Look, feel and wear comfort
Completely against the trend: no RGB, no colored stripes and no hard, aggressive edges. Instead, we enjoy a mix of matte black plastic on the ear cups and headband, as well as metallic rings as joints and accents. Much like its fiercest competitor, the Steelseries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless, this is a gaming headset that has finally come of age. The weight of the headset is quite high and, including the battery and microphone boom, is really not squeamish at 417 grams on the lab scales. The attachable microphone boom is 15 grams lighter. The body of the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro is, as just mentioned, made of plain black ABS (matte, no piano finish) with metal accents (top shell of the cups and frame at the hinge). There’s not much else to write about it, and it’s definitely not a disaster visually.
The fit is very good, especially since the headband is a true three-axis solution. Adjustable are the length (the strap unfortunately does not lock in place), the horizontal rotation to the head axis, as well as the vertical tilt angle. This pleases and can be adjusted really well, even up to hat size 64. However, it does not go much larger then and also bin me everything was already on final stop. Large heads should therefore rather consider and try from the purchase, otherwise there are pressure points or too strongly compressed padding.
The headset fits like a glove with a little preparatory work, although problems can arise later in the reproducible sound image. It never sounds quite the same, as long as you don’t make an effort to adjust it on the head. To test this, I simply placed the headset on the measurement setup several times and received very different measurement results below about 200 Hz, depending on the pressure on the ear cups. So the optimal setting is definitely an issue. But once the part fits, it fits, that’s the positive part. Then even a proper headbang can’t cause the headphones to go into orbit. It continues to fit like a glove, only the bass can shift slightly into the turgid. But a professional hears that and pushes the sofa cushion padding back into place. I then have an extra heel to go with it.
The headband is well and thickly padded inside, although the PU leather imitation already animates badly to sweating, especially when the hair is already a little thinner and it rests on the scalp. A perforation would certainly be a remedy, if it has to be the leather of the cow from the polyurethane family. The gap dimensions of the half shells at the pickups of the joint and the glued joints on the headband are upper class. However, this inner padding can not be austuaschen, which makes the durability of the headset inseparable from the durability of this material.
I’ll come back to the microphone and its sound in the next paragraph, because there are also sound samples. But before that, we can see the swiveling socket where the microphone is plugged into the left ear cup, and which can be closed with a cover when it is not plugged in.
The plug has a nose, which then also provides the necessary grip when turning (mute). The takile feeling on the new device is ok, there is also a distinct click when engaging. And otherwise? Oh yes, you have to like the ear cup pads, especially since you can easily remove them for hygienic reasons. But more about that in the teardown. Otherwise, there is nothing exciting to report and we can turn to the ports.
Microphone test
The microphone arm can be folded up The measured 16.4 cm length is sufficient to at least bring the microphone close to the mouth. Yes, you can bend it all gooseneck-like and it works. The omnidirectional capsule is pretty deaf and you have to set the sensitivity in the software to maximum to still be heard. Loud and clear is really different, funny.
Here you could listen to the sound example, how it sounds when the microphone is set to the maximum possible 16 bit at 48 KHz under Windows. Turtle Beach has unfortunately implemented a low cut at around 100 Hz and a high cut at 8 KHz. The low cut could have been at 70 Hz and no one needs the high cut. I have compared the different microphone settings:
Normal sound without sound processor
Smooth” sound profile
Sound profiles “Clarity
Sound profile “Full
For comparison, I once used an extremely cheap USB podcast micro with a slightly larger electret capsule and a low-pass at 70 Hz. Yes, it pops significantly more at the same speaking distance, but the rest, except for the obligatory Alibaba background noise, is in a completely different league:
With which the sense of the headset in the 300-Euro-class doesn’t really make sense anymore and you understand at the latest now why I’m a bit disappointed. No matter if Teamspeak, Discord or Skype, it just sounds too flat. If you absolutely want station loudspeaker quality, you could have solved this via DSP. Speech volume and, above all, a lot of dynamics are missing here.
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