Kraken Pro V2
headphones
$80
Used market: $60*
Specifications
4 of 8 values have a recorded sourceExpert Audio Engineering Commentary
Tonal Profile
The analogue Kraken of the previous decade, still widely sold second-hand. Razer also prints an input power limit here — «30 mW (Max)» — which is unusually honest for a gaming headset and worth knowing if you plan to feed it from a desktop amplifier.
Amplification Warning
Do not read 118 dB as a sign that this is the most efficient headset ever built — the unit is missing from the sheet. With a 30 mW ceiling and 32 Ω, a desktop amplifier at half volume can exceed the manufacturer's own limit.
What the datasheet actually says
Quoted verbatim from the manufacturer’s own page, with the date we checked it. We state what is printed, not what anyone intended by it.
«Sensitivity (@1 kHz): 118 ± 3 dB»
No reference is printed. Read as dB/mW this would be one of the most efficient headphones ever measured — 18 dB above Razer's own BlackShark V2, whose sheet does name the unit (100 dB SPL/mW). Read as dB/V it lands near 103 dB/mW, an ordinary figure for a 50 mm dynamic driver, and that is the reading we store. The same page also prints «Input/Output power: 30 mW (Max)», so the two numbers together, not the sensitivity alone, decide what you may safely plug in.
checked 8/5/2026* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~75% retained value). · checked on 8/5/2026