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we are here with steelseries chief gaming officer and we are going to be talking about the flux in-ear and the flux in-ear pro we're going to start with the pro though welcome to Linus tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is powered by corsair maker of quality pc components and peripherals our trusted storage partner is seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is innocence so i don't know if you guys are familiar with steelseries but they make a couple of you know peripherals and audio products and basically you know if you have a chief gaming officer on your staff then I'd say you're sort of a gaming oriented company what makes these optimal for gamers or fir let's say not gamers and it's a balance amateur headset which means that it's practically distortion for it it has a really really clear soundscape for a first person shooter where you want to have like special sound and awareness it's super super good and what makes them very unique also is that doing our development of these when we try to sort of like make a really good product we realized one thing which was at all in use I really designed to look pretty and here's an example yeah these look really pretty they don't sound great and check out the way that this is ripped yeah out of here and we found that in all our testing actually that they look very very pretty they're not necessarily like really nice and comfortable we bought more than 100 different in use we tested them and we couldn't find that or the favorite internally which was like an eye opener so we we actually said looking at hearing aid since that the hearing aid is a medical device that's designed to be in your year and be comfortable all day right so we designed these after hearing aids where you just put them in and you can feel immediately when they've when they plug in and when they're comfortable and that's something you can wear for hours and hours and it's true you guys you actually can I now diesel where's uh he'd easily where's earbuds that do go over and around his ear and I always kind of thought that was a little bit weird I've never actually tried it before it feels a little weird at first but you were saying that you actually use this running for running now yeah um okay another thing that's cool they come with an 8-pin connector system here so for a pc put this in a duplex and for an iphone or a template or mank it comes with this it's very easy to use oh that's awesome yeah that's something we will be touching a lot more in the future okay so here should we do like a non tangled sort of demo here you can do that sure okay so I'm gonna put it in my pocket now I've seen a fair number of non tangled cords I've even seen braided non tangled cords that are just around good good it doesn't work you need a ribbon cable if you want to have an aunt angle design so you take this out of your ear it looks out of your ear well no you take it out of your pocket it's gonna look like this they're actually using a slightly wider ribbon cable that is a little bit thicker as well then even ribbon non tangled cables that I've seen in the past this I believe is what helps to contribute to making it even more non tangle than what you would normally see which is sort of I mean even this this is a non tangle at all so yeah there you go so tell us about the pricing of the flux in-ear prone what's it competing against I think it's competing against any balanced armature headset the price of three hundred and twenty nine dollars we're just incredibly aggressively priced I think it's the best sounding yes it under two hundred dollars okay so there you go guys as you know i recommend nothing but steel series seven H's to anyone who asks me about what headset to buy for gaming what headset to buy for their computer basically I think it's the best sounding headphone under 150 180 dollars pans down so if they've done the same thing with the flux in-ear pro that's great I actually haven't tested it yet but I brought slick who is more of our golden ear guy to tell us what do you thinks about it first to go over organelle mix and design all I kind of stuff I usually do not like in your headphones because they just don't fit in my ears properly but these ones when it went around you could really tell they were designed to fit properly in your ears you know it's my favorite thing I should these ones I keep bringing up these I don't really like them but look how far they stick out of your ear yeah how way did they are words the other so what happens is anyone there's any pressure on them it pulls them out and there's that weight on your ear canal sorry go ahead audio I can't listen to music while running I guess my headphones always follow so that's actually fantastic audio quality was great a lot of times with gaming stuff you find that they just pound bass for no absolute reason and you'll play something that's like a classical song but all yours were these had a really really wide range but we're still able to pound bass so that was really nice to hear all right so tell us about the more entry-level product this is the flux in-ear yeah so these are the sign differently okay did we lose our flux in here they're here we go so you said designed a little bit differently they're based on different nights right cross and have a look and they're designed to fit into your ear the exit basically go further into a year and it is not as distortion-free SD balanced amateur obviously there's also a technology difference and but I would also go on record and say that for $59 that's the best sound $49 that's the best sounding case that you'll get period and then because again you guys are sort of gaming oriented company it comes with those dual adapters as well right no not this one not this one oh so this is only for mobile only for mobile but it does have a mic you can use it as a headset yes no problem something to be aware of guys is you can actually buy adapters from your dual sockets to these I think you can get them at a lot of dollar stores so I wouldn't worry too much about not having that one included however I am really excited to try the in Europe role I was busy shooting a video about the keyboard and am I missing out yeah okay i'm getting the yes i'm missing out thank you very much for doing this little interview and guys i am very excited to see more in ear products i do like the way they sound i like the fact that you don't have to wear a big bang and i love steelseries audio products so there you go good work thank you thanks for watching linus tech tips at CES 2013 powered by corsair seagate technology and linksys you