It has a slight pivot you can use, presumably to angle it more effectively, but in practice, this results in the business end poking you in the side of the cheek. While it might inspire comparative confidence for the gents who buy it, the diminutive length leads to performance issues as even when fully extended, it doesn’t reach the user’s mouth. It’s a flip-to-mute style of mic, which we love for the tactile certainty that no one can hear you, however, it’s embarrassingly short, literally around three inches long. The other odd aspect of the design is the mic. It’s an interesting tactic and it definitely works, but it does make us a little suspicious of the decision-making process behind it. Our suspicion is that this is a way to limit the movement without having to reinforce the pivot points, instead, they’ve opted for the plastic of the yoke hitting the plastic of the earcup itself as a way to limit the overall movement. One of the more immediately noticeable idiosyncrasies is the weirdly designed exterior of the earcups, it’s hard to describe so the photos will help, but instead of the typical Y-shaped yoke design that allows the earcups to tilt up and down for a better seal, they’ve filled the gap with plastic. With that brief nostalgia trip over and done with, we can get into the other design aspects of this headset. Camo headsets are a bit of a throwback to the PS3 and Xbox 360 days of sweaty Modern Warfare 2 lobbies, particularly as the Arctic Camo design harkens back to that period where getting enough headshots to unlock the corresponding camo for your favorite gun was an unmistakenly proud accomplishment. We were provided with the ‘Arctic Camo’ colorway of the headset and we quite like it. The same cannot be said for PC setup, but we’ll cover that in the ‘software’ section of the review. The headset will then be immediately recognized by the console. Setting up the headset for Xbox use couldn’t be more simple, simply flip the switch on the dongle to the ‘Xbox’ position and plug it into a vacant USB Type-A port on the console. Honestly, we don’t mind this as realistically, 90% of the people who buy this are going to immediately discard the box, and, in an ideal world, it allows for more money to be invested in the product itself, but we’ll get to that later. Essentially a very cost-effective way of ensuring everything will arrive undamaged, with the joy of the unboxing experience falling by the wayside. Opening the box we are treated with a textured cardboard insert molded to the shape of the contents, it’s the same sort of budget to mid-range packing we’re used to. Turtle Beach® Stealth™ 600 Gen 2 MAX Wireless Multiplatform Gaming Headset for Xbox.
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