Razer Blackshark V3 Pro

Written by John Yan on 7/29/2025 for MOB   PC   PS5   XSX  

The Razer Blackshark line of headsets has been praised a lot for their sound quality and comfort. These aviator-style headsets can be seen on many pro gamers, and they’ve been priced pretty well along with delivering great performance. Today, Razer is updating its line, and we have their flagship version that comes in three variants.

The Razer Blackshark V3 Pro is a wireless headset that has some great updates to the V2 and continues to deliver great performance in both audio and voice in one wireless package. Design wise, it’s a refinement over the V2 featuring two large ear cups that are attached to the over-the-head band via metal yokes that have a 15-degree rotation.

Inside the ear cups house a 50mm biocellulose driver. Each ear cup has memory foam cushioning and conforms well to your head. The soft texture on the outside ensures a nice comfortable fit on the side of your head. On my headshape, the sizes of them allowed for the cups to fully envelope my ears, creating a nice seal. The rotating yokes also helps with that, allowing for smaller adjustments and conforming to different head shapes better. The cushioning was thick enough that my ears didn’t touch the inside of them.

Changing out the ear foam is pretty easy. You can just pull them and they snap right off. Snapping them back on is also pretty simple. So, if you’re wanting some third-party cushions that may be thicker or of a different material, this will be possible and not hard to change out.

For some customization, you can take the plates on the ear cups and swap them out with ones that Razer will be selling. In one of the pictures below, you can see the purple DarkZero Edition plates that Razer sent along as an example of how they look. They magnetically attach to the Blackshark and will give it that little extra flair if you want to customize the look. I did ask if Razer was willing to provide an STL file so people can make their own with 3D printers and they were open to it. They do use magnets, but from what I can see of the DarkZero ones, that can easily be done with some of the ones I use in my 3D printing hobby.

When I took off the right ear plate, I was very happy to see an exposed battery that can be removed by undoing two screws. That means the battery will be easily user serviceable and it’s very easy to get to. For a wireless headset, being able to change out your own battery—as that's one thing that will definitely need to be replaced over time—is one of the things I really look at. I’m very happy to see Razer allowing anyone easy access to this so they can fix it themselves.

There are plenty of buttons and dials to allow for an ample amount of control of your audio needs. The power button also doubles as an action button so you can do things like pause and resume a video or music player. On the phone, if you have it connected via Bluetooth, you can press once to pause and resume, twice to skip a track, and three times to go back a track. It also works the same way on your computer, which is nice. I was able to pull up a YouTube playlist and cycle through the list as well as pause and resume videos with the same button presses.

If you have the Blackshark V3 Pro connected to your computer and a phone at the same time, the action button will interact with the computer’s media. If you switch in Windows 11 from using the Blackshark over to your regular speakers, the action button will then automatically switch to controlling the phone, which is really slick.

A mic mute button lets you easily cut off your voice with a press of a button. When the button is out, you see the green coloring on the side of the button showing, which indicates your voice is being transmitted. I would have liked a more easily visible cue that you’re muted, though. Some headsets have a small red light on the end to let you know that you’re muted, which makes it much easier to know because I sometimes forget if I pushed the button or not. There is an audible cue when you press the mute button, but for me I sometimes easily miss it. That said, the button is easily accessible for you to mute and unmute yourself on the headset itself rather than relying on the software you are using.

On the same earcup as the power and mute button is the volume knob. If you’ve seen the previous Blackshark then you know what it looks like. The nicely ridged dial turns with a small, ratcheted feeling, allowing you to easily adjust the volume on your connected device or devices.

Buttons on the other ear cup handle Bluetooth, profiles, and ANC (active noise cancellation). Yes, the Blackshark V3 has active noise cancellation, a very nice addition to the lineup. Even though you do get some pretty good external sound blockage from the large ear cups, the ANC really takes it up another level making a lot of the outside world silent. In my testing area, I have a fan running and the air conditioning on. With ANC off, I could hear the low hum of my fan spinning and just the general noise of my computers around me humming. Turning on ANC didn’t completely block out the sound but made it significantly quieter to a point where I pretty much didn’t notice. It’s not top of the line ANC, but for a gaming headset it’s one of the best implementations of active noise cancelling I’ve experienced.

Besides turning ANC off, you can set it to ambient mode so it uses the mic on the headset to let all the sound in. It does get pretty close to making it seem like you don't even have the headset on with all the extra sound coming in. I took the Blackshark on and off in this mode and it just sounded slightly muffled with it on. It’s pretty good for the times when you do need to keep an ear out for something, but you still want to game with the Blackshark V3 Pro. There are different levels of ambient mode that you can select with the Synapse software so if you want quieter ambient noise, you can adjust it.

The profile button doubles as a Bluetooth pairing button and like the previous headset, Razer has included some profiles that are both the standard game, movie, music mode, but also esports tuned modes from some professional gamers. If you want to play and hear like some of the best players in the world, you can do that. Of course, you can use the Synapse software to change it all up and you can easily save the profiles on the headset itself so you don’t have to be tied to a computer once it’s all set up.

 

As I touched on earlier, you can simultaneously pair the Blackshark V3 Pro to a device connected with the dongle and a Bluetooth device. For most people, this means a computer and a phone. Using the profile button, you hold it down to initiate pairing mode. Pairing it up to my phone was pretty easy and, I have to say, Razer’s implementation of simultaneous pairing is really seamless. With other headsets, I had a hard time getting a good experience with it connected to my computer and phone. But Razer really nailed it here.

As I was playing on my computer, I was able to play music on my phone and have it come in through the Blackshark headset along with the game audio from my computer. When a phone call came in, I was easily able to answer it and talk with the person without having it break any connections or interrupt anything I was doing. Once the call was done, it was back to business as usual. With the software, you can also make it so the game audio is reduced or muted when a call is answered, thus letting you take a call without having any game sound or a quieter game sound in place. And yes, the mic will be muted on your computer if you are taking a call so you can’t broadcast your phone conversation to everyone if you answer a call in this mode. The simultaneous connection worked flawlessly. For those who want to keep tabs on their phone notifications or take calls while playing or working, the Blackshark V3 Pro does it without any issues.

Finally, on the right ear cup along with the profile and ANC button, there’s a dial that allows you to adjust the volume balance between chat and game. If say your friends are a little bit loud and drawing out the game, you can dial their voices down a tad or vice versa. It’s a feature in a few other headsets, but I always do like the more granular control of turning up or down voices or game audio depending on the situation or game being played. This will only work on the Xbox or PC version of the headset though. Also, the dial can be changed to adjust sidetone, which is great for those who want to hear themselves when chatting away.

We have a USB-C connection on the left ear cup to let you plug the Blackshark V3 Pro into a power source to charge since this is a wireless headset.

For those who want to use this with a source that has a 3.5mm jack, Razer includes a USB-C to 3.5mm cable to let you do so. What’s nice about this is you don’t have to power up the headset to use it like some of my other ones. Just plug it in and you’re good to go. This way, even if your headset is out of power, you can still use it the traditional way. If you do use the 3.5mm cable, be aware that you’ll get none of the features with the headset and it’s going to strictly work as a “dumb” set of headphones.

To connect to a PC or console, there is a dongle that is included with the headset that you’ll need to plug in. This allows for 2.4GHz connection to the headset for low latency gaming. Razer says they only have 10ms of latency using this dongle, which would be one of the lowest, if not the lowest, level of latency out there. That said, I didn’t notice any lag when playing. Since I don’t have any tools to verify their claim, I’ll just say for me, I wasn’t able to distinguish any delay between me firing a gun and hearing it in my headset. You do have to turn this ultra-low latency feature on in the Synapse software and it does say it can affect the longevity of your wireless experience. That said, the headset does last a long time already so I think keeping this setting on would be my recommendation.

The Xbox version of the Blackshark V3 Pro has a slightly different dongle in that there’s a switch in the front to go from USB mode to Xbox mode. If you’re looking for one that works with all consoles and a PC, the Xbox one is the version you want—provided you don’t mind the green stitching versus the black stitching of the PC version, or the blue stitching of the PlayStation version. If you don’t have an Xbox, then the PlayStation and PC version are pretty much identical, minus the color scheme.

The mic is a flexible mic that plugs into the left ear cup and has a pop filter built in as well as another foam one that you can place on top. It is bendable, allowing you to position it to wherever you like, and removable if you don’t want to use it at all. Unlike other headsets, you can’t use voice chat without it plugged in, as there’s no secondary onboard microphone that will record your voice without it. Those are usually much lower quality.

I used the mic on various meetings and co-op sessions with friends, as well as recording a podcast to see how well it did. Indeed, it’s one of the better sounding mics on a gaming headset, providing clear voice transmission. My voice coming through doesn’t sound artificial and, overall, it’s a really great mic for gaming with friends. You can, of course, do some more adjustments with the software, like adjusting how much noise cancellation you want done if, say, you are near a fan. My friends weren’t able to hear me type on my clicky keyboard when I used this, whereas if I was using my HyperX boom mic, you could hear some faint clicking sounds in some of the gaming sessions I recorded.

Testing out the Blackshark V3 Pro for the past few weeks, I found wearing these for long periods to be very comfortable. I wore them with glasses and didn’t have any issues in that sense either. The clamp force is not too strong, thus it won’t feel like a vice clamp on your head. The padded material on the underside of the top headband is thick and helps cushion the headset to the top of your head nicely. Combined with the sports fabric on the surface of the ear cups, the Blackshark V3 Pro’s design lets me easily get through a day without having to take it off for periods of rest.

Soundwise, they do sound really, really great. As a gaming headset, I was really happy with all the games I tested it with. From first-person shooters to small online co-op games with my friends, the Blackshark V3 Pro with its 50mm biocellulose drivers really delivered a high-quality audio experience.

The sound stage seems pretty large, making it feel less compact with where the sounds seem like they are coming from. One of the games I really liked playing with the headset was Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. The game has already got some great audio since it’s supposed to mimic a movie. With the Blackshark V3 Pro, the soundtrack and all of the great environmental sounds really shine through. It really sounded like Harrison Ford talking when Troy Baker was spouting off the dialogue in the game with the Blackshark V3 Pro delivering high quality audio in voice, music, and ambient sounds throughout the game. Hearing footsteps in games like Ready or Not. In 7 Days to Die, I was able to accurately guess where the enemy was coming from. This can offer a nice competitive advantage and will hopefully help you die less with the increased knowledge of where enemies can be. The bass isn’t overpowering in the default setup of the Blackshark V3 Pro, and it has very good trebles with lower mids. All of which you can adjust, of course, with the EQ settings.

Power wise, Razer is stating about 70 hours of performance in PC mode and around 48 hours in console mode. I found it to be around 60-ish hours in my unscientific testing in this area as I mostly played with the PC. That said, it’ll take me a few more tries to get down how long this headset really lasts. But for my couple weeks of using it for a few hours each day, I’ve only had to charge it up once.

The Razer Blackshark V3 Pro is a very solid wireless headset that delivers great gaming audio, plenty of features, and flawless simultaneous pairing with a Bluetooth device. It’s comfortable to wear for long periods of time and lasts a long time on a charge. The ANC works solid in silencing the ambient noise around you and the mic delivers good voice quality. Coming in at $249.99 and either in black or white, it’s not the most or least expensive gaming headset out there, but I think it’s priced right with what you do receive. It’s currently my go-to headset when I game or have meetings. Razer really delivered here with this one.