ASUS ROG Delta S in the test – Lightweight USB-C headset of the top class with a lot of light and some shadows

1 - Unboxing und Qualitätseindruck 2 - Technische Daten und Features 3 - Armoury Crate Software (RGB + Ton) 4 - Tragekomfort | Klangeindruck | Mikrofon 5 - Zusammenfassung und Fazit

Technical data

Before I go into more detail about the features that are not directly obvious, I’ll leave a table with the most important data:

Special features

To demonstrate how the AI noise-canceling microphone works, check out this video provided by ASUS. It immediately reminded me of Nvidia’s RTX Voice, and after playing around with it a bit, I can confirm with a clear conscience that ASUS’ solution does indeed work as impressively as it’s shown in the video.

How does something like that work? The ROG headsets with AI noise-cancelling technology have a specially developed processor that can recognize and filter out over 500 million different background noises thanks to AI training.

Quad DAC and MQA support. Lots of cryptic abbreviations that I’m sure most consumers aren’t familiar with. In order not to go beyond the scope, I will try to convey this as compactly and simply as possible. A DAC (or digital to analog converter) converts a digital signal into an analog signal. Inevitably, noise is generated during the conversion process, which is to be massively reduced by using four such DACs.
In addition, the quad DAC called ESS 9281 also allows the playback of very high resolution music (24bit/96kHz) by means of MQA encoder/decoder system. Since the freely available players and audio files were not recognized by the Armoury Crate software and I didn’t want to sign up for a Tidal subscription for the test, I unfortunately can’t report whether this feature has any real added value for an audio layman.

Extensive support. Thanks to the widely used USB-C interface, the ROG Delta S is compatible with almost all current systems. In addition to Windows PC and Mac, you can also use the headset with almost all current smartphones. Nintendo’s Switch and Sony’s Playstation 4 and Playstation 5 consoles are also included in the compatibility list.

For the curious, the instruction manual is also available.

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