This puts the headset neck-to-neck with the HyperX Cloud Core, which is a bit more comfy, but the Cerberus shines through with its large 60mm drivers. We did see prices online at around Rs 3,100 though. The Cerberus Headset retails at around Rs 3,500.
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The fit was great and there was not even a hint of clamp or fatigue, and the large drivers did not put any stress on the neck or jaw. The headset was comfortable during long periods of gaming. There was low volume and slight interference to the person on the other end. However, we found the quality pretty decent. Though superior, the boom microphone always seemed very call centre-ish, and we did use the microphone a bit. With movies, the Cerberus was pretty good, especially on the plethora of Captain America: Civil War trailers. If you are an audiophile, you will need to plug in a more music-orientated headphone. That said, music was decent, if not groundbreaking. This being a gaming headset, it is calibrated to mostly first-person shooters, with high bass and tight mids and treble. So do check your motherboard's sound support if you plan on the Cerberus. However, newer motherboards now come with inbuilt sound DAC's and 7.1 positional audio. The motherboard we tested on was one with an older RealTek sound driver. On its own, the Cerberus just lumped all sounds together, but with the sound hardware doing all the heavy lifting and positional audio, the 60mm drivers were put to good use. The Division was magnificent, and the difference was night and day. Things changed when I plugged the headphone in to a Sound Blaster X-Fi THX-enabled external soundcard using the headphone and mic splitter. Here, everything sounded close, like the city was a cardboard cutout of sound, like that of a stage play. In Central Yarnham, in the game’s the city area, you usually hear the sound of a beast wailing in the distance, the ambient sounds of people crying, or revelling in the madness of the night. However, a feeling of distance was lacking. Playing BloodBorne on the PS4, I could hear footsteps of creatures behind me, as well as in front. Where Asus should have also focused on was the soundstage. The bass was even, hard-hitting and did not splash at all onto the rest of the ensemble. Wisely, Asus has tweaked the Cerberus for high bass output, with absolutely no loss to the mids and highs. You see, the bigger the driver, the more power you need to drive an even sound. The Cerberus has mixed results in this regard. But as the saying goes: it's not how big it is, it's how you use it. PerformanceĪrmed with large 60mm neodymium magnets, the Cerberus does gain an edge technologically, considering most of the headsets out there pack in 40mm to 50mm drivers.
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Plus we did get a decent seal from outside noise. Nevertheless, we noticed that the Cerberus's leatherette did not heat the ears as much as the Cloud's did. The cushions are plush, but a bit hard, which could be because we were so used to the soft HyperX Cloud's cushioning. The earcups are large – not as large as those on the Strix DSP headset – but still pretty big 100mm to be precise and made of leatherette cushions. We got the white version of the Cerberus, with red highlights, which looked pretty good, though the black one looked a lot better because of the matte finish (at least it looked matte in the pictures). There's a handy volume button on the in-line mic and a mute button.
On the wire is an in-line microphone and there is also a plug in housing for the included boom microphone, just in case you like it that way. The Cerberus just comes with a standard 3.5 mm 3-pole jack. The build quality was pretty decent for a budget headset. Despite the light plastics, the headphone had a slight weight to it, mostly due to the heavy 60 mm drivers in the cups. The plastic used is light and does not feel cheap, but it does have that break-any-second feel, even though it did not.
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