Closer Examination

Corsair's headsets always looked a bit odd, mainly because their ear cups weren't oval or round. That's because they did their best to follow the natural shape of ears. You might or might not like their aesthetics, but as far as ergonomics go, it's impossible to say anything bad about them as the ear cushions surround the ears completely.


The ear cups are attached to joints that allow them to be rotated by 90°, which makes having them rest flat against one's chest or on top a table fairly easy.


They can also be flexed in various directions. Thanks to that, they have the ability to completely adjust to the shape of anyone's head. At the same time, you won't have to worry about them breaking should they accidentally land on the floor, which could indeed be a risk if they were rigid.


To make the ear cushions, Corsair went with a combination of a viscoelastic memory foam and microfiber mesh fabric. This results in superbly soft, comfortable, and breathable ear cushions that don't seem like they could start showing any signs of wear anytime soon.


As far as built-in controls go, not much has changed compared to the first Void RGB Wireless. As such, the outer part of the left ear cup contains two buttons, and there's a multipurpose jog dial on its bottom side. The smaller button is used to turn the headset on and off, and you'll use the larger one to mute the microphone. You can get notified about both via a pleasant voice prompt should you activate that feature in the Corsair Utility Engine. Push down the power button and hold it down to initiate the pairing process with the supplied Wi-Fi dongle, and use a long press of the microphone's mute button to activate and deactivate the microphone sidetone (microphone monitoring) function. What it does is send the sound captured by the microphone into the headphones. That way, you can hear your own voice - as if you were using an open-back pair of headphones, which will prevent you from shouting or sounding nasal. The microphone sidetone's volume can be controlled in the Corsair Utility Engine as well.


There's another way to mute the microphone - by simply pivoting it upward. As soon as it reaches its top position, the red LED on the microphone's arm will light up and you'll hear a voice prompt that it's been deactivated. I used this way of muting the microphone more than the actual mute button itself.


The main purpose of the jog dial is to digitally control the volume. Pushing it upward increases it, and pulling it downward has it decrease. As soon as you let go of the dial, it will spring back into the middle position. It can also be pushed inward and act as a button. Use short presses to cycle through sound profiles (equalizer settings) configured within the Corsair Utility Engine. You can have up to five of these active at once. How will you know which one you're currently using? By listening to the number of beeps or the voice prompt. Sadly, the "voice assistant" is unable to pronounce the names of these sound profiles, even if you stick with the default ones, so you'll just hear "one", "two", "three", "four", or "five", which means having to remember which profile they correspond with. A long press of the jog dial will activate or deactivate Dolby Headphone 7.1 surround sound.


Close to the jog dial is a standard Micro-USB charging port, needed to recharge the battery. This headset can be charged and used at the same time. There are no other ports on the headset itself. This is a significant step back from what we saw on the SteelSeries Arctis 7, which was equipped with two additional interfaces that allowed it to be used in wired mode regardless of the battery's status. No such luxury with the Corsair Void Pro RGB Wireless - using it wirelessly is your only option.


In case you were wondering about the RGB capabilities of the Void Pro RGB Wireless, you'll be interested to find out that the lighting effects are limited to the Corsair logo on left and right ear cup. You can pick between a static color and have it blink or breathe or switch between the colors of a rainbow. The exact colors are, of course, user-selectable in most of those cases.


The microphone's arm is rubberized and made so that the microphone's head is always at an optimal distance from one's mouth. Should you run into an issue with your breathing being transmitted through the microphone, you'll be able to protect it with a supplied windscreen. To be honest, I suggest you put it on either way as it also protects the head of the microphone from dust and saliva and makes it look a bit more professional.

Battery Life

Corsair claims that the built-in li-ion battery can last for up to 16 hours. My tests, which consisted of setting the headset to a fairly high volume level and combined multiplayer gaming and music listening, showed that it can offer about 8 1/2 hours of usage with the RGB lighting system being fully active. I had it set to Rainbow mode, which essentially cycles between the colors of a rainbow in an endless loop. After turning the RGB LEDs off, battery life almost doubled. In that scenario, I was hitting the 14 hour mark. 16 hours of battery life is certainly achievable, but only at a medium volume level.

With all of that in mind, I strongly urge you to skip using the RGB lighting system. The difference in battery life with it on and off is simply too great. Besides, there's also the ever-present question of its purpose. Do we really need RGB LEDs on a device that's sitting on our head, one we can't see (and, hopefully, feel) while using it? I'm not convinced.

14-15 hours of battery life is very good. For an average gamer, this will translate into having to recharge the Void Pro RGB Wireless approximately twice per week. It's no match for the autonomy I was getting with the SteelSeries Arctis 7, though. It regularly went above and beyond 20 hours on a single charge.

When the battery goes low, a voice prompt will let you know. After that, you have about 20 minutes before the headset shuts down, assuming the RGB LEDs are on. If they're off, you'll be able to use it for about an hour longer. Of course, the Corsair Void Pro RGB Wireless can be charged and used at the same time. If you have a free USB port fairly close to your sitting position, the action technically never has to stop.


There are two more ways to find out the battery's current status. You can check its exact percentage in Corsair Utility Engine (CUE) or can take a look at a little LED next to the Micro-USB charging port, on the lower side of the left ear cup. If it blinks green, it means you have over 80% left. When the battery is between 20% and 80%, the LED will blink amber, and switch to blinking red after it goes below 20%. It's basically the same system that was previously located on the head of the microphone for reasons I never quite understood.


In order to make the battery last a bit longer, the Void Pro RGB Wireless sports an automatic shutoff feature. Basically, if no sound is coming from your PC for 10 minutes, a shutdown sequence will be initiated. For the next 10 minutes, you'll hear two beeps coming from the headphones to tell you that the shutdown is imminent, before they finally turn off. If at any point during those 20 minutes you play any sound at all, the shutdown won't take place and its timer will reset.

Talk about a conservative implementation! Why couldn't this headset simply turn off after the initial 10 minutes and be done with it? My best guess is that Corsair was receiving too many complaints from users who didn't understand why their device was turning off on its own, which had them introduce that additional 10-minute-long beeping period prior to the shutdown. Either way, if you find the whole auto-shutdown feature confusing or annoying - good news, you can disable it in the Corsair Utility Engine.

Wireless Performance

As far as the supplied wireless dongle goes, not much has changed from what the wireless versions of the Void headset offered previously. The dongle is painted a distinctive black and yellow and looks like a regular USB memory stick, size-wise. It connects to any USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 port and establishes a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi connection with the headset. The headset and dongle come factory-paired, so you don't have to do a thing to get them to work together. If for some reason you do want to re-pair them, you can simply hold the power button on the left ear cup down and wait for the process to complete.

The wireless range is excellent. In my apartment, it went well above the specified distance of 12 meters. I was able to move up to 20 meters away from my PC without ever losing the ability to hear what's playing, or the ability to communicate with my teammates. That enabled me to keep talking to them while grabbing a snack from the fridge or visiting the toilet (please don't tell them I told you that).