Corsair Void Pro review: The best $100 wireless gaming headset - andersonbrothad

At a Glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

Improved microphone
Still an incomparable price for a respectable wireless headset
Altogether-day battery life

Cons

Unleash fit, slips or so
Lacking bass by default
Mesh earcups leak sound

Our Finding of fact

With an improved mike, Corsair's wireless Empty Affirmative is now an even better shell out for its sixpenny $100 price tag—though this new iteration carries over many a of its predecessor's flaws.

Barbary pirate's carved itself out a fastidious niche. Wireless headsets have come with lowered in price a lot over the last five long time, but still ordinary around $150 list price—a category that includes Logitech's G533 and G933, HyperX's new Cloud Flight, the SteelSeries Arctis 7, Razer's Man O' War, and more.

And yet somehow Barbary pirate continues to put out its flagship wireless headset for $100. The latest iteration is the Void Pro, which improves upon its predecessor's microphone while keeping the same low price. Not a immense upgrade, but is it enough to earn our testimonial? Read on to find come out of the closet.

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I'll admit: I was hoping for a more extensive design overhaul with the Void Pro. That's not the case. Corsair's Void Pro is essentially identical to the previous Void model. If you loved the original Vacancy, you'll love the Pro. If you, like Maine, found the Void competent but flawed in many small ways? Substantially, all those flaws have been carried over too.

Chief among them, for me, is the sized of the Invalidate In favor of. Even on the lower settings, the Void Pro has a tendency to feel loose. This can be beneficial. While about headsets clamp down on your head/jaw and bit by bit become painful, the Invalid Pro's brush allows for longer-term comfort. However, the Void Affirmative is thus loose it actually slips around when I look up surgery descending, surgery even recline in my chair.

This, composed with the Void Pro's oversized kite-shaped ears and slick mesh padding, contributes to weirdly dangerous feeling—as if the headset power fall off at any moment. You eventually get accustomed it, but other headsets (like the HyperX Overcast Alpha) manage to feeling some comfortable and secure. I wish Corsair could find a same compromise, because it's the main issue I have with the Invalid line.

The Void Pro is otherwise pretty solid though. While sporting a bit much plastic than extraordinary of its competitors, the strong metal headband gives IT a decent heft. The headband also slants forward a little, which balances its weight better than another headsets.

Corsair's RGB lighting remains still top-mountain pass, and well priest-ridden through software. Electric battery life is also decent, with around 12 hours of battery when enkindled up and 16-ish when dark. Either room, it's usually decent to contact the day without needing a buck—though when I did need the charging cable middle-day I was annoyed at how short-circuit information technology is. On the early hand that's easily rectified by buying (or upright scrounging up) a yearner microUSB cable.

Barbary pirate was too kind enough to send o'er the blacked out version of the Avoid Pro this time, quite than the bumblebee colorway we've dealt with the subterminal few multiplication. No surprise: The jet-black version is a lot easier on the eyes. Less unique maybe, but better than what I referred to hold up sentence as "Stab Me In The Eyes Yellow."

One unearthly caveat: Even the black (or "Carbon" as Corsair calls IT) interpretation of the Void Pro comes with a yellow-accented charging cable and USB dongle. For…reasons. The USB dongle could also digest to be shrunk down a bit. It's still a chuck-full two-inch thumb drive size, which is a bit annoying whether plugged into the front or rear of the Microcomputer.

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Can you hear me now?

Merely let's talk of how it sounds, since that's where Corsair's concentrated its efforts—specially the microphone.

IT in truth does make a huge difference. Ostensibly the reason you're purchasing a play headset and non a comparably priced (and probably better looking) pair of headphones is because you want the convenience of a built-in microphone. If that microphone sucks, then why bother?

And the original Void's mike sucked. From our original Invalidate review:

"Corsair's problem is twofold. Premier, the tramp is pretty narrow and it sounds like you'atomic number 75 talking through a cell-earphone mic. Second, it has a nonfunctional use of picking upbound any and each plosives."

The Void Affirmative is break on both counts, though it's the fidelity that counts most. Equally I said, the original Void's microphone sounded like you were talking through a jail cell call up or a walkie talkie. A headset mike just needs to be "good," considering most users are only using it for in-game voice chat, but Corsair scarcely met even that contemptible bar before. The new Void Pro mic is more unbleached-sounding, more succeeding with what I'd expect from a headset in 2018. It's better on the plosives front as well, picking up fewer secondary noises—good for anyone who doesn't use push-to-talk.

As for playback, not much has changed. Again, it's a bit of a "flaws and all" situation. First and foremost, the ears still leak a lot of sound off—not great if you're in a joint lebensraum situation. Even at low volumes, whatever you're hearing to can embody clearly heard in a quiet blank.

Aside from that kid mechanical issue, the Vacancy Favoring is brighter-full than your average gaming headset, with a default sound profile that's light along the bass. Audio can besides profound muffled at times, especially euphony where there are lots of complex tracks layered on top of each else. It lacks the roominess of something care the HyperX Cloud operating theatre Logitech's G933.

The mid-range is clear though, and that's a solid foundation for the user to then EQ upon. Like the original Vacancy, Barbary pirate's CUE software is flexible enough to grant the Void Professional a decent bass part front and sharpen the muffled high-end. I typically prefer a headset that sounds good by default, not one and only where I have to potter in the EQ, but well, it's $100.

Bottom line

And that's the catch, right? Equivalent I aforementioned with the original Void, you force out easy get better audio—both from cheaper tense headsets and more expensive wireless ones. But for $100 and wireless, the Void Affirmative is Sir Thomas More than good enough for the average person. Straight-grained to a greater extent so, right away that the microphone is risen to par.

It's not the first headset I'd extend to for, and I'd in person urge the extra $50 for Logitech's G533, but if you require wireless capabilities and don't privation to drop to a higher degree $100, then the Void Pro is a worthwhile option. Your solely option, truly.

Again, Corsair's incised out a nice corner for itself here.