Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, we all know the HyperX brand from Kingston. With their extremely successful line of gaming headsets with the most popular being the Cloud II's and for good reason, the drawback to that headset is the price at 99$. So will a more budget oriented headset check all the right boxes? Um, no not really. Because these cans suffer the same defect that all cheap gaming headsets have. In terms of sound quality; these give the first impression of balance until you turn up the volume just a little bit, and you realize that the bass is extremely muddy, and the treble is just terrible with the higher frequency just being peaky and sharp, and those two response categories end up drowning out the mids for not very great sound all-around. Comfort is actually something I'd recommend this for, the earcups have some swivel and articulation for different head sizes with a flexible headband the compensate for that as well, and the earcups are made of breathable materials to not get hot over long sessions of gaming. But the earcups are on the shallow side to the point my ears come into contact with the plastic housing of the drivers, more padding internally would've been nice. Build quality is fine, an all plastic construction with a good amount of flexibility in the headband. However, the joints and the permanently attached dual cable worries me, as they do not feel like they are meant to be handled with any good amount of force. Lastly, what you would all like to know is "how good is the mic?" well to be frank; so many headsets these days have great microphones aside from a few stinkers like the Logitech options, so the mic on this headset comes off as below average. The bass pickup on it is nice for a deeper voice like me, but like the sound quality of the drivers, it produces muddy low-end responses. The mic pivots about 100 degrees and bends to create a good position to compensate for your liking.