The HyperX Alpha S Blackout is the latest iteration on one of our favorite headsets. Does 7.1 surround sound make it worth buying all over again?

It’s not often that I look at products more than once, especially when it wasn’t all that long ago that I reviewed the original. The HyperX Cloud Alpha S is a great gaming headset, one that we awarded our Golden Hardware award and – spoiler alert – will be maintaining today. Instead of re-writing what you already know, however, we’ll be doing something we rarely get the opportunity to do: sharing how a product holds up over time. The Blackout version we’re looking at today is identical in everything but the new Blackout colorway. Let’s take a close look and find out exactly how my opinions have changed over the last six months and how well the Cloud Alpha S holds up over time.