Cloud

In my opinion I had the 1 for the longest time. It started to fall apart, the ear covers anyway. Got the replacements on Amazon for 15 bucks and they still work perfectly since 2021. The cloud 2s I bought and tbh they hurt my ears after wearing for several hours. Good for short sessions and bad for long sessions. Id go 1 cause the ear cushions are better suited for long sessions. Even though they aren't wireless.

I really like the Kingston Hyper-X Cloud. I've been using one for 8 years. I think I've gone through 2 or 3 of them. Each break was my own fault. They have excellent sound, though obviously not as good as what you'd get with studio monitor earphones that are $100 more, but they are very very good for their price. Super comfy. I wear them all day on my weekends off while gaming/editing/streaming. Also very comfortable to wear with glasses. The mic quality is acceptable, though obviously I use a dedicated mic + audio setup for better quality there.

That is a valid concern--have *you* personally used and noticed the issues you mentioned? I have a first gen cloud from pre-buyout as well as a new(er) "HP" HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless. While some changes have been made, I didn't notice anything drastic that would put anyone off. I have studio headphones from beyerdynamic, audio-technica, polk, audeze, and sennheiser. I have gaming headsets from hyperx, steel series, razer, logitech, roccat, astro, turtle beach. I have have IEMs and earbuds from apple, moondrop, fiil, kz, audeze, and sennheiser. I still reach for my hyperx for games and my shokz for everything else--comfort is king. The gaming headset market is quite small compared to the studio market--that is why you see so many reviews and ads for gaming headsets. You are the only one who knows if a headset will work for you. If you can't find headsets in a store near you to demo, head to youtube and find a headphone reviewer with a similar lifestyle and head type as you. (Head size, head shape, ear size, ear shape, glasses, hair volume, piercings, use-case, etc.) Reviews are a good place to start, but you need to actually physically use the product to know if it will work for you. If you want more in-depth advice, head over to [headphones.com](http://headphones.com) (no affiliation) and click the chat icon in the lower right-hand corner. The folks over there have one job--to help people find audio equipment. To reiterate, hands on experience trumps reviews and the loudest person in the room (peanut gallery) isn't always correct. Go try out some headsets and see what you like.

The new ones are way worse in quality than the original Basically HP acquired HyperX and they became much worse, as someone who has both, I'd say look for smth else, also avoid Logitech overhyped headset But thats just me comparing to the original, which was perfect, I guess they are decent, definitely better than the newest Logitech ones

They're sound okayish. Bass is present, however I have velour pads I've used on cloud 1 and with them bass is non-existent. But stock is kinda sweaty due to materials used. Micro is average at best, cloud 1 with creative sound card is miles better, but I'm not familiar with any other wireless headset, so they can be good among these. Battery life is enormous, 100+ hours of use is real, my first 80 to 0% took about two weeks. Personally, I've got them simultaneously with hifiman he400se, and there is no competition there, I just don't wanna use clouds. However it's connected to 200$ amplifier, has no mic and any kind of noise cancelling due to being open back, it's not a fair comparison by any means. If you really care about music, you should get audeze Maxwell. Being planar magnetic, as my he400se are, they're deliver best sound by far. Cloud 3s just decent there