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what is going on everybody you're watching J's two cents and from the company that brought you the awesome k70 keyboard which I use every day and love we're going to take a look at the Corsair Vengeance 1500 gaming headset okay guys so today we're gonna take a look at the vengeance 1,500 7.1 surround gaming headset from Corsair the vengeance line has been around for quite some time they're Corsairs memory of the vengeance line is very very solid you've already seen my review of the k70 keyboard which is a vengeance line absolutely solid products so today we're going to take a look at what the 1500 surround sound headset is like I do a lot of live streams and I do the Tech Talk and I do sometimes when I'm gaming I just don't want to have you know the big headphones plugged into the mic and sometimes when I'm doing the Tech Talk or the live streams I really just don't want this giant adult pleasure looking Yeti in my face the entire time now these guys came in at $69.99 at Fry's Electronics at the time of recording this video of course there did release a whole new line of headsets which kind of fit the gap between the 1300 to 1500 now you have the 1400 to 1600 which are just slight revisions of this current last year's lineup a product so with that don't let the price fool you they still seem like a really good quality product but today we're gonna go ahead and dive in see what comes in the package we're gonna see how they look and feel then we're gonna do a mic test and see how they sound and for some of you aspiring commentators out there whether or not an inexpensive sub $100 headphone like this fits the bank or fits the bill or however that that's saying goes I'm really not very good at sayings here so alright let's go ahead take out my little bitty knife here because I don't wanna I always seem to cut myself I mean my hands definitely tend to show that seal on the top and that's pretty much it now the packaging isn't anything spectacular first before we actually open this up the front of the box it just says vengeance 1500 7.1 gaming headset immersive intensive online gaming by Corsair on the right hand side you have your product guarantee which is for two years against workmanship craftsmanship inning break stops working on the back of the box here you just have a whole bunch of text and a bunch of different languages that no one really cares about I mean honestly nobody reads this stuff and on this side here you've got yours information about the headphones themselves when it comes to reef runt response range you have 20 Hertz to 20,000 Hertz which is 20 Hertz is a lot of bass and that's because these do feature a 50 millimeter driver in there and because of that you can get some pretty decent bass if it's a quality driver when it comes to the cable link that's three meters or nine feet that's really long it's 250 mil lots of power so it's not even a whole lot of power consumption and then it is a USB connector so it is a USB interface which means that this is going to act as its own sound card when you plug it into your computer so you don't have to use any of the three-and-a-half millimeter jacks now unfortunately because of that that means you can't use this with your Xbox or your gaming console system so this is purely a PC gaming headphone now the packaging here the outside you know it's just cardboard and some see-through plastic inside here it's nothing entirely - it's like eight crate I mean it's like the same kind of material that you know eggs come in at the supermarket so we're going to set that right there when it comes to what rolled out of the package here you've got your warranty against defects paperwork right there you've got your warranty guide and then you've got some stuff do not return this product to the store yeah of course there's really big on going through them when you have problems rather than returning the product to the store and then getting a replacement I don't know why that really is the cable here is braided this is very very nice quality cable I do like the way that this looks and feels reminds me a lot of like the munition inés headphones where they're nice and braided so it helps entangle and look at the length of this cord this is if you need a long length of cord this is definitely gonna fit the bill you do have inline controls here you have what appears to be it almost looks like a little boombox speaker right there you see that right there it kind of looks like a little boombox but you've got your mute switch right here it's a toggle and then it looks like you've got plus and minus here for volume which is kind of funny the minus key is sort of facing the wrong way whatever so you got your volume and your mute which is important you know so when your mom busts in and tells you the dishes dishes I'm gonna take away your games then you know you're not gonna end up on one of those embarrassing YouTube videos where you're you know that guy that got caught being yelled at by his mom and you know then you're forever a viral you know turd so the as you can see here the ear cups they do twist which makes it easier to store these they're very springy in fact once you start to twist them to just kind of like plop over on their own the ear cups are made of fabric and they are very very large so if you've got big ears you're gonna get a nice comfortable over the ear fitment so you're not gonna be dealing with these sitting on top of your ears they are fairly light they're not nearly as heavy as I thought they'd be what looks like brushed aluminum over here on the side right here it kind of looks like an aluminum brushed aluminum it's not just to let you know this is plastic so don't think that you're getting a nice aluminum set of ear phones because they're not the headband is nice and padded you can see you can see right here how thick they are they definitely look like they would be comfortable on your head so we'll be sure to check that out the headphone or the microphone here it's got nice nachi looks like it's got some stops in there so wherever you place it it's gonna stay you know sometimes you want to push it out of the way a little bit so you don't get that sound hanging out some people do videos and they're trying to eat their mic yeah it does twist or not twist but it bends and stays where you put it which is good and then you do have where the cable meets the ear cup right here you have a nice I don't actually know what these are called but these are some nice I guess it's that plastic thing that takes all the stress off of the bend so you don't break your wire it's got a nice notched one so it can bend pretty nicely so when it comes to adjustability you do have height adjustment built in to the hip hands so if you've got a huge noggin I mean you can see right here just how big they can go I mean look at that I do have to admit though when I put these on they're awfully huge in the sense that they push these back in there I don't have every big head they're awfully wide I mean okay they sort of look a little silly I mean I feel like I don't know why they went so Wyatt up here where they don't really follow the contour of your head so you got all this open space right here they look they really look kind of silly but with that let's go ahead now and let's switch over to the built-in mic here into this headset and let's see exactly how it sounds testing one two three testing one two three testing testing testing okay guys so I got the headphones on and we've got a friend of the channel here coconut monkey you've seen him a few times sporting the Elgato gaming shirt but here we are talking about the Corsair Vengeance 1500 headphones and I've listened to some audio quality I've listened to some audio like music on these already and I'm gonna go ahead and get my feedback and I'm gonna let coconut monkey listen to them and I'm gonna know him give his feedback and then we're gonna talk about some good and some bad that I'm noticing with these first off the audio quality is you can hear what the mic really isn't that bad at first when I was recording on it I thought oh this is this is horrible I don't like this at all if you're gonna be doing commentaries I don't recommend it it's it's bad for commentary but when we listened back both of us especially when we heard him on the speaker's kind of thought they really don't sound that bad and in fact they almost sounded as good as my Yeti which was kind of weird can right off the bat say I don't like the shape of them I don't like the way they stick out so wide right here like I feel like I'm should be vectoring airplanes in for landing sort of thing I mean these are you know feel like a NASCAR spotter there are 50 millimeter drivers in here which kind of I expected a little more bass especially since they claim on the box here you know in the packaging that they've got a twenty to twenty Hertz to 20,000 Hertz response range and that seems to be like the norm everybody puts 20 Hertz to 20,000 Hertz I don't think people I mean I think they're saying okay yeah we've reproduced sound at 20 Hertz for cheeks shake at 20 Hertz these don't do that but that does come with nice EQ software where you can go in there and you can control the full EQ and volume range and you can set 7.1 surround and whatnot I do really like the way this sound for music I haven't tried them with gaming yet but gaming you know it's just gonna be a lot of explosions and things and the 7.1 will test on that when I do some battlefield 3 gaming later you know live streams and whatnot but what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna let coconut to cut the camera hear me let coconut monkey listen to some music and then we'll get his feedback and I'll tell you guys what I don't like about these headphones so don't go away we'll be right back it's like a battle there's where's there's nobody up there's like a really really really crunchy noise but yeah it might live 70 Q you can to see that you up here yeah got the 30 heard screams cuz if it's claimed it can be 20 of every old crank 30 I'll pull the trouble download okay guys so here we are and we just listened to some sound quality you know songs on this we are you know you guys can obviously hear the way they sounded on the microphone I'm gonna go ahead and let coconut monkey give his two cents so you got to speak up in this thing all right now and just show them what you normally use that way people can see what you at least have in contrast this is my choice that I use the trending X 720 pros and compared to those that one I love the species of these a lot more the ear cups yeah cuz these they gave us like the player one and they also gave us like the soft one like that but the soft one like they squish down yeah well it's kind of like what I said I said earlier before you came in that belt the leather or pleather ear cups get hot and your ears start to sweat and they get just uncomfortable against your skin yeah that's my opinion on them because these are kind of like the same material oh you're the harder than these holy crap Phillies yeah those look feel like they're worn out like they remind me of like you know a managua thats cracking like that feels really hard that's not comfortable those have no squish to them okay anyway we're talking about the Corsairs yeah so yeah they've got the cloth ear cups that you really seem to like they're like yeah only really light which a lot of people kind of mistake wait for quality you know at least that one feels more sturdy than this cuz in me most reviews I read this single snap this will be the first thing that snaps that seems to be the person that breaks on almost every headset review because when I was looking for headsets today I saw a lot of people that said that their ear cups are their you know their adjuster just broke so in terms of the okay so what about what the hell they sounded they sound pretty good compared with like other headsets based on that was like he said lackluster yeah I was childlike more gluten to it for 50 millimeter drivers for these to have I mean God they just didn't hunch there was no punch there was base stone I mean it it produced sound at the rate at the frequency ranges it said that it would but they just didn't have any OMPH behind them so if you like a lot of basing music I mean these aren't gonna be used for music anyway in fact these are USB so you couldn't use them with your music player anyway if you wanted to but if you're gonna be listening to music on your computer or watching movies you probably aren't gonna be as thrilled with the bass and then even after I cranked them up on the EQ they weren't great yeah I mean when it comes to the sound quality of the Corsairs you really are at the mercy of the USB controllers so if they're not gonna sound as good as something plugged in directly to a sound card to even a three-and-a-half millimeter Jack mic quality here's what I have to say about that there there has been there was some controversy here on my opinion on the microphone on this where there is kind of a faint high-pitched buzz that takes place every now and then and there's a little bit of a history here it when you're listening to it but when it plays back like in this video when we played it back earlier we were like woah this actually sound pretty good for gaming headset to get to that point I had to upgrade drivers had to do reboots had to go into the EQ and I had to adjust it if you're looking just plug this in and record yeah out of the box you may do like I was about to do which was return these I was not thrilled with these whatsoever but I think now I'm gonna go ahead and hang on to him my quality its decent they sure as heck are better than the logitech 9g 920 SRD 930 sorry because these are wireless and wireless signals can't carry that much the Tritons that coconut monkey uses the sound quality on those are great too but then again he's dealing with huge amount of bandwidth for the for the optic because it's an optical it's a fiber optic headset so if you're looking for something under a hundred bucks remember I got these today for seventy to seventy bucks $69.99 and you want 7.1 surround and you want a decent mic for commentaries for under 100 bucks it's gonna be hard to beat these I mean there's a lot of other mic headsets with microphones in this price range I mean you've got a whole bunch of razor you know headsets and yeah you I came in cut out regions you know I'm not thrilled with to total beach I mean granted I've only used a couple of turtle beaches and my x12 cell that garbage with those are only 50 bucks these are only $20 more than the turtle beach's and they do have you can get the 1,300 the Corsair 1300 which is almost identical in terms of hardware but instead of USB interface it is the three-and-a-half millimeter which you could then use them with your xbox if you wanted if you had the converter so there you go guys this has been the Logitech Vengeance 1500 gaming headset 7.1 surround USB go and check it out under a hundred bucks it's gonna be hard to beat but if you don't if you're looking for high-end quality microphones you're never gonna beat something like this Yeti right here so thanks guys for watching thanks coconut monkey for giving us your opinion on these because it's you know audio is hard to give a review and an opinion on but I like the software I like the microphone you guys can hear the microphone and if you want to hear them out but you know live check out my live streams I'm gonna be using these from now on in my live streams and you'll get to hear them firsthand so with that I'm gonna get on out of here we're gonna play some battlefield and we'll blow stuff up and poems and noobs