Microphone Performance

The microphone of the HYTE Eclipse HG10 was tested by connecting the headset to the supplied wireless USB dongle. To review the microphone's sound and compare it to similar headsets, I used the Adam A7X speakers and Shure SRH840 headphones, both of which fall into the studio monitor category. I connected them to the Topping A90 Discrete, a high-quality preamplifier/headphone amplifier, with the excellent EVGA NU Audio Pro PCI Express sound card doing the digital-to-analog audiosignal conversion. 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 not post-processed or edited in any way.

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



This is the sound recorded by using the detachable unidirectional microphone of the HYTE Eclipse HG10.



The microphone quality is acceptable. As expected when using a wireless headset, my voice is audibly compressed, even somewhat noisy, but the people I talked to didn't have any trouble understanding what I was saying. With that in mind, this headset's microphone will serve you decently for in-game and Discord voice communication, as well as virtual meetings, but more demanding tasks, such as voiceovers, are out of the question. If you experience heavy static and popping noises, that's because the capsule doesn't like to sit too close to the mouth. To solve such issues, just move it a bit further away; you'll still be more than loud enough to your friends.