Steelseries Arctis 7 (2016) vs HyperX Cloud Stinger Core 2018

The Steelseries Arctis 7 (2016) and HyperX Cloud Stinger Core make for very strong choices and are great Gaming Headsets for their respective $224 and $19 asking prices. Depending on how much you're willing to spend, either of these options will serve you well.

While the Steelseries Arctis 7 (2016) wasn't able to make it to the very top of any roundups from sources that perform quality hands-on testing, it still got featured in a large number of them. PCmag, PCWorld, Headphone Review, TechSpot, Rtings, and realgear.net have all deemed it worthy of a place on their respective shortlists.

Returning to the HyperX Cloud Stinger Core, it managed to impress reviewers from two sources that are considered to be some of the most highly trusted on the internet, thanks to their in-depth hands-on testing - Tom's Guide and CNET. It performed great in their respective Gaming Headset roundups - it was named "The best gaming headset with surround sound" by Tom's Guide and "Wired value favorite" by CNET. That's quite an endorsement, especially coming from such high-quality sources.

We couldn't find any sources that tested both of these Gaming Headsets, so we only analyzed how they performed in reviews from different sites.

We first examined which sources rated each of these best and found that the Steelseries Arctis 7 (2016) got its highest, 9, rating from PCmag, while the HyperX Cloud Stinger Core earned its best, 7, score from Tom's Guide.

Lastly, we averaged out all of their review ratings and observed that the Steelseries Arctis 7 (2016), with its 8.4 average, performed considerably better than most Gaming Headsets - the mean score for the product category being 7.2 out of 10 - while the HyperX Cloud Stinger Core managed an average of 7.0.

There's one caveat here - it might not be entirely justifiable to do a direct Steelseries Arctis 7 (2016) vs. HyperX Cloud Stinger Core review average comparison since they aren't priced the same and more expensive products tend to get higher review scores from some sources.