The HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless launched nearly a year ago — and I so desperately wanted to love it without hesitation. It has an astounding still-unrivaled 300 hour battery life, a comfy industrial design that has stood the test of time, and a brand new huge mic capsule that provides slightly improved voice pickup.
Unfortunately, it launched with some noticeable issues and it still hasn’t recovered from them. I covered these problems in a different article last year, but I’ll sum them up again. Essentially, the custom driver they wrote to enable the bonus features of this headset noticeably slows down its wireless performance.