 🎵 Yes, my friends, we have a whole lineup of Corsair gaming headsets to have a look at today, starting with the Raptor line and ending with the Vengeance 2100s. Lots of new stuff here. Vengeance 2100s are Corsair's flagship wireless headphones. They are an updated version of the 2000s, and honestly, there isn't that much that's different. Included with them, we have Corsair's USB audio slash wireless dongle. We've also got a little extender base station for it, so you can have it in the front of your PC and then still plug it into the back. And finally, we have a charging cable that can be used to charge the 10-hour battery of the Vengeance 2100s or run them in wired power mode so that you can have an unlimited amount of gameplay time. Next up, we've got the headphones themselves, which have an updated ID with a brushed dark look that I actually think looks much better than the original Vengeance 2000s. They have the same overall softness, so a nice cushy, extremely wide headband, as well as nice cushy and soft, although not, um, not like out-of-the-box soft, but more the type of foam that molds to your head over time, but nice deep ear cushions. They have been updated for better durability, so if there was anything that people didn't like about the 2000s, it was probably that they seemed to have durability issues. The 2100s seek to completely address that. They have 50-millimeter drivers, just like the rest of Corsair's high-end headphones. Actually, the 2000s used to have better drivers than the rest of the lineup, but more on that in just a moment. And finally, they use microfiber cloth on the memory foam ear cups, so that you're going to be nice and comfortable and not have, uh, you know, sweaty pleather against your skin, because for some people, I know that is an issue. Looking at you, Jeremy. Next up, we have the Vengeance 1500 V2s. Now, I don't see these being officially called V2 anywhere, but someone said that to me at PAX or something, so I'm rolling with it. And they definitely have been updated in enough of a way that I would say it justifies a V2 moniker. So they come with Dolby Headphone right out of the box. It supports 5.1 or 7.1 or something like that, you know, virtual speakers around your head. They, of course, in order to support that functionality, have a USB sound card built into them, just like Corsair's previous 1500. However, unlike the previous 1500, they have the newer 50-millimeter drivers, just like the Vengeance 2000. They have a newer ID that, again, I think looks quite a bit better, although it's so similar to the 2100s. It actually sort of raises the question why they bothered to change it. It's like, well, we put a Corsair logo here instead of here. Either way, they both look really good. So when I say that they look very similar, I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing. Just like the previous Vengeance 1500s, they have inline volume control, as well as a mute button, which has actually been streamlined a little bit, made a little bit more low profile. And just like the Vengeance 2100s, they have microfiber-covered memory foam on the ear cups, which are going to mold to your head over time in a nice wide headband, as well as a boom mic that can be adjusted according to how you need it to be positioned. One thing that I'm very sorry I missed on the Vengeance 2100 is the volume wheel, as well as the power button over here. The volume wheel is key because the other headphones have inline volume control, so I... That's different. I guess at this point, we might as well just stop pretending that we're unboxing things at all here, and we're going to kick off with the Vengeance 1400. It adds the same better 50mm drivers to the 1300s, in much the same way that the 1500 V2 adds those better drivers to the 1500s. It has the same upgraded ID, so I'm going to do my little turn on the catwalk. I don't think that's how they normally turn on the catwalk, but we're not too worried about that. The inline volume control is also less bulky now, and unlike the 1500 V2s, we have analog connectors. So if you're using something like your own sound card or an external USB DAC or something along those lines, then this will be the option to go with. I actually feel quite strongly that analog connectors on my headphones make more sense for me, because I am less interested in fancy surround software and more interested in having a better quality source for the audio, although your mileage may vary on all of this, and if you want wireless, then you don't really have the option of analog at all, because the whole thing has to be powered by something, so they tend to be USB. And you have to have circuitry inside the headphones to do things, unless you built a battery pack that's strapped to your neck and a sound card into the bottom of something. And just when you thought our unboxing couldn't get any less unboxing, I'm not even going to open this one, because this is the HS40, which is pretty much the same thing as the HS30, but with a USB connector rather than an analog connector. So I actually have two of these, except that I don't, because Corsair's PR and their marketing each sent me one, and then they both sent me just the HS40, because it's pretty much the same as the HS30, thinking that I could just sort of make do without that one, and then the funny thing is they sent me two headsets, but then I ended up with doing the same one instead of two different ones. Anyway, so the Raptor line is Corsair's more value-oriented gaming peripherals. They call them gaming essentials, and I think they've really achieved that, because they're still comfortable. The HS40 is surround, but not Dolby Surround, so it still has the same implementation that Vengeance 2000 had back when it was released. They're lower cost, so they come with 40mm neodymium drivers versus 50mm drivers. There's no memory foam, and they use lead red instead of microfiber cloth, but overall they're still comfortable, they're still lightweight, they still have a boom mic, they still have inline volume control, but it's a little bit bulkier. So it just comes down to how much of a budget do you have? Do you want a spring for the higher-end Vengeance that, you know, has a little bit of a nicer, like, matte look, or are you okay with the Raptors and their lower cost, and, you know, proportionally lower performance? Thank you very much for checking out our unboxing and overview of Corsair's new headset lineup, and that's the door, so we're gonna end this now. 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