Microphone Performance

The MSI Immerse GH50 comes with a detachable unidirectional microphone—the same one comes with the less expensive MSI Immerse GH30 gaming headset.

To review the microphone's sound and compare it to other similar headsets, I used the Adam A7X speakers and Shure SRH840 headphones—both fall into the studio monitor category. I connected them to the 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, 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 postprocessed 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 unidirectional microphone the MSI Immerse GH50 is supplied with.



There's no change in microphone quality compared to the $50 MSI Immerse GH30. Microphone quality is decent. My voice doesn't sound airy or natural, but isn't extremely compressed or tinny either. My teammates had no issues hearing or understanding me, so for your usual Discord and TeamSpeak chats, the microphone will serve its purpose. However, don't expect it to do anything more than that.

If microphone quality is extremely important to you, note that you can get headsets with better microphone quality in this price bracket, such as the $80 Cooler Master MH650 (reviewed here) or $75 Patriot Viper V380 (reviewed here). Check the samples below for those and some other comparisons.