Gadgetory

so today by request i'm going to be having a look at a product that i have to confess i do not have a lot of experience with this category i have never used a set of surround sound headphones but by request i'm having a look at the ax 51 pro from tritton this is an analog 5.1 surround sound 3d directional precision gaming headset so basically their whole thing is that they have four speakers in each one of these ear cups they have a center channel a front channel and a rear channel as well as a sub woofer in each side so that means that you've actually got a full analog output so a lot of the 5.1 zout there do use drivers and they use software emulation or whatever else or they might even connect by USB but this one actually just uses your conventional Mike front center sub and then rear speaker jacks so it just plugs right into your sound card alright so let's just have a look at their packaging here so in the package you can see the outline all of the features which includes where the speakers are positioned in a traditional 5.1 setup ok thanks for that it shows that you can independently control each sound field by the backlit inline controller so that's kind of nice ok you can have a look at that and then what else do we have here ok you can plug two of them into the ax pro 2 game with a friend on a console why ever you'd want to do that I'm not a hundred percent sure you can interchange the earcup padding you can change the headrail padding you can change it has a removable flexible microphone and it has an xbox live port okay I'm guessing that's why you would want to use it with a friend if you're a console gamer and then it did it did it did it today ok that's pretty much everything that we got here so why don't we get started on opening this thing up and I hope that my knife is handy because otherwise this is going to be a somewhat problematic there it is I do have my blade alright there we go so let's get this open and open it up I'm gonna try and update with annotations once I've had a chance to try these things because I have to confess I am a little bit curious how the whole 5.1 headphone thing works I've never tried it before i have used 5.1 speakers and then i have used to you know your standard stereo headphones for gaming but just never this way oh actually there's something that I did want to show that was in here that I didn't have a good look at so this is the speaker configuration within the earphones so you can kind of have a look I can't tell which is which just off start at the top of my head here but i'm guessing the big one is the sub and the small ones are not for one thing all right inside we have a what is this okay product registration as well as a quick start guide this is a quick start guide okay so it shows you how to plug in your analog connections how to use the little in line thing they're actually powered oh that's interesting so you have an AC Jack that plugs into your headphones Wow okay and then slide bed okay yeah okay that's interesting Quick Start Guide Thank You training okay and then we have in here we have a little booklet that shows you others written products okay there we go so that's what's in there other stuff that you can also buy from them and then we get down to the product itself so here is what I'm assuming is the AC adapter yeah so that's it that's a reasonable size adapter right there that's like pretty big okay so that plugs right into the headphones themselves and then we can take off the only see what else is in here there's got to be more stuff right it's gonna be more stuff ah ok so in one of the boxes inside we find okay we find an analog set of inputs connected to a custom connector here okay so that's a little adapter there for us okay and then we have oh this is the mic okay so it's kind of flexible see you can bend the mic and it'll stay where you sort of put it okay so that plugs into the bottom of one of the ear cups all right and then we have a couple of exchangeable ear cups as well as an exchangeable piece for the for the top of the head for the top of the headset okay so if you don't find the stock one comfortable you can change it to that that's very nice ok and then that pretty much does it for our trees all right so let's get this open and I get it okay so all the exchangeable ones there that I just looked at those are kind of leathery ones whereas the ones that actually come on the headphones are far more of a cloth type okay so I'm just trying to get this out of the box here wow that is a nice long cord I like to see that actually because if you have a long cord than you won't run out of boys please sit far away from your computer while you're gaining you're doing whatever else it anyway okay pull that through there then we're finally getting to the point where we can talk about this thing a little bit so at the end of the long cord you'll find that custom connector right here okay so that plugs in to adapt to the to the 7.15 excuse me 5.1 and then you've got the DC in okay so that's for our AC adapter and then here's our inline controller okay so it gives us a little color coding color scheme code thing so red is the max I on is high white is medium blue is low and green is the minimum all right it's not I'm really good to know and then we have a little volume control thing right here on the side okay and then over here Oh voice volume that's nice most of these I've seen only have on off but this actually has a volume slider for that and then this is to join the microphone on and off just right there okay so then you can press each of the buttons and it's color-coded for how high you've got the volume very cool there's your xbox 360 Jack right there at the bottom and now let's have a look at the headset itself so first of all I should figure out which way it goes out the labels are on the inside here so you can see that's the right earcup so I'll just put like that okay so it adjusts at the top just like most headsets and it's quite adjustable it can be adjusted quite far so even if my head was like this big then it would fit quite comfortably but I'm probably gonna have it at about the medium setting just like that it's really it's kind of heavy actually is my first observation but I guess it has to have some weight to it if you're going to be able to stuff all of that extra electronics and speaker gear inside I mean I guess there's not a whole lot to say about it it seems pretty pretty well built I wouldn't expect it to break if you accidentally drop it off your desk or do anything like that I can't figure out just sort of like right now immediately how to change out the oh yeah okay so these just come off like that okay that was pretty simple so you can take off the cloth ones you can replace it with the plaid everyone's oh and you can see there there there's a way better view of the speaker configuration so you can see where all of the speakers are inside of the earphones or headphones excuse me and then this one I guess is oh I don't want to break this okay I can't really figure out how to take this one off but yeah you can exchange this one with the plastic you want as well okay so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the tritton ax 51 pro 5.1 headphones so that's really uncomfortable without the foam piece there