Not that Corsair, not that!
At first sight this helmet is beautiful. It's all the more frustrating then, such a beautiful headset wasted! I took this headset to replace an aging Razer Kraken 7.1 V2.
First point and not the least: this headset is very uncomfortable. The ear cushions are not thick enough so that the ears touch the bottom of the speaker, which is not disturbing at first, but becomes so after some time of use: a pain in the ears is quickly felt. The ear cushions cannot be modified, as they are mounted on a plastic base. There are 3D printing solutions, which I have tried, and this is not a good long-term solution.
My copy arrived with a faulty USB C cable. I wasn't going to send it back for so little, so I took an angled USB C cable to avoid the cable grazing my shoulder (yes, so the original straight cable hits the shoulder, which in addition to being annoying produces an unpleasant sound).
Then comes the software. Icue doesn't work well, but mostly when it wants to. Sometimes the microphone feedback works, sometimes not. The leds sometimes have their own will, and the range is sometimes excellent, sometimes null at close range. The equalizer also works when it wants to.
Speaking of equalizer, it will be essential to use this headset: the basic sound in "pure direct" is bland and not very faithful. It is possible to adjust this in Icue, but the equaliser is poor in functionality, so that you can only get close to a decent sound. A pity!
One positive point of the microphone is its quality. It is certainly one of the best microphones on a wireless headset. It's a pity that everything else goes in the opposite direction.
I ended up getting a Beyerdynamic MMX-300, which is wired but for the same price has a high quality sound (this headset is a DT-770 with a mic) and the best mic on the market on a headset.
