By Phil Iwaniuk
The major selling point of SteelSeries’ new budget gaming headset, the Siberia RAW Prism, is colour.
Over 16 million different colours, actually.
Prism is the name of SteelSeries’ RGB colour customisation tech, used to change the hue of the illuminating rings around each earpiece. So, once you plug these cans in via USB and load up some proprietary software you can obsess about the exact shade of varicose vein blue you want your head to emit.
The downside of that connection type of course is your subsequent inability to connect the RAW Prism to your phone or plug it directly into a soundcard, so there’s a real trade-off here in the name of colour customisation.
That’s about it for standout features on this minimalist headset, except for its discrete internal mic.
SteelSeries fits retractable microphones across its entire range, but the RAW Prism’s is different. There’s just a barely noticeable nub on the left-hand side which picks up your voice quite competently, though you’ll be quiet over the chat channels until you boost your outgoing signal in Windows or the mic calibration tab of SteelSeries’ software.
In the name of simplicity (or cost-saving) there’s no inline remote – although there …read more
Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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