 Okay, so today I'll be having a look at the SteelSeries 5H V2 USB. So this is their highest end headset currently. It comes with all the bells and whistles of any of their headsets, including a USB sound card. Now, SteelSeries is a gaming company. They specialize in gaming peripherals, so this is targeted at gamers. They're saying this headset is optimized to give you the best possible sound quality for gaming specific applications. And actually, I should mention this. One of the reasons that they encourage users to get these USB sound cards is it means that whether you're playing on your own machine or on like a tournament LAN machine where everyone's using like a standardized computer so that no one has an unfair advantage, it retains all of your settings and gives you the same audio quality. Actually they're mice. All of their current mice feature similar features where as soon as you plug it in, it retains all of your settings and you don't have to, you know, tweak the sensitivity within Windows or anything like that. So it'll operate the way you want it to regardless of which computer it's plugged into. So that's kind of a cool feature and an interesting selling point of this particular headset. So let's have a look at the accessory package. Comes in a little zip-tied plastic baggie here that includes a cord and some other stuff. Okay, so first of all, SteelSeries Professional Gaming Gear. This is a little catalog. Oh, it also includes a SteelSeries sticker. Okay, so, usuk warning, don't turn your headphones up too loud. Okay, awesome. And here is a little brochure of all of their different gaming products. Now this is one of the only sort of V2 products in their product line. The other one they have is the new Siberia V2 and these are both going to be pretty similar in terms of quality but the 5H V2 does have a couple things over the Siberia V2. Okay, here's your USB sound card. You plug that into a USB port and it has two things on it. It has a headphone jack and a mic jack. Okay, so that's pretty straightforward. And then, oh, we have the driver disc for the USB sound card. You should definitely be going to SteelSeries' website and downloading the latest drivers though I never recommend using a driver disc. Okay, so I have another little zip tie here. I'm going to try and get this off and then I will be able to show you this. Okay, so we have an inline volume control. It feels quite sturdy actually. I like the build quality of this. And then the mic, oh, this is kind of cool. It can be set to high, low, or off. Okay, you got a little setting there. And then you have a pretty durable feeling metal clip. I like to see a metal clip. I mean, it's little things like that that distinguish something like the 5H V2 from a less expensive headset. Okay, you've got a nice long braided cable that terminates in a headphone output and a mic input just like you see on the USB sound card. So this is how it's intended to be used. But just because it's a USB headset doesn't mean you can't use it with a regular analog output and input. Okay, so let's get down to the headset itself. I'm just taking the zip ties off the back here so that I can actually remove it from their plastic packaging. Okay, so the ear cups have huge padding on them. You can see the padding here is really soft and it's actually like, I mean, it's like almost as thick as the headphone itself. So these are extremely comfortable. I've actually used these before in the past, but I never did an unboxing on them. And the way they sit on your ear is not... They don't mush down. What they do is they sit kind of lightly and once you've used them for an extended period of time, they will start to mold to your head and that's a mark of any good headset. They're quite open sounding actually and you can tell from the vents on the sides as well as the type of foam they're using on the ear pads. So they're not going to isolate sound much from the outside and they're also not going to isolate what you're listening to from the people around you. One cool feature of the 5HV2 is actually that you can disassemble it. Check this out. So you can actually release these clips on the inside and you can take the whole headset apart for easy transportation if you're throwing it in a bag or whatever else like that. You can see the contacts are actually quite durable. They seem to be gold plated. They might not be though. Either way, they make really good contact in there and you're not going to have to worry about those wearing out. The last feature of the 5HV2 is a pretty distinctive SteelSeries feature and that is a retractable mic that sits up in one of the ear cups. So that means you can actually use them as headphones unlike a lot of gaming headsets where you have like this huge mic hanging up the side of it and you look like a total tool if you were to try and listen to music on them in public. Anyway, thank you for checking out my unboxing of the SteelSeries 5HV2 USB headset. I'll see you next time.