FIFINE H9 AmpliGame USB Gaming Headset – 7.1 Surround Sound

In terms of microphone quality, it’s the same pathetic story that you get from most budget headsets? Not really, at least not in the case of this AmpliGame H9. It is the heritage of the bloodline of FIFINE, being a microphone manufacturer, that the input audio should be one of the best in the bunch. It steers around the common pitfalls of a boom mic from headsets, no bass no body, and excessive highs to make you sound thin, harsh, and robotic. The warm tone is the rarest thing that you can find in a boom mic. But it’s not so muddled that your friends can identify your voice from the game with their bassy headset.

The redeeming feature of a condenser mic with such a small size capsule is the background rejection. No USB desktop condenser mic can deal with the noises of keyboard typing, mouse-clicking, and computer fans blowing all together.

No fancy lighting you can find on this pair of headsets since it carries a signal through its 3.5mm connector. With a TRRS 4-pole jack plug, you can game and chat on nor just on a PC or a laptop, but also console controller, steam deck, or even mobile. But to be honest, that’s what you could expect from every pair of headsets.

The Ace up the sleeves hasn’t been shown up until now! It’s not all analog, with the included USB audio dongle, the whole headset comes into another league in terms of the audio quality it refines. It’s not an overstatement at all, this teeny-tiny box could be quite useful at preventing audio from getting interfered with when the motherboard of your PC is way too noisy. It does a much better job than the internal sound card of your PC in terms of signal conversion.

The enhancement provided by the USB sound card doesn’t just stop at the clean audio, but also the emulated 7.1 surround sound as well as the volume control of the headset and boom mic. 7.1 is the slight sound expansion, adding a little bit of extra environment. If you’re not a huge fan of it, then shut it down. It’s just never a bad thing to have options to choose between, especially they don’t come at a high cost or they’re the only feature that you paid a few bucks for. The external analog to digital conversion alone could make it a well-worthy adds-on.