Microphone Performance

The microphone of the Cooler Master MH650 was tested by connecting the headset to my PC.

To review the microphone's sound and compare it to other similar headsets, I used the Adam A7X speakers and Shure SRH840 headphones (both fall into the studio monitor category). I connected them to Audiolab's M-DAC, a high-quality digital-to-analog converter that functions as an external sound card when connected to a PC. Testing was done in Discord, Skype, and Audacity, and I also used Audacity to record the sound from the microphone. The sound was recorded with microphone sensitivity set to 100% and was not postprocessed or edited in any way.

For reference, this voice recording has been made with the Rode NT-USB, a high-quality studio microphone:


This is the sound recorded by using the omnidirectional microphone the Cooler Master MH650 is supplied with:


As you can hear, the microphone quality is quite good. My voice sounds natural, it has a pleasant depth (none of it is being added artificially) and no hints of compression. This is a huge step up from last year's MH752. Not only that—the microphone quality of the MH650 surpasses its direct competitors, such as the SteelSeries Arctis 5 and Corsair Void Pro RGB USB, as well as many more expensive ones (HyperX Cloud Alpha S and Cloud Revolver S, for example). You can easily hear this by listening to the samples below.






Of course, the MH650 will give you better microphone quality than the wireless MH670. They use an identical microphone capsule, but microphone performance on the M670 takes a massive hit because of the wireless connection. When the MH670 is connected to a sound card with a wire, its microphone performance is identical to the MH650, which also goes for the analogue MH630—if you connect it to a decent sound card, its microphone will sound identical to the MH650. All of that can be heard in the following samples.