FINALLY! A Wireless Headset that DOESN'T SUCK!!! Everyone NEEDS these!

well my quest for the perfect gaming headset continues - everybody take a look at something from Coursera these are the new virtuoso wireless gaming headsets something they sent over because they saw how I was not happy with the GS 670 or whatever it's called from Sennheiser because the mic quality was so terrible they didn't even say I had to do a review on these but I figured I would share because I can't be the only person searching for a wireless headset that doesn't suck today's video is brought to you by Nord VPN a virtual private network things that you should have and plenty of you still don't which baffles me but I guess that's kind of the whole point of this ad now listen a VPN which stands for a virtual private network is extremely important whether you're browsing on your phone your laptop your desktop if you are sending information out to the Internet you never know who's looking at it which is why a virtual private network with military-grade encryption like Nord VPN is a 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pretty much the same because sound is still the priority when it comes to the compression there's a little bit of difference in the microphone but we're talking about these because they're they're actually worth talking about so all the important parts the headband design the ear cup design the foam Manila it's the same on these the difference is just a little bit more of a premium build on these guys the SES then on the standard plastic ones although they still say aluminium to our plastic bits will show you what they are and I don't normally do unboxings but these are important when it comes to peripherals like this especially headphones so these are the special editions I've already been using them a little bit so a little bit of fingerprints and dirt on there they are brushed aluminum or aluminium depending what part of the world you're from when it comes to the cans so this part right here is very attractive-looking what I like is they don't have a stupid look about them do you see how stupid these look I swear to god I look like I'm a crew chief on some sort of a NASCAR team these look ridiculous on my head like build quality I would say that they're very similar but just look at the difference here like that's more of a head shape whose head is this shape actually when Phil put him on I didn't look as ridiculous because Phil's got a very round head I've got a very square narrow head but when I put these on I feel less stupid I still probably look pretty Susie but the first thing you might notice is obviously there's no cables attached to it and there's no microphone they come with this carrying bag right here and the reason why you might want a carrying bag for them is because as you also notice like we just said and there's also stuff in there with words on it we have our microphone which obviously is detachable and it only goes one way like the hey only goes on your left side this is where I'm gonna give points actually to Sennheiser I have become a huge fan because I've been using the game zeroes and the PC 37 X is now exclusively for like four years but what I love is this this swivel way swivel away microphone and you can hear that click when it swivels up it automatically mutes so the very first time I was wearing these I was like just on the microphone and it just bent up and nothing happened I was like oh yeah because the mute button for this is located right on the bottom right there so as you can see this is you know bendable because of the fact that everyone's mouth and head is a little bit different so it only goes one way and there's that even the the microphone end right here is I believe that too aluminum as well so when it comes to the dongle here it is right here this is a 2.4 gigahertz dongle using Corsairs new slipstream technology something they actually talked about at CES you can control up to 3 devices at the same time anything 3 devices that use slipstream so that can be headsets mice keyboards but it also has its like active scanning for finding strong signals because 2.4 is so crowded it's constantly scanning for stronger signals or clearer signals I should say and it dynamically adjusts without having any sort of dropouts which because of that they're boasting a like higher than ever signal strength which also means longer range and better connectivity for Less dropouts so there's that so you've got two cables here one that's a lot less relevant today than it's ever been that being a headphone jack for your phone's because now that Samsung has also kind of dropped the headphone jack you're going to need this into a dongle into a USB C or lightning or whatever connector you need for your phone you could take this mic off and you could use these as a wired connection device to your phones when you're on the bus to school or the train or whatever and have a single product that kind of meets all of your needs there I personally never use these because I don't know I don't really listen to music and stuff when I travel like to just take that moment to relax without hearing kids screaming and YouTube people commenters yelling at me and yeah I'm kind of boring in terms of build quality we've got what feels like a leather it's probably a pleather but it's a memory foam up in here in the headband so it's nice and squishy obviously it's got stability on either side metal hinge so this is going to be nice and robust this is often where gaming headsets break let's face it we're gamers we get mad we throw our when we are not Battle Royale or we lose an arena and Warcraft or whatever they they're robust trust me I know I've already thrown them once I got durability tests you've got to do it but you know you pick up something you go oh yeah yeah I feels like quality yeah that's exactly what these feel like because they are fairly round instead of like ear shaped I find that my ear tends to touch the bottom and the top just a little bit doesn't really seem to bug me a whole lot but it's something worth mentioning my ear does not touch the actual driver cover at all speaking of driver these are 50 millimeter drivers so they definitely are able to reproduce some low-frequency bass but in terms of buttons you've got a volume dial on the back of the right hand side or back of the right ear cup so this will tie right into your windows volume it's a little laggy and that you've got to kind of scroll it quite a bit to get it to go up and down in volume and then we've got a toggle here that switches between wired and wireless that's also your power switch so by switching it to wireless I just turned them on and that's why you're seeing now the the colors going there and then if you switch it back to wired that's also what turns it off now USBC cable here which is what's gonna be terminating to your standard USB to a USB see this is also your charger cable you can charge while still connected to wireless but if you're connected to the computer I would just switch it to Wired mode you're gonna get better mic quality anyway so what's the difference now between the SES and the standard edition this is plastic instead of the brushed metal which you can see right there you can see they're the same hinge the same ear-cups the real difference here is the fact that you don't get the carrying bag with them and they've got that plastic face otherwise all the accessories that come in this box are exactly the same well though the microphone is slightly different appearance wise so you can see it's a much smaller piece in the end where the microphone goes this is the special edition now before we talk about the sound quality of them I want to talk about a few of the the software features now IQ is technically how you support and control this headset things like the RGB LEDs built into them which if I turn on right here you'll see so the RGB that's inside of them the EQ is controlled by IQ the EQ and IQ also side tone side tone is important with these because they're so they're so good at sound isolation you can find yourself probably screaming at people not realizing how loud you're talking so a side tone what it does is it feeds some of the microphone back into the headset so that you can hear your own voice that way you're not screening those are the three major functions you get like IQ really is kind of lackluster in terms of control on this there's no loudness control I wish that there was more volume coming out of these and that could just be I don't know what the limitations are over the the actual USB power signal but I feel like because these are 50 millimeter drivers I'm feeling like these need to be a little bit louder I feel like they're relying heavily on the sound isolation of these to make them seem louder than you than they are but you don't need IQ that's kind of the best part about this is unless you are using some sort of a standalone well--that's are not using some sort of stand-alone third-party application that could control USB devices and apply an EQ on top of the controller you really don't need Iike EQ IQ I went in there and I downloaded it but it's not installed I just left the screen up right there so you could see that this is without IQ I'm just plugging in the wireless dongle or the wireless wired USB C hooked up to the headset it's automatically setting it up as a USB device that's a nice thing about it being USB at least where analog headphones you know you've got to run them through an amp analog is definitely to get you the most control because if you're a true audiophile you're gonna probably have headphone amplifiers anyway at the very least deck so you probably wouldn't be using a USB device anyway if you're an audiophile so if you're an audio file when you're here watching these it's probably just to make fun of them and get you trust me I get you I digress when it comes to setting them up though windows handles everything because it's a standard USB device the unfortunate thing about doing a review about headphones is I you cannot experience them I could only relay what my inner ear hairs and inner drum is hearing and all of our hearing is different so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna try to do the best I can to describe the soundstage of these one they are either a 7.1 simulate which is again controlled an IQ or a standard stereo I tend to leave them in stereo I'm not a fan of 7.1 simulate I find the sound statements around to sound obnoxiously wide and distant now the sound stage on stereo is still very wide and spacious but realistic the base frequency of these I did I did a sweeping bass test with these with a sweeping tone at 35 Hertz I still got some some audio out of it I don't know what the SPL level would have been but it was extremely shallow but it was still audible at 50 Hertz they definitely recreated a good amount of bass but not overpowering it doesn't muddy the rest of the the frequency but I feel like of course there's done a really good job at tuning the frequency on these to give you a full soundstage on these where you're able to get good lows clear mids crisp eyes it's the best way to explain it I've said it before I'm gonna say it again IQ needs work there I was getting random crashes I was getting one time the microphone wouldn't work at all Corsair reached back out to us we did talk to them there is still some tuning that's happening with these in terms of software and there may be some more features that'll come online in the future hopefully some sort of loudness control or just an overall volume bump but if you just let windows control it you still get a really good experience it's time to do the mic test though because sound quality of these in my opinion are matched with the Sun Heiser's a little bit lower volume but in terms of clarity and just richness or fullness I guess these are definitely on par with a more expensive headset so we've got audacity going here we also have our AC going and the reason why I'm doing that is I'm curious as to what the noise cancellation of this is like so you can see if the capsule picks up right here is a little bit of an opening it should be rejecting a lot of the background noise but the AC is pretty loud this would be the equivalent of having like a window AC in your room running that's how much volume there is coming from it so I want to see how well it can reject that sound and then we'll turn it off that way it's a pretty clean mic test about any sort of ambient noise sort of affecting any of the white noise or the sound floor because the audacity is seeing us is that this is the waveform you can see it's the volume is pretty good we've not gone into windows and changed any of the settings it's still set to microphone being maximum level so three two one one two three and I didn't even get fill of clap so I'll give it to him at the end of the clip so you could sink it there so one thing I want to point out is I don't know if there's a built-in pop filter in this I've gotten to the point to where I figured out exactly where I can put it but if I move it like so right here so my nose is being picked up Pease Paul Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers Paul's hardware is Paulie but he shares another Twitter handle with another Paul's Ace Hardware and people keep tweeting at Paul's Ace Hardware thinking it's Paul's hardware and apparently they have thought hot dog sales apparently the nice thing about this being adjustable like this is you can move it all around you can move it down a little bit but then the nose gets it the mouth doesn't then I thing about being adjustable Mike as you can find a spot none of your air gets it but we're gonna do now is we are going to go ahead and switch over to wireless because what I love about this headset and I said the Sennheiser's don't is it goes oh hey we're wired we have more audio bandwidth available to us for the microphone so let's leverage that alright so we turned off the AC because like I said we want to make sure that there's no contamination of background noise that was a really loud AC so we're gonna do now is now we're gonna do another we are unwired right okay up is wired we're gonna do a wired versus Wireless saying the same sentence so you guys can kind of hear them back to back this is wired the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers so here is the wireless test the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog Peter picked a peck pick a peck of peppers pickled pepper she sells seashells down by the seashore these are by far the best wireless headphones I've listened to in terms of microphone quality but there's a little bit of artifacting which sounds like the best way to describe it it sounds like a slight crackling right underneath the audio it's not annoying and it's a hundred percent better than this crap this is genuine disappointment because it means that these will not be come my daily driver microphone but at the end of the day you have options with this and I think that that's what's making this like 95% of what I'm looking for in a gaming headset Coursera sent these over specifically because of that Sennheiser review and they're like hey we've got a new headset coming tell us what you think don't even have to make a review about it but I chose to make this review because I think they're based on that Sennheiser video there's a lot of people in my particular boat that I like boats there's a lot of people in my boat that are looking for the same thing okay what's the USS wireless headset okay but Jay if it's 95% there what's wrong with them I want more volume out of them I like loud I've killed my hearing already with shooting guns for recreation and doing I used to actually build base systems for DB drags back in the early 2000s and that kind of fried a lot of my hearing I hope Corsair can increase the volume of these a little bit through a software update I will probably use these wired more than wireless but I wanted the wireless option the problem is if you look right here they come off at about a 45 degree angle on that ear off that ear cut it's a big dongle or the USB see where it plugs in which is knurled and metal and beefy and this is a braided cable which is awesome but it points it right at my shoulder so when I turn my head to all that sound travels through the wire into the ear cup and I can hear it it's like a cannon a string when you talk to two people with two Bulger's cans in a string it's the same thing the sound travels through and it's picked up in my ear cut they prioritized the straight down plug for the one I'm never going to use which is the three-and-a-half millimeter dual Jack for mic and headset for your smartphone or your mp3 player or whatever I feel like that should be reversed I feel like I should have the smaller jack coming out the back and the bigger jack coming straight down the other thing is when I'm hooked up to the wired and and Corsair has acknowledged that they are trying to recreate this and they're trying to figure out what our particular issue was on my desk both desktops here at the studio and at home I was getting not enough USB resources for the device error popping up consistently what ended up solving it quite honestly was toggling this to wireless and back to wired and then it didn't do it again so there's still some bugs in there I know I did it these are probably my daily drivers now I never bothered with the Sennheiser because of that mic quality I mean that is so so terrible the two versions of these are like I said they're gonna be more so in premium quality of some of the materials used but if you want to save some money I would just recommend getting the black or the white they're gonna sound the same they're gonna feel the same we're just gonna have the brushed aluminum sides right there and you're gonna save like 30 bucks the thing is if you compare the pricing of these versus like the sennheiser products or some of the other wireless stuff that's out there like the Astros and all that these are a heck of a lot cheaper these are under $200 and look how bright the LEDs are on these guys like I feel like the LEDs are better on here then on here because these are having to shine through that drilled out aluminum and you can see there's much more glow to those if you want glowy well there you go so huge thank you to Corsair for sending these over to us for us to take a look at like I said they were very much so like you don't have to make a review I think cuz they saw how harsh I was with the Sennheiser I've got nothing but good things to say about it I just would like to see the software that controls them improve and that's pretty much it you guys any headphones out there you think I should take a look at make sure you put them down the comments below I'm still looking for that 100% satisfying experience I'm really picky if you can't tell alright that's it thanks bye

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Length: 19min 16sec (1156 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 07 2019