kbrent

let me ask; is another model similar to the VOIDs? what would be the closest model or upgrade from them?

I am not going to even bother. I think I may just buy a new pair of VOID's to be honest, the sound quality is very poor with this Virtuoso. I am comparing them to my old VOID's, and the VOID has much better sound quality all around by far. With VOID's, The game play was very loud and had a lot of different ranges of sound that you could pick up. The different sounds and actions were very distinct and clear with VOIDs, the iCUE app had more options for VOID including surround sound than it does with the Virtouso, in fact the only options I have is basically EQ. I don't have surround sound options, boosts, nothing. The Virtouso’s sound overall is very tin can-like, no matter how much I mess with the EQ, every EQ setting is very tin-like. The sound is all flat, there is no ranges like you had in the VOID, the EQ differences are not real major. You don't get the wide range of sounds like you do with VOIDs, you don't get the different sounds from other players walking by, or talking in their Mics, or weapon sounds, everything is mono-tone tin sounding. There is hardly any bass, nothing. It is a very flat sound and very quiet. Even listening to HD music audio, its very tin sounding. I tried several EQ options and you just don't get that round-whole sound out of them like you do in VOID's. Most noticeably, I could have my windows volume control set on 15-20 and the headset would be so loud I could barely keep them on. With the Virtouso, I had to set my volume to above 50 just for it to even be a comfortable sound, that alone is really a problem I think because you can't get the volume out of them, I am not going to crank my volume control up to 100 just to hear sounds that I can hear with my volume control set on level 15/100 with VOID's For the cost of these things and the very simple settings and functionality that Corsair removed with this design over prior designs, its not for me I don't think.

This is not helpful whatsoever nor is it what people are after here. I just bought the Virtouso XT after my VOID finally died, and the problem is not shutting off wireless, (we all saw that in the manual). The problem is turning the stupid thing on in the first place. for example, I switched it to USB mode so that I can use the headset with USB plugged in, and when I switched it over to USB, the lights all shut off just like the manual says above.I cannot figure out how to turn the stupid thing on and use it with USB? there is nothing in the manual about using USB, there is no section other than this vague paragraph above, its ridiculous to be honest. How do you turn it on and use it in USB mode? by switching it to USB, it shuts everything off, there is no audio, no lights (not even a green power light, the mic doesn't light up, there is no power at all when its switched to USB mode??? It has nothing to do with auto shut off, or shutting off Wireless mode, I am just trying to figure out how to use the stupid thing with USB and hear audio and I cannot even figure that out yet. I love Corsair with a passion, but I am about to send it back to Amazon and buy the steel series in about 1 hour, how fed up I am about this stupid thing right now.