Turtle Beach Stealth Pro Impressions, An Almost $200 Discount and More!

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Way more often than not, Turtle Beach make a shelluva good headset. You've got to sand it to 'em. Horrific wordplay aside, their products do often grace the apex end of our Budget to Best lists. My sound catchers have been happily ensconced in their offerings since the company started making ear-cans in 2005, which is why I jumped to give these new Stealth Pros a crack.

As you'd expect from a high-end audio solution, they're not an inexpensive proposition. That being said, if you're a connoisseur of aural pleasures — or a pro gaming strategist who knows the value of bat-level threat detection — then the price of a well-made peripheral at this tier is often justified.

Before I dive into the pros and cons of this headset as I see them, we should probably get you shoot-from-the-hip shoppers out of the way with the cheapest deals on these.

Now that you have an idea for the asking price, let's go granular on what works and what doesn't.

Just as their ninja-esque moniker would suggest, the Stealth Pros are aesthetically unassuming. But what appears to be borderline minimalist, hides some killer tech within. Along with some of the most seductive sonics Turtle Beach has ever produced, you're getting an EQ-able noise-cancelling microphone, multi-plat compatibility, swappable batteries, active noise cancellation, and simultaneous dual mode wireless.

For those of you unfamiliar with the latter feature, it's one of those “can't do without it now” offerings. Essentially, you can seamlessly blend in the audio of a Bluetooth source into your game audio. Personally, I got a kick out of using it to mix utterly discordant things — like shredding hellspawn in Diablo IV while listening to The Most Meditative Ragas of Ravi Shankar. But I suppose