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so today on my video blog I'm going to be unboxing a new product from SteelSeries so this is the Siberia full-size headset but what you probably can't see is that there's a little v2 here so the v2 version of the Siberia headset which is quite popular makes a couple of key changes first of all they've done away with the clip-on mic so it used to be it was just kind of a headphone and then a clip-on mic that you put on the wire or your shirt which I've always thought was kind of a ghetto solution but you still can do that by buying Siberia headphones and then just like a random third-party clip-on mic neither here nor there they've also improved the comfort level of these heads of this headset as well as the sound quality so they've actually made a lot of improvements over the older Siberia so without further ado why don't we hurry up and get this box open so you start by removing the tab at back now SteelSeries is not you know known as an audiophile class headphone but it's not really what they market their products towards what they do market them towards is gamers so what they're saying is that it is pro gaming optimized which means crystal-clear highs lows and mid-tones and these are also closed type headphones and what close means is that when you have the ear cups over your ears it blocks out the outside noise so that you don't get distracted by any other noises that you hear and it also means that others cannot hear what's going on inside the earphones or headphones sorry either okay so I kind of don't know where I was going with that but without further ado here is the SteelSeries professional gaming gear pamphlet which shows you a bunch of their other products that would go along with this one okay thank you very much and then ah what is this to avoid permanent hearing all it's telling you not to turn it up too loud to hurt your hearing ok so then you've got a SteelSeries sticker ok and then we get to the cables so this is not a USB version of one of their headsets this is one of the standard ones that plugs directly into a sound card they do have ones that USB sound cards looks like they've also made some improvements to the inline volume and mic switch but I'm not a hundred percent sure about that because I have a different one myself so you've got a mic on and off button here and what I like about this this is actually quite hard to hit by accident because it's flush with the rest of it a lot of gamers tend to bump these and then they go berserk when their mics don't work I've seen it happen many times then you got your volume control on the side now one thing that SteelSeries does with most if not all of their headsets is they include kind of a two length cable so here the cable terminates where you can plug into the back of something like a 7g keyboard or another keyboard that has a pass-through audio and then it also comes with a nice long extension cord should you not have a setup like that so if you don't use your front audio or whatever then it's a long enough cable to go around to the back of your computer very nice ok so then next thing we need to do is remove these plastic tabs as well as these zip ties at the nurse no zip ties sorry twist ties at the back and then we can free the headphones themselves now the v2s are available in both black and white but the version I have here today is the white version as you can see all right so they go on this way and something to have a look at before you before you sort of get too far into this is the way that the headset is suspended so SteelSeries claims and I'm about to find out whether it's true in a moment that the suspension mechanism that they have here makes the headphones much more lightweight and much more comfortable to wear for extended periods and while I can't vouch for extended periods I can tell you right off the bat that these are extremely light headphones and that they do fit quite comfortably because they use an enormous ear cup that is very very soft it's kind of a soft plethora material ok so then last but not least oh yeah uses 50 millimeter drivers I should probably mention that so it's quite a large driver for like a gaming headset ok last thing is this is where the mic is now included so rather than having that clip-on mic I was talking about before you have a little retractable mic that is totally adjustable so you can kind of like play around with where you want it to sit and I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the SteelSeries Siberia v2