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so it's finally time to take a look at creatives new headset which is the H fives ladies and gentlemen welcome back to tech es city this is Brian coming to you guys today with a brand new headset from creative this is their new H series line and this is the H 5s which I'm gonna be taking a look at today so I'm really talking about the features and what utility this headset brings to the average gamer both amateur and pro alike and I'm gonna be giving you guys a mic test and then talking about how it compares to something like an audiophile pair of headphones and giving you my subjective thoughts and opinions on the headset so starting from top to bottom we have the headband which is very flexible and it's coated in pleather so this is a very comfortable material that they've gone with me gaming for it on ours I did not have any problems with the headband itself and then moving down from there we've got aluminium connectors which connect to the headband they've also got markings there to let you know how the adjustments are and they also click when you adjust it also coming out of the headphone is a braided cable there which allows for flexibility when you're adjusting the headphones also that's connected to the headphone casing which is made of both aluminium and plastic with the outer casing there having the blaster X logo being made of aluminium and that's red and black to go with the rest of the same of the headphones now the actual headphone casing itself is plastic and it is very sturdy however it's a good thing they've used plastic because it allows the overall weight of the headphones to be 285 grams with the microphone attached which is a very comfortable weight for long-term gaming sessions now the inner pads themselves are removable and they are made of pleather now sweat fans will have no complaints here I tend to sweat easily and I wasn't finding myself sweating after a few hours of gaming with this headphone so that's a good thing now you can also replace this with velvet if you wish to as the size is a pretty standard size amongst the audiophile world so taking off the inner ear pads reveals these speakers the 50 millimeter full-spectrum speakers is creative call it with a frequency response of 20 Hertz all the way up to 20 kilohertz this is over a hundred eighteen decibel sensitivity at one milliwatt as they raid it and honestly they are pretty sensitive and they put out a good sound I'll talk about that a little bit later in this subjective opinion of the audio moving on to the last place of the headphone which is the bottom we've got the 3.5 millimeter Jack Sayer one being for the actual headphone input and output and also one being for the detachable microphone which will allow you essentially to use this headset as a headphone if you're travelling onto the cables themselves they're 1.2 meters and they're both braided and they're both very thick now the two separate cables essentially allows you to use this headset as a 1.2 meter length if you want to use it for traveling and just plug it into your smartphone which will have the four prong end there so you can also use this for Skype calls with your smartphone and then moving that if you wish to extend it to your PC you've got an additional 1.2 meters there which will split to both a 3.5 millimeter jack for the mic and the headphones separately onto the last part of this headset is the microphone itself which has aluminium ribbed casing here to allow for a flexible adjustment which holds very well you've also got a boom filter on the microphone and the 3.5 millimeter jack with its own unique grooves there now the microphone itself does have a frequency response of a hundred Hertz all the way to 15 kilohertz at a 40 decibel sensitivity so that's a look at the headset itself let's move on now to a mic test so here's a mic test on the creative h5s attached boom mic so I'll just pause for a few seconds and let you hear if the mic is introducing any noise and then I'll also quickly do some ambient noise in the background as well so that was from about five meters away so let's quickly move on now to the v-moda boom Pro and do the exact same tests okay so now we've got the v-moda boom Pro up and this is just me talking normally just like the h5 headsets or quickly pause for a second and now the settings are exactly the same levels as the h5 and also quickly do a background noise test sorry it's actually from about three meters away so that's just ruffling a plastic bag so now it's conclusion time and I'm going to give you guys my subjective thoughts and opinions about the creative h fives now a lot of people want to know how do they sound and I'll get onto that very soon but I'll say as soon as I pick these things up out of the box I've been nothing but impressed with the build quality the comfort which I will add as well the actual size of the headphones they will fit small to medium heads I can I kind of think of myself as having a medium sized head and these kind of at max distance match my head or fit my head pretty well so I imagine if you have a large head these might not fit your head but now on to the sound itself very full sound very good the bass is balanced it's not too overpowering it's not too underwhelming it's just right in my opinion they've also got the bass port there which on the closed headphone itself will give you a bit more bass however it that bass port does allow a little bit of noise to creep in so it's not a fully closed off headphone you will be able to still hear ambient noises now on to the mids themselves another great point about these headphones they reveal a lot of detail they're very crisp mids I like where it's at and also the 3d imaging on that note isn't is good it's there but it's not as good as something for instance my HD 5/9 eyes which have a lot better of a 3d image than the actual H fives do but they're an open headphones that keep that in mind also my Fidelio L ones have a little bit better 3d imaging than the H 5s so they've got decent 3d imaging though it is a little bit of a weakness of the H 5s now moving on to the treble itself this is another thing I like about the H fives great treble it's balanced it's smooth it's not invasive and that's exactly where I like my treble so ultimately the sound itself I'd call it a neutral sound it's very nice to listen to and for hours and hours of gaming you're gonna find yourself having a great time with this headset now on to the next part which is the mic obviously another important part of a headset I thought the mic was a little bit lackluster in terms of the actual sound going into it but a benefit of this microphone is that it was very sensitive it was extremely sensitive and so it will work on any device and no ambient or outside noise was really creeping in and there was no inherent noise to the microphone itself so I'm very pleased with the microphone especially since it's targeted at gamers where gamers just need to hear each other's voices and very clearly you'll be able to do that with this microphone and obviously expecting to record professional-grade equipment and you're a streamer for example then you may wish to get a dedicated audio interface and a dedicated condenser microphone which I think you should be doing anyway if you're doing professional work so the microphone I'm gonna say they've hit the Mach with the microphone in definitely definitely for the intended market also some things that I forgot to touch on earlier with this headset is that you get the creative blaster X live software which comes included for free and it gives you four different profiles which will EQ your headphones to that particular genre of game for instance FPS will give you a bit more treble to hear footsteps easier you also get the bass management option crystallizer option and surround options there which can allow you for a little bit more of an immersive experience I found this particularly useful in single-player RPGs where I just want that more immersive feel in a game so all in all I'm going to be giving this headset four and a half stars out of five as I was very impressed with everything from the build quality to the actual sound itself and I think they've hit the target market perfectly with this headset and that gamers will have a great time on the H fives now one thing I will say is that the price these come in at 130 USD which is fair value in my opinion though I would like to see it around about $100 I think they would sell out like hotcakes at this price point because they would offer just a really good overall headset for the money they're $130 they do start to creep into the territory of something like Fidelio l ones plus a V mode of boom Pro which in my opinion I do slightly prefer over the h5z they have a little bit better 3d imaging and they have a better microphone in my opinion though that being said the fact that I'm comparing this to audiophile grade gear thanks for the creative h.5 so they've done a great job with this headset and I can highly recommend it to someone just looking for a nice clean headset that just functions very well overall so if you have any questions about this headset then please drop a comment in the comment section below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can and that's about it guys don't forget to hit the like button as well and I'm gonna peace out for now bye