It’s PS4- compatible as well as PC, though not Xbox without jumping through some hoops (opens in new tab). Pressing the larger black rubberized dial brings up an OLED options menu, where you can turn DTS Headphone: X surround sound on and off, tweak game/chat volume balance, and more.Īnd it is very tempting to see the new Pro version of the Arctis as just that. SteelSeries’s GameDAC, which is small and unobtrusive enough to sit on any desk, also doubles up as the control center. And that means that even if you don’t have a Tidal subscription to deliver lossless songs into your ears at the press of a button, you do hear an improvement in sound quality thanks to that wide range.īest of all, that improvement is coming from the GameDAC box, a digital-to-analog converter and amplifier that takes processing duties away from your PC and handles them in the middle of the signal path. Like that Roccat headset, the Arctis Pro + GameDAC features a frequency response range of 10Hz all the way up to 40kHz, way beyond the usual 20-20 we see from non-hi-res cans.

But what we’ve seen elsewhere from hi-res headsets, such as Roccat’s Khan Pro AIMO, is that even if you’re not listening to 24-bit sound, and thus capitalizing on the tech, the sound quality is still wonderful. There’s always room for a little healthy cynicism when these new tech standards present themselves, of course.

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