I do wish that the Blackshark had better low-frequency extension, even though its bass is clean and has a good amount of slam. Its transient response is good as well, and clearly helps in its soundstage performance, again, easily Razer’s best in this category. Performance returns above 5kHz and the Blackshark is able to produce crisp and clean highs. However, there’s a gradual slope from 500Hz to 4kHz which makes the mids sound slightly muddy. Music on the Blackshark is balanced and there’s very few sudden spikes or dips. In terms of performance, the Blackshark has both resolution and good soundstage. The Blackshark’s audio quality is relatively good, and is easily Razer’s top performer. I do not recommend you spend a hard-earned $100 on this headset. But then again, the sound from the Tiamat 7.1 is simply awful. Its saving grace, which isn’t much, is that it’s better than the Tiamat 7.1 in audio performance. The Tiamat 2.2 is an exercise in appearance design and little else. There's also a fair amount of discrepancy between the left and right drivers. The overall sound has an emphasis on mid-bass frequencies and essentially nothing else, so there’s no clarity to audio. There’s very little resolution and detail retrieving ability, and its transient response has strange spikes and dips. In terms of tone, the Tiamat suffers the same fate as the Kraken. It’s so boomy that even the microphone rattles, which is annoying. There is a lot of bass, but it’s got loads of distortion-well above 10% and well above 100Hz. On the audio front, the Tiamat 2.2 doesn’t fare much better than the Kraken series. For everything else like gaming and music, your $100 is much better spent somewhere else. If the Kraken 7.1 Chroma was designed with advertisement in mind, I’d say it does this well. The Kraken 7.1 Chroma is mainly designed with appearance in mind, and I’m starting to feel like headsets that have LED lighting on them are mainly designed to be worn by sponsored esports players so that brands can show off which headset is being used. There’s also no in-line volume adjustment or mute switch, which is something included in the Kraken Pro.
The drivers then climb up again after 2kHz, and although the transients are piercing, it almost sounds like the drivers are being either covered up, or the drivers are just of poor quality.Ĭonvenience wise, both the cable and the microphone are non-detachable. This is well within the vocal range, and so communication quality suffers in general, as well as with vocal heavy music. In the charts, the Kraken 7.1 Chroma begins to fall steeply after 300Hz.