This review is of a pair of HyperX Cloud II headphones provided by HyperX for review purposes.
Intro
When I was a kid, walking through a bookshop while my parents were looking for some boring grown up book, I stumbled across the humour section and happened to pick up a comic called “Something under the bed is drooling”. I flicked through a couple of pages and it seemed pretty funny so decided to spend the few bucks it cost and buy it. 25+ years later and that initial comic I got has long since been read to death. As has every single other Calvin and Hobbes collection I could lay my hands on. A few years back now, I bought the complete collection in hardcover and I still read and enjoy them regularly. Even my kids now have started reading them and they love them.
You may wonder why on earth I’m going on about a comic from my youth in a review of a gaming headset. Keep with me through this review and I’ll explain myself, but the one thing I can say is that to me, it’s entirely relevant.
I’m a really happy guy this month. I love audio stuff and this is my second review this month on a gaming headset. This time I’m looking at the HyperX Cloud II headset. HyperX is a well-known brand, but for some reason they’ve never been front of mind for me when I think about equipment for my rig. I’ve never had a bad experience with them. It’s just that other companies marketing departments I guess have done a better job of competing for space in my head to make me think I must have their kit.
I don’t entirely know why this is. HyperX has been a brand for 14 years and they sponsor a bunch of eSports teams (maybe that’s the problem, I’m too old to follow eSports) and have well reviewed high performance memory and SSD’s. To me though, when I think gaming equipment, the first names that spring to mind are Corsair and Razer with various other gaming brands behind them. HyperX isn’t normally a brand I even think of and dismiss. Well, that has been my loss, as you’ll find throughout this review.
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About the author: Run Product Management for Aquis stock exchange. Designed, built and managed several market making, algorithmic and aggregation trading systems for most exchange traded asset classes including Equities, FI, FX and Commods cash and derivatives markets as well as multi-venue FX spot. Massive PC gamer!
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