Review HeadSet Gamer

After a combined 125 hours of testing over the past two years, including listening to 12 new models this year, we still think Kingston’s original HyperX Cloud is the best gaming headset for most people. The HyperX Cloud offers the best mix of audio performance and comfort for the money. It’s beautifully built and comfortable on a wide variety of heads, and it sounds great. You won’t find a more neutral and versatile gaming headset unless you’re willing to spend roughly double what the HyperX Cloud costs.
Perhaps most important, the HyperX Cloud is impressively comfortable—you could easily wear it for hours on end without any appreciable cranial distress. That comfort, plus this headset’s great audio performance, made it a clear winner. Although you can find significantly better-sounding headsets for a lot more money, the HyperX Cloud features a nice balance between atmosphere-enhancing high-frequency sounds, a clear sense of the direction that sounds are coming from, and nice low-end rumble. It puts a slight emphasis on the last component to give a little extra kick to action games, but not so much that it sounds bloated or sloppy the way so many of its competitors do. It sounds great with movies and music, too.
Solid aluminum construction makes the HyperX Cloud feel durable and rigid but surprisingly lightweight. Features such as its removable boom microphone, interchangeable leatherette and velour earpads, and inline volume and microphone mute controls are really just icing on an already-delicious cake. For the vast majority of gamers, there’s little reason to spend more than the HyperX Cloud’s current asking price.