Microphone Performance

The boom microphone of the Corsair Void Pro RGB Wireless was tested by connecting it to the Asus ROG STRIX X99 Gaming motherboard.

To review the microphone's sound and to compare it to other similar headsets, I used the Adam A7X speakers and Shure SRH840 headphones, being studio monitors, connected to Audiolab's M-DAC, a high-quality digital-to-analog converter that functions as an external sound card when connected to a PC. The testing was done in Discord, TeamSpeak, Skype, and Audacity, and I also used Audacity to record sound from the microphones. 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 Rode NT-USB, a high-quality studio microphone:



This is the sound recorded by using the omnidirectional microphone the Corsair Void Pro RGB Wireless is supplied with. There are two recordings, with and without the supplied windscreen being placed on top of the microphone head:




A certain level of compression can clearly be heard in my voice. There's not too much you can expect from the microphone in terms of depth and dynamics. It definitely gets its primary job done (chatting over Discord, TeamSpeak, Skype and such), but I can't see anyone using it for serious Twitch streaming or YouTube voiceovers. However, it's a clear improvement over the microphone the previous Void RGB Wireless was equipped with, as it requires no boosting at all to sound loud enough. When they are brought to the same volume level, their overall quality is very similar. This is a sample I recorded with my Void RGB Wireless, a predecessor to the headset we're reviewing today:



Let's also check out the microphones of a couple wireless competitors:




The microphone of the Corsair Void Pro RGB Wireless sounds slightly better - cleaner - than both of those.