Razer HammerHead Pro HyperSpeed [Hardware] Review – Hammer Time?

On the subject of names, HammerHead Pro HyperSpeed isn’t the very best. It hardly rolls off the tongue. However these new earbuds from Razer present {that a} title is simply pores and skin deep. Or one thing.

Particularly as they’ve been designed with avid gamers in thoughts, from the dongle eliminating latency to the jet black design (with funky RGB lighting).

There’s a simplicity to those earbuds that we admire, and that begins from opening the field. There are three ear tip sizes to choose from, the charging case, cable, USB-C RF dongle, and the headphones themselves. There’s just a few further items of nonsense reminiscent of stickers or excessively giant instruction manuals.

Not that we wanted a lot in the best way of directions, as these had been straightforward to arrange and join by way of bluetooth. Something with a USB-C port we may simply set them up with too due to the aforementioned dongle. This implies it connects with a spread of gaming gadgets, together with our Change – not all the time a given with earbuds these days.

The design of the earbuds themselves is stable with out being unimaginable. They boast an AirPod model look, with out fairly reaching the slickness of Apple’s earbuds. The form of the buds themselves made them match quite a lot of our group although, and comfortably – so that they have that going for them. Though we did have one grievance that they do warmth up your ears slightly if used for too lengthy directly.

As with earbuds of this nature controlling them is finished by way of the contact surfaces on their sides. One thing which we’ve by no means discovered a greater various to precise buttons, though it’s pretty responsive and dependable with the HammerHead Pro HyperSpeeds. What is sweet to have is the Razer Audio App, which lets you remap the controls over what does what. 

By way of how these sound, they’re stable in most areas however not excellent – particularly contemplating the worth. 

The usual settings (not adjusted from the app) are stable in terms of the lows and mids, serving us properly with most titles we performed with them in. Price avoiding are the “amplified” and “enhanced bass” EQ presets, which we discovered slightly OTT to say the least.

For gaming we discovered them greater than serviceable although, with key SFX coming by way of loud and clear.

Sadly there are some clear drawbacks to those earbuds, one being that they solely maintain their cost for roughly 4 hours – perhaps pushing 5 if utilizing the dongle. We did discover this a tad disappointing, particularly should you’re utilizing them for gaming on the go and for prolonged commuting. The contact controls are additionally slightly fiddly.