Late last year Corsair released their first attempt at a serious gaming headset line: the Corsair HS1 USB 7.1 which created a virtual soundstage by leveraging the USB bus for multiple channels. This was quickly followed by an analog version dubbed the HS1a. As owners of both the USB HS1 will attest to, both may have been very successful in the retail market and comfortable to wear, they were only moderately successful when it came to providing the best audio gaming experience possible. Corsair never sits on their laurels for all that long and continually improves products so it shouldn’t come as any surprise that the spiritual successors to the HS1 series are already upon us. The new Vengeance 1300 analog stereo headset and the USB based Vengeance 1500 7.1 gaming headset promise to take gaming audio to the next level or at least past the benchmarks achieved by the previous lineup.