I bought these headphones about a year ago for around $240 or something on amazon- I had hoped for a high-quality product that would last for several years, but unfortunately, the actual product fell far from my expectations.

Sound quality: The default sound settings are actually horrendous for gaming- they seem to be tuned for music quality over gaming. Trying to play r6, apex, cod, or anything similar without a third-party headset stabilizer was next to impossible. Sure I could hear everything extra loud, but footsteps become impossible where as you can hear a gunshot from 10 miles away.

Headset Quality: Ill start off by saying I've taken unfathomable care of this headset and even got a headset stand so I wouldn't cause any additional wear and tear. Within 5 months, the plastic "males" to the speaker portion of the headset to the actual headset itself wore down on both sides. I don't adjust my headset constantly when playing or using them, and when I do I take off the headset gently. On top of the plastic parts just deciding to break randomly, the speaker lining is garbage and falls off within a 6 month period as well.

Battery Life and Noise: The headset is supposed to give at least 12 hours of battery for active use, but nowadays after a year I'm getting around 2 hours of use before my headset decides to start beeping at me to charge it- best part is, you cant turn off the beep unless you leave your wireless headphones plugged in which negates the point of them being wireless.

Customer Support: Here's a copy paste "solution" from corsair themselves on every single post regarding this issue, like I haven't tried that 50 times. The forums go silent after this copy paste message with no further form of help or solution being given.

1. Make sure your headset is currently unplugged.

2. Make sure your headset is powered on.

3. Hold the Mute button on the headset down for about 15 seconds.

4. Hold down the power button until the headset turns on.

5. Test your headset and see if the issue is resolved.

I'm at the point where Id rather not use headphones at all or my old ones from 5 years ago that have been in a drawer- because at least I wont have an unfathomable amount of issues with a single headset. With all this nonsense going on, I'm probably going to make a YT channel buying products and actually testing them and giving a user review. Did it for adobe, did it for google, did it for windows, now I'm doing it for a headset. Will it change anything? probably not. Will people still buy corsair products as if its better because of its name? probably. But to each their own and now someone else looking to buy this can realize its not worth $30.

TLDR: If you want a good headset, corsair wont have your back and you'll need third party applications to make it work correctly. Buy HyperX equipment. Its 1/4 the cost and 10/5 the quality.

I will post my EQ presets below when I finish up this post.

So I have had my corsair virtuoso since the beginning of April. I was looking for a really good sounding wireless headset that was built with SOME quality. I've used Razer Nari's, Artic pro wireless's, and some other corsair products. To summarize how I feel about the Virtuoso's, I really like them and ill probably buy another when these inevitably break, however they do have their problems.

Ill start with the microphone quality, amazing. One of the best mics I've heard from ANY gaming headset, I'm sure there are some that could go against it in terms of quality but really really nice microphone. The side tone is a really good touch also better than most headsets I've tried that offer side tone. The sound quality of the headset themselves out of the box was pretty bad not gonna lie. I spent the first 2 weeks trying to narrow down a good preset. The one I'm gonna post below is what I have been using for awhile so if yall have any recommendations on adjusting it please comment on the link ill be posting, but it sounds really good. Bass can be underwhelming unless you got this thing turned up. One of my favorite games to play with these is Insurgency: Sandstorm. Game is focused on immersive gameplay and boy does this headset help deliver. that being said it still does bump when it comes to music. Build quality is really good, super sturdy and high quality material these things will take quite the gamer to break em. Another cool feature I've found is the auto turn off when in wireless mode, and when you pick them back up they automatically turn on. Not the coolest feature but I am excited to see where they take that in the future.

my complaints are mainly with the software. I've encountered many bugs that randomly cause either the wireless dongle to stop connecting to the headset until you fix it with a forced update. The sidebone will randomly stop working sometimes usually when I turn them back on after while if I left it on mute. This hasn't been occurring as much lately but I thought it may be important to point out.

I'm sure I have left many things out, comment below if you got a question or your own complaints/complements about it, I'm sure it'll help out anyone thinking about buying this product! :-)