The musical side of HS70
The musical side of HS70
The HS60 HAPTIC performs well in music, especially taking into account that it’s a gaming headset. With a balanced EQ setting in Corsair’s iCUE software, the headset provided a strong and dynamic bass, clear vocals, and good sound reproduction. It’s best to:
- Select pure direct mode
- or add a new profile and manually configure the equalizer, and then
- Save it as the default profile
As for the testing suite, we used the following songs:
- Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven
- Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
- Limp Bizkit – Boiler
- Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On
We listened to these tracks in lossless FLAC, or played them on Spotify (320 kbps) and, as you can see, we covered a variety of genres. The HS60 HAPTIC makes the bass sound very, very rich. The instruments sound rather natural, and vocals are represented in a correct way.
Low-end instruments like the bass guitar and drums were reproduced with adequate depth and fullness. Bass drum reproduction is clear. The mid-range is a bit too warm by default. The soundstage and resolution are very good. Vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, and pianos came through rather clearly. Resonance felt really natural. Midrange vocals lacked a bit of warmth. The upper-end had a slight issue with the treble. It felt rather sharp at times, but high-hat clashes and higher-range instruments were clear enough. The Corsair Gaming HS60 HAPTIC has a V-shaped characteristic (very common for gaming headsets), with more than sufficient bass and treble combined with a lesser midrange. Audiophiles will definitely prefer a more neutral sound, but if you are one, you are not the target for this headset. The frequency response is rather standard, so no extra points for that.
Overall, the HS60 HAPTIC provided detailed enough sound. The sound stage and the headset’s capabilities were good, with enough depth and direction. The entire audible range was present/audible and clean. Transitions could have been a bit smoother, though they were acceptable. The individual frequency ranges were separated but defined. The HS60 Haptic is tuned to a very nice balance. Summing it up – there’s no real reason to complain here, especially considering that this is a gaming headset and not a product aimed at audiophiles.
