Microphone Performance

The detachable microphone of the HyperX Cloud Flight was tested by connecting it wirelessly to the ASUS ROG STRIX X99 Gaming motherboard.

To review the microphone's sound for a comparison to similar headsets, I used the Adam A7X speakers and Shure SRH840 headphones, 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. The testing was done in Discord, TeamSpeak, Skype, and Audacity, and I also used Audacity to record sound from the microphones. 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 microphone the HyperX Cloud Flight is supplied with:



Much like any other microphone attached to a wireless headset, the one that comes with the Cloud Flight sounds fairly compressed. It served me well while talking to my teammates on Discord and other VoIP platforms, but I wouldn't consider using it for streaming, voiceovers or anything of the sort. It is, on the other hand, and this may come as a surprise to some, actually one of the best microphones supplied with a wireless gaming headset. Take a listen of these samples, recorded on a couple of other nice wireless headsets, to hear exactly what I mean:





The microphone of the SteelSeries Arctis 7 has a lot more background noise (use headphones to hear it more clearly), that of the Corsair Void Pro RGB Wireless sounds significantly thinner, and the Turtle Beach Stealth 450's microphone is the only one that can match the Cloud Flight's in terms of depth.