Hello to all you fantastic and wonderful people. I hope you're all fine and well having a great day. I'm Craig this is really random reviews and in today's video we're gonna be taking a look at the Black Shark Goblin X5 wired gaming headset from Amazon. This costs 35 pounds in the UK at the time of recording and I'll leave links in the description as always. But before we go any further guys are you subscribed to the channel? If not please go ahead and hit that subscribe button. Help me reach the 75 subscriber goal. I've also set up a discord for you guys so you can go ahead and follow me there and on Instagram as well. I would really appreciate that and as a thank you here's another picture of one of my dogs Jackson. With the house keeping out of the way let's get right into the video. So as I mentioned this is the Goblin X5 wired gaming headset by a black shark with the detachable microphone. As you can see it's just a plain black box with some branding and some green accents. It looks pretty cool although it's basic it looks nice. There's no cradle for the headphones they're just in a little sleeve but that's not a biggie for me. They actually look pretty good. Okay I actually like the look of those the black and green looks very nice together. They've got a nice mesh on the sides there. Foam ear cups and a foam headband on the top and the bottom. You've got the black shark logo across the top of the headband there that's imprinted in. It looks really nice that and they've got some good flex. That's actually pretty impressive. They've got a wire reinforced bar that goes through and there's likely some plastic in there somewhere as well. We've got good tilt action on the left and right ear cup and they are both clearly labeled left and right with some silver print. Very good. The foam ear cups feel nice and padded and it's not real leather it's just like PVC but they feel nice and comfortable. Then we've got the wire connection which is a 3.5mm jack and it is the 3-pole variant. This means you can just plug it straight into your controller so your typical PlayStation Xbox and even most third party controllers have the 3.5mm jack. And of course most modern PCs also have the single port but if you do have two ports on the front of your PC not to worry there is a splitter included with this headset. We'll look at this in just a second. The cable length is reasonable and around a meter, 1.5 meters. It's not supposed to be very long it is designed to plug into your controller so it is acceptable in this case. And finally the audio splitter and the microphone and some instructions. We're not going to want the instructions but we will need the microphone and possibly the audio splitter. It's just a female 3.5 millimeter jack on one end and then a color coded 23.5mm the other. The headphones the same it's a 3.5 millimeter jack and it's got a little plastic key on there so it goes in in a particular way and when you're making adjustments it won't twizzle around and cause crackling and stuff like that to annoy your friends so it's pretty good. On the bottom we've got a mute button and a volume dial. This is just a typical pressing button. It's pretty responsive and it does work and respond very well and then your generic dial up and down for value. Very basic but it works and it does the job that it's intended to do so it's pretty good for the price range. Let's take it over to the PC then and do some sound tests. The microphone it's only got one little hole here to pick up the audio so I'm not anticipating that it's going to be as good as your astros or turtle beaches and stuff like that but let's check them out and see what they sound like. This is an audio test for the Black Shark Goblin X5 gaming headset. I've just plugged it into the PC. I've not messed with any of the volume nor settings or anything like that straight out of the box and switch back on. So yeah it seems to be working pretty well. I'll have to check it back in the editing but I can see here on the chart that it's giving me the normal sound signatures as what any of the microphone would be really. I'm quite impressed with the audio quality especially in game and as I said before the flex is also very good on these headphones. So after taking these into a few games i.e. Warzone, Fortnite and Call of Duty Zombies I came across no issues whatsoever. Everybody could hear me nice and clearly and I could hear everybody else just fine. All of the footsteps directional and otherwise are all audible and clear. I give it top marks for the audio. It is slightly different when listening to music. In my opinion they are missing a little bit of bass and sounds slightly tinny but for gaming they are perfect. On to the pros and cons then as I said the audio quality especially for gaming is very good. The earcups are soft and padded very comfortable to wear. They also have a soft inner headband line in always a nice addition. They're just generally light weight and comfortable. They are very versatile with the 3.5mm jack and also include the audio splitter for older systems and two way audio. The microphone is detachable and it's also keyed so it won't twizzle around and give you any unwanted sounds when you're in game but also you could use a mod mic or something like that if you wanted to upgrade the microphone later down the line. Although the controls are very basic they are a good addition, the microphone mute and the volume control. The build quality is all up to a reasonable standard and fairly inexpensive at 34.99 in the UK at the time of recording. The only negatives I could really find is maybe these hinges where the earcups joined to the frame. They are made from plastic so over time they may be a weak point and finally the cable I wish it was a little longer when I plugged it into the rear end of my PC. I couldn't sit back comfortably in my chair and game I had to kind of lean forward so I wish we had a little bit of extra length with the cable and maybe a little bit of reinforcement on the folding earcups but otherwise a solid 4 out of 5 stars from me and I think they are very good value for money. If you found any part of this video helpful at all or if you enjoyed it or just enjoy supporting small creators in general then please go ahead and leave a like on the video dislike if you disliked it please subscribe to the channel and help me reach that 75 subscribe a goal that would be awesome and I would really appreciate that. I've also left links in the description to the product and to my socials. I'm not linked or sponsored by a black shark in any way this is just my experience and opinion. 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