Microphone Performance

The detachable unidirectional microphone of the CORSAIR HS60 HAPTIC was tested by connecting it to the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XI Formula motherboard. To review the microphone's sound and compare it to other similar headsets, I used the Adam A7X speakers and Shure SRH840 headphones, both being studio monitors, connected 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, TeamSpeak, Skype, and Audacity, and I also used Audacity to record sound from the microphone. The sound was recorded with microphone sensitivity set to 100% and was not post-processed 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 CORSAIR HS60 HAPTIC microphone:



The microphone sounds good—clear, sufficiently loud, with decent depth and lack of severe compression or audible artifacts. It falls behind the microphone on their flagship headsets, the Virtuoso RGB/Virtuoso RGB SE, and is less natural than some of its competitors, like the Cooler Master MH650, but you'll have absolutely no issues using it for Discord/TeamViewer/Skype/Zoom communication. Below, you can listen to samples recorded with the Virtuoso RGB, as well as a couple of competing USB gaming headsets.