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excellent hey guys and welcome back to Pauls hardware today I'm going to be doing a review of the funk HS 260 gaming headset now this is folks first ever gaming headset it has an eighty dollar MSRP and I gotta say it's a very competitive market in that price bracket for instance you have the steelseries siberia v2 razor time at and Kraken pro corsair vengeance 1,400 1,500 astro 8 30 s that's just to name a few so my question originally was what is going to set the funk HS 260 apart from the rest of the crowd and after reviewing I would say it doesn't have any particular standout feature but I would say the funk is really delivered an extremely solid and well-designed headset that makes a lot of good choices when it comes to feature implementation while easily measuring up to headsets that cost a hundred dollars or more the hs2 60s retail box is very clean it's white and orange like their ms3 mouse packaging and it's got a peekaboo flap that gives you a first look at the headset the back has a listing of product features accessories include the detachable microphone a three meter black and orange braided cable and extra set of leather ear pad cushions to go along with the the lure cushions that come installed on the headset add a registration card and manual funk is also providing buyers with a two-year manufacturer's warranty for the HS 260 which is a very nice warranty here's a look at the headset while I finish up some tech specs so you get a 50 millimeter paired and tuned driver for each year 32 ohm impedance rating and the ear cups are a closed design so they will block out a good amount of outside noise and I want to consider this if you need a headset that lets you stay more aware of your environment but a closed design does allow you to more easily ignore friends and loved ones while you're gaming I was happy immediately by the weight of the headset itself and i guess i should say lack of weight it's very light the design is also pretty understated with a black and grey / silver color scheme which i prefer for wearing in public or on an airplane versus the gaudy look at me colors of some other headphones out there you know the ones also i really like the soft touch rubberized finish on the earcups construction is sturdy and rugged overall which is nice considering the weight the headband is very flexible with some soft squishy padding the top the only thing I could ask for here would be some metal reinforcements on the headband adjustment but that's only because I had a traumatic experience with a world of warcraft headset many years ago volume control is easily accessible on the bottom of the left ear cup which I much prefer to an inline cable attachment for volume control you also have a mute slider switch at the base of the boom mic which makes sense to me speaking of the boom mic I really like that it's detachable as it makes the headset a bit more flexible for use as just headphones if you take them on a trip a really cool feature is that you can plug the audio cable into the bottom of either ear cup as well as the boom mic so you can switch them back and forth so if you hate that almost every headset has the mic and cable on the left this could be the headset for you the HST 60 has a frequency response of 20 to 20,000 Hertz and here is the frequency response to try to prove it if this makes no sense to you I can subjectively tell you that I was quite impressed with the sound quality here I listened to some 320 kilobit per second mp3 tracks including some CCR some Queens and Paul Simon temple of the dog and some Dragonforce and it can't quite keep up with the high range clarity of my current headset that i use it home d sennheiser pc 360s but that's really an unfair comparison since those costs like two to three times as much as these the base on the HS 260 was punchy but not muddled or overpowering and the mids and highs were excellent for this price range so in closing the HS 260 was comfortable lightweight has an excellent end useful feature set and nothing really that I felt was extraneous for unnecessary which is definitely nice to have when it comes to a head set also the sound out of the drivers was great for the price again it's not going to match up with a two-hundred-dollar plus set of headphones but it's definitely gonna put some pressure on the 8200 dollar range headset market because I really feel like this is a strong offering in that zone so definitely highly recommend it for me a great value keep your eyes peeled and i'll post a link in the video description to a place where you can buy these which is probably going to be newegg.com but thanks for watching this video if you enjoyed it leave me a like or dislike and I'd love to hear comments from you guys as far as how many of you actually use headsets or how many you guys actually speakers to use 1 DS the other to use a comment both specifically for gaming but if you enjoyed this video again go ahead and subscribe to my 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