INTRODUCTION

   The very first time i used a microphone with my PC was when i started playing online games back in the late 90's (who here remembers Kali?) and had to communicate with other players using either TeamSpeak or Roger Wilco. As you can imagine back then there wasn't much use/need for PC microphones other than communicating with other people (aside professional use) so it wasn't really easy to find and get a desktop one, let alone a high-quality one. Nowadays however things have changed and due to the very large number of streamers quite a few manufacturers have allocated serious resources in the development and manufacture of high sensitivity and feature-rich desktop microphones, both USB and 3.5mm ones. Strangely enough however not all gaming peripherals manufacturers have done so to date but since HyperX did last year, we just had to test their popular QuadCast Standalone Microphone out.

   HyperX is the gaming division of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the world’s largest independent memory manufacturer, with the goal of providing gamers, PC builders, PC, console and mobile power users with high-performance components. For 16 years, the HyperX mission has been to develop gaming products for all types of gamers – high-speed memory, solid state drives, headsets, keyboards, mice, charging accessories for console players, USB flash drives, and mousepads – to the gaming community and beyond. The award-winning HyperX brand in known for consistently delivering products that deliver superior comfort, aesthetics, performance, and reliability. HyperX gear is the choice of celebrity ambassadors, pro gamers, tech enthusiasts, and over-clockers worldwide because it meets the most stringent product specifications and is built with best-in-class components. HyperX has shipped over 60 million memory modules and 7 million gaming headsets worldwide.

   The HyperX QuadCast is a USB desktop microphone model (compatible with the PC, MAC and PS4 and winner of the 2019 iF Design Award) that features three 14mm condenser microphone capsules positioned around the interior of its body (20Hz-20kHz frequency response with -36dB sensitivity) that allow the end user to use a total of 4 different polar patterns (stereo/omnidirectional/cardioid/bidirectional) to record audio at up to 16-bit/48kHz. That's not all however so HyperX has also equipped the QuadCast with red LEDs, gain control adjustment, mute button (mutes audio and turns of the LEDs), anti-vibration shock mount, 3.5mm headphone output (20Hz-20kHz/32ohm) and a special type of soft foam (red in color) on the interior of the grill which basically acts as a pop filter. Sounds interesting right?