After more than 100 hours spent researching and testing 37 models in all, plus more hours of longterm comfort testing than could reasonably be counted, we think Kingston’s HyperX Cloud Gaming Headset is the best gaming headset for most Wirecutter readers—it offers the best mix of audio performance and comfort for the money of anything we tested. It’s beautifully built, comfortable on a wide variety of heads, and excellent in sound performance, especially for the price. In fact, you won’t get find much improvement unless you spend more than double what the HyperX costs. And while it may not be packed with the sorts of features and add-ons that so many of its competitors rely upon to stand out, it does boast most of the features you told us you wanted in a recent Wirecutter survey.