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well I'm a little annoyed with myself for not checking how much film I had before we started shooting this last time so I have already broken some seals which really gives me a headache cuz I hate breaking seals on something I like to do all my unboxings in one take however we do have to reattempt this one so today I'm having a look at the razor Makos as you can well enough imagine these are speakers based on how big the box it is and what is unique about these speakers are a couple of things that are all focused on guess what gaming it's Razer it's for gaming ok so first things first is the way the speakers are designed they are firing downward and then you can see the speaker grilles are actually go around the speaker's so what that means is whether you're sitting close or whether you're sitting to the right or to the left of these speakers the positioning is accurate which is so important if you want to know where a sound is coming from I mean that's important to a lot of music enthusiasts but it's also very important to gamers because that way you know where the footsteps are coming from etc etc they are only a 2.1 set so you're not gonna have full surround but what you will have is at least the same degree of accuracy you would get out of that set of headphones speaking of headphones one of the other things that this speaker set is designed to do very well is output to headphones so we have an amplified headphone jack on the control puck itself and you can see this is a touch sensitive control buck we'll show that to you in a minute and when I find it inside but that's particularly important if you're using something like the PC 350 s from sennheiser these are quite a high impedance headset and high impedance means that you need more power to drive it so if you have an amplified headphone jack it means that you're gonna get overall better sound quality out of it so overall this is a 300 watt thx speaker set which is fairly unimportant as far as specs go but it's always good to know approximately what kind of wattage to expect overall and something that I have never seen before is this the Oh cameraman scoffing okay the speaker wires themselves look like Ethernet cables there's a warning on here do not insert this beef sucker cables into an Ethernet LAN port and I hope you're not dying back there okay I've been given the thumbs up and so these are your speaker caters next inside we have another warning do not connect this wire to a monitor or PC graphics port so this is a VGA port however what we're gonna find on the other side of it is with the nice little rubber base here is the control puck so it comes with a little plastic cover on it I've gone and ripped I'm gonna try and get the whole thing off here but we've got all of our basic controls on the top so you've got your line one line to mute base and volume and the volume indicator is I believe here based on the picture we are you saw a nice rubberized razor link oh there's your headphones and you're lying in okay so the next cable we're gonna find is just a standard power cable okay so there's nothing particularly exceptional about that just three prong power plug cable well to prom to prom okay and then the next thing we find is a three and a half mil two three and a half mil plug so I guess we'll figure out what that's for later all right so let's get down to these speakers themselves so inside the protective foam which is quite thick no no thinner than about an inch on any side we will find the subwoofer and the two satellite speakers so let's see here we've got I don't know what this is some kind of documentation so maybe we'll have a look at that before we actually get to the speaker's themselves and the main one here is the Mako Master guide okay so this is in a few different languages shows you how to set up your Makos gives you some guidelines for the positioning relative to each other on the table connect to how to connect them doo-doo-doo-doo and what you can connect them to then it moves on to different languages also inside here you will find a couple Razer stickers okay the I believe these are UV reactive as well which is kind of cool as well as a short introductory booklet okay so this explains the technology that's used in the Mako as well as how to operate them briefly okay so let's get to satellite first they're not actually all that heavy I was kind of expecting them to be a little bit heavier based on the looks of these speakers but yeah I guess they've got a little bit of heft to them but I'm not too heavy okay so here's our THX logo right on the front of the speaker and then on the front of the speaker there's a little bit more of a grille here but you can see that the grille actually goes the main one goes all the way around the speaker here's that Ethernet jack I mean one thing I don't like about this is it means that you can't substitute any other cable for it so yeah it's kind of an odd design decision but I mean the cables that are included look reasonably long so it's not really something to worry about too much we've got a Razer logo on the top and that is the satellite itself it's kind of a different looking speaker but I like that so very very stylish looking so let's pull up the sub itself now I've owned a fair number of PC speakers in my in my day including the clips for media ultra five-point ones I had some creative are they the s7 OS at one point and so I've seen some pretty big PC subs this is not one of them this is a fairly modest sub this is about what you'd expect for a high-end 2.1 system so here is where you will find most of the business end of this particular system so there you go that line one that cable I saw before for plugging into your PPC sound card duh okay here's the cable port for the control pod here is all this is kind of nice so the line one line two means you can have two separate inputs plugged in at the same time so it's just a right-left for something like a DVD player our console might be something you want to plug in okay there's your right and left speaker outputs your on/off switch and then your power in so as with the speaker itself I don't know if the camera can see this but you can see right through it so the speaker itself is housed and pointing down from the top okay and then you can see right through the grille that once again goes all the way around the speaker there's a few there's a Razer logo on the top well that's quite heavy now that I'm actually holding it for a while felt light to start with and then at the bottom there's three rubber feet so thank you for checking out my unboxing and product overview of the Razer Mako speakers