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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Orion pro ROG gaming headset from Asus well I mean it makes sense that it's from Asus because it is republic of gamers the main difference between the Orion and the Orion pro is the inclusion of the rog spitfire so the spitfire is a driverless USB hardware DSP digital signal processor which basically means it's a USB soundcard i think the important thing is that it's driverless because it means you don't have to worry about plugging it in and go to the website no no you just plug it in it goes easy access immersive 7.1 virtual surround I'm actually okay if you have if you must have surround personally I prefer just leaving the headphones in stereo mode but if you want surround effects I do prefer virtual surround to actually put in more speakers inside headphones if you're going to run real speakers then yeah you probably want dedicated surround speakers but for headphones the speakers are so close the drivers are so close to your ear you're not going to get the same effect that you get from surround speakers from headphones anyway and you end up with these tiny little drivers that aren't capable of producing the deep sounds that you want for movies gaming music I mean basically drivers that aren't capable of producing deep sounds you pretty much don't really really want them so the first thing we find inside because this is the pro version is the Spitfire itself and I'm trying really hard to remove the packaging there so it comes with a braided cable and a USB connector and then it just has on the other end a microphone in and a headphone out port so you could actually use this bit fire with anything you wanted you could even change up the headphones you're using I really like this approach because it drives me crazy when manufacturers lock you into buying an analog headset or a USB headset this is elegant because it doesn't cost them that much more it does cost a little bit more to terminate the ends and then do this and do that but it gives you that flexibility maybe you really like this maybe you upgrade your Orion pro to a Sagittarius Pro or I don't know what's coming in the future but maybe you upgrade it maybe you want to keep using this there you go so or on here there's an FPS mode button surround button as well as an amp button so that gives you hardware access to whatever functionality you might need on the Spitfire so let's move on to the headphones themselves and before we do that let's have a look at this the heck is this hopefully they say something about what this is it appears to be I have no idea we'll be back so this guy right here is a cable organizer which is basically just a rubber piece that has two clips so you can organize the actually quite long cable so this is must be at least about an eight foot long cable so you're able to reach around to the back of your case or if you don't want to reach to the back your case then you can just coil it up jam it in here and then have it stay presumably sort of coiled up and jammed in here and not have to think about that so at the end you find your standard terminations so there's your headphone as well as microphone so again options gives you the option to plug it in to the Spitfire just like that or plug it in to your front panel audio or even the back of your sound card I mean it a Cesana a lot of the headphone companies actually makes high-end sound cards which might be part of the reason why they care about giving you the option to use their audio products with their other audio products so now let's get into the headset itself the top has a nice big cushion on it this is refreshing to see it goes all the way from here to here and is quite soft although the foam inside here doesn't seem to be quite as thick or supple as the foam on the ear cups themselves so that's a memory foam ear cup you can clearly tell from how squishy and soft it is and how long it takes to retract however to sort of to perfect the the fit of these headphones I would have preferred to see some rotation this way they do go up and down but the only rotation side-to-side here is from the the metal pieces here having a little bit of flex in them I wouldn't have minded seeing some actual rotation they have a very striking looking ROG logo on the side of each of the ear cups looks very very nice and I mean as always all ROG stuff looks so sharp with a mixture of glossy metal matte plastic and red accents even the microphone looks just like boss and I love retractable micro phone so hold on moron they're tractable microphone in a moment size wise you can go all the way from sort of ginormous head size here you can clearly see how big that is for me to pretty much kid size because this is not even close like that's where it's if my ears are hanging right out via right at the bottom here so I found somewhere in the middle was about right for me which makes sense I wear a medium motorcycle helmet the retractable mic is as I said before awesome I love retractable mics it means you can wear it somewhere when you're out and about without looking ridiculous and hold on a minute there we go and it's got a flexible sort of snake wire thing on it so that you can position it exactly where you need it next to your mouth actually my understanding is the corner of your mouth is where it's supposed to sit I think that pretty much wraps things up thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Orion pro from Asus don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos