One of the reasons I love wireless gaming headsets is for the range of movement they allow. If my other half yelps about a big bad bug situation, I can hit pause and spring into action while keeping my RGB kitty ears on. However, the one thing I don’t love about wireless gaming headsets, like my beloved Razer Kraken Kitty V3 Pro, is how often this bit of kit needs to become wired in order to charge.
We’ve not seen many gaming headsets with hot swappable battery systems, but trust me when I tell you it’s a game changer. The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro is one wireless gaming headset that leverages hot swappable batteries for a truly untethered experience. You can ditch the wires for even less now, as it’s enjoying a 34% discount and now going for $250 from Amazon.
As snazzy as those two, 30-hour battery packs are, that’s still a pretty premium asking price. Thankfully, the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro offers plenty of premium features to go along with it. For one thing, it certainly feels premium; in her SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro review, our Katie admits “I’ve hardly had a reason to take the Arctis Nova Pro off my head other than to admire it. I’ve been taking it to bed, for crying out loud.”
The Nova Pro also enjoys some seriously impressive active noise cancelling. Katie writes, “When I finally slip the thing off to wear (rather comfortably) around my neck as the most expensive jewellery I’ve ever owned, there’s a shock as I remember how much ambient noise stuff in the real world generates. After being treated to the Nova Pro’s active, ‘four-mic hybrid system’ for noise cancelling, complete with three hear-through levels, I’d almost forgotten how loud my Razer Blackwidow X Chroma’s clicky green switches are.”