Microphone Performance

The microphone of the Fnatic React was tested by connecting it to the Asus 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 detachable microphone supplied with the Fnatic React:




The microphone quality is excellent. My voice sounds very natural and airy, with a solid amount of depth and warmth. It's one of the best (if not THE best) gaming headset microphones in its price category. When going against excellent gaming headsets, such as the HyperX Cloud Alpha, Cooler Master MH751, or Logitech G Pro, the Fnatic React completely blows them out of the water in the microphone department. You can easily hear this by listening to the following samples.





I'd go as far as to compare it to one of my all-time favorite gaming headset microphones—the one attached to the Sennheiser Game One.



There really isn't much setting them apart, which you can hear for yourself by listening to the sample above and comparing it to the first two microphone samples. Overall, Fnatic did a fantastic job with the microphone of the React.