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alright guys so today I have a very exciting product I recently unboxed the rest of the Vengeance series headsets from Corsair but now I have the cream of the crop the Vengeance 1500 this is a Dolby 7.1 gaming headset so yes it uses Dolby technology through software to enable a surround gaming experience in spite of the fact that it does have only two speakers it is four ok immersive intensive online gaming got that all right let's see what Corsair has to say for themselves on the back of the box you can experience immersive multi channel gaming put on the Vengeance 1500 Android gaming the way it was intended 50 millimeter drivers which is awesome by the way deliver pristine audio reproduction and 7.1 channel dolby digital USB sound processing gives you the tactical advantage of pinpoint accuracy not everyone prefers virtual surround effects I personally prefer just leaving it in stereo but if you do like the virtual surround effects then this headset has it whereas something like the Vengeance 1300 if you're using it with your onboard audio or whatever the case may be doesn't have that option ok over here we've got sort of more general technical specification so you can go ahead and pause the video if you really want to watch that this part is important for this one though is the fact that it's not going to work on a Mac it will only work on Windows 7 Vista or XP because it does require a driver for the built-in USB sound card ok dolby headphone technology for 7.1 surround we've talked about that so far oh this is interesting the subwoofer signal is mixed into the left and right channels in equal proportions so that means that regardless of where a bass sort of noise is coming from you're actually going to get that encompassing sort of surround Rumble effect with the lows which is interesting because as you guys probably know bass is supposed to be pretty non directional so if you have a box with the wrong way so if you have a subwoofer in the corner of the room for example which is often recommend set up for home theater set ups then you know something like an explosion is not coming in to only your right ear you're going to be sort of feeling it and hearing it all over so that's that's an interesting way to approach that so I'm going to take the headset out of the packaging this was actually a relatively easy to extract headset some headsets come in just brutal packaging that I can't figure out how to open then I'm just gonna have a look at the documentation that course are in please so we've got a little warranty guide here so this headset includes a non transferable warranty which is fine three few people are interested in sharing headsets anyhow and for a specific length but okay give me a sec I'm gonna find it let's go ahead and cut it for now so guys it's not in here that's why I couldn't find it the specific length of time is outlined on the box itself Corsair guarantee of two years all right the next one is stop do not return this product to the store Corsair prefers that you contact them for technical support in order to give them a chance to resolve any issues you may have with the product before returning it which is great because Corsair is all about the support and giving them a chance to actually leverage that aspect of their business is definitely a good idea because they will usually 99% of the time find a way to make you happy so the Vengeance 1500 besides using USB which we'll talk a little bit more about later has a slightly different overall build quality than the Vengeance 1300 so I'm just gonna grab the Vengeance 1300 here for side-by-side comparison so you guys can see and the first thing that stands up to me about the 1500 versus the 1300 is the metal side so that looks really really sharp on the 1500 so you can tell that the 1300 is a slightly less expensive product you can also see that on the boom Mike's the Vengeance 1300 uses shiny plastic here and the Vengeance 1500 uses Natal a metal which is yeah it's actually okay hold on I can't actually tell if it's made of metal or if it's more like a metallic looking plastic somewhat cool to the touch but then on the sides it looks like it looks like plastic so it's possible it's like a thin piece of metal over the plastic that would be my guess right about now but you know what if you guys know for sure let me know let me know okay another thing too is it uses matte accents instead of glossy accents in certain places like here as well as actually that's about it okay so that covers the physical differences in terms of the headset so I'm gonna go ahead I'm gonna put it on I'll model it for you oh no wait so I want to show you guys the the foam that Corsair is using on the ear pads so this is a nice soft foam that is actually very very I mean I want to call it memory like because I don't know that they're using memory foam but you can see that once I push on it it actually takes quite a while to rebound back to its original position this is much more comfortable than a foam that just reflexes right back to the original position after you press it because what that will do is it'll give constant pressure on your head and on your ears whereas this is going to mold itself to you and create more like a cushioning layer as opposed to pressing on you so the 50ml drivers are here you can clearly see they're 5 centimeters in diameter and then also on the headset itself I want to show you guys the foam that's in the top here quite thick very soft shouldn't be too much in a difficulty in terms of comfort for CEREC headsets at this point are well known for the comfort that they provide so now I'm gonna put the unit on before I talk about it any more so in terms of adjustments you can adjust either side this much so if you have a very tall head and I mean a tall head I mean even with my hair all tall like this you can see I can care how long I'm gonna put it on my ears properly and clearly stick my hand in between the headset and the top of my head so or I can pull the the earphones down to hear whichever the case may be I've used it pretty much in its smallest configuration or maybe a couple notches out on either side very fine adjustments on both sides and it does in place quite well it's hard to move it which i think is a good thing because you don't want to be adjusting your headset every time you put it on the boom mic is adjustable this way so you can move it further or closer to your mouth depending on what you prefer and it can either go up all the way or it can come down to about here so if your mouth is located around the sort of Adam's apple area and you will be able to easily talk into the mic regardless okay what else do I want to say about this one I think that's pretty much it for the headset I mean if you guys want to see sort of the look from either side oh yeah trouble with that oh yeah so they are flexible this way so that means that if your head has sort of a different shape to it or your ears are further back or further forward on your head it's gonna fit quite comfortably either way and let's have a look at the included options on this side of things so we've got our volume down and our volume up as well as our microphone mute button here so these are in line and they come down about this far from where they attach to the headset so they'll hang comfortably somewhere where you can reach them at a moment's notice the cord itself is quite long so you can plug it into the front of your face or you can plug it into the back of your case or your neighbors case should you so desire because it's really really long and it's a nice high-quality braided cord so it's not gonna snag on anything and I wouldn't expect it to sustain any damage if you accidentally hit it with something sharp either although your cats could probably do a number on it I've lost a couple headsets to my accounts the USB connector at the bottom so you can see this is a purely USB headset there's no analog option some headsets like the Vengeance here this the Vengeance 1100 come with a little USB sound card and then analogue connectors but this one just terminates straight to a USB connection because it is meant to be used with the included software and which I guess you download from the Corsairs website because I don't see a disc included which is what I would tell you to do anyway download the latest software from the coarser website and it is not meant to be used with an analogue sound card so just kind of show you guys from all angles what it looks like yeah here's what the mic down this is the part that people watch these videos for I suppose you know what does the product actually look like when its installed in this case its installed on a user and thank you for checking out my video the vengence 1500 from Corsair don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos here's another difference that we didn't notice until after we stopped filming and that check this out so the 1,300 actually uses more like they seem to use the same foam so I can tell you guys that right off to that but the 1,300 views is like a plethora material here whereas the 1500 uses a cloth material so these are going to sound more closed and these are going to sell more open so they are gonna have slightly different audio characteristics even if you hook these two headsets up to the same source so these are very different products and it comes down to what the individual user is looking for whether they would want to choose a vengence 1500 or a vengence 1300s so a quick guide would be if you're using a notebook you don't have an aunt you don't have a dedicated sound card I've gone with the 1500 right off the bat especially if you don't want to buy a sound card if you do have a dedicated sound card it's probably going to be better than the USB audio solution especially if it's a halfway-decent card so then I'd go with something like the 1300 so that you can make use of the processing power of your sound card