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Razer Carcharias Gaming Headset

$39.99

$79.99 50% off Reference Price

Condition: Factory Reconditioned

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3 people found this helpful

Seven years of hard use out of the first one, replaced it with another because I liked it so much.

By matt on Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2017

This is my second Carcharias headset. I used to be a fairly hardcore gamer, playing multiple MMOs, FPSs, and racing games until all hours of the night. The one gaming periphial I seemed to destroy over and over was my headsets. I was going through 3-4 headsets a year. I was discussing my issues with a fellow gamer at a big electronics retailer, and he strongly recommended the Carcharias. I honestly thought he was just trying to pad his paycheck, but said store had a good return policy, so I bought it and took it home to try it. I got seven years out of that first Carcharias headset. I loved everything about it, it was comfortable, my fellow players could hear me clearly through the mic, the sound was fantastic compared to most others I'd tried, and most importantly, it was DURABLE. After 7 years, one of the wires finally broke in it's cord, and I lost sound in one ear. I replaced that first Razer Carcharias with a Razer Kraken. While the Kraken sounded much better, it was so tight, heavy, and uncomfortable, that after just a few weeks, I replaced it with my second Carcharias.

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Not the old model

By Jonathan Kreiser on Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2016

There is static noise in the background(listening audio and transmitted Mic input) when using these that gets very annoying. I see other reviews saying that a better power source would fix the issue but I would not trade my previous (older model) carcharias headset to even try it for my wife... Not a fan of the new version at all. It lost all the good features. No more braided nylon(?) cable that never stuck to anything and was the best invention that could ever exist for a headphone..... The new cable is a softish rubber that feels uncomfortable and gets stuck to things. I feel like the volume control box is a bit bulky too, it is bigger than the old headset version. Our cat did break the headset as well. The wire got stuck to her and it separated from the controls box so we lost one of the wires for Mic input. so it's dead after 2 months. Can't say the old Carcharias would have survived that but maybe without the rubber wire. Overall disappointed does not seem like a -next- model seems like it should be a previous model.