The bottom station has one other neat trick; it could possibly cost and home a second battery. I received nearly 30 hours of use on a single cost, simply wanting SteelSeries’ quoted life, however so long as you’re close to the bottom station, you primarily have infinite battery life. When the battery will get low, simply swap the spare and the lifeless battery, and your headset will mechanically flip again on and reconnect inside a number of seconds. The spare battery costs in lower than two hours, and there’s a sneaky USB-C port on the left ear cup simply in case you’re away from house for too lengthy.
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Match and end can be my different massive purpose to decide on these over the Arctis Professional or BlackShark V3 Professional. The Arctis Elite are tremendous sturdy, with an upgraded metallic headband that feels actually severe. Whilst you might get them in black, it’s best to as a substitute go for the sage and gold colour. It is immediately eye-catching and chic, significantly amongst gaming headsets, which are typically both darkish and drab or excessively gamer-coded. Sadly, this feature-packed headset can also be the heaviest I’ve examined but at 380 grams, nearly 10 grams heavier than the Razer. SteelSeries headbands are essentially the most snug round, due to the “goggle band” suspension strap that helps unfold the load throughout the highest of your head, however it could possibly solely accomplish that a lot.
In the meantime, the ear cups are constituted of fake leather-based that will get just a little sweaty, particularly over lengthy gaming periods. Razer has managed to crack the code on breathable ear cups and ANC, however the noise discount within the SteelSeries is healthier because of this. The distinction in consolation between these two shall be a matter of choice, however I would not advocate both if you do not have sturdy neck muscle tissues.
If the value tag right here provides you any pause in any respect, I feel it’s best to have a look at different choices, together with the wonderful Nova Professional, which has an analogous base station and app help. The $250-$350 hole between the Nova Elite and every other gaming headset is sufficient for a leap to a extra highly effective GPU, or to make a wide range of smaller efficiency enhancements throughout your system.
In the end, past the power to attach extra consoles, the upgrades are largely significant for listening to music, and fewer impactful for gaming. For multi-console homeowners with deep pockets and an expansive music library, this can be a feature-packed headset with no actual opponents, however I do know I would have hassle discovering room for them in my new PC price range.
