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welcome to Jays two cents exclusive insider coverage of CES 2014 our trend this year is brought to you by aqua tuning your global source for PC modding and cooling components and by Sennheiser the pursuit of perfect sound and of course by generous viewers like you okay guys now we've talked about headsets in the past and headsets are one of those things where most people are going to have that one that they like and a question that's commonly asked about gaming headsets is 5.1 or 5.1 simulated versus true 5.1 but what we're looking at right here are a couple of true 5.1 headphones here from Roccat now these are called the crave or excuse me the cave cave XT DS this is the digital version and this is the analog now the digital as you can see right here has what looks like a mixer but it's not it's actually very unique in a couple of ways you have your volume control on here as you would expect but this also has Bluetooth capability now with the bluetooth capability let's say you're gaming and you got a phone call or something on your cell phone and you know you're in a raid or something and you tell your rate hey hold on I got a phone call and it's noisy because you're taking your headphones off and everyone's waiting for you you could simply push this little phone button right here if you have this sync to your phone and the moment you push that your gaming headset now becomes your integrated headphone device for your smartphone or any Bluetooth capable phone of course you have your mute switch on here but what's also really interesting is even though this is USB interface you do have 5.1 analog here on the back so you could use this as a pass-through for your PC as well as a 5.1 speaker set so let's say you want to switch back and forth between your nice 5.1 receiver or your headphones depending on you know if you want to do quiet gaming in the evening so you don't wake up your kids you know which I deal with on a regular basis you could switch to the headphones but if it's the daytime and you don't feel like blaring out your neighbors you could switch to your receiver all through that one interface and not have to be switching around cables now one thing that we have over here is the analog version some just don't want to use a USB interface or maybe they just prefer analog and that's what we have right here it's essentially the same thing as the digital but as it is analog and it has a the nice what do you guys call this the knitted cloth now it breathes it's very comfortable the netted cloth doesn't make doesn't make me feel itchy I mean some headphones have kind of a really fibrous cloth which makes me feel itchy over time longevity of wearing these seem very very comfortable but maybe you guys have ever I guarantee you guys have all seen headphones that break at the joints I'm gonna let Tim demonstrate something here that makes these really unique when it comes to their durability if you wouldn't mind you just want to destroy it are you not wanted I don't want to be the one that breaks it but you wouldn't do this if you weren't confident comfort and durability is something that we've been working on on this headset so and if you look at this I mean nobody would usually do this with the headset but just to show you how how durable and how stable it is I have four headsets in my office I wouldn't dare do this with any of them yeah so yeah I mean I have I have a four year old you guys know that you guys have seen her on this on the channel before and she likes to wear my headphones and she likes to take them off by grabbing one ear and kind of like yanking it off her head and that terrifies me and all of their heads headphones and headsets feature that same technology now these aren't released yet these are an item and works right now right this is a stereo 2.1 version of the headphones that you're looking at over there they feature the Roccat blue cable row stylish same thing with the logo on the side there and of course you know we also have a flat cabled in-ear headphones over here for your smartphone or you know Apple Android whatever it is but guys Roccat is a company that you guys specifically asked that I cover ironically you guys contacted me just before CES and we made sure that we could fit it in German engineering and German engineering at its best I don't think it can get a whole lot better than this now hopefully we can maybe get a review sample of one of these in the future so that we can really put it to the test and see if it's a J's buy but so far I really like what I'm seeing here from Roccat at CES 2014 Tim thank you for giving us the tour of your products they're very exciting I can't wait to see looks like we're finding finally seeing some innovation here when it comes to headphones guys as always I will see you in my next video make sure you're following us on Twitter for all of our CES 2014 coverage and I'll see you next time