Hyper x headset6/24/2023 ![]() The HyperX DuoCast RGB USB Condenser Microphone is now down at $69.99 shipped. Amazon has now launched a wide-ranging sale featuring a series of the brand’s PC gaming gear from headsets and earbuds to keyboards and mics. Joining this morning’s Gold Box deals and all of these Logitech Aurora offers, the Gaming Week deals are starting to heat up and next is Hyper X. Sign-up for our newsletters and have our best offers delivered to your inbox daily. And you can use the SteelSeries with an Xbox.This offer has expired!Be sure to follow us on Twitter for the latest deals and more. While the dongle's compatible with a PC or PS5, I miss the flexibility offered by similarly priced but excellent and as comfortable models such as the SteelSeries Arctis 9 Wireless, with an additional Bluetooth connection or even a basic analog wired connection, which can be helpful when you're in a rush and don't have time to troubleshoot wireless glitches. For $200, though, I expect a little more, because the ultra-long battery life isn't critical for many people. It's not a unique design - it's similar to the way Razer's Triforce drivers, which separate mids, highs and lows, for instance. That makes the equalizer adjustments effective and minimizes muddiness. Its dual-chamber drivers separate the mid- and high frequencies from the bass, which allows for tuning the two sets of frequencies individually. I have no complaints about the music or gaming sound quality or volume it can get loud with minimal distortion. It's good about filtering out some noise, such as an air conditioner, but less effective at suppressing the sound of a mechanical keyboard or someone speaking loudly. You can't turn off the noise canceling on the mic, but it sounds a lot better than it does on the Cloud 2 Wireless, without that compressed tonality that makes most noise cancellation sound tinny. You can hear the outside world while wearing the headset, but the sound is muffled - a good compromise. But you can't adjust the volume of the mic monitoring. You can also choose the headset sleep timeout for 10, 20 or 30 minutes. Within the software there are a basic set of equalizer presets - none for music or movies, though - as well as the ability to create custom presets. Unlike many, the cushions aren't too deep or firm, which helps keep the headset comfortable with glasses. ![]() The oval earcups and memory foam-plus-leatherette cushions are the same as sibling models. It's predominantly aluminum and feels sturdy. It's light for its class, but doesn't use skimp on materials to get there. Otherwise, the nuts and bolts are familiar to anyone who's used a HyperX Cloud model. For me, that means the difference between being able to pop off to the refrigerator or not. ![]() The Cloud Alpha Wireless didn't fully drop the signal, but it only made it about 40 feet before the signal began to degrade. But I have tested headsets that made it at least the 60 foot trek with a solid signal (both chat and listening). Reach varies with the obstacles in your environment, so I didn't expect it to hit its rated 66 feet (20 meter) distance in my many-walled apartment. Wireless range might make more of a difference to you, and the Cloud Alpha Wireless headphones don't reach as far as some other 2.4GHz dongle-using headsets I've tested, including the Cloud 2 Wireless. That size discrepancy is a lot more common, though. Tapping the power button tells you the battery level, but the software said 95% while the headset reported 100%. So extrapolated battery life would be either about 260 hours, 182 hours or somewhere in the huge gulf between them. Then I plugged it in to charge (at a zippy 1% per minute via USB-C, which theoretically gives you 45 hours for 15 minutes of charging) but then the software decided the battery was down to 47% instead of 64%. I ran the test with mic monitoring, DTS:X Spatial, Windows surround and various equalizer profiles enabled. That's about what you'd expect the drain to be given the rating. For instance, it was registering as lasting about 3 hours for every 1% of charge when I used it to play music, use the mic and listen to the voices in Senua's head - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is still one of my favorite games for testing headsets and surround audio - on a PC. HyperX's Ngenuity software can be glitchy, which makes it difficult to gauge how much battery is left.
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