These fit well in the ear and stay put, but I didn't get comfortable wearing these I constantly had a feeling that they're fitting properly and may fall off. The disappointment in their packaging makes me hope that whatever money they saved on the packaging, they splurged on the quality instead. HyperX’s Cloud MIX buds will look familiar to anyone who’s seen a pair of true wireless earbuds — there’s nothing particularly unique or noteworthy about the design. We all know that HyperX is synonymous to pro gaming, but it recently surprised us when it announced its new gaming earbuds.

At one point, I connected to a laptop using Bluetooth and the laptop only seemed to recognize the Cloud MIX Buds’ microphone — but I could hear music through the earbuds, only it sounded extremely compressed.The Cloud Earbuds only come in one colorway, representing the brand’s famed color palette of red and black. These earbuds have 12mm drivers — a good size for earbuds — and did a pretty good job of separating mid-range tones while maintaining fullness and warmth. GHz mode to Bluetooth mode using the mode button on the wireless dongle, and ended up with just static in one ear. IEMs are tricky to work with when developing a gaming headset that can live up to the typical over-ear ones, but HyperX managed to deliver well. The short answer is that the Cloud Earbuds perform well enough, and provides an immersive experience for gaming alone.

I went into my audio settings and everything seemed fine — I could see the earbuds in both output and input — so I did some troubleshooting but nothing seemed to work.

The silicone ear tips double as stabilizer wings, with small slits that serve as a grip on your ears to keep the IEMs from falling off.