New Corsair gaming headset promises “incredibly clear” audio thanks to graphene

Corsair has unveiled the Virtuoso Max gaming headset, which it guarantees delivers “spectacularly clear, exact audio” due to its new 50mm graphene drivers. The Corsair Virtuoso Max additionally consists of energetic noise cancelling, Dolby Atmos spatial audio and you may customise the tuning of the headphones to fit your listening to.

As a maker of a number of of the most effective gaming headsets round, Corsair isn’t any stranger to dialing up the design of its gaming headsets however the Virtuoso Max is one in every of its most costly choices but.

For a top-end gaming headset, the Virtuoso Max is one thing of a departure from a few of the firm’s predominant rivals. Whereas the likes of the Logitech/Astro A50 X and Razer Kraken V4 Professional are all about including a great deal of connection choices so you should use a single headset for PC and console, Corsair has as a substitute focused on different options and actually launched the Virtuoso Max in separate PC and Xbox-specific variations.

As to these options, Corsair highlights the sonic talents of its 50mm graphene drivers. There’s no knowledge to connect to those claims however Corsair says the tech “eliminates distortion and reproduces extremely clear, correct audio.”

Becoming a member of these drivers is the flexibility to tune the sound of the headset utilizing Sonarworks SoundID tech. This has you pay attention to varied sounds and suggestions your sound preferences to the software program which then tailors the output to match your listening to. We’ve examined it earlier than and haven’t been solely satisfied however the Virtuoso Max could possibly be the headset to finely win us over.

Dolby Atmos spatial audio can be supported by way of Corsair’s iCUE software program, offering what we’ve beforehand discovered to be genuinely spectacular 3D-like sound immersion for gaming.

Lively noise canceling is one other key addition. It’s not clear if Corsair has added further microphones into the headset to supply this alongside the removable increase mic however it does observe you may interact a transparency mode so you may pay attention in to what’s occurring round you when wanted.

Crucially, although, what we’re extremely glad to see is that Corsair has added some contouring to its earcup padding. So many earlier Corsair gaming headsets have had plain, flat, rounded earcup pads and ended up being a contact uncomfortable however the Virtuoso Max seems to have rather more sculpted padding that ought to enhance consolation and the secureness of the headset.

That predominant increase mic is a flexible-style one and offers an omnidirectional enter. It additionally helps Nvidia Broadcast, though that is primarily a software program resolution from Nvidia anyway so it’s unclear what Corsair is doing to get compatibility. It additionally requires a appropriate Nvidia RTX GPU.

The Corsair Virtuoso Max presents 2.4GHz wi-fi and Bluetooth connections and has USB-C charging. The battery life is claimed to hit as much as 60 hours with RGB off. Sure, in fact, there’s RGB and it’s housed within the outer edges of the surface of the earcups, with strips of sunshine shining out from between the aluminum earcup plates.

Out there in carbon or silver finishes, the Corsair Virtuoso Max is offered now from Corsair’s web site or retailers like Amazon for $329.99. We’re used to seeing very costly gaming headsets for the time being however for the steadiness of options on supply right here, these 50mm graphene drivers are actually going to must ship beautiful sound high quality to justify such a excessive value.

For extra premium gaming headset selections, try our Corsair Virtuoso Professional assessment and Razer BlackShark V2 Professional assessment, as these two headsets supply a distinct spin on what you will get from a top-tier headset.