When it came to the last season's model, the Stealth 700 Gen 2s, my thoughts were very much in line with my learned US contemporary’s 8/10.
They certainly weren't a perfect pair of cans right out of the box (with two medium-sized faults needing to be zapped via firmware updates), but those bugbears aside, my pair served me aural delights for ages.
I’ve been keen to see (read: hear) how the envelope could be pushed further with a Gen 3. This new revision has some big memory foam cups to fill, though—the Stealth 700 Gen 2 wasn’t quite the apex of high-fidelity ear candy in 2020, but at the time it was Turtle Beach’s best headset to date by a considerable margin.
Have these Gen 3s spent four years of an off-season raising the benchmark? Yes and no (but mostly yes). I’m going to dig into specifics in a sec, but I should get the impulse purchasers among you sorted with the cheapest prices available now.
If you wish to skip all that window shopping in favour of raw info and unfiltered impressions instead, click here to jump right to it.Amazon – $274JB Hi-Fi – $399Big W – $399Kogan - $348Scorptec - $399Catch – $360Let's roll out a basic overview of these cans for those of you who skipped Gen 1 and Gen 2.