Good deal?

[675409]

I see a deal for a streamer kit from HyperX on BestBuy for $60. The kit is a HyperX Cloud Core 7.1 and Solocast microphone.

I was wondering if it was a good deal for the price and if the headset had decent sound quality and the mic sounded nice.

Also, does 7.1 help you target and better positional audio in FPS games like warzone? (games that rely on audio)

Or is simple stereo better for this

[RONOTHAN##]

For $60 I'd go for it. It's not an incredibly good mic or anything, but for effectively $30 it's hard to go wrong. The headset is a gaming headset, it's not gonna compete with the ranks of Sennheiser HD600s or something like that, but for Warzone it should be just fine. 

 

As for 7.1, you can experiment with it, but odds are you're just gonna leave it off. IIRC that headset has a simulated 7.1 setup, so it mostly just widens the sound stage and makes everything sound a little more distant. I don't have first hand experience with that one in particular, but with the other headsets I've seen that do a similar setup it can make some games better, but in FPS games (specifically CS:GO, what I know best, never played warzone) it threw off my directional awareness and made it a bit harder to determine where footsteps were coming from. Some places it's good, and in Warzone it might be awesome, but don't expect it to be a game changer and leaving it to stereo is likely the better play.

[OfficialTechSpace]

7.1 is a marketing gimmick that claims to more accurately construct positional audio using DSP. So no, there is absolutely no benefit. It's purely driven by the sound localization performance of your transducers, which cannot be digitally aided. Take the above reply with a grain of salt, it makes nothing better.

 

Depending on who you ask that may be a good deal. As a headphone? No. As a headphone with a mic? Maybe. There are better cans for the price, even if it's only $60 and includes a mic.

1 hour ago, RONOTHAN## said:

The headset is a gaming headset, it's not gonna compete with the ranks of Sennheiser HD600s or something like that, but for Warzone it should be just fine. 

Also, saying it won't compete with an HD600 is a little strange. That's not a very technically proficient headphone to begin with, just very popular within the vintage audiophile community. Tuned well, with sub-par technicalities for this day and age. Has the ability of your typical $150-$200 can nowadays, but costs $400.

[675409]

2 hours ago, OfficialTechSpace said:

7.1 is a marketing gimmick that claims to more accurately construct positional audio using DSP. So no, there is absolutely no benefit. It's purely driven by the sound localization performance of your transducers, which cannot be digitally aided. Take the above reply with a grain of salt, it makes nothing better.

 

Depending on who you ask that may be a good deal. As a headphone? No. As a headphone with a mic? Maybe. There are better cans for the price, even if it's only $60 and includes a mic.

Also, saying it won't compete with an HD600 is a little strange. That's not a very technically proficient headphone to begin with, just very popular within the vintage audiophile community. Tuned well, with sub-par technicalities for this day and age. Has the ability of your typical $150-$200 can nowadays, but costs $400.

What headset would you recommend then for around the same price? It would also need a mic

[OfficialTechSpace]

1 hour ago, 675409 said:

What headset would you recommend then for around the same price? It would also need a mic

For $60 a SHP9500 is hard to beat. Not the most pleasurable headphone in existence, but it's certainly more capable than a bottom-of-the-barrel HyperX can. At least you can say it's accurate, images okay for the price too. That's all you really need to look for in a gaming headphone. Mics can be had for as cheap as $5-$10, and better than you'd get from a gaming headset also.