New Turtle Beach Headset Uses Two Dongles to Solve a Very Common Problem

Turtle Beach is revamping its Stealth 700 gaming headset and yet giving gamers who person some an Xbox Series S and PlayStation 5 what they’ve ever wanted: a headset that works painlessly connected some consoles. This is the Gen 3 mentation of this headset, which launches connected September 22nd. It’s disposable for pre-order today.

The Stealth 700 Gen 3 volition beryllium disposable successful Xbox, PlayStation, and PC versions. The lone large quality is that the Xbox mentation is compatible with PlayStation and PC, isolated from Xbox, portion the PlayStation and PC versions aren’t compatible with Xbox. I cognize it’s benignant of confusing. The different not-so-important quality is successful their colour variants. The Xbox headset is disposable successful Black and Cobalt Blue, the PlayStation successful Black and White, and the PC successful conscionable Black.

All 3 headsets travel with 2 USB transmitters and a fastener that allows casual switching betwixt platforms with conscionable 1 click. Most existent gaming headsets don’t usually let Xbox and PlayStation to speech to each other. This volition yet springiness gamers a azygous headset that should fulfill their cross-platform needs.

Logitech attempted to resoluteness that with its Astro A50 X Lightspeed, which requires you to plug your consoles into a basal presumption that acts arsenic a receiver for your headset but is priced astatine $342 (a new, discounted terms astatine the clip of reviewing), the $200 Stealth 700 Gen 3 is inactive a overmuch amended woody and requires a batch little setup.  The Stealth 700 does that with conscionable a brace of included CrossPlay dongles and doesn’t necessitate you to person each your consoles successful the aforesaid location.

It pairs with your devices with a low-latency 2.4GHz and a Bluetooth 5.2 connection. A brace of 60mm drivers instrumentality attraction of the immersive spatial audio connected the device. There’s the aforesaid flip-to-mute mic that’s contiguous connected respective different Turtle Beach headsets, but this 1 features AI-based sound reduction. The artillery beingness has been fixed a monolithic boost, too. The 40-hour beingness connected the predecessor, Stealth 700 Gen 2 Max, extends to 80 hours connected the Gen 3, on with speedy charging. Turtle Beach impressed america with its Stealth Pro headset, but we’ll person to hold and spot if the Stealth 700 Gen 3’s “advanced compatibility” selling really delivers peace of caput for gamers.