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COLO GCS: The World’s First 7.1.2 Channel Surround Sound Speaker - YouTubeWatch On
COLO GCS: The World’s First 7.1.2 Channel Surround Sound Speaker - YouTube
COLO GCS: The World’s First 7.1.2 Channel Surround Sound Speaker - YouTube
What Cololight has done is take 11 speakers to create a 7.1.2 audio landscape (seven primary channels, one low-frequency channel, and two ‘overhead’ channels), but rather than have them dotted around your gaming room, it’s placed them in a large U-shaped ring that straps onto your gaming chair’s headrest.
Cololight lists a variety of reasons why its design is better thanheadsetsandsoundbars, such as comfort, space requirements, and the fact that such setups only simulate surround sound. They’re all valid complaints but the right gaming headset will be comfortable for hours of use and soundbars, even those with sub-woofers, aren’t especially massive.
The point about simulating surround sound has become far less relevant these days, as most gamers will be more than happy with what a stereo headset can generate. A true surround sound system does…err…sound epic, though.
It’d be quite unfair to judge something negatively without trying it first, but a couple of things do stand out for me. The first, and most obvious, is that the whole system is pretty close to your head so it makes me wonder how frequently one is likely to bounce one’s bonce off it, just from getting up from the chair.
This leads to my second concern: how stable and strong the attachment system is. Basically, the whole thing straps to a chair’s headrest, and the Colo GCS has been specifically designed to work on e-sports/gaming chairs, so there’s a chance it might not fityourchair particularly well.
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Even if it does, I have questions about how much the system will move about. Are those arms very rigid or will they flex about in gaming?
Lastly, having a wire dangling down the back of one’s gaming chair means there’s always a risk of running over it, as you move the chair about. With a wireless gaming headset, that’s never going to happen and unlikely even with a wired one.
I have no doubt that some gamers will be looking at this and thinking that this is an awesome idea. However, at the moment, Cololight’s Cerebro isn’t available—as its webpage just refers to anIndiegogo campaign—but in a document sent to us, Cololight’s asking $599 for the Colo GCS.
That’s cheaper than a full surround system but a heck of a lot more than a decent gaming headset. I suppose that even if it doesn’t live up to all the claims, you can’t deny that it’ll give your gaming den a full-on Professor X vibe.
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