Photos and Features
One things for sure, the Revolver is a complete departure from the other Cloud headsets. For starters the Revolver is a suspension (Circumaural) headband design where the other Cloud headsets had a traditional headband. For styling the Revolver is a little more in line with the HyperX flashy futuristic look. Personally I think the old school simple design of the original Clouds was part of their charm but the Revolver doesn’t look to bad itself. The earcups have weird red lines in them that if you only look at the packaging would make you think the headset has backlighting, but it doesn’t. The main part of the Revolvers though is the aluminum frame that wraps around the earcups and up and over. It is stamped from about 19 gauge (about 1mm thick) aluminum and then given the arch. This is a little different than most suspension headsets where they normally use a few arched round beams. It is a lot like the SteelSeries Siberia Elite though, as it shares the same design. The earcups and the outside casing on the earcups are still made of plastic.
The suspension headband has a large gap across the top that keeps the weight down and also gives us a peak at the HyperX logo embossed into the top of the soft band. The soft band is leather with red stitching to match the red and black theme. Most suspension headsets and headphones actually use a really flexible and thin headband that doesn’t require any padding and forms to your head. The Revolver looks like it does the same from the top but is actually has a thick layer of padding as well just to be safe over the extended gaming sessions, I will be very curious to see how comfortable they are in our testing.
The earpads really don’t look any different than any other headset of decent quality. HyperX did make sure they used a nice memory foam here. The cups are very large with an inside width of about 2 inches and an inside height of just under 3 inches. The padding is covered in what they call premium leatherette aka imitation leather but it is very soft. Inside and not really visible here the Revolver has a 50mm driver in each ear with neodymium magnets. With a frequency response of 12Hz–28,000 Hz they go a touch lower in the lows and higher in the highs compared to both the Cloud and Cloud II. They are also rated for up to 500mW where the past designs capped out at 150mW. All in all, the Revolver seems to be a step up when it comes to the drivers.
On the outside of the earcups we have a better look at the red dashes I was mentioning earlier that are in a circle around the earcups. Inside is the HyperX logo. Personally I think if they dropped the extra lines the Revolver would look great!
From the bottom we can better see how the outside cups grip around the aluminum frame. Also down here we can see that the sleeved cable comes in on the left ear with a rubber grommet to keep it from getting chewed up. Just below that is the odd shaped plug for the detachable microphone that is also on the left earcup.
Other than the small user guide and the headphones themselves, when you open up the Cloud Revolver this is what you get. The detachable microphone and a cable extender/adapter with the microphone mute and volume control on it.
When I first put the microphone on the Revolver I was a little concerned, it seems a little longer than needed. Not to mention the microphone end is huge. Well the microphone is flexible so when bent it is about spot on for length. The microphone itself though is still huge on the end. It has the same 50Hz-18,000 Hz frequency response of the past Cloud headsets. The size could partially at least be due to them packing in the noise canceling. Both the front and back of the microphone actually look like they are sealed closed but the large vents that looked fake are actually just helping to protect the fibrous material that covers the openings to keep things safe and I assume cut down on wind and breathing noises.
The in line microphone mute that I mentioned earlier is an optional accessory. In order for the Cloud Revolver to support all of those gaming consoles it uses a four pole single plugin the short end of cable (the first three feet). From there for PC users like myself you plug it into the adapter below. The adapter has the plug up top. From there on the front is a sliding microphone mute that has nubs for grips. Then on the side is has a volume control as well for the headphones.
