Corsair HS80 RGB Wireless Review – A Cheaper Virtuoso?

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This is Corsair’s brand new HS80, a wireless gaming headset that ticks a lot of boxes. It’s not the cheapest, but I think it strikes a good balance of features and quality to help justify it. Let’s take a look.

I want to start with a quick tour of the headset, it’s mostly plastic, albeit with a nice soft touch quality to it with the exception of the joints that connect the headband to the ear cups, that’s aluminium. You’ve got fabric ear cups and memory foam under that, and a new ‘floating headband design’ that looks a lot like Steelseries’ ARCTIS ski-goggle band design. Overall the material quality feels good, verging on premium. It gives the impression it’d be quite durable over time. The fabric on the ear cups feels a little scratchy in the hand, but on my head I didn’t notice it at all.

On the bottom of the left ear cup you’ll find the only visible I/O, a USB Type C port. I’m really pleased to see this over the now older MicroUSB, type C is more durable and easier to connect mid-game so thumbs up there. What you can’t see is their slipstream wireless connection, which connects via the included USB dongle. This dongle works with both PC and PlayStation 4 and 5 out of the box making it a pretty versatile option.

On the back of the same ear cup you’ve got a volume wheel and the power button, and up at the front is the adjustable boom arm mic. Each ear cup holds a single custom 50mm neodymium driver that offers a fairly wide frequency range, from 20Hz to 40,000Hz, and much like the Virtuoso offers a 109 dB sensitivity and 32 Ohms of impedance. In fact, the driver specs look identical to the Virtuoso so I’d guess they are very similar if not the same parts just in a different shell – and one less input.

So, let’s talk audio quality. I’m not going to try and convince you this is an audiophile grade listening experience. It doesn’t have the same resolution and range as my ATH-G1WLs or the insane clarity of the Audeze LCD-1’s, but it’s hardly terrible. It still offers a good range and clarity. The bass isn’t overpowering and while it’s not the most crisp audio I was still able to enjoy my time with them for music and content consumption. For gaming they are great. The out-of-the-box balance is tipped well to the types of sounds you get from games like footsteps and gunshots.

One of the other incredibly key factors of a gaming headset is the microphone. And, I must admit, I’ve had a listen to how this sounds and I’m incredibly impressed. It’s incredibly clear and crisp, has a pretty wide range which means it doesn’t sound like that sort of compressed tin can mic that you normally get on gaming headsets. This is incredibly clear and means that whether you want to just be chatting with your mate in Discord or Teamspeak or whatever chat client you use, or if you want to use this as a more streaming microphone while you are playing games, all of that is perfectly possible and you’ll have a pretty good time with it.

I should also mention that the way that you mute the microphone isn’t by a switch on the back or something you have to click, all you have to do if lift the boom arm up. You not only have a physical tactile click as the arm goes up, but you also hear a sound through the headphones and even have the LED turn red. Have a look.

There is a very nice kinesthetic feedback to having it click into place, and of course the visual because as it comes up it’s more in your eye line than it is down here and the fact you get the sound makes it very easy to know that your mic is muted. As long as you don’t leave the mic up it will always be working and you can’t accidentally mute it while it’s down – it’s a nice simple way to deal with that.

I thought it’d be interesting to show you how this does while playing and streaming, so here’s a little play of Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2, an amazing game with let’s just say a few bugs…

Comfort is really important for this sort of headset, and I have good news. This felt great even for extended gaming sessions. It’s rather strange headband design took a little bit to get right and I found I had to adjust it all the way out which is unusual, but once it was settled the headset felt light but still secure. Even with some full on metal headbanging it still doesn’t move much, without having a tight clamping force crushing my skull in. The ear cups do allow for a little bit of breathing – it’s better than the usual faux leather that just gets sweaty instantly, but it’s quite a dense material so you do still get a bit sweaty there.

Since this is a wireless headset we should probably talk about the range and battery life. Corsair claims 60ft of range and 20 hours of battery life. The range around my house is no better than any other wireless headset, but that’s not a bad thing. It’s decent, I would like to see just a little more power from the system so I can fill up my water bottle in the kitchen without dropping out, but it gets most of the way there.

Battery life is enough for multiple days of gaming on a single charge even with the RGB LEDs going. I’d personally turn them off myself but I was happy with the run time on these so no big deal plus the USB C port means you can charge them while wearing them pretty easily.

As for added features, Corsair does say you can use these with Dolby Atmos for spatial audio although it requires the Dolby Access app from the Microsoft Store and I don’t have the Microsoft Store on any PCs here so I can’t test that one, but my experience with previous surround and spatial audio features would suggest I’m not missing out on too much.

Of course you do have full integration with Corsair’s iCUE software, where you can change the RGB settings, or more importantly tweak the equalizer to your preference. You also get a ladies voice telling you what the headset is doing, rather than beeps, like “Microphone muted” instead of “beep”.

So, does alll this justify it’s £140 MSRP? Well considering the Virtuoso sells for more like £155 and this seems an awful lot like a Virtuoso without the 3.5mm input and no detachable mic, it’s not a bad choice. Yes, you could buy some Beyerdynamic DT990’s and a modmic and get a better listening experience, but that wouldn’t be wireless, and it wouldn’t be as convenient with it all being a single package. As far as gaming headsets go, I actually quite like it. It’s build quality is decent, not mind blowing but good enough. The audio quality is much the same, and a good step up from the more ‘value’ options you may be used to, and the mic is pretty fantastic. As a complete package, I’m fairly happy to recommend it to anyone looking for a great all rounder gaming headset that doesn’t cost more than their graphics card.