Turtle Seashore unveils ultra-silent Stealth Professional wi-fi gaming headset

Turtle Seashore has introduced the Stealth Professional, its newest flagship wi-fi gaming headset outfitted with “unequalled energetic noise cancellation” and a swappable two-battery system. The Stealth Professional is offered to preorder at the moment for $329.99, with a full launch date set for April twenty third.

For those who winced on the worth, you’re not alone. That’s significantly greater than rival flagship choices just like the Razer Barracuda Pro ($249.99). To justify it, Turtle Seashore says the Stealth Professional is provided with 4 inner microphones that may scale back noise ranges by 25dB, which the corporate claims is “the best, competitively benchmarked noise-cancellation accessible in a gaming headset.” Customers can customise their equalizer or noise cancellation settings by way of the Turtle Seashore Audio Hub app for iOS and Android or Turtle Seashore Audio Hub V2 for Home windows PCs and Mac.

The Stealth Professional makes use of swappable battery packs — it solely requires a single battery, however you’ll get two so there’s at all times a completely charged battery pack prepared when energy is low. That’s a pleasant contact for folk who hate plugging of their headsets to cost. Every battery lasts as much as 12 hours, and charging a battery pack for quarter-hour can present as much as three hours of battery life. The battery charger additionally doubles because the headset’s 2.4GHz wi-fi transmitter.

The headset has a detachable noise-canceling increase microphone that Turtle Seashore claims can scale back 97 p.c of background noise, alongside two hid microphones for once you don’t need the nerdy increase mic hooked up. There’s additionally a remappable wheel and button constructed into the headset that customers can assign customized capabilities to by way of the Turtle Seashore Audio Hub app.

The Turtle Seashore Stealth Professional options Bluetooth 5.1 twin connectivity and multiplatform assist so you may hearken to music or take calls concurrently whereas related to Xbox Sequence X / S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, Home windows PC, Mac, Nintendo Change, and cell / pill gadgets.

Technically, two fashions of the headset can be found: one designed for PlayStation (which doesn’t assist Xbox consoles) and one for Xbox (which does assist PlayStation). The one distinction explicitly talked about pertains to 3D encompass sound assist, with Home windows Sonic accessible on the Xbox model and Sony 3D Audio on PlayStation.

Earlier Turtle Seashore headsets (just like the Stealth 700 Gen 2 Max) additionally differ by the built-in Chat Audio characteristic, that means that whereas the Xbox variant does assist PlayStation, the headset’s sport and chat quantity controls would solely work when related to an Xbox console. We’ve got contacted Turtle Seashore to make clear if that is additionally the case for the Stealth Professional and can replace if we hear again.