Been trying out my new Steelseries Arctis 7Xes and was asked to give some impressions in the PS5 thread, but it isn't really a PS5 headset (although it is compatible with PS5), so thought it was better off in its own thread.

These are impressing me so far, super-comfortable (as you'd expect from Steelseries), solid build quality, significantly improved audio quality over my Steelseries 1s (I think they are 1s at least), all the controls you need on the headset itself, and a couple of nice quality of life features (there's a red LED in the mic that turns on when its muted, so you have a reminder in the corner of your eye). I'm very pleased with it.

The only thing I'm yet to test is the mic quality (I got loads of complaints about echoing with my 1s, but these have active noise cancelling for the mic, so you'd hope that wouldn't be an issue), I'll update post-FNF.

Pretty much the only complaint that I have is a rather daftly-designed dongle which has a USBC connector on it despite there not being a USBC port on the Xbox itself. The solution to this comes in the box in the form of an adaptor, an adaptor with a metre long cord on it. It's not the end of the world, it gets plugged in, hidden behind the console and quickly forgotten about, but it still seems a weird choice. Apparently the dongle will plug directly into the PS5, but it's T-shaped, so will block your other USB port, but don't worry, you can just dangle it onto the floor using the insanely long cable.

Pending chat tests at the end of the week, I'd happily recommend these to anyone looking for a wireless headset, particularly if you want to use it across pretty much anything you can play games on.