Bits and Box

The Barracuda's box is covered in typical Razer flare. It has the green on black design that their website uses and the front has a large picture of the headset itself on; with a few of the features broadly described around it.

On the back is a multilingual explanation of the headsets features and specifications along with another picture of the headset with numbers linking the text with the specific parts of the headset that they are mentioning.

The box is held shut with two velcro circles at the bottom left and right of a hinged lid. Undoing these folds back the front of the box revealing the headset in all its serenity housed behind a vacuum formed plastic, see through plastic coating.

After peeling back the plastic, you are not only given your first real look at the headset, but all the goodies that come with it too. You get: The headset, the DAI (Digital Audio Input) to audio jack connector, a couple of Razer pamphlets, your own certificate of ownership, the manual and the microphone.

The DAI cable that is the main cable for the headset is designed to plug into the Razer sound card. This card is specifically designed to make the sounds coming from the headset just that much better. They also stick a little label on it just to make sure those overzealous Barracuda owners don't go plugging the DAI cable into their DVI port on their graphics card.

The volume control (VC) with this headset is a little on the odd side. For one, this thing is huge; I mean really, huge - for a volume controller. Its about 4 inches long and 2 wide making it feel more like a small mp3 player than a volume control. The VC features a bass adjustment dial, master volume control and front, back and centre volume controls all on separate dials. Unfortunately the sample we received had a slightly faulty controller and would only play music through one headphone unless you gave the controller a tap, after that it worked fine.