Turtle Beach Stealth Pro Gaming Headset Review

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The modern world is many things, but it is not a place where people accept many limitations. Technologically that means we want our electronics to do everything, and increasingly, that’s becoming possible. Turtle Beach has been in gaming audio from the beginning, and they’ve remained relevant by evolving, changing and adapting to the needs of the market while bringing in those features that everyone needs in the modern day. The Stealth Pro is the latest result of that thinking and it’s fair to say that Turtle Beach have fashioned one of the best gaming headsets on the market.

The Stealth Pro is a wireless headset that connects to PS5 and PS4, PC and Nintendo Switch via a USB-A base station – there’s also an Xbox-specific version. It’s a chunky, circular base station that’s vaguely reminiscent of Turtle Beach’s Elite Pro headset amp, but the reason that it’s not just a dinky wireless dongle is that it houses the Stealth Pro’s party trick – there’s a spare battery charging in the middle of it.

This isn’t the first headset to pull this particular trick. It’s been one of Steelseries’ best innovations and one that I continue to love in my aging Steelseries H Wireless, even if it’s now limited to just their highest-end set. What swappable batteries means is that you’ll never run out of power. Hear the dreaded low-power beeps as you’re playing? You can just pop the battery out of the left earcup and swap it with the fully charged one in the base station, with barely a moment away from your game. Each battery is rated for over 12 hours, so running out of power is more or less impossible. It doesn’t get much better than that, and it solves my number one issue with wireless headsets – remembering to keep them charged.

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