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on deck today I've got courses news surround sound USB headset the void and hopefully unlike the Protoss air unit they aren't just for noobs this gaming headset is courses premier wired headset so I'm expecting pretty good things having played with a few other corsair products in the past first let's take a look at the design the extendable headband is thick and solid and branded Corsair across the top it does offer a little flex but also feels quite weighty and adds to what I would say is a pretty heavy headset here cup arms swivel 90 degrees allowing them to sit on the right angle on your head and also sit flat on the desk which I like the ear cuffs themselves are able to pan up and down a little bit too which is good but this is something I'll come back to a little later the outside of ear cuffs looks pretty cool and this particular model comes in black with red features the design combines smooth contours with some sharp angles to produce a pretty unique look one that I think certainly does look pretty specifically like a gaming headset comfort wise I described the void headset is good I like the way the ear cut mesh wasn't just round instead of shaped more like Nia initially when I opened up the package I had a look at these holes and thought there's no way my ears are gonna fit in there comfortably however I was wrong base is clever shaping now as I mentioned earlier the void is not the lightest headset going around the build feels solid but as a result they're not the lightest and I could see them weighing on you over a long gaming session I also had an issue where I felt like that didn't quite wrap around my head properly the ear cup feels like most of the weight is kind of sitting at the top of my ears and there was a slight gap at the bottom with some fiddling I could kind of get it into the right position but they definitely wouldn't sit there naturally or if I threw them on quickly the padding on the ear cups and headband is standard stuff as mentioned not the plush memory foam found on some other headsets however once they're on my head I didn't really notice this too much it's like I said before comfort wise the board is good but unfortunately I wouldn't go as far to say that they're great in terms of connectivity this edition of the void is wide but you can also get a wireless version attached is a reasonably long rubber cable with a four pole three-and-a-half millimeter jack at the end in this configuration the headset is just a standard stereo headset with a built-in mic package with the void surround is a cool little USB Dolby dongle that adapts the cable to a USB and enables a 7.1 surround sound pretty cool what's especially cool though is that you can use this dongle with any stereo headset to to achieve surround sounds how good is that I think the sound performance is probably the best part of the Void headset it utilizes large 50 millimeter drivers to produce a broad range of quality sound for a headset under $100 I haven't heard a lot that it better these are of course not going to rival headsets in the 250 to $300 range however they definitely perform well over music movies and of course games I can often find cheaper headsets painful for listening to music parts of songs you love are often compromised however this wasn't really the case with the voids Corsairs utility engine software can be used to customize the EQ adjust mic levels switch between EQ presets and you can save and switch your own profiles too but this is pretty much all that can be done the mic performance however was not quite as satisfactory and was much more in line with the headsets pricing it took quite a bit of fiddling with the mic gain and volume to get it to a point where my rocket League teammates could hear me without having very annoying amount of clicking on SS and T's I've done my best to record this section as an example currently priced at a very reasonable 80 USD or quite unfortunate of 160 AUD whether or not I would recommend this headset somewhat depends not just on your location but also what you plan to do with it if you're a multiplayer gamer that's constantly on mumble or discord then I probably suggest looking for something with a better mic I'd also recommend finding somewhere you can try one on first I recognises this objective and heads are all different shapes but for me this didn't quite sit right for the 80 US dollar price tag though the sound performance is very impressive and the little Dolby USB dongle is a great little adaptable feature that I think I'll get plenty of use out of over time all in all the void surround is a solid entry from Corsair for PC gamers they're chasing that surround sound but don't want to break the bank in the process thanks for watching another gaming headset review I'm your host Matt and I'll see you guys next time you