SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless: price, specs & release date

Tom's Hardware hands-on · 2022-05-24

The Arctis Nova Pro Wireless justifies its premium price, serving as both an excellent gaming headset for home and superior noise-cancelling headphones that you can pair with your phone.

this is one of the most comfortable headsets I've ever worn.

The headset's ANC has a couple of kinks to work out — it didn't perform nearly as well on the streets of DTLA as any of my headphones from Bose's QuietComfort line

SoundGuys lab-tested · 2024-10-21

Battery life (continuous music playback at 75 dB SPL): 22 hours, 36 minutes

SteelSeries has delivered a headset that works not only for gamers, but for anyone that needs a multipurpose headset on the go, for meetings, and for casual listening.

The only thing that really holds this headset back is its price.

we found that it lasted a total of 22 hours, 36 minutes when playing back music continuously at a peak level of 75dB(SPL)

TechPowerUp lab-tested · 2022-08-30

Frequency response treble peak (miniDSP EARS): 8 kHz · Frequency response midrange dip (miniDSP EARS): 3–4 kHz · ANC effective attenuation range: up to ~1 kHz

At factory defaults, the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless sounds good. After some adjustment, good quickly turns to great

if your ears are treble-sensitive, you could have an issue with the 8 kHz peak as it does introduce some sibilance to certain vocals (particularly female ones) and makes high-pitched sounds, such as cymbals or gunfire, somewhat piercing.

After that point, there's not much of a difference between ANC and blocking external sounds passively by using the closed-back nature of the ear cups.