HYTE Eclipse HG10 Review - No-Frills Wireless Gaming 0

HYTE Eclipse HG10 Review - No-Frills Wireless Gaming

Value and Conclusion

  • The HYTE Eclipse HG10 is available online for $100.
  • Great build quality
  • Excellent wearing comfort
  • Unusual, attractive design
  • Fun, V-shaped sound profile, surprisingly good for competitive gaming too
  • Flawless wireless signal reception
  • Good battery life
  • Great passive noise isolation
  • Volume wheel could be more refined
  • Microphone mute indication should be more obvious
The HYTE Eclipse HG10 is entirely successful in its primary mission: to be a true no-frills wireless gaming headset. It's a simple plug-and-play device with no extra software or any of the features you would have to pay for but wouldn't ever use. It's based on an interesting, attractive design and offers a surprisingly high build quality, which easily matches and surpasses gaming headsets more than twice its price. The wearing comfort is terrific. I had zero issues using the HG10 for multiple hours at a time, be it for gaming or my usual home office shenanigans.

While it can't work in wired mode, the built-in battery offers around 30 hours of playback on a single charge. Through a USB-C port found on the left ear cup, you can charge the headset while using it or simply top it up every couple of days to ensure it never runs dry. A complete absence of a software driver means there's no way to check the remaining battery level until it's already time to charge it, but in practice this ended up being much less of an issue than it sounds.

In the sound quality department, the HYTE Eclipse HG10 offers its own version of a V-shaped sound profile, with some imbalances across the frequency spectrum, but with audible characteristics of such signature: boosted bass, energetic highs, and a somewhat recessed midrange. It sounds thick, rich, and fun and behaves surprisingly well in more demanding gaming scenarios, such as multiplayer shooters, where I normally wouldn't expect much from a V-shaped profile. The Eclipse HG10 handles spatial positioning well, with more subtle cues only getting overpowered by the thick bass when there's too much chaos happening on the battlefield. I also like its passive noise isolation; you can safely use it at any desired volume level, even when sharing a gaming room with others.

The detachable unidirectional microphone is passable, although definitely not the best aspect of the HYTE Eclipse HG10. It will serve you well for Discord and in-game voice chat; just don't expect it to knock your socks off with clarity and naturality.

With all that in mind, the HYTE Eclipse HG10 deserves a recommendation. If you're after a no-nonsense wireless gaming headset that looks different from anything else on the market but covers all the important bases properly, this is the one to get.
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