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hey what's up guys Jase you sense it today we're doing kind of a twofer we're doing two product reviews at the same time sent over by g.skill and no it's not memory as you can see we were taking a look at two of their brand-new gaming headsets that's right g.skill has expanded the popular Ripjaws line on to gaming peripherals we already took a look the keyboard and now we're gonna take a look at two brand new headsets you don't want to miss this today's video is brought to you by Harry's now before you guys tell me pump the brakes Jay stop being a sellout Harry's is the actual official raiser of the Movember foundation which is something I care a lot about than the Movember foundation if you guys don't know have takes place every single November and is about bringing awareness to men's health trying to find cures for testicular cancer prostate cancer heart disease all sorts of things that are actually really an issue for guys and Harry's is giving back to the foundation during the month of November so that is something that really resonated with me now stay tuned at the end of this video where there's a special offer but in the meantime you can check the description where you can learn a little bit more while you're watching this video and at the end of this video I'll tell you a little bit more about the service and how I felt about it because it was actually my first time using it okay so we've got two headsets going on here the SV 710 which is a 7.1 simulated surround and then we've got the sr9 10 which is a real 7.1 surround with multiple drivers going on right here inside the ear cans now the headset itself is made out of plastic but it's got a pretty hefty construction to it lots of flexibility of spring-loaded headband here so that you always have it resting comfortably on your head we've got some pleather at ear cups right here that are on the ear cans they are not interchangeable there they don't come with any other ear cups so if you guys don't like leather unfortunately that's the only thing available here and then it does have quite the swivel going on on the ear cans as well as a little bit of rotation inside right here so that they fit perfectly on your head now we do have a rubberized cable and that's kind of the first thing I've noticed here that I'm not a fan of is rubberized cables kind of tend to get tangled up within themselves there's a little bit friction based and they do tend to get kind of caught up and I wish they had gone with some sort of a paracord however this is a rubber now it is a headset which means it does have a microphone and the microphone retracts you this little guy right here this little swivel dude and you can just push that back up inside to can if you are not using the microphone now it does also have its own control base right here and because this thing is a true 7.1 you can independently control the volumes of the different drivers inside the ear can and you do that by simply pressing the different buttons right here which actually looks like a shifter pattern it will then rotate through the different location of the drivers you've got Center you've got right left front right left rear and you can independently control those volumes so if you don't want as much rear enhancements you can turn that down and then you've got a quick mute right here BAM you can mute that sucker real quick same thing with a mute button right here for your microphone now in the interface with the PC the thing is a USB a lot of people don't like USB but I'm kind of a fan of USB as long as you know everything is tuned nicely because it's very simple it's plug-and-play you not to worry about setting things up on your motherboard you don't have any motherboard board influence on you know the motherboards amp etc etc it's simply just plug and play it's easy to move between pcs if you're going back and forth between say a laptop or multiple gaming PC's or whatever then it is going to be very very simple okay so I've got both hooked up and as you can see they do glow red inside the ear cans which is kind of nice they it's got the g-scale logo with like the spider there and it looks an awful lot like it's really kind of floating because they are hollow they are plexi you can see inside there you can even see all the little independent drivers in the 7.1 on the 7.1 simulated however it looks much much darker and the reason for that is this is more of a smoked lens on here or cover rather than this one on the 7.1 true which is definitely clear but anyway this is a different colour as well you can get the 7.1 surround also in black I do think the solid black looks better the construction is completely identical however one thing that is different here is the volume control which is really freaking big that's actually really big and I think it's kind of unfortunate that the color on here is blue considering the fact that all the colors on here on the headset are red but you can mute the thing right here on the side when the thing is muted it's gonna sit here in flash green blue green blue and it's got the same rubberized cord and all of that now one of the reasons why they sent me this one I've actually had the 7.1 surround for quite a while several weeks in fact actually probably closer to two months but the reason for that is I complained that I didn't think they sounded very good now here's what I mean by that music on true 7.1 surround headphones do not sound very good music is generally mastered for stereo and these being a true 7.1 and having much smaller drivers and fitting all of those drivers inside the ear can meant that the bass wasn't very heavy the bass was there but it wasn't very heavy it didn't punch and it wasn't a very good listening experience for things like YouTube videos or listening to podcasts it just wasn't personally for me a very pleasant experience so basically g.skill said well why don't we go ahead and send you our stimulated 7.1 which has a true stereo mode and true drivers in here which are going to give you a little bit better bass because they're bigger drivers and they're going to be a much better experience for listening to music so I think what I'm gonna do right now is I'm gonna go ahead I'm gonna fire up some music here on my computer listen to these and then I'll come right back and tell you how I feel about these compared to the 7.1 so don't go anywhere what it's Jess okay so I'm gonna tell you right now that these actually sound very very good especially once you download the proprietary software to control them remember they are USB so they can be controlled by software which is exactly what G scale is done they have a suite specifically for the sr9 10s and the sv7 tens so they sound really really they sound amazingly better than the 7.1 at music however the 7.1 and things like gaming especially FPS shooters are going to be much better than these when it comes to simulated Y shame is a simulate a true 7.1 surround so you can tell where shots and footprints are coming from their footsteps these although stimulate does a decent job it's never going to be as good as say you know the seventh of the ninth ends over there I got so many different names I'm in ten nine ten blah blah blah numbers everywhere anyway there's a couple of things that I don't like about this though for instance you might have noticed when I was wearing them they look stupid they I'm sorry but they look absolutely terrible what what is up with this right here it's like it's like I have a handle on my head for someone just picked me up and carrying me around and this what whoever in their design department thought this thing up here was a good idea I'm sorry because I I get that you want them to be suspended on your head I get that you want adjustable headband but how big of a head are you compensating for I mean unless they pull all the way down like that I mean that person's got to have a massive noggin because now that your cups are below my ears like all the way down under my jaw so aesthetically they are not very pleasing to me whatsoever okay last test we got to do real quick is the mic test the they have the exact same mic in both of these so let's go ahead and do a mic test real quick alright well it is time for the mic test and here we go right now now unfortunately in my opinion this mic is extremely disappointing it sounds very modulated it sounds very 8-bit it sounds like something that I would have had back in the 90s chorus in fact I had microphones from the 90s it sounded better than this it's even lesser quality than like a $4.00 desktop mic you know those little plastic mics that you can get from Walmart I don't know why the mic sounds terrible everything has been updated on this both of them sound identical so it doesn't make me think that this one's bad or anything like that I think they just used a really substandard microphone in this headset now part of it could be the fact that it's running over USB I don't know there's lots of good USB mics out there so that doesn't make sense in fact it sounds worse than some wireless mics that I've complained about you know wireless headsets where I can understand why the wireless would sound this way but this thing is wired I have no idea why it sounds like this I've downloaded all the latest drivers latest software there's no adjustment for the microphone in any of the software but with that said yeah I'll stop making your ears bleed because it's microphone sounds terrible so there you go guys my review of the SR 910 and SB 710 Ripjaws gaming headsets from g.skill now I said in the beginning and I still feel the same where I do not like the sr9 10 period that's subjective it's my opinion I don't like the way it looks I don't like the way it sounds I don't like the way the microphone sounds and it has a very terrible hollowness to them when it comes to the audio it I don't know if it's because all those little drivers and it's very hollow when they're behind them and the fact that they have these little these plexi windows that do not really hold any of the ambient sound out from coming through the plastic they very very low if any noise isolation whatsoever because of the plastic and a plexiglass back sounds to me like listening to music with us microphone our speaker that's inside of a shell and you suck the shell to your head and it's got that very sort of an echo e slash hollow feel to it not a fan whatsoever the 7/10 on the other hand much more solid feeling when you put them on there's very little sound that makes its way through the ear back of the ear can into your ear because of the fact that it's a bigger driver there it's more solid there's more there's less hollow space in the ear can and I think that that might be why but both of these headsets do suffer from an issue where all of the sound that happens to the headband and the cord gets translated right up into your ear now I think that's because they're they try to keep them lightweight so they're very Hollow both of them which makes sound very easy to travel and then Reverb into the headset itself now the sound quality of the 710 is great like I said not a fan of the 9:10 sound quality or anything the only thing the 7:10 net or the 910 s going for as far as I'm concerned truly is the true surround 7.1 so when it comes to things like battlefield 4 I even wore those when I was playing battlefront it's amazing to hear where the sound is coming from but at the same time like I said I felt like I had two shells stuck up to my ear with tons of echo and reverb didn't like it whatsoever so if you can get past that then those might be for you otherwise the 710 might be the ones to check out but once again if you need a microphone then I might skip this series altogether if g.skill can get that microphone updated and sounding better then I'd be all for it putting my name all over it but other than that the g.skill ripjaws headsets yeah mmm just about the only thing I can really say sorry g.skill but I think you get an A for effort ultimately you have to try and get your hands on these and listen to them for yourself unfortunately a lot of stores like Fry's a Micro Center don't have these units on display or demo for you to try out you have to hope a friend has a pair or something that you can listen to because headphones and headsets are very subjective what I may like you may not what you may like I may not so it's very difficult to translate that but all I can do is tell you how my personal opinion on these which unfortunately are not headsets that you will see me wearing in the future now like I said the beginning of the video today's video was brought to you by Harry's now Harry's is something I normally wouldn't do an advertisement for however the fact that they are the official razor for Movember they are giving back to the foundation to try and bring awareness to men's health and find cures for prostate cancer testicular cancer and other things plaguing men I figured that this is something that I was passionate about so I wanted to go ahead and do it now I had never tried any sort of a razor service like this I typically go over to the grocery store and deal with trying to find that guy with the key to unlock the razors and then pay an ridiculous amount of money for razors from those big brands which I'll admit I hate doing and tweet my wife at miss J's two cents or mrs. J's two cents I'd say right we're married right miss missus anyway you could tweet her and ask her off to not buy razors it's not very often because I tend to use them until they are just dull pieces of metal ripping my face apart ripping the hair out rather than cutting because that's how much I truly hate shaving but I was pleasantly surprised when this thing showed up because I was expecting just a razor but I ended up getting a razor a very cool shade of orange by the way an extra razor blade a cover here so that when you put it inside of your shower bag it's not going to be getting gunk all over it a nice can of very nicely scented foaming gel for shaving your face and then also a exfoliating daily facial wash I love exfoliating especially in the morning and then you also get some aftershave lotion which is a big deal because I tend to get a lot of razor burn now the cool thing about harrys.com as well is the fact that you can order just one or you can send it for a subscription but either way if you look in the description you will find a coupon code offered here just two J's two cents followers where you can get five dollars off your first order but the biggest deal of all to me is the fact that Harry's is contributing towards a Movember foundation which is furthering men's health as a whole anyway thanks for watching today's video guys and thanks for listening to my spiel about Harry's like I said it is close to me cancer runs rampant on both sides of my family as well as my wife's family so I thought that this was something that definitely needed to be included in the month of November I'm gonna get out of here guys check the description for that coupon code let me know how you guys felt about today's headset like I said I'm on the fence maybe you have them maybe you've listened to them maybe you think I'm just full of and that's okay too but anyway guys I'm gonna get out of here and I will see you in the next one