Introduction

Razer is mostly known for their gaming grade mice, but they do also produce some fairly good gaming headsets. A while ago Razer entered the budget headset market with the Razer Piranha headset. It is an affordable entry level headset which features a good noise canceling microphone and has a couple of neat features such as in-line volume control and microphone on/off switch. In the usual Razer fashion the headset is equipped with three blue LEDs for show off.

Specifications

• Headphones:
• Freq. response: 18 - 22,000 Hz
• Impedance: 32 Ohms
• SPL (@ 1 kHz, 1 Vrms): 114 dB
• Cable: 3.0 meters


• Microphone:
• Freq. response: 80 - 15,000 Hz
• Sensitivity (@ 1 kHz, 1V/Pa): -38 dB
• Impedance: ~2 kOhms
• Uni-Directional pick up pattern

The specifications of the Piranha headset are pretty normal for a midrange headset and are quite similar to the specifications of the Sennheiser PC-series headsets. With a cable length of 3 meters you do not have to worry about running out of cable at least not with a normal setup. The microphone is good enough for voice communication and has an on/off switch on the in-line volume control which is nice.