![]() They're not bad when you're wearing them, but it's hard to put them back on if you take them off. At least on my head, these are a little too snug to work well with glasses. True, there are a lot of aspects that need to be balanced and trade-offs are inevitable: Making the headset tight enough to stay on your head but loose enough that it doesn't squeeze your head, the cushions sufficiently big and firm with the right amount of isolation but squishy enough for comfort and so on. Some aspects of the design I'm not crazy about. The headset ships with two batteries so that you can quickly swap them. The redesigned base station retains the battery charging slot. It comes only in black, at least at launch. The Nova Pro headset and the wireless base station have gotten a makeover from the Arctis Pro, and the headset looks a lot cleaner, with smaller outer earcups, a mic that retracts completely into the earcup and redesigned buttons. In theory, you could buy more batteries and keep going forever. SteelSeries mitigates it a bit with the battery swappability. There are a lot of variables to consider here, though, such as the number of devices connected. For instance, extrapolating from my current experience it should hit about 18 hours or so just from listening to music with no mic use. It's pretty typical, though.īattery life seems middle of the road. That didn't seem to make much of a difference to me, though - at about 30 feet (through a couple of walls) it started to get a bit wonky. It does have a toggle between optimizing the wireless signal for performance (lowest latency) or range. Coupled with the Sonar equaliser, the quality of the newly designed drivers becomes immensely clear.There are also separate configuration settings as part of the main GG Engine, which can get confusing where they overlap for instance, there's also a graphic equalizer in settings, which is disabled if you have the Sonar equalizer active. On both, there's a 3.5mm line in and out, as well as two USB Type-C connections for a 'first in gaming' multi system connection, so you can keep your PlayStation 5 and your PC connected at all times.Īlso, the DAC serves as an 96kHz/24-bit amplifier, similar to that of the Arctis Pro + which also touts a wide 10-40kHz frequency response. ![]() The DAC for both the PlayStation and Xbox versions is well designed (each one's slightly different looking), and keeps a lot of these settings close at hand so you can switch them around in game, without alt-tabbing out. You can also pick from several levels of sidetone so you know what you sound like to others, with an impressive lack of delay. There are a bunch of other toggles to play around with to get your audio the way you want it, including a game-chat, mic and master mixer right there in the software. Sonar's spatial audio is on point, and the slider gives you control over how performant or immersive it is, so you can be more accurate in competitive games and less so if you're just watching a movie or playing a walking sim. It even delivers presets for a bunch of top games to help you make the most of this insider knowledge, and more presets are being added as time goes on. Particularly, since it highlights which sections of the curve relate to certain sounds in game (footsteps, explosions, etc.). While there are some hardware-specific Sonar features like the upcoming AI noise cancelling, Sonar equaliser curve has the potential to benefit any old headset. Listening to the same tune through the Arctis 7X on the same Sonar settings, I could not say the same. My inner raver was supremely delighted when I discovered Minecraft trap actually slaps-I almost felt my chest cavity vibrate vicariously, like a creeper ready to pop. I was impressed with how much I could crank the bass and gain up without an iota of distortion, too. It works via a fully adjustable parametric curve, rather than simple sliders, and gives audiophiles a lot to play with. Front and centre is the comprehensive equaliser. Speaking of software, something called Sonar has now been deployed in the SteelSeries GG software, which is a fantastic accompaniment to the Nova Pro. Other features: Game DAC with 2 USB Type-C inputs, 2x 3.5mm audio in/out, Bluetooth and wireless simultaneous connection Microphone: ClearCast Gen2, fully retractable, AI noise cancelling
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