Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Headphone Review


Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 HeadphoneAt this year’s CeBIT the Cooler Master booth had many surprises in store for the struggle, one of which was the latest edition to the “Storm” line: a Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Earphone dubbed the Sirus. The Storm line is geared towards the professional gaming promote and has been defined by its bold, innovative and privileged than all else fantastic designs. This song carries over into this new Sirus in view of the fact that Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Earphone isn’t your typical Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Earphone headset that makes a virtual 5.1 audio interval by stereo speakers and some audio scam. Rather, it has manifold speakers in each ear cup which are positioned to initiation a right directional encounter. The Sirius also bucks the trend set by its competitors by counting both Analog and Digital connectivity options as ordinary even as its USB DAC has some pretty clean advanced facial appearance built right into it.
For this pre-launch assess, Cooler Master has agreed us a pre-release try out of the Sirus to play with. Normally, we wouldn’t mention this is because the software provided is now in its beta form of any software-correlated issues may possibly be flat in the final release.
Upon first glance the CM Storm Sirus may look unique but introduction manifold speakers per ear-cup is not exactly a new thought. To be reliable, there are quite a few competitors out there who have been doing just that but even as there are some that really do a clad job at making a surround signal the boards, there are many that miss the mark. That’s why for the most part these headsets make up a dreary armpit of the market to the top with bland, dull and dirty “right 5.1” products.
Does the Storm Sirus have what Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Earphone takes to be one of the few exceptions in the 5.1 headset promote? With an MSPR of $129.99 this is certainly not an low-priced gaming peripheral so it really needs to hit the mark in peacefulness to overcome some of the more well-established struggle.
Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Headphone

Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Earphone

In view of the fact that this is a pre-release try out and thus came in nothing more a colorless cardboard box we cannot really comment on what the final packaging will look like nor how well Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Earphone will care for the Sirius. With that being said, the depiction privileged than shows what the final version of the packaging should look like. 
Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Headphone Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Headphone
Upon first glance the Cooler Master Sirus headset looks much like Logitech’s G930 with a relatively boxy ear cup design which is backed up with a excellent amount of foam padding, an even more wide headband and a thick black adjustable mic. The predominantly silver colour machinate with silver highlights gives it a much more distinctive look than the G930 even if and the finishing feel has an very near rubberized feel to it which should significantly improve durability.
After slipping them on for the first time the differences between the Sirus and Logitech’s G930 become apparent. Even as the G930 is -in a practical way- a excellent looking headset, it can’t really be deemed overly comfortable. Meanwhile, the Cooler Master Sirus gaming headset is exceptionally comfortable with padding in all the right places.
Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Headphone
What makes this headset so comfortable is the fact that the default ear-cup covering is cloth instead of the cheap vinyl which most of the struggle uses. If you rather additional noise cancellation abilities, Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Earphone has attentively built-in a pair of easily installed leatherette (aka vinyl) replacements which in hard noticeably decreased ambient noise levels.
Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Headphone Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Headphone
Another reason why the Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Earphone is so darn comfortable is the ear cups themselves are generous enough to easily take in near any ear size. As with cloth covering, we rather cups which fully encompass the ear rather than laying flat on top of the ear’s cartilage. After 8 hours or more at a LAN event you too will thank Cooler Master’s engineers for this map.
When plugged into your logic’s USB port, the logo on the sides of the ear-cup illumination up in an nice – yet not overpowering – red glow.
Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Headphone
With all that being said, these are not quite as comfortable as the Senneheiser HD595s for one austere reason: we feel the tensioning arm is a tad too aggressive. To be blunt, the Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Earphone does place more pressure on your skull than is needed to keep the ear cups in house. This is pretty ordinary and austerely over-increasing them for a even as will lower this pressure (be strict not to break them if you try this). We had to do the same business with our HD555s and once we had done this with the Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Earphone became very near like wearing a second skin: cozy, comfortable and not noticeable in the least.
Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Headphone
Once uncovered, Cooler Master’s 5.1 design comes into astute focus. They have opted for three 30mm drivers in a triangular configuration with the front and back units forming the decrease corners of the triangle and the center “lecturer” being privileged and centrally located. Not more than this triangle of 30mm drives lies and additional 40mm driver for decrease range response.

Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Earphone

The upside to by less vital 30 and 40mm drivers is their decrease weight when compared to their better counterparts but they have the the makings to be less strict at privileged decibel ratings. With all additional factors being copy, the rule of thumb is that a 40mm driver will initiation to distort before a 50mm will, and a 30mm will initiation to distort the productivity before a 40mm. We’ll see if this is the case with the Cooler Master Sirus headset later in the assess.
Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Headphone
As mentioned earlier, the Sirus has a generous adjustable mic arm which strongly reminds us of the one Logitech uses on the G930. As far as mics go it is honestly typical of modern headsets as some ambient noise will leak in and over the channel but for the most part it does a very reasonable job of equipment.
In our encounter this mic just isn’t as excellent as the one found on SteelSeries’ Siberia V2 and even as it is adjustable it doesn’t retract into the headset for simple storage when not in use. On the positive side, the arm has a built in red LED which glows when the microphone is muted which is a fantastic map as it can help keep you from embarrassing physically.

Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5 1 Earphone

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