Some other cool features of the Razer Barracuda HP-1 Gaming Headphones are the blue LED's. The volume control, each earphone and microphone input all have a nice looking blue LED that glows when powered up, which is not only cool looking, but allows instant accessibility in low light or totally dark situations.

Sitting next to our Razer Copperhead and Razer eXactMat we have the audio tools to frag the best of them. Below we see the remote volume control center in a low light situation. I can definitely digg the design and functionality so far. I like the looks and feel a lot and hope the HP-1 Gaming Headphones sound as good as they look.

This close-up shows both the right side headphone and volume control center. Both have the same brightness and do not over power the user with being to bright. If having them powered on at all is an issue, then no problem, the LED's can be turned on and off at will. The volume control center's 3-way power switch will allow you turn them on and off for user convenience and for a totally black out situation.

Here are a couple other shots of the LED logo's in action. We can also see the Copperhead and eXactMat ready for action. I am totally psyched to start using all these goodies in conjuction with each other and see what kind of results we can get. If the sound quality is anything like the over all design, we will be very impressed indeed.

Time to configure our system for sound and get some audio positioning testing in the works. Since our system is nForce 4 I will use the on-board AC97 audio CODEC with our 7.1 on-board sound system. We are told that these headphones have even more potential using the Razer Barracuda AC-1 Gaming Soundcard in conjunction with the Razer Barracuda HP-1 Gaming Headphones, but will work just fine on most analog sound cards. Time to check out the performance...