The Cloud Revolver: HyperX’s Forgotten Gaming Headset
Is this soundstage-focused gaming headset still worth buying in 2020?
When the Cloud Revolver first launched in 2016, it looked nothing like the rest of HyperX’s lineup, and four years later it’s even further out of place. It uses a giant steel headband with a large padded suspension strap, in contrast to the classic studio-inspired look of nearly every other model in their lineup.
Out of the gate, numerous reviews complained about the fact that the metal headband would make a “ping” noise inside the ear cups if you touched it while you were wearing the headset, and I’ve been laughing about this for four years. While it’s true that you can hear a ping through the first version of the Revolver if you touch the metal atop your cranium, I still don’t know why you’d ever need to touch the headband while playing a game or listening to music, let alone enough times for the metal noise to bother you.
Even so, HyperX responded to the “outcry,” and added little rubber stoppers to each side of the headband that dampen this noise. In 2017, they released the Revolver S, a small upgrade with a wider headband pad and a Dolby Headphone USB dongle. They also eventually rolled the wider pad into the standard Revolver, so the core headset is the same in both models.
