Rechargeable li-ion battery (up to 15 hours of battery life).20-20,000 Hz frequency response (specified by the manufacturer).40-mm dynamic drivers (neodymium magnet).Read on to find out if that turned out to be the case.

That makes it a potential candidate for the best wireless headset I ever had the pleasure of using. Thanks to that, it officially supports the PC, Mac, PlayStation, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift wirelessly and other VR systems, the Xbox, and smartphones in wired mode.īy going through this introduction, it's quite obvious by now that the SteelSeries Arctis 7 improves every aspect of the Arctis 5 that was on my 'cons' list in that review. There are two ways to establish a wired connection with the sound source: via a standard 3.5-milimeter port (cable not supplied) and a fairly uncommon 8-pin Mini-USB. It offers a plethora of dials and buttons in both cases, including the volume dial, ChatMix Dial, and microphone mute button. The SteelSeries Arctis 7 is available in black and white. I had some issues with it on the Arctis 5, so it will be interesting to find out if it fares any better in this particular case. There's also the very same retractable bidirectional microphone that was found on the Arctis 5. The outer headband is covered with a replaceable elastic material that's usually used on ski goggles, which doubles up as a stretchy inner headband.

They're built into a pair of closed-back, over-ear ear cups that are connected by a sturdy and beautiful-looking metal headband. Aside from the standard stereo mode, these also support DTS Headphone:X 7.1 Surround Sound. The good people of SteelSeries call them the S1 Speaker Drivers and go out of their way to point out that they are the same ones as in the most expensive headsets they ever made. The very same 40-millimeter dynamic drivers are used. In case you came here after reading the SteelSeries Arctis 5 review in an attempt to figure out whether the Arctis 7 offers the same sound quality, let me save you some time: yes, it does.

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