 For a limited time only, buy an Intel Core i5 or Core i7 CPU and get a free three month subscription to iRacing.com. Available from participating retailers, click the link in the video description for more details. Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the SteelSeries Flux In-Ear. Now I've been using the In-Ear Pros for a couple of weeks now, and I have to say I absolutely love them. With that said, the In-Ear Pros with their comply tips and all the adapters so you can use the microphone on your PC and all that kind of stuff are a more premium option. They do cost quite a bit more than the In-Ears, which I haven't had the pleasure to try yet, but I am looking forward to checking them out. So the In-Ears, like I said, more value oriented product. With that said, they still feature 6mm drivers, which at this kind of a price point is a good thing. It still has a microphone, and my expectation because it's a SteelSeries product is that the microphone is not going to be that bad. For example, on the In-Ear Pros, when we did our video about them, we actually recorded part of the audio from the video with the inline microphone that was built into one of the sides. And the thing that surprised me about it was the audio quality actually wasn't bad, even though the microphone wasn't sitting right next to my mouth. So I'm really excited to check that out. So what do they have to say for themselves here? Frequency response, 20Hz to 20kHz, okay, 19Ω impedance. This is important because you want that to be a low number for mobile devices so that they're able to push the audio clearly more easily. Alright, 100dB sensitivity, gotcha, 1.2m flat cable. We'll show you that in a moment. And the mic pattern is omnidirectional, so it is not a directional mic, which is good, because when you have a mic that's built into the wire on an in-ear headphone like this, if it's facing the wrong way, for example, the only thing it would hear is the sound of your shirt moving against it. So they include a quick start guide, some mobile accessories, including their flux headphones, which you can get in a variety of different finishes and whatnot. And then we have the free, I don't know what this one is, but this is the free game controller, it's a Bluetooth game controller. We've got a SteelSeries sticker as well as, oh, a warning about not damaging your hearing. Other than that, nothing else inside the box, so the packaging is pretty bare bones. It comes with a little pouch to keep your headphones in, as well as your accessories. So we have three different sizes of ear tips, large, extra large, and gargantuan. No, I'm just kidding. It comes with small, medium, and large. So we can go ahead and check that out. So it looks like the small ones and the large ones are the ones that are not actually pre-attached to the headset. So let's go ahead and open this up now. Unlike the Pro, it doesn't come with the adapter to take the four pole to two, three poles for plugging into a PC. With that said, you could use an adapter and you could still plug it in, should you so desire. It also doesn't have quite the same thickness of cable as the Pro. So on the left you see the non-Pro, and on the right you see the Pro. So that's what makes the cable non-tangle, is that flatness and that thickness. So it's not going to be quite as tangle resistant as the Pro level skew, but again, this makes sense. They're also a little bit lighter weight. One thing I noticed about the Pros is that they do tend to have some weight on your head when you're wearing them, but it's okay because they wrap around the ear. So there's somewhere for that weight to be supported. With the non-Pros, they are intended, let's see, they're labeled here, there's your left and there's your right on the inside of the earbud piece. They are intended to be worn like normal IEMs, which is right inside the ear canal hanging down like this. So SteelSeries calls them passively noise canceling, which basically means that because of the seal that they have between your ear and the outside world, there's no background hiss, no active noise cancellation, but they are isolating in that you are less able to hear the noise around you. You can swap the ear tips relatively easily, as with pretty much all IEMC look you can see, there's those 6mm drivers. That's why the end of these are so big compared to most low-cost headphones that you find out there, and by low-cost I sort of mean anything under sort of three figures. And the reason that's so big is because they actually have a bigger speaker in it. The overall ID looks very nice. It has kind of a rubberized finish here, and then the silver SteelSeries logo, so it's not just white, it actually has some shininess to it. One advantage that the non-Pros have over the Pros is that the Pros switch to a round cord up at the top, meaning they lose some of their tangle resistance near the top, and this is because they wrap around your ear. Whereas the non-Pros use a flat cable all the way from the bottom to the top. They have an inline microphone and then an inline control. It's not volume control, but you can use this to take a call on your phone or hang up a call because it does have a built-in microphone. And then you've also got a little SteelSeries logo on the back there, so that's pretty much what you'd expect. Cable lengthwise, this is a good test for any sort of headphone because you always want to know, okay, so when I'm actually wearing the thing, so I'll plug into my phone here, do I have enough slack so that I can kind of make it under a shirt and then sort of up a shirt and then see how it goes from there. Now, I think the mediums are a little bit big for me, so I'm going to want to switch to the smalls before I really listen to them. And I'm just going to see if we missed anything else that SteelSeries has to say about themselves. So, I mean, they're a gaming company, so they're obviously saying, yeah, you can use these for gaming, but you're not required to. You can use them with your phone or other devices as well. And I think that's pretty much all there is to say about it. Advanced dynamic drivers for detailed sound, inline microphone and controls. You know what? I do want to do a quick test of the tangle resistance here. Wow, those really like suction into your ears. That's a bit different. So let's go ahead. Let's give it a good tangle, shall we? This will be the last thing in this video. So we're going to do the whole like tangle it up really good, put it in the pocket and let's see how the tangle resistance holds up for the in ears. So it should be noted that there's no such thing as a pair of headphones that is completely tangle proof, which is why whenever I see tangle proof on the box for a product, I do say tangle resistant. But when I compare these to my Clipsch S4i's, when I did those with the S4s, I had a much bigger problem than that getting them undone. So very nice. Good work to SteelSeries. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Flux In Ears from SteelSeries. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews and other computer videos.