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Quick Summary

The Turtle Beach Stealth Pro II vasty exceeded my expectations. It’s easily the best headset Turtle Beach has released, and it fixes many of the shortcomings with the original Stealth Pro.

The drivers are very versatile, and they can handle a lot of EQ without distorting. This has massive bass, but only if you want to bring it out. The mic is pretty good, the ANC is actually decent, and this is very well built.

Connectivity Options

There are two versions of the Stealth Pro II. I have the Xbox version. Both work on Switch 1 and 2.

Xbox: Works with all systems. Game/chat volume mixing works on Xbox only. An update may include this for PC.
PlayStation/PC: Does NOT work with Xbox. Game/chat volume mixing is available on PC only.

The Stealth Pro II can be used wired or wirelessly. Wired is with the USB-C port - but wired only works on PC and PS5.

For wireless, this has simultaneous 2.4 GHz and Bluetooth. It comes with two 2.4 GHz transceivers.

One is just a dongle. Even though this is the Xbox version of the headset, the included dongle only works on PC and PlayStation. You can buy more online and there is an Xbox dongle as well.

In total you can swap between up to four different dongles.

There's also the transceiver dock. You can use the included 82 inch long USB C to A cable to connect to your platform of choice. The Xbox version of the transceiver works on all systems.

Battery Life

The dock also charges the second battery, so you can swap these back and forth quickly. The batteries supposedly get up to about 40 hours, but in my experience it’s about 30 hours even with the aggressive auto sleep timer.

Both transceivers are capable of a bitrate and sample rate of up to 24-bit 96 kHz allowing for "Hi-Res" certified audio - if you're into the latest marketing trends. Wired is also 24-bit, 96 kHz on PC and Dolby Atmos will recognize it.

Do keep in mind, based on the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite's Gamehub, the Xbox Series S and X only output 16 bit 48 kHz though USB and the PS5 24 bit, 48 kHz.

I really like the included carrying case which lets you fit everything inside and it even has room for an additional dongle.

Controls

Left earcup

Mode button. This toggles ANC on and off. To control transparency, you need the app.
Under that is 2.4 GHz system volume. Infinite scroll.
Next is the game/chat volume mixer wheel. You can set this to other functions, but currently I have mine on Bass Boost level.
There's the USB-C port and the power button. The detachable mic is flip up to mute.

Right earcup

The button at the top cycles the audio between the different transmitters that you have paired to the headset. So, unlike the Nova Elite you cannot get for example both PC Discord audio and PS5 game audio at the same time. You have to switch between them.
Next is the Bluetooth volume wheel - it’s infinite scroll.
The Bluetooth button is under that for pairing and for media multifunction like playing and pausing.

These buttons are nice and clicky, and the wheels are very tactile, unlike the previous Stealth Pro with really mushy buttons that had no feedback.

Headphone Audio Quality

Measurements taken with my miniDSP EARS (not industry standard).

The Stealth Pro II is one of the best sounding gaming headsets out. The way Turtle Beach tuned the drivers is brilliant.

These have 60 mm Eclipse Dual Drivers which separate the lows with a woofer from the highs with a tweeter.

When measured with ANC off, the Stealth Pro II doesn't actually look wildly different from the original Stealth Pro, but they did tone down the piercing highs. The bass has a decent thump to it without booming much, and outside of the small dip at 3.5 kHz, the upper midrange is quite prominent.

The bass is really where they excel over other headsets.

With ANC off, this thing thumps at max Bass Boost without any distortion. It's gets to the level of the Skullcandy PLYR 720 without the haptics which is currently the strongest bass you can get on a gaming headset. There's real vibration that you can feel, even more than the Astro A50 Gen 5.

I will say the sub-bass at the lowest frequencies doesn't get quite as deep and stay as clean as the Arctis Nova Elite.

If you're into immersive single player games, this is extremely fun. I really enjoyed played playing Cronos: The New Dawn with these. The eerie bass drops in horror games are great, but you still hear the creaking of old buildings. When you tune these to your liking they can be really good with music because they're so responsive to equalization.

If you're not into bass, you can drop it down or leave it stock, because these still have excellent detail across the rest of the audio spectrum.

I played some Halo and Battlefield with these as well, and it was crisp. Maybe a bit too crisp… so I dropped the treble a tad but I used the bass stock. Footsteps have a real thump to them. That’s great for positional awareness.

These drivers can handle a large variety and cluster of sounds being thrown at them at the same time, which works well for shooters like Battlefield 6.

The mids aren't dropped so low that they warp vocals, and you hear all the ambience of the environment nicely. You can push the mids up a little bit to give a little airiness and artificially widen that soundstage a bit, because these aren't open-back like the ASUS ROG Kithara which I do think does beats this out in detail and sound separation, but definitely not bass power and impact.

Overall, I love the sound of these. They're extremely versatile drivers so they will cater to a wide range of tonal preferences.

Dolby Access

The Dolby Atmos sound virtualizer is very fun, and these come with a preactivated license for the Stealth Pro II specifically. This is for both Xbox and PC.

Don't expect it to help for competitive play, but it really brings out the wind and quieter sounds like water droplets. It makes everything sound a bit farther out like it's around you with pitch changes, a little reverb, and some other effects that frankly I can't pinpoint exactly just by listening.

Active Noise Cancellation

These also have Active Noise Cancellation, and that's one of the Stealth Pro II's biggest strengths. It is also its Achilles Heel.

The ANC is about a 6/10 in terms of actual strength to cancel out background noise. 6/10 sounds bad, but for a gaming headset, that's really good. Compared to like the Sony Ult Wear or Soundcore Q30, yeah the ANC sucks. But this has way stronger ANC than the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite. It also doesn't make the same hiss that most devices do.

As of this writing, the ANC disables the microphone sidetone. Turtle Beach has mentioned looking into that.

The ANC also gives a massive boost to the sub-bass. It's quite difficult to get this to show up on measurements, because the activation is dependent on the seal being slightly broken which causes the ANC to make the drivers compensate for this by maxing out the bass.

By forcing a broken seal on my measurement, rig, you can see the 20-40 Hz escape but the drivers attempt to stabilize this by skyrocketing the bass. In reality you'll hear an insane bump through the entire low end. The boost is so much that the drivers will distort at loud volumes unless you manually drop down the bass to compensate.

Turtle Beach is looking into adjusting the sub-bass with ANC on, so I don't know how long this will last.

Microphone Audio Quality

The 9 mm capsule boom mic is above average. It’s a bit tinny, rough with sibilance, not great with plosives, but it's clear overall. It has a frequency response range of 100 Hz - 16 KHz.

There's not that much background noise reduction by default, but you can turn on the AI noise reduction to get some. They seemed to tune this to be as non-destructive as possible. It won't eliminate keyboard typing and you can't eat or drink with this on like SteelSeries Sonar or AMD's Sound Suppression, but it also doesn't negatively alter your voice too much.

It's definitely not on the level of the Logitech G522, but it's not as bad as the Arctis Nova line of mics.

The integrated beamforming microphones are the tiny holes just inside of the sliver speaker plates. It's nice for convenience, and they actually have more low end than the boom mic.

The sidetone for both mics is very quiet currently - one more thing that's getting worked on.

Unfortunately, the mics are bugged on launch. When taking out the boom mic or sometimes when these are auto powered off, the mic audio gets incredibly distorted. In other instances the mic will stop working entirely. Here’s a quick example. Listen at your own risk…

Software

This is the first time Turtle Beach software hasn't sucked. This uses Swarm II on phones and PC. The settings in these can be adjusted on the fly, and they save to the headset itself.

Previous software like the Turtle Beach Audio app was not very responsive and would constantly revert or erase your settings like the sidetone and EQ presets.

You get basic settings like the power off timer and an equalizer for both the mic and headphone audio. You can also set the functions of the game/chat volume mixer wheel.

The phone app works similarly, but it doesn’t interact with the game/chat wheel properly in my experience.

Comfort and Build

I give these a C in comfort, but an A in build.

They use cloth ear pads that they call "athletic weave fabric". They twist on and off easily. I don't like them because they're scratchy and don't trap in sound that well. Fortunately, the ANC is good enough to partially overcome that.

The catch with faux leather is it has a shelf life of about 3 years before it starts to peel off, so the Stealth Pro II avoids that.

The build is mostly plastic, but they have a metal frame with adjustable height. There's mesh on the headband, which isn't very good at softening the pressure from the weight.

And these are heavy. I measured 381 grams without the mic and 392 with it.

Something I like is the full swivel is wide enough to rest around your neck. Additionally, the ear cushions themselves are large, and there's not too much clamp pressure so it's good for glasses wearers like myself.

Verdict

The Turtle Beach Stealth Pro II makes it into my top 5. The drivers have excellent clarity with real bass potential. The build is great, and the mic isn't bad.

I recommend these primarily for those that play a lot of single player games, bassheads, and fans of cloth ear cushions.

Turtle Beach Stealth Pro II | Way Better

Quick Summary

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