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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the SteelSeries flux luxury Edition dun dun da so SteelSeries is becoming more and more focused I mean like okay I talked about this again and again and again I love the 7h it's a gaming headset that's actually legitimately not just good for like you know rattling your skull because it's an actual audio headphone aside from being a headset so they're becoming more and more about different kinds of audio solutions so this is their mobile audio sort of their mobile headphone although it's SteelSeries so it's got a mic included with it anyway just in case you wanted to use it with your phone or your well your phone or your computer or whatever else you want to actually use it for I don't know Skype calls or anything like that so it does have an integrated microphone but it's mostly for the the out-and-about experience listening to music these guys have 40 millimeter drivers which means that you can expect them to actually be able to deliver some bass in spite of the very very lightweight sort of construction and I'm just gonna open it up like the headphones that you can buy at your local big box store that are sort of overpriced and sort of you know look nice but actually sound like crap they look nice so my expectation for a product like this from SteelSeries from a brand that I actually trust unlike sort of no-name brand on the shelf at you know Best Buy or wherever else is that besides being sort of that fashion statement lightweight mobile headphone it'll actually sound decent as well so I haven't tried them yet although I will before the Sun box things over but first I want to show you guys what we have in terms of accessories included so the cables are a stylish orange although what's cool is you can configure it the way you want if you order from their webshop so you can actually swap out things like the courts the side plates on the headphones themselves so you can swap these out and you can even swap out the Christians they're actually made to order so severe so the luxury edition like I said comes with an orange cord so this one right here you can see includes a microphone and plugs into the bottom with a detachable cable so you just plug that guy in right there and there you have it the other one that's included is a straight four pole to hold on just a gosh darn minute we'll be back in a moment and we're back so sorry about that I did get a little bit confused it's very straight forward so in line is a single button with a microphone for the one that is 4-pole for your phone so that single button can do a number of things that can answer calls play pause depending on your phone it can do things like pressing it multiple times for fast forward or rewind or whatever else this one right here with the split connectors plugs in here and whatever it plugs in there and then has two separate prongs for your for your input and your outputs for your mic and your headphones this right here is it just an included three-and-a-half inch extension cable because the PC one is not actually necessarily an appropriate length to reach onto the back of your computer so you can just go ahead and plug these in here in order to make sure that you can actually reach the back of your PC so that's all fine and good now let's get into some of the really cool features so this is this is awesome so their whole marketing thing for this is go flux yourself which is I think amazing so it shows you all the different customizability that you can so there's all the different cable colors and headphone colors and your muff colors and all that good stuff okay really neat stuff number one is padding wise so these are just rubber pads now my initial impression when I put them on was oh yeah these these seem like they're optimized for someone with more of a square head like they sit kind of flat on the top of my head and then they don't they don't really hug the shape of my head there's a reason for that all you do is you take the flux and you gently bend them and you go kind of 1:1 bend at a time and you are able to even that's better already you're actually able to change the shape of the headband to get it to fit you just right which means that while it doesn't have a soft cushiony padding it does have soft rubber and if the shape is perfect on your head it's actually not a bad experience the next thing check this out so you've actually got two three and a half millimeter jacks when I first saw that I got a little bit confused but once I sort of encountered this little manual rate diagram right here that shows no it's not for two different input sources it is for okay you guys you guys are gonna love this if you and if you have a friend who also has a pair of headphones and you want to sit on the bus and share the same music or you want to sit and watch a movie together on a tablet or something like that guys if you have a girlfriend then you know that this stuff happens if you don't have a girlfriend and you're probably watching this video right now instead of spending time with her sorry that's mean you can actually output to a second set of headphones it's just a standard three-and-a-half millimeter steel series hasn't built in any proprietary connectors or anything like that so you can easily use the flux headphones to share your content with someone else at the same time so input here output there very very cool feature love it I also haven't shown the carrying case yet so there's just a little like nice carry bag that you can put the flux headphones inside and they also include these are magnetic replacements for the stock ones that come with it so you can actually put black ones on and you can swap them out to something else later on down the line if you'd like but I personally like the ones that come with the luxury Edition here they do fold so there you go you can just fold them up like well like that apparently put them in there and I think that pretty much covers it I think I mentioned the forty millimeter drivers I think I mentioned the travel friendliness detachable cables nothing proprietary I mean for me the killer app is being able to customize the fit the fact that they aren't like sort of just those stupid fashion headphones that so they're actually worth a couple bucks compared to what you normally buy in this kind of a category oh yeah I haven't shown the sort of the softness of the ear cups at all so there's that and being able to share my music or my movie or whatever else it happens to be with someone is the killer app for me that is outstanding thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the flux luxury edition from steel series don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our boxing's reviews and other computer videos you