Packaging and Processing:
It comes in an appropriately sized box, which also offers the view of the headset.
The headset is working very nice and has a relatively low weight. The temple is covered at the top with a perforated synthetic leather, by the show through the blue accent color. At the bottom of the padding is smooth.
The bar itself is made of plastic, the inside is matte black, held the outside of silver. Fingerprints are not an issue here. The ear cups are made of plastic with soft-touch finish and have a plastic ring as an accent in piano lacquer finish and a blue plastic ring. Here fingerprints are visible, but not annoying. The connection of the headband to ear is firm and can be inclined to adapt to the various head shapes.
The earpieces themselves are kept from his velvet and quite large. The accommodation is very comfortable and soft to wear, umbrellas neatly from and promote not sweating excessively. They can also decrease, even if the attachment is then very fiddly.
The microphone boom is kept in a matt black and has no LED. It is designed to be flexible, but will not really in shape but resumes an angle of approximately 20 °. He can, however, straighten and then stays that way. Folding does not affect (such as Mute). By design, the microphone should be worn necessarily left. After long gaming sessions (4h +) may cause pressures on the head, because the strap is padded While neat, but with time but too thin. But this can also be due to the weight and is very dependent on the constitution day with me.
The wired remote control has the functions volume up, volume and mic mute. With an LED, it indicates that the headset is active (blue), but the PC turned off, a voltage basic services available (whitish purple) or the micro muted (Red-blue flashing). It is about 80cm away from the headset itself, and then dangling in the chest area around. It may happen that you thus presses against the armrest or the desk and adjusted something that can scare with a sudden and massive Lauststärkesprung well.
The cable is quite long (and can easily be plugged into the PC and run back across the desk so) and covered with fabric, but tends to constantly twist. This is sometimes very annoying, because the cable is always shorter then and must be turned at regular use about twice a week. At least it is not knotted.
Installation:
The installation is simple, just plug in the USB cable, load drivers / software from the Corsair side and everything is working properly (Win 8.1).
Until one but the setting has found that you do not listen to themselves (the mic is on the headset by default through) but passes some time. Full turn can not, breath sounds, etc. are still coming through.
Sometimes the headset loses the microphone function, but what is likely to be on Windows. Unplug the headset and reconnect fixes the problem then.
Sound:
The stereo sound is good, neat and loud sounds relatively neutral. Sound when you turn down the bass in the equalizer something both games as well as music and TeamSpeak very neat. Even small noises like footsteps and the language should sound farther away has been well received. Here I take a lot more true than the old headset ambient sounds in the game.
The microphone quality is very good, clear and without spreaders or the like.
The 7.1 mode is in my eyes but for a ton and just a marketing gimmick. If you switch this in the Corsair software to, it sounds as if you were sitting in the bathroom in the tub with the metal bucket over his head. Perhaps it is quite useful for FPS, may hear other things beside you but not (Teamspeak etc.). I have a test basis enabled him and shocked deactivated. Since the 5.1 sound my Turtle Beach was much better.
The volume is impressive, full blast, you can put it on the table and use as for Youtube videos. For music or movies, it is not open to use, but because it is too much lost.
For the price of 90 euros, it is a decent headset, you can buy without hesitation if you are looking for a neutral vote in the stereo field and a very good quality microphone.
TL; DR:
+ Stereo sound
+ Neutral vote
+ Workmanship
+ Microphone Quality
o solid cable remote control
o long cable
o Annual Software
- 7.1 sound is tinny
- Cable twisted permanently
- Occasional loss of microphone connection
