MSI Immerse GH70 Gaming Headset Review

A Closer Look and Performance

The control centre for this headset is reasonably large, giving it added practicality while you are gaming. There is a large volume control wheel labelled from minimum to maximum, allowing you to take effortless command of the volume. There is also a 7.1 control button allowing you to enable or disable the virtual surround sound feature, as well as a master microphone mute button; perfect for when you’d want to say unpleasant things about your teammates that you don’t necessarily want them to hear.

The headset design itself is impressive. Immediately it’s ticking all the right boxes in my mind of what I would expect from a premium quality headset. The choice of materials stands out the most, with some beautiful metal trim on the sides breaking up what few plastics there are.

Design

The brushed metal effect looks gorgeous and sports some life into the design. Of course, there is a lot of RGB lighting in here too, which is sure to add a lot more to the visuals should you use it. Of course, you can completely disable the RGB lighting, and if you choose to, the headset also looks impressive with it turned off.

The headband is easily adjusted, thanks to its spring mounts. It should automatically fit the size of your head with a while maintaining the balance and even weight distribution. The cable for the ear cups is extended allowing the headband to move without causing any unwanted tension on the wire.

Headband

The headband features excellent padding, making it incredibly comfortable to wear, even during those marathon gaming sessions. For a headset of this size, I find it surprisingly light and this is partly due to the durable and lightweight outer headband design.

It keeps the ear cups firmly planted over your ears without using excessive force, and also looks pretty cool too

More Padding!

The ear cup padding is even more generous, and easily some of the deepest on the market today without being too over the top. They provide a clean fit around both your ears with ease, a relatively airtight seal which helps to lock the sound in and tightens up the low-end bass frequencies. However, if you don’t like this heavily enclosed deeper bass, just pull off the leather ear cups, and install the soft fabric ones which are included in the box. Which ones are right for you? That is subjective, but I suggest you try both.

Microphone

The microphone is hard-wired to the headset, but it comes with a retractable design that allows you to slide it into the left ear cup. It’s a pretty decent microphone overall, nothing remarkable, although few headsets microphones are comparable to their stand-alone desktop counterparts. It’s bright and clear, with a good frequency range, and it tends to ignore a reasonable amount of background noise, making it more than suitable for work and gaming.

Mystic Light

Using the mystic light software, you can take command of the RGB lighting effects on this headset. However, by default, they go through this fantastic colour cycle pattern that is way cooler than I ever expected. Having RGB lighting on a headset seems like a dumb idea, because unless less you have eyes outside of your head looking back at you, you do not see it while you are gaming. Regardless, it still looks cool, and it’s one of those neat things that’s fun to show off to your friends when they see it.

Hi-Res Audio

Back to the matter in hand, the promise of hi-res audio support is a big feature of this headset! I’m quite a fan of high-resolution audio, as well as surround, in its many different formats. Is your typical and consumer going to be able to hear the difference, maybe not? However, make no mistake that this is one stunning sounding headset, with a powerful dynamic range that puts out a lot of clarity, detail, and wow factor with anything you throw at it.

Gaming

For gaming, it’s certainly up there with some of the best headsets on the market. It provides powerful, punchy bass in the action sequences, while not skipping out on the finer details in the middle and high frequencies. The virtual surround sound feature is as good as any other brands out there, by which I mean it’s rather fantastic! It doesn’t muddy like the sound like old virtual surround sound modes used to and provides some impressive special effects that are particularly noticeable in first-person perspective games, even more so in competitive shooters.

Pick and Ear Pad

Switching between the two types of ear cups, I find the leather ones to be much better sounding. They help block out a lot of the sound around you in the room, tighten up the lower end bass frequencies, and are just overall great to use. However, the fabric one’s sound a little more open and work well if you’re doing a lot of Skype calls, perhaps even watching a lot of TV or movies. Of course, they’re also a little bit passive and allow you to hear your surroundings which could be good if you’re using the headset and still want to communicate with those around you.