's It's kind of heavy, actually, is my first
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observation. But, I guess it has to have some weight to it if you're going to be
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able to stuff all of that extra electronics and speaker gear inside. I
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mean, I guess there's not a whole lot to say about it. It seems pretty pretty
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well built. I wouldn't expect it to break if you accidentally drop it off your desk or do anything like that. I
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can't figure out just sort of like right now immediately how to change out the uh
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Oh, yeah. Okay. So, these just come off like that. Okay, that was pretty simple. So, you can take off the cloth ones. You
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can replace it with the ply ones. Oh, and you can see there there there's a
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way better view of the speaker configuration. So, you can see where all
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of the speakers are inside of the earphones or headphones, excuse me. And
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then this one, I guess, is Oh, I don't want to break this. Okay, I can't really
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figure out how to take this one off. Yeah, you can exchange this one with the
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plasticky one as well. Okay, so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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Triton AX51 Pro 5.1 headphones. Oh,
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that's really uncomfortable without the foam piece