hello guys welcome to take it easy today we're gonna be taking a look at the SteelSeries Octus
3 gaming headset just Before we jump into the video I just want to say a massive massive
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guys so as usual we are going to start off with a quick unboxing so these are the SteelSeries artist
3 gaming headset I had opened the box beforehand because I am impatient and I just wanted to check
up the mood ok but this is generally how it's going to look when you open the box you'll get
a nice little black sleeve and then you'll be greeted with the actual headphones and two sets
of cables one is a mini USB input and then you get the headphone and microphone splitter there
so first impressions yeah I thought these felt really really good they felt strong they felt
sturdy you get this strange little black band at the top here now I thought this looked a little
bit naff at first but I was so pleased to see that you can actually change this to one of the
many varieties of bands that SteelSeries has to offer albeit at a pretty steep price of 11 and 99
which for a band yes it's a little bit ridiculous but they look cool and it allows you to really
personalize your gear so back to the headphones you get these nice little rotating ear cups here
and of course that retractable microphone then on each side you'll see the SteelSeries logo
which especially on the white version looks really nice that's really clean and minimal
turning it over onto the side here you've got your volume rocker a mute button and then your
audio inputs the mute button actually felt really really good it like you could really
see that the bill quality was there didn't feel flimsy it felt really tactile I wasn't too sure
on the microphone yes that is flimsy on purpose of people pin adjust it to how it suits them the
ear cushions actually feel great they feel really really soft really really comfortable okay over
to some specs now we have a discord certified by directional microphone with a frequency response
of between 100 Hertz and 10,000 Earth's and a microphone sensitivity of minus 48 decibels
as you saw earlier there is a microphone mute toggle on the air cut the microphone also comes
with noise cancellation okay so on the subject of microphones this is actually me using the Arctic
3 microphone I had already done a sound test but realized I've been talking with the mute
button on so I'm just going to use my keyboard and see if the microphone picks up any noise
so I will note that I do have quite a loud keyboard but most people interested in a headset
like this are gonna have a mechanical keyboard of some sorts anyway so this is probably a realistic
example of what the microphone is gonna pick up I am sitting at a normal distance away from my desk
as well I could not right up against the keyboard okay so that was your sound test as you can tell
the microphone did pick up some of the keyboard noise but not to the point at it get annoying
by notice the mic was actually quite quiet in comparison to the one I use to make videos and
it definitely seems to soften everything up a bit so I wouldn't use this for youtube videos
and things like that but for gaming and possibly even streaming I think it'd be perfect now over to
each speakers we have forty millimeter drivers and a headphone frequency response of between twenty
and twenty two thousand Hertz with a headphone sensitivity of 98 decibels if you're interested in
that and of course we've got that volume control on the side of the air cup next to the mute button
to the microphone as you saw in the unboxing it comes with a four-pole 3.5 millimeter and the
dual 3.5 millimeter PC cable with a cable length of three meters now if you get the Bluetooth
version you will still get these cables - as you do have the option to use it as a wired headset so
another cool feature is the windows sonic spatial audio compatibility so on your PC and Xbox one
consoles it's going to be fully compatible with the native surround sap that's built into window
10 2 pcs and X on consoles and lastly you have the signature soundscape of the Arctic series actually
emphasizes subtle sounds in game so things like footsteps maybe you gunfire you'll hear a little
bit more clearly and it might even give you that competitive edge over other players now if you
were in the market for a pair of these you'd be looking at spending around 90 pounds although I
will say when I bought them I got them off Amazon for around 62 pounds it is worth noting that the
artists three Bluetooth Edition is only 10 pounds more so do consider that and it is exactly the
same you can still have it wired if you want to it just comes with Bluetooth as well so after testing
these out myself I was actually quite pleased with them I was a little bit worried about how
they felt initially I thought they might have felt a little bit cheap but I do think that was sort of
on purpose I think is because there was no weight the actual headphones after putting them on that I
felt the ration really really comfortable and I could sort of see why they'd done that the only
negative thing I would say about these headphones is that for me personally they didn't feel loud
enough even with the volume turned up to max on the headphones and on my computer I still
felt that they were a little bit quiet but that could just be me okay so that's that if you're
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