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However, the fact that it works in proper wireless mode with the Nintendo Switch is impressive (once you do your research and figure out how to make it work), although we did find that it sounded too quiet on the Switch, which has no audio out volume control. The need to wire any headset to an Xbox One controller negates spending extra on a wireless headset, anyway. It’s not as easy to recommend the SteelSeries Arctis 7 for console players, mainly due to its lack of surround sound. Recharging is performed via a USB cable rather than a cradle, but that becomes less of an issue when you have to recharge it infrequently. We didn’t quite get that, but did eke about 20 hours out of it, which is among the best out there-especially for a headset which is light and comfortable.
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It was originally rated at 15 hours, but SteelSeries recently unleashed a firmware update which, it claims, extends that battery life to a staggering 24 hours. MMOs also tend to eschew surround-sound – and the vast majority of them are best played on the PC.Īnother aspect of the Arctis 7 which will endear it to MMO-lovers is its battery life. Anyone who plays those will place comfort at the top of their list of priorities, and the Arctis 7 certainly scores well in the comfort stakes. One genre of game which it is eminently suited to is Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs). In any case, the Arctis 7 simply won’t be able to convey any sort of surround-sound on any of the consoles. This could put you at a disadvantage if you’re in the upper echelon of first-person shooter devotees, but if you don’t have any aspirations to be a professional Call of Duty player or the like, it shouldn’t pose too much of a problem. If you’re looking for a headset that provides a cinema-type sound, with a constant, excitement-ramping bass rumble, you’ll want to look elsewhere, as you’ll find its bass rather weedy. It has a particularly strong, crystal-clear mid-range, along with a nicely balanced and very precise treble. Not that you would necessarily want to, as the Arctis 7 has a very clear, neutral sound – one that should please the audiophiles. Installing it on a PC brings a piece of software which operates as a graphic equaliser – on any of the consoles, it’s impossible to alter its equalisation.
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The only mention of any software or firmware settings in the manual pertained to setting the Arctis 7 up for use with a PC, which rather gives the game away – it’s very much a PC headset which can also be hooked up to consoles. The manual gave no inkling that that was a possibility, but a spot of web-trawling enlightened us.

Although that requires a 3.5mm-to-3.5mm cable, connecting the Switch’s audio-out with line-in on the transmitter, which isn’t supplied with the headset. One big feather in its cap is that it will work as a fully wireless headset (although again without surround-sound) with a Nintendo Switch in its docked mode.
