Steelseries Siberia V2 PC Gaming Headset First Look & Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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928 words · ~4 min read
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So today on my video blog, I'm going to be unboxing a new product from Steeler.
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So this is the Siberia full-size headset. But what you probably can't see
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is that there's a little V2 here. So the V2 version of the Siberia headset, which
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is quite popular, makes a couple of key changes. First of all, they've done away
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with the clip-on mic. So, it used to be it was just kind of a headphone and then
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a clip-on mic that you put on the wire or your shirt, which I have always thought was kind of a ghetto solution,
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but you still can do that by buying Siberia headphones and then just like a
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random third party clip-on mic. Neither here nor there. They've also improved
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the comfort level of these heads of this headset as well as the sound quality.
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So, they've actually made a lot of improvements over the older Siberia. So,
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without further ado, why don't we hurry up and get this box open? So you start
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by removing the tab at the back. Now
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Steeler is not, you know, uh, uh, known as an audio file class headphone, but
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it's not really what they market their products towards. What they do market
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them towards is gamers. So what they're saying is that it is pro gaming
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optimized, which means crystal clear highs, lows, and mid tones. And these
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are also closed type headphones. And what closed means is that when you have
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the ear cups over your ears, it blocks out the outside noise so that you don't
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get distracted by any other noises that you hear. And it also means that others
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cannot hear what's going on inside the earphones or headphones, sorry, either.
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Okay. So, I kind of don't know where I was going with that, but without further
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ado, here is the Steeler Professional Gaming Gear uh pamphlet, which shows you
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a bunch of their other uh products that would go along with this one. Okay,
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thank you very much. And then, uh what
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is this? To avoid permanent hearing. Oh, it's telling you not to turn it up too
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loud to hurt your hearing. Okay, so then you've got a Steel Series sticker. Okay,
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and then we get to the cables. So, this is not a USB version of one of their
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headsets. This is one of the standard ones that plugs directly into a sound
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card. They do have ones that include USB sound cards. Uh it looks like they've
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also made some improvements to the inline volume and mic switch, but I'm
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not 100% sure about that cuz I have a different one myself. So, you've got a
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mic on and off button here. And what I like about this is it's actually quite
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hard to hit by accident because it's flush with the rest of it. Um a lot of
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gamers tend to bump these and then they go berserk when their mics don't work.
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I've seen it happen many times. Then you got your volume control on the side.
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Now, one thing that Steeler does with most, if not all of their headsets is
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they include kind of a two-length cable. So, here the cable terminates where you
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can plug into the back of something like a 7G keyboard or another keyboard that
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has a pass through audio. And then it also comes with a nice long extension
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cord should you not have a setup like that. So, if you don't use your front
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audio or whatever, then it's a long enough cable to go around to the back of
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your computer. Very nice. Okay. So then
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next thing we need to do is remove these plastic tabs as well as these uh zip
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ties at the or not zip ties sorry twist ties at the back and then we can free
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the headphones themselves. Now the V2s are available in both black and white
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but the version I have here today is the white version as you can see. All right.
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So they go on this way. And something to
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have a look at before you before you sort of get too far into this is the way
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that the headset is suspended. So
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Steeler claims, and I'm about to find out whether it's true in a moment, that
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the suspension mechanism that they have here makes the headphones much more
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lightweight and much more comfortable to wear for extended periods. And while I
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can't vouch for extended periods, I can tell you right off the bat that these
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are extremely light headphones and that they do fit quite comfortably because
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they use an enormous ear cup that is very, very soft. It's kind of a soft
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pleathery material. Okay, so then last but not least, oh yeah, it uses 50 mm
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drivers. I should probably mention that. So it's quite a large driver for like a
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gaming headset. Um, okay. Last thing is
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this is where the mic is now included. So rather than having that clip-on mic I
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was talking about before, you have a little retractable mic that is totally
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adjustable. So you can kind of like play around with where you want it to sit.
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And I think that pretty much covers it. Thank you for checking out my unboxing
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of the Steeler Siberia V2.