- Are you a gamer?
Do you like gaming on your gaming computer?
Does it have RGB?
Is there Soundcraft?
We can add more RGB to your desk
with the Razer Leviathan V2.
This is our bar here.
Oh, it feels cheap and plasticy of course.
Okay, we've got a nice braided USB cable here.
Power brick, two power cables probably for the subwoofer.
Comes with a subwoofer which is really quite nice.
And I guess this big old subwoofer.
Here we go.
Ooh, look at that.
That is a nice little sub.
Quite a pleasant driver down here.
No covering on it which isn't the end of the world.
Nice big bass reflex port.
There's a nice subtle embossed logo at the top.
It's not piano black which makes me very happy.
Got little rubberized feets.
- [David] That looks way too light.
- It's pretty hefty honestly.
Okay, let's have a look at the main event,
the soundbar which does not feel quite as nice as this chap.
Very light, look at that.
It's nice and thin honestly.
It'd look great sort of on your desk
with your monitor above it.
Four in the front.
Two in the back.
So four channels.
Razer claiming that it's a 7.1 system.
You're not allowed to count the subwoofer as a 7.1
'cause it's the 0.1.
So it's a 6.1.
Ports on the back.
We've got power in, USB-C which is nice
going to the computer.
I believe the previous version had USB-B
which has kinda gone wayside.
Everything's USB-C now.
It's awesome.
And then our proprietary little plug for the subwoofer.
Nice they give you a cable for your computer.
Got some end caps here.
Green ends.
Nice fabric cable.
Ends are coming out of it already.
Quite lengthy on the connection cable.
That could go off the back of the desk
and sit on the floor nicely,
so I have no problems with that.
It's got Bluetooth 5.2.
It's claiming that they have a 60 millisecond response time,
and when we get the lab set up,
we'll be able to actually do real-world testing
of Bluetooth audio latency.
If you're gaming, you want low latency
so that the sounds you hear in your game
are actually happening when they are.
It's more important for controllers and stuff,
but it's really nice if you're playing rythym games
or other games that require very precisely timed
inputs to match audio.
It does have USB though,
so we'll probably be throwing it in
through USB through the computer.
There's an app we get to try and set up all the RGB
and equalizers and that sort of thing.
But for Bluetooth audio and for just having it around
as a Bluetooth speaker or pairing your phone with it,
you know, 60 milliseconds is totally fine.
It's got a couple of different feets
if you want to angle it.
Right now, it's sitting absolutely flat.
It looks rather elegant on the desk honestly.
These just sort of slide in there.
They're actually quite nice.
You can remove them completely,
and then it's got another four little feet
on the bottom here, so it can sit even lower to the desk.
Yeah, there we are.
So now it's firing upwards slightly at a nice angle.
Yeah, okay, nice.
We got a nice bundle of bananas.
You get 'em as a bulk deal, no?
- [Bell] No.
(laughs)
- [Bell] Maybe five for the price of five.
- Five for the price of five.
Order now at short circuit dot.
- [Bell] Nice new sweater.
- Oh, yeah.
Where can I get this?
Lttstore.com.
If you buy it, I get to stay employed.
One banana.
Two banana.
About two and a half bananas long.
And maybe a half-ish banana deep.
This is a pretty beefy soundbar for just normal gamers.
I think this would be great for somebody
who wants a much better desktop experience
without having to go through the rigamarole
of getting multiple speakers and having to worry
about audio channels and extra power
and all that sorts of stuff.
This just has one cable that goes to your computer,
and then you have speakers and a sub.
They're claiming that it's got atmos support
with the 3D sound all around you,
but to do that you really need
dedicated speakers positioned around you.
I think it's just gonna throw them to the side and fake it.
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What's up, Gamers?
We're here at the short circuit computer gaming desk
to start gamering.
In all seriousness, we have it set up in the center here.
I've got my sub on the left just so you can see it.
We'll try it on the floor as well.
I've got the angle feets because I'm a little bit above,
and I want it facing towards my ears.
- You already know there's absolutely no chance whatsoever
that you're going to like this.
Why are you even trying it?
- Well, 'cause that man told me.
- Oh, it's THX certified!
- Yeah, and they're saying--
- Wow, it's almost like Razer owns THX.
- They do?
- You didn't know that?
- I didn't know that.
- Yeah!
- That's good info.
- Yeah.
- So everything from Razer is THX certified.
- Well, that's wonderful.
They can just slap that little label on there.
- Well, no.
I think in theory they still operate independently.
- Mm, that makes sense.
Well, it's 7.1.
It has six speakers in it.
So that counts as a speaker and the 0.1 to make seven.
- Shut up, that's not--
- No.
(laughs)
So it's a 6.1 system, but they're labeling it as 7.1.
Can you explain that?
- Yeah, the center channel is just the two front channels.
- Ah.
- I don't know.
I made that up.
- No, that actually makes sense.
So they're combining two of the channels into speakers.
And they're all in front of us.
It seems disingenuous.
- THX spatial sound, go.
- Just make it go da blink.
(Windows sound effect)
Yeah, that's a speaker. - See you later.
- Bye.
- I can already tell from the Windows test sound
that it's not gonna be good.
- I'm excited.
I am not.
Well, our lovely soundbar thing
comes with this program called Razer Synapse.
Sigh-napse?
Sin-apse?
Sin-apse, sure.
Where we can enable all sorts of fun features.
Let's get that full screen here.
THX spatial sound which Linus so generously enabled.
And we'll try it just in stereo mode first
before we go to that.
And then our lighting mode.
So it does have RGB.
Yes, play me some quick effects.
It's got spectrum cycling.
It's got breathing.
It does have multiple RGB LEDs in there.
It's not just one color.
That's kinda cool.
Not really strong enough to show much under my desk.
We can adjust the audio
through these very clicky buttons at the top.
Oh, yeah.
We've got an EQ.
We can enable center focus.
We'll try some music or maybe some videos.
Does sound like four speakers.
(techno music)
- It's punchy.
(techno music)
- Oh, God.
Well, it's spacey.
I'll give it that.
We do have a music equalizer open here,
so I'm gonna set that to custom.
Just everything flat,
and we'll play that same section again.
Sounds like it's coming from the center here.
There's no spatial anything right now.
We do have it on stereo mode,
and we'll try the spatial audio.
See if it widens up.
(techno music)
- The audio equalizer also does nothing.
I don't know if we have to set it to make it do that.
Yeah, nothing's changing.
(techno music)
- Nothing's changing.
(techno music)
- I've got everything enabled.
I've got THX spatial audio, center focus on,
I've been playing with the equalizer,
and nothing's happening.
I gave it, what was that?
10, 15, 30 seconds.
And it still sounds exactly the same.
- [Bell] What's up?
- I've restarted the computer.
Let's see if our settings are back.
Let's go back and test more crab rave.
(techno music)
- EQ is working now.
Good.
(techno music)
- All of them sound like (bleep).
Let's try our THX spatial audio combined with stereo here.
So this is...
(techno music)
- Stereo mode, very bad.
THX spatial audio actually doesn't sound too bad.
It still sounds like it's all coming from here.
There's no way this is a 7.1
because I don't have any speakers behind me.
Let's turn it around
and see what these guys at the back are doing.
(techno music)
- You know, flat isn't too bad.
On THX bench spatial audio,
if I turn on center focus let's have a listen to that.
(techno music)
- It puts out some power.
Why don't we have a look at what the sub does?
Can we get that thumping?
(techno music)
- Ooh, we're shaking, boys.
One of the good things that I can say
is that this is a nice long EQ,
so you could probably adjust it.
I'm not hearing really any frequencies that it's lacking.
It's certainly not tuned right.
Flat EQ response is not where I would want it all.
Why don't we try sign sweep?
Really nice response from the low end.
That sub is helping a hell of a lot.
And I'm getting a lot of it from the back here, too.
See those boys are moving.
Some dips around 60.
I don't know where the crossover point is,
but it sounds like it's a lot coming from both of these.
Might not even need the sub honestly.
Desk is shaking.
Remember when we're doing sign sweeps,
we're looking for changes in volume
at our current location in the sweep.
If we reduce the volume it shouldn't really affect anything.
(escalating whirring)
- So we've got some dips there.
Big dip there around 1400.
You'd have to spend ages fine-tuning this
to get all of the volumes nice and even
if you wanted something with a more flat response.
But, you know, we're playing games with this.
This isn't for making music.
You're gonna use headphones
or like proper dedicated monitors for that.
So, should we try some games with it?
- [David] Heck yeah!
(game sounds and audio)
- Okay.
(game sound effects)
- The thumps are nice and thumpy.
Do I have to kill everything?
I'm just gonna disable the music,
'cause that's kind of taking over what I want to hear
for, you know, environmental sounds
if they're positioned nicely.
No, all the sound's coming from here.
I don't even have enough stereo separation
to figure out if they're on my left
or if they're on my right.
Let's head over into stereo mode
and see if that improves things at all.
Oh, God.
God!
That is so bad.
Oh, my gosh.
Okay, well, you need to have THX spatial audio
enabled for that.
I'll tell you that.
And let's set it to game mode as well in the EQ.
(game sounds)
- Okay, that sounds absolutely disgusting.
We've lost all the bass,
and the nice thumpy weapon that we've got there.
The Doom sound design is like,
dude's my idol.
(bleep)
It's amazing.
(game sounds)
- Yeah, that's nice and punchy flat.
I don't know why they would think like
game mode takes all the bass out of it.
Why even give me a sub
if you're just gonna cut out 60 b's of bass.
When the sounds are to my right,
they just sort of get quieter.
How much did you say this was?
250 U.S. dollars?
Well, that was awful.
I wouldn't want to play games using this.
Certainly not a competitive shooter like Counter Strike.
I mean even that.
Doom Eternal's a reaction-based game,
and you need to know where the enemies are around you
so that you can properly prioritize who you're gonna kill.
So bad out of bad.
Let's try Thumper.
This is more straight-line game, rhythm game,
so we can make sure that there's no
real latency or anything like that.
(game sounds)
- No latency.
This is easy to play.
There's absolutely no problems with this at all.
Yeah, no issues with that at all.
I'm getting a lot better sound field from Thumper
than I was Doom Eternal.
So let's just go quickly back and check the audio settings,
'cause there may be a Dolby atmos specific setting.
Okay, we're in the Doom menu now,
and it looks like our only two options
are speakers or headphones.
And these aren't headphones.
What's interesting to me is that they're claiming 7.1,
but it's not appearing as a multi-channel device in Windows.
Windows can only feed at stereo.
If you have a game or if you have a video
that supports Dolby atmos,
it's not going to register to Windows or your player
that this is a Dolby atmos compatible device.
Dolby atmos is a special technology
that has a digital imprint of a sphere
around the listener if you want to think about it that way.
And then your device will just pick
the speakers that you have.
So it's gonna put the 3D audio in a line
in front of your face.
If they weren't claiming to support all these features
and were hyping it up so much,
I think I'd be easier on it for 250 bucks.
It's kind of a nice little thing to have on your desk.
- [Computer Narrator] This is the world's first
object-based cinematic audio.
With powerful moving audio that transcends
from channels to moving around you with pinpoint accuracy.
- That's not too bad.
That's not too bad at all.
Doesn't go behind me like they're saying,
but you know the wall is all the way over there,
and I'm sitting here,
so there's not really anything to bounce off of.
And what are you gonna bounce of it anyway?
But stereo separation for that was actually quite good.
I don't know what the speaker layout in here is like.
I don't think we can rip it open
unless we get a hacksaw.
But not that bad.
Not 7.1, but certainly stereo.
I don't think I could recommend this to anybody.
It's rather too expensive.
It's very, very close in here.
If you're playing games, I would want speakers over here
so that I could get better stereo separation
so that I could understand where the things to shoot at are.
The sub is kind of small and anemic.
And most of the sub bass seems to be handled
by the ones at the back anyway.
If I was a gamer, I wouldn't want to play games with this.
And if I was a content creator, I wouldn't wanna edit
or listen to music or videos with this.
I don't know.
It's a waste of money, and it's a terrible product.
Thanks for watching me tear apart another one
of these horrible, horrible sound bars.
If you want to look at some other crap that Razer's made,
Adam's made a great video on a pair of headphones
that were also trash and far too expensive.
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