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okay so today I'll be having a look at the SteelSeries 5hv to USB so this is their highest end headset currently it comes with all the bells and whistles of any of their headsets including a USB sound card now SteelSeries is a gaming company they specialize in gaming peripherals so this is targeted at gamers they're saying this headset is optimized to give you the best possible sound quality for gaming specific applications and actually I should mention this one of the reasons that they encourage users to get these USB sound cards is it means that whether you're playing on your own machine or on like a tournament land machine where everyone's using like a standardized computer so that no one has an unfair advantage it retains all of your settings and gives you the same audio quality actually they're mice all of their current mice feature similar features where as soon as you plug it in it retains all of your settings and you don't have to you know tweak the sensitivity within windows or anything like that so it'll operate the way you want it to regardless of which computer it's plugged into so that's kind of a cool feature and an interesting selling point of this particular headset so let's have a look at the accessory package comes in a little zip tied plastic baggie here that includes a cord and some other stuff okay so first of all steal serious professional gaming gear this is a little catalog oh it also includes a SteelSeries sticker okay so tu-tu-tu-tu-tu us-uk warning don't turn your headphones up to love okay awesome and here is a little brochure of all of their different gaming products now this is one of the only sort of v2 products in their in their product line the other one they have is the new Siberia v2 and these are both gonna be pretty similar in terms of quality but the 5 HP 2 does have a couple things over the Siberia v2 okay here's your USB soundcard you plug that into a USB port and it has two things on it it has a headphone jack and a mic jack okay that's pretty straightforward and then oh we have the driver disc for the USB card you should definitely be going to steal syriza's website and downloading the latest drivers but I never recommend using a driver disk okay so I have another little zip tie here I'm going to try and get this off okay so we have an inline volume control it feels quite sturdy actually I like the build quality of this and then the mic well this is kind of cool it can be set to high low or off okay you got a little setting there and then you have a pretty durable feeling metal clip I like to see a metal clip I mean it's little things like that that distinguish something like the 5hv to from a less expensive headset okay you've got a nice long braided cable and it terminates in a headphone output and a mic input just like you see on the USB soundcard so this is how its intended to be used but just because it's a USB headset doesn't mean you can't use it with a regular analog output and input okay so let's get down to the headset itself I'm just taking the zip ties off the back here so that I can actually remove it from there plastic packaging okay so the ear cups have huge padding on them you can see the padding here is really soft and it's actually a like it's like almost as thick as the headphone itself so these are extremely comfortable I've actually used these before in the past but I never did an unboxing on them and the way they sit on your ear is not they don't wash it down what they do is they sit kind of lightly and once you've used them for an extended period of time they will start to mold to your head and that's a mark of any good headset they're quite open sounding actually and you can tell from the vents on the sides as well as the type of foam they're using on the ear pads so they're not gonna isolate sound much from the outside and they're also not going to isolate what you're listening to from the people around you one cool feature of the 5hv 2 is actually that you can disassemble it check this out so you can actually release these clips on the inside and you can take the whole head set apart for easy transportation if you're throwing it in a bag or whatever else like that you can see the contacts are actually quite durable they're cool well they seem to be gold-plated they might not be though either way they make really good contact in there you're not gonna have to worry about those wearing out the last feature of the 585 hv2 is a pretty distinctive SteelSeries feature and that is a retractable mic that sits up in one of the ear cups so that means you can actually use them as headphones unlike a lot of gaming headsets where you have like this huge mic hanging up the side of it and you look like a total tool if you were to try and listen to music on them in public anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing of the SteelSeries 5 hv2 headset