SteelSeries’ refreshed Nova 7 gaming headset gets a big battery life boost

SteelSeries is launching the 2nd procreation of its fashionable Nova 7 wireless gaming headset today, with enactment for real-time audio power and a monolithic 40 percent artillery beingness improvement. If you’re not funny successful the $599.99 Nova Elite oregon the $349.99 Nova Pro, the Nova 7 Gen 2 is SteelSeries’ much affordable midrange enactment astatine $199.99.

The Arctis Nova 7 Gen 2 matches the aesthetics of SteelSeries’ high-end headsets, but it’s missing the swappable artillery system, progressive sound cancellation, and the wireless basal station. Still, the Nova 7 Gen 2’s awesome artillery beingness improvements mean that this latest mentation tin tally up to 54 hours earlier you request to complaint it via USB-C.

You’ll besides inactive get simultaneous audio done a 2.4GHz transportation and Bluetooth audio, meaning you tin premix unneurotic audio from your PC oregon crippled console and your phone. The headset connects wirelessly to a PC, PlayStation, Switch, Xbox, phone, oregon tablet done a tiny L-shaped USB-C dongle.

The Arctis Nova 7 Gen 2 besides includes enactment for real-time audio power done SteelSeries’ Arctis mobile app. It includes much than 200 presets for a assortment of games, and these presets amended the audio EQ for each idiosyncratic title. If you’re playing connected PC, you tin adjacent usage SteelSeries’ GG app to automatically power audio presets depending connected which crippled you’re playing.

Much similar the Nova Pro and Nova Elite, the Nova 7 Gen 2 besides includes a noise-canceling microphone. The roar mic tin beryllium hidden wrong the headset and adjacent disabled if you privation to usage your ain microphone connected a PC.

SteelSeries’ Arctis Nova 7 Gen 2 is disposable today, priced astatine $199.99 / £179.99 / €199.99. The headset is disposable successful white, black, oregon magenta.