Roccat Ryos TKL Pro, Kone XTD, Cave XTD 5.1 Analog - CES 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech Tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCIX.com, your source
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for great technology, selection, and service along with Corsair Memory and
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Western Digital. Hey guys, we're here at the Rocket Suite and the first thing they wanted to show me was the Riyos TKL
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Pro or 10 keyless Pro. And right away, you can notice it has a fixed wrist
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rest, a really big fixed wrist rest. You don't see that very often, especially in
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that large form format. I like this a lot because you can see it actually is
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able to work for my hand. my hand actually positions properly on WD with
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my hand still on the wrist rest which is not super common. I have to use
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detachable ones usually um but not the detachable one that comes with the
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keyboard so I can leave it on my desk shifted down away from the keyboard so
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it's proper positioning. So that's actually pretty cool to see. Not a ton of people are doing fixed wrist wraps
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for 10 keyboards. But reasoning for this is a lot of keyless keyboards it's it's
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people buying it because they're gaming and they don't need the numpad. It's not necessarily people buying it because
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they have this tiny little miniature desk that can't fit it. So they're
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they're not super worried about saving space in this way. It's just there so
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that they can save space so that your your shoulder width is more natural
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because a lot of people find with really wide keyboards with macro keys on it and
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all that kind of stuff, you end up doing a spread eagle formation with your hands. Whereas if you could have it
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straight in line, it's a little bit more ergonomic. Next, we come to the Cone
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XTD, which is an optical mouse. And if you're wondering about optical versus
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laser, you can check out our techquicky video on that subject, and that should explain what's actually going on. Um,
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but it's quite interesting because it has something pretty unique. You can change the liftoff distance in the
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software on your computer, which is pretty unique to this mouse. Another
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nice thing that it has is in the bottom where your waiting system is, they
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responded to some customer feedback about the waiting system rattling around
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and making some noise. So, they put a rubber pad in there to stop that, which
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is which is nice because the waiting system isn't moving and it's nice because it's not annoying you with the
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audio. And finally, we come to the Cave XTD 5.1 analog. First look at this
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headphone. You can see that it's quite deep in the cans and I noticed that it's
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actually nice. There's a few headphones I think you've if you watch the W show,
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you've heard me complain about my my ears will touch the inside and it
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becomes quite uncomfortable with extended use and my ears do not touch
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the inside of these. These have quite a few unique features as well. As you
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already heard, they're 5.1 and they have actually angled drivers on the inside. A
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lot of 5.1 headphones, it's just a flat surface where all the drivers are and
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this is a much different way of doing that. I'm excited to try it out in a
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more extended use environment to see exactly how I feel about it. But it is
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very cool to see them innovating in that way. Another cool thing they have with
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these headphones, if I can plug this guy or pick this guy up right here, is they
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have movie and game settings. Traditionally, when you see this, you automatically assume equalizer, and
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you're pretty much always right. But not in this case. What it's actually doing
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is it's changing where the vocal channels coming through. So, if you go to movie, it'll move it to the front and
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rear speakers instead of just the center speaker. And if you go to game, it sits
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on uh where it is trying to naturally come from. That way, it's not screwing
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with you if you're in a game and putting voices where they're not supposed to be. But then, if you're in a movie, you can
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more easily hear the vocal channels. I'd like to thank our sponsors, NCX, WD, and
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Corsair for sending us here in the first place. And as always, if you want to see
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