Corsair Gaming Audio Series HS1 Headphones Launched

[Apoptosis]

Corsair Launches High Performance USB Headset for Gamers

― The Gaming Audio Series HS1 headset is ideal for anyone who is serious about gaming, and serious about audio –

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FREMONT, California — August 31, 2010 — Corsair®, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced the launch of their inaugural audio product, the Gaming Audio Series™ HS1 USB gaming headset. This noise-isolating headset offers long-term playing comfort and immersive multi-channel audio, with massive 50mm drivers and a carefully tuned acoustical design optimized not only for gaming, but for movies and music as well.

The HS1 is loaded with features designed to optimize your gaming experience. The 50mm drivers provide more accurate sound reproduction and far lower distortion than is produced by smaller, more typical drivers. The circumaural, closed-back design helps reject ambient noise and keeps you in the game, even in high-distraction environments like LAN parties. Replaceable memory foam ear pads provide a reliable, comfortable fit that conforms to the shape of your head without binding or pinching. The uni-directional noise-cancelling microphone on an adjustable boom enables clear, low-noise voice chat. The end result is a headset that simply provides a superior gaming experience.

“We set out to develop a headset with the performance that gamers demand, while also providing the pristine audio reproduction required for multi-channel movies and high bit rate music,” stated Jim Carlton, Vice President of Marketing at Corsair. “The Audio HS1 easily meets both these challenges.”

Corsair Gaming Audio Series HS1 Key Features:
· Acoustically-tuned enclosures with oversized 50mm drivers
· Circumaural, closed-back design
· Replaceable memory foam ear pads with soft fabric covers
· USB Connection
· Dolby® Headphone technology provides multi-channel sound and improves audio quality to reduce listening fatigue
· Uni-directional noise-cancelling microphone on adjustable boom
· Extra-large inline volume and microphone controller that’s easy to grab during gameplay
· Control panel software allows you to customize the listening experience

Images of the Corsair Gaming Audio Series HS1 headset can be found here, and technical specifications can be found at Corsair’s web site.

The Corsair Gaming Audio Series HS1 USB Gaming headset is available immediately from Corsair’s authorized distributors and resellers worldwide. It is supplied with a two year warranty, and is backed up by Corsair's highly regarded customer service and technical support.

About Corsair
Founded in 1994, Corsair supplies high performance products purchased primarily by PC gaming enthusiasts who build their own PCs or buy pre-assembled customized systems. The company's award-winning products include DRAM memory modules, USB flash drives, power supply units, solid-state drives, cooling systems and computer cases.

[skier]

Corsair is becoming the Google of computer components

[Apoptosis]

Yup... Announced their IPO and now coming out with headphones....

Memory
SSDs
Power Supplies
Air Coolers
Water Coolers
PC Chassis
Speakers/Headphones
Flash Memory

[Sttm]

That picture of the headset looks pretty generic; and It makes me wonder if they are just rebranding a chinese oem's design, or if they hired their own engineers and have a real audio team working for them. I hope they don't start putting out sub par products in new areas just to capitalize on their positive brand recognition.

[Redbeard]

For those interested, we are not stopping at Audio. We will soon have a line of refrigerators, car batteries, and lemon juicers. Okay, not really.

Seriously though - we jumped into Audio well over a year ago by hiring an engineering team and some people that have extensive experience in the audio world. If the headset looks "generic", it was intentional. Most of our products are not the type of products that need to wow you with their appearance. We go out of our way to make sure that appearances hint at the function of the product. For example, the 800D case is pretty plain and lacking in extraneous designs like robot heads or flashing multi-colored disco LEDs. The HS1 follows that ethos by focusing on creating good sound first, and leaving the crazy/extreme looks to the other guys.

The HS1 is a very, very comfortable headset and we've put an insane amount of hours over months and months into designing it. It's not just a "me too" product. We don't do those. We design many of our products from the ground up, and those that we pick off the shelf get considerable tweaking and modification before we're comfortable putting the Corsair name on them. I can tell you that the number of products we've waded through to get where we are is huge - and finding and designing good products takes a lot of time and money.

[Sttm]

That's exactly what I wanted to read.