Turtle Beach - Stealth 700 Gen 2

I got a pair of Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 2 a couple years back on sale (for around £75) and I couldn’t go back to anything else. They’re comfortable, the battery seemingly lasts ages and they’re Bluetooth without the need for a dongle like some other Bluetooth headphones. Not to mention you can connect them to other devices, allowing you to use them as just regular headphones.

$600 is steep to most, but for a product I will be using about every single day it’s justifiable to me. Also I used to buy $200 turtle beaches every 1-2 years before they broke. Never had an issue with longevity on the Nova Pro’s and am hoping the same for these

I had the stealth 700 gen 2 and after a year of owning them they would be intermittent going out and losing connection and then mic functionality would just entirely stop working

Turtle beaches I had the stealth 700 Gen 2 awhile back, while they sounded nice, they absolutely killed my head when wearing glasses, literally it hurt to wear them because they indented my glasses frames into my skull lol. These just out of comfort alone take the win

Well there is a reason they have different priced headsets for all wants/needs. I’d rather spend money on something that will last instead of a turtle beach headset I used to have before these that was $200 and would break after a year of use

I have had my Turtle Beach 700 gen 2 headphones for about 2 or 3 years now. These are the things I got to share: Special issue events: I had both sides of my headphone muscles break off right under the turning hinge (right under the place where the earmuscle can turn horizontally outwards). They did break off each in a timespan of about 6+ month after the other. MIND YOU, these spots breaking did announce themselves some time before with visible hairfractures and were somewhat expected by me due to not always having been most carefull with them. Such as simple wear & tear and some short falls from like a beads height. So nothing excessive but still important to note. YET THIS DOES HAVE an easy fix. I did use a storebought strong Plastic glue to fix up the sides after they had broken off. When I put them back together, the pressure / snuggness on my ears did not weaken and they feel just as I had them bought new those years ago. On about 2 Occations, these headphones did not shut off correctly and locked up, needing a manual forced shutdown with the purposed button combination. After that, they restarted normally. Continuous minor issues: When starting up the headphones, having your bluetooth coupling up by default and connecting to a phone that is playing audio and starts transmitting that sound to the headphones during the bootup / first 5 seconds when turning them on, WILL CAUSE the headphones to drop the signal to the console and only play the audio coming from the bluetooth coupling. A bit annoying BUT easily fixeable by a restart without having your phone playing something or it being open to automaticly couple to a bluetoothdevice. The following issue may be due to my own faulty setting up with the partner app. When booting up the headphones, they start off at a very loud sound level and trying to turn it down within the first 5 seconds of booting up, will most often cause the headphones to shut off on their own after like a vew seconds of not responding. The starting level SHOULD be able to be pre-set by the partner app thus I am not fully sure if I made a mistake still within the app OR it doesnt work properly in general. On the mention of the partner app, it has to be said too that I have found some of the settings being a bit quirky or hard to understand. Especially since during like year 2 or so after having them updated, it changed some settings I have yet to recreate from the start. THIS THOUGH can still be an issue with my settings or understanding entirely only. These experiences being noted, I am pretty content with the service I have received from these headphones for the price I bought them. The mic does not transmit much of ambient noises and keeps my speach pretty clear. Headphones in general provide decent isolation from other sounds. Disappointing at most was how they seemed to break at around the 1.5 to 2 year mark and As stated this can also be due to some of my less then secure storing. Again, this was fixed by me pretty easily and I have been using them without much issues beside the ones mentioned. I can also Update this when my headphones do start to really deteriate.

Whatever yall do dont even waste your money on the turtle beach stealth 700 gen 2. I had a pair for about a year which eventually stopped powering on. Got a replacement through warranty just for them to show up and not power on/ charge. Did a hard rest and the volume button wouldn’t work on em which I looked into and seemed to be a common issue on them.

If the official Xbox wireless headsets is too "cheap" for you, go with the turtle beach stealth 700 g2 i think it's called

Interesting. I've personally never felt the Xbox one was poor quality. I didn't know there was a TB G3, but i have had quality issues with the g2. They're just too hesvy for the materials they use. If you handle with care though, they're excellent.. The Xbox model is eat I use an the time now

Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 2 is a good wireless headset and comfy. No lag audio, matches screen on time.  Issues: 3d audio could probably be better but idk how that's set up with headsets technically. Seems good but sometimes it's not as good as older ones I've had. A year after, the left side (mic side) broke with the plastic. Super glued it which saved it for a few months before breaking again same spot. Other side also has a crack forming. Game and party audio volume control gets messed up sometimes. I wish they designed it to have a stopping point like the overall volume control. For some reason chat/game volume can adjust infinitely in any direction so it will have uneven audio from people talking and game volume, gotta turn it off and adjust the volume again before turning on. Overall I'd give it 8/10. $120 but they really need to switch to metal for above the earphone partts that connects upwards. That plastic bends when putting it over your head and if it's big, it'll put strain on that plastic and eventually crack like mine did. You have to be gentle with it like I did but that still doesn't stop the cracks over time

Turtle Beach stealth 700 gen 2 is a good wireless headset and comfy. No lag audio matches screen on time Only issue is a year after the left side (mic side) broke with the plastic. Super glued it which saved it for a few months before breaking again same spot. Other side also has a crack forming 

Using Stealth Pros right now and they are far more comfortable than my old 700G2. Nice upgrade in terms of premium feel, and really liking the volume wheel on the actual headset (You “turn” the headset cup, not a dial, probably explaining this wrong/weird) Connectivity to console is about the same as other gens, prolly about 6-8 seconds before you turn it on and you hear game audio. My (only) biggest complaint is that stock, out of the box, everything sounds extremely flat and tin-ny and Superhuman sounds even worse (Ive never liked the Superhuman sound regardless though, everything sounds like a bad shroom trip lmao.) Literally watching someone else play so I can tune the EQ but I have absolutely no idea what Im doing. Ill give it a few more days before I possibly return it

Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 2 when I'm home and my Pixel Earbud Pro's when it's being played portable out and about (which is actually quite rare)

Yeah my 700 gen 2s broke right where they were supposed to recently. I loved that headset for the features but the build quality is so bad.

Iv had so many headsets cheap 10$ ones to 350$+ ones and to be honest none compared in comfortability and sound quality to my 50$ Astro A10s. I have Stealth 700 gen 2 rn and before these I had steel series pros and I still think the A10s are better in every way besides the wire.