The Corsair HS80 RGB Wireless has a lot going for it. With its punchy, full sound performance, an above-average wireless microphone, excellent build quality, intuitive controls, and the included Dolby Atmos license, it's one of the more interesting and complete wireless gaming headsets to hit the market this year.

Design-wise, it's a spiritual successor to Corsair's legendary Void gaming headset, which is most obvious if we look at the shape of its ear cups. However, it refines the Void's design in several meaningful ways. It adds a stretchable floating inner headband, a solution that helps both with wearing comfort and everyday practicality as it saves us the trouble of manually adjusting the "height" of the headset. Overall comfort of the HS80 RGB Wireless is good, but it does take a couple of days for its initial clamping force to loosen up, so don't be surprised if you don't find it comfortable immediately after taking it out of its box.

With the RGB lighting system consisting of two glowing Corsair logos on the ear cups turned off, the HS80 RGB Wireless offers more than 20 hours of use on a single charge, which means an average gamer won't have to charge it more than twice per week. The charging is done through a built-in USB-C port, which can also be used to establish a wired connection with a PC. In USB mode, the headset offers a higher maximum resolution (up to 24-bit/96 kHz compared to 24-bit/48 kHz in wireless mode) and a cleaner microphone output, but it has a significantly lower volume range, which is why I'd stick with wireless mode, as it was intended.

Corsair licensed the HS80 RGB Wireless for Dolby Atmos, which means you can use the most impressive surround sound solution on the market at no additional cost. In supported games, Dolby Atmos sounds magnificent—this is undoubtedly the future of surround sound.

Dolby Atmos also helps with one aspect where the HS80 RGB Wireless is less than stellar: spatial positioning in multiplayer shooters. While this headset is perfectly capable of putting a smile on your face with its powerful, punchy bass and generally full-bodied sound, it won't do much in terms of helping you pinpoint your virtual targets with surgical precision. Creating a custom equalizer profile can help with that to some extent, but the HS80 RGB Wireless will never truly match the best first-person shooter headsets.

With that in mind, I'm happy to give it our "Highly Recommended" award with a small caveat: If multiplayer shooters are your poison, do consider other options.