 Alright guys, so today I have a very exciting product. I recently unboxed the rest of the Vengeance series headsets from Corsair, but now I have the Cream of the Crop, the Vengeance 1500. This is a Dolby 7.1 gaming headset, so yes it uses Dolby technology through software to enable a surround gaming experience, in spite of the fact that it does have only two speakers. It is for immersive, intensive online gaming. Got that. Alright, let's see what Corsair has to say for themselves on the back of the box. You can experience immersive multi-channel gaming, put on the Vengeance 1500, enjoy gaming the way it was intended, 50mm drivers, which is awesome by the way, deliver pristine audio reproduction and 7.1 channel Dolby digital USB sound processing gives you the tactical advantage of pinpoint accuracy. Not everyone prefers virtual surround effects, I personally prefer just leaving it in stereo, but if you do like the virtual surround effects then this headset has it, whereas something like the Vengeance 1300 if you're using it with your onboard audio or whatever the case may be doesn't have that option. Okay, over here we've got sort of more general technical specifications, so you can go ahead and pause the video if you really want to watch that. This part is important for this one though, is the fact that it's not going to work on a Mac, it will only work on Windows 7 Vista or XP because it does require a driver for the built-in USB sound card. Okay, Dolby headphone technology for 7.1 surround, we've talked about that so far. Oh, this is interesting, the subwoofer signal is mixed into the left and right channels in equal proportions, so that means that regardless of where a bass sort of noise is coming from, you're actually going to get that encompassing sort of surround rumble effect with the lows, which is interesting because as you guys probably know, bass is supposed to be pretty non-directional, so if you have a, oops, I unboxed it the wrong way, so if you have a subwoofer in the corner of the room for example, which is often the recommended setup for home theater setups, then you know something like an explosion is not coming into only your right ear, you're going to be sort of feeling it and hearing it all over, so that's an interesting way to approach that. So I'm going to take the headset out of the packaging, this was actually a relatively easy to extract headset, some headsets come in just brutal packaging that I can't figure out how to open, and I'm just going to have a look at the documentation that Corsair includes. So we've got a little warranty guide here, so this headset includes a non-transferable warranty which is fine, very few people are interested in sharing headsets anyhow, and for a specific length of time, okay give me a sec, I'm going to find it. Just go ahead and cut it for now. So guys, it's not in here, that's why I couldn't find it, the specific length of time is outlined on the box itself, Corsair guarantee of two years. Alright, the next one is stop, do not return this product to the store, Corsair prefers that you contact them for technical support in order to give them a chance to resolve any issues you may have with the product before returning it, which is great because Corsair is all about the support and giving them a chance to actually leverage that aspect of their business is definitely a good idea because they will usually, 99% of the time, find a way to make you happy. So the Vengeance 1500, besides using USB, which we'll talk a little bit more about later, has a slightly different overall build quality than the Vengeance 1300, so I'm just going to grab the Vengeance 1300 here for side by side comparison so you guys can see, and the first thing that stands out to me about the 1500 versus the 1300 is the metal side, so that looks really really sharp on the 1500, so you can tell that the 1300 is a slightly less expensive product. You can also see that on the boom mics, the Vengeance 1300 uses shiny plastic here, and the Vengeance 1500 uses metal, which is, yeah it's actually, okay hold on, I can't actually tell if it's made of metal or if it's more like a metallic looking plastic, somewhat cold to the touch, but then on the sides it looks like, it looks like plastic, so it's possible it's like a thin piece of metal over the plastic, that would be my guess right about now, but you know what, if you guys know for sure, let me know, let me know. Okay, another thing too is it uses matte accents instead of glossy accents in certain places like here, as well as, actually that's about it. Okay, so that covers the physical differences in terms of the headset itself, so I'm going to go ahead, I'm going to put it on, I'll model it for you, oh no wait, I'll do this first. So I want to show you guys the foam that Corsair is using on the ear pads, so this is a nice soft foam that is actually very, very, I mean I want to call it memory-like, because I don't know that they're using memory foam, but you can see that once I push on it, it actually takes quite a while to rebound back to its original position, this is much more comfortable than a foam that just reflexes right back to the original position after you press it, because what that'll do is it'll give constant pressure on your head and on your ears, which whereas this is going to mold itself to you and create more like a cushioning layer as opposed to pressing on you. So the 50mm drivers are here, you can clearly see they're 5cm in diameter, and then also on the headset itself I want to show you guys the foam that's in the top here, quite thick, very soft, shouldn't be too much of a difficulty in terms of comfort, Corsair headsets at this point are well known for the comfort that they provide, so now I'm going to put the unit on before I talk about it anymore. So in terms of adjustments, you can adjust either side this much, so if you have a very tall head, and I mean a tall head, I mean even with my hair all tall like this you can see I can, here hold on, I'm going to put it on my ears properly, I can clearly stick my hand in between the headset and the top of my head, or I can pull the earphones down to here, whichever the case may be, I'd use it pretty much in its smallest configuration or maybe a couple notches out on either side, very fine adjustments on both sides, and it does stay in place quite well, it's hard to move it, which I think is a good thing because you don't want to be adjusting your headset every time you put it on. The boom mic is adjustable this way so you can move it further or closer to your mouth depending on what you prefer, and it can either go up all the way or it can come down to about here, so if your mouth is located around the sort of Adam's apple area then you will be able to easily talk into the mic regardless. Okay, what else do I want to say about this one, I think that's pretty much it for the headset, I mean if you guys want to see sort of the look from either side, oh yeah, I'm having a little bit of trouble with that, oh yeah so they are flexible this way, so that means that if your head has sort of a different shape to it or your ears are further back or further forward on your head it's going to fit quite comfortably either way, and let's have a look at the included options on this side of things. So we've got our volume down and our volume up as well as our microphone mute button here, so these are in line and they come down about this far from where they attach to the headset, so they'll hang comfortably somewhere where you can reach them at a moment's notice. The cord itself is quite long so you can plug it into the front of your case or you can plug it into the back of your case, or you can plug it into the back of your neighbour's case should you so desire because it's really really long, and it's a nice high quality braided cord so it's not going to snag on anything and I wouldn't expect it to sustain any damage if you accidentally hit it with something sharp either, although your cats could probably do a number on it, I've lost a couple headsets to my cats. The USB connector at the bottom, so you can see this is a purely USB headset, there's no analogue option, some headsets like the Vengeance, here it is, the Vengeance 1100 come with a little USB sound card and then analogue connectors, but this one just terminates straight to a USB connection because it is meant to be used with the included software, which I guess you download from Corsair's website because I don't see a disc included, which is what I would tell you to do anyway, download the latest software from the Corsair website and it is not meant to be used with an analogue sound card. So just to kind of show you guys from all angles what it looks like, here's with the mic down, this is the part that people watch these videos for I suppose, what does the product actually look like when it's installed, in this case it's installed on a user and thank you for checking out my video, the Vengeance 1500 from Corsair, don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews and other computer videos. Here's another difference that we didn't notice until after we stopped filming and check this out, so the 1300 actually uses more like, they seem to use the same foam, so I can tell you guys that right off the bat, but the 1300 uses like a pleathery material here, whereas the 1500 uses a cloth material, so these are going to sound more closed and these are going to sound more open, so they are going to have slightly different audio characteristics even if you hook these two headsets up to the same source. So these are very different products and it comes down to what the individual user is looking for, whether they would want to choose a Vengeance 1500 or a Vengeance 1300, so a quick guide would be if you are using a notebook, you don't have a dedicated sound card, I'd go with the 1500 right off the bat, especially if you don't want to buy a sound card. If you do have a dedicated sound card, it's probably going to be better than the USB audio solution, especially if it's a halfway decent card, so then I'd go with something like the 1300 so that you can make use of the processing power of your sound card.