The Stealth Pro is Turtle Beachâs new flagship gaming headset and comes in two flavors, one tailored to work with the Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, and one for the PlayStation 5 and 4. Though not terribly different, the Xbox-specific model can pair with PlayStation as well via the wireless dongle while the PlayStation model doesnât support Xbox.
The USB-C dock doubles as both a 2.4GHz transmitter and battery charging station. It doesnât differ between models, but the Xbox model offers a chatmix dial function when connected to an Xbox. Unfortunately, that feature doesnât extend to PC. Both models include a remapabble wheel button on the earcups.
What we like
Strong game audio
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The game audio of this headset packs clarity and impact.
Thereâs no denying that Turtle Beach stuck the landing on one essential for this headset: gaming audio. The Stealth Pro can pump it out loud and clear. Itâs not muddied with too much bass, and it doesnât come through thin. Thereâs ample impact to draw you into the game, and thereâs nuance enough to catch important details. While the headset doesnât come with its own surround sound virtualization, it can play back audio for games with spatial sound effectively.
I took these headphones through some serious Overwatch 2 gameplay, including all of my ranked placement matches, and they didnât let me down. Even playing as Zenyatta, where being caught out of position is a death sentence, I was reliably able to use audio cues to keep track of enemy movements and keep safe.
The clarity and impact of the headset translates nicely outside of games as well. Music has strong low-end for bass and drums while instruments in the mid and treble range donât get muddied over. Movies and TV shows are handled with as much ease.
Many use cases
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The headset's broad connectivity makes it fit for gaming and beyond.
The Stealth Pro has broad support for different devices and platforms, and it can connect either over Bluetooth or its USB base station, a round dock the size of a hockey puck that handles wireless audio transmission and battery charging. It can even connect to both wireless sources at once, letting you blend the audio to your liking. Tacking on active noise cancellation and a fold-flat ear cup design provides some extra utility for use on the go.
The boom mic arm is also removable, turning the headset into a more traditional pair of headphones not so different from something like the Sennheiser Moment 4 Wireless, a party trick the Logitech Astro A30 headset similarly employs.
That flexibility helps justify the high price tag. The Stealth Pro can serve as a gaming headset at home and general entertainment headphones on the go. It can play PC games. It can connect to a console while also using Discord on a phone through Bluetooth. And you can use either its boom mic or the dual internal pinhole mics.
What we donât like
The leaky noise-canceling
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Not only does the active noise cancellation not live up to the hype, it's subpar overall.
Powerful active noise cancellation is supposed to be one of the Stealth Proâs standout features, and it does stand out, but not how Turtle Beach had hoped.
With ANC enabled, I notice what I can only describe as a leak. Small head movements seem to confuse the ANC system, which let some of the external sound creep back into the audio. Itâs generally not loud enough to interfere with high-volume gameplay or audio, but at low listening volumes, it can. I canât recall other ANC headphones Iâve experienced this on.
Unfortunately, the noise cancellation also just isnât all that stellar when it is working correctly. In a busy environment like a cafe, it canât cancel out all that much. Even in a quiet bedroom with a Vornado fan running, itâs still easy for me to hear the fan even with the headsetâs ANC maxed out. If I swap out for Sonyâs WH-1000XM4, itâs not even a competition. I could barely hear that fan, and all of the low-end hum was gone.
Turtle Beach advertises 25dB of ANC against a 100Hz signal, and the headset put a major dent in a 100Hz tone played through my computer speakers, but the overall ANC was far from impressive.
High-end features donât deliver
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The wireless dock has a weak signal, and the swappable batteries have only 12 hours of runtime.
On paper, the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro looks like it does it all. The problem is that none of it is that amazing. Dual-mode wireless is neat, but attainable at much lower prices from SteelSeries. The actual wireless dock from Turtle Beach doesnât have a robust signal, sputtering significantly just 20 feet away with some wall in the way. Iâve gone further with SteelSeriesâ small Arctis 7X transmitter.
The signal sometimes blips even within the same room. It would seem like it should be stronger given the base stationâs size, but it simply falls short.
The Stealth Pro has swappable batteries that, in theory, let you pop out the low battery and drop in a fully charged one to keep gaming. You could also swap out batteries at the end of every play session, but each battery only offers 12 hours of runtime. That means youâll just end up shuffling batteries more often than youâd think.
Twelve hours is better than the old SteelSeries Arctis Pro Wireless, but nearly half of the life from each battery in a similar system for the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless. Then of course there are headphones like the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless, which can run for 300 hours on a single charge.
The design
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An uncomfortable headband and hard-to-feel-out buttons are some of the design flaws of this headset.
Turtle Beach went for quality features. The Stealth Pro has beefy, plush ear cushions, metal yolks, metal on the size adjustment slider, and USB-C for charging, but it still doesnât add up to a great package. It does add up to a staggering 420 grams of weight, almost 25% heavier than the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless. The headband isnât thick either, so wearing it gets uncomfortable after a while.
The Stealth Pro uses a removable, flip-to-mute boom mic as well as internal mics if the boom mic is removed. The boom mic sounds decent but picks up background noise like keyboard chatter and mouse clicks. The internal mics pick up everything. Removable mics are decent, but the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Proâs retractable mic is never going to get lost.
The headset also features several physical controls. A volume dial and function button on the right ear cup prove easy to use and handy. But the power button, Bluetooth button, and âSuperhuman Hearingâ buttons (which is supposed to boost sounds like footsteps and gunshots) on the right earcup are difficult to feel out and hard to tell when theyâre depressed.
Should you buy the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro?
No, itâs not worth it
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Look elsewhere if you're shopping for a gaming headset.
The Turtle Beach Stealth Pro has a little going right for it and a lot holding it back. It would be easy to look past some of the issues of this headset if it werenât priced like it was going to be the best option on the market. At $330, itâs only $20 cheaper than the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless and it even out prices the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless and forthcoming Audeze Maxwell, two headsets that stand out by offering unique aspects instead of cribbing highlights from SteelSeries.
If you want a great gaming headset, thereâs little reason to consider this one. If you were hoping for killer active noise cancellation, you wonât find it here. Since few gaming headsets offer both great audio and ANC, the Stealth Pro could have stood out, but it just fails to hold up. It makes more sense to spend the extra $20 for a SteelSeries.
You might even be better off considering a cheaper gaming headset and a separate pair of ANC headphones; for instance, the Anker Soundcore Life Q30 can be had for less than $80.
Turtle Beach Stealth Pro
The Turtle Beach Stealth Pro gaming headset features pumpy audio and broad compatibility.
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