Steel Series: Siberia Neckband Headset

A little less than a year ago I attended Idsofts Quakecon, one of the worlds largest LANparties. At all of these conventions there are vendors displaying featured, new, or upcoming products. Steel Series was one of these companies present.

I, enjoying the audible aspects of gaming and much of the visual aspects, had to investigate further. Where I stumbled upon the Siberia Neckband Headset. What caught my eye was the neckband design, which is convient for those of us who enjoy wearing hats in of doors...which I do. So, being the cheap bastard I am...I put it on my Christmas list to Santa Claus. Waking up Christmas morn, soon to my wondrous surprise, I had said headset. Story time is over now.

The first thing one notices when trying this headset is the feeling of your head being bald, I've always used a headset that goes over the top of my head, and intentionally found the neckband design to be uncomfortable. Within about 15 minutes though, I was used to the feeling and it has not bothered me further.The neck thing that I noticed was that the actual speakers were slightly too small for my ears, making gaming marathons less comfortable than I would like.

The specifications of the Headset are very robust. The speakers themselves pick up frequencies well beyond what the human ear can actually hear, though we can feel sound at a much high and lower frequency than we can hear. The Acoustical impedance (That is basically how 'true' the sound is) is very good, it almost makes up for my sound card less computer. The microphone itself picks up well beyond the frequency range of the human voice, picking up more nuanced sound so that your opponents in COD4 can hear just exactly how much bullshit and haxz you think they're full of.

Pros:

~Excellent sound quality in stereo and microphone

~Comfortable around neck

~360 headset jack accessory

~Compact size

Cons:

~Short cord (the cord does come with an extension

~Small speakers

~Expensive, though well worth the money.

Overall I give this product:

8 screaming-12-year-old-Halo-players out of 10

Comments

[Dead Woman]

You fucking lucky cunt.

[-BRH- Molotov]

How much does it cost? Sounds awesome though... No pun intended really.

[Hieu]

wait, so are these circumaural? i'm looking for a decent pair, but they must go over my large ears :/