Microphone Performance

The microphone of the Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless was tested by wirelessly connecting it to my PC. I also tested the microphone by using the USB connection in order to figure out if it performs any differently from the wireless connection.

To review the microphone's sound and compare it to similar headsets, I used the Adam A7X speakers and Shure SRH840 headphones (both of them fall into the studio monitor category). I connected them to the Audiolab's M-DAC, a high-quality digital-to-analog converter that functions as an external sound card when connected to a PC. Testing was done in Discord, Skype, and Audacity, and I also used Audacity to record the sound from the microphone. The sound was recorded with microphone sensitivity set to 100% and was not post-processed or edited in any way.

For reference, this voice recording has been made with the Rode NT-USB, a high-quality studio microphone:



This is the sound recorded by using the omnidirectional microphone with the 4-millimeter capsule the Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless is supplied with:




This is by far the best-sounding microphone Corsair ever attached to a wireless headset, and it's a good microphone at that. It has a nice amount of depth, good dynamics, and sounds quite natural. If you listen loudly and carefully enough, you'll notice my voice isn't perfectly clean in wireless mode, but the noise completely disappears after switching to the USB connection. When the headset is used in USB mode, I consider the microphone good enough even for more demanding tasks, such as Twitch or YouTube streaming. Listen to the microphone samples of some other wireless headsets to fully appreciate how good the Virtuoso RGB Wireless microphone is—starting with Corsair's own, less expensive models.








As you can clearly hear, the microphone of the Virtuoso RGB Wireless is a massive step up from the HS70 Wireless and Void Pro Wireless. However, it's also noticeably better than the microphones of the HyperX Cloud Flight, SteelSeries Arctis 7, and some of the most expensive wireless gaming headsets on the market, the Sennheiser GSP 670 ($349) and SteelSeries Arctis Pro Wireless ($279). Furthermore, even though the more expensive Virtuoso RGB Wireless SE has a bigger microphone capsule, I'd argue that the microphone of the "regular", less expensive Virtuoso RGB Wireless sounds better. Take a listen of the samples recorded by using the Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless SE.




The Virtuoso RGB Wireless SE microphone behaves similarly in that it sounds somewhat noisy in wireless mode and very clean in USB mode, but it also sounds less open and airy than the microphone of the "regular" Virtuoso RGB Wireless.