Turtle Beach - Stealth 700 Gen 2

$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 don't know of any non gaming headsets that connect to Xbox. Connecting the Xbox without a dongle needs Xbox specific stuff that will only be on gaming headsets that have the right Xbox licensing. The Xbox won't necessarily recognise a device just because you connect a dongle either so I would check that with the headset manufacturer before buying one. I had the Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 2 which I got the month they were first released and was very happy with them. They lasted right up until the month the Gen 3 versions came out (despite being dropped badly enough to crack the casing a couple of times in the first month). So I just switched to those and am just as happy. I've no issues with hearing anything in Hunt. Turtle Beach are far more comfortable than any alternative I've tried for ppl who wear glasses. That may or may not apply to you. My only complaint is that you can't use the phone app whenever a firmware update is available and the firmware update requires you connect your headset to an Xbox, PC and phone at the same time. It's a minor inconvenience for me since I rarely use my personal laptop so have to find where my kid has left the bloody thing every so often. But it would be a big issue if I didn't have a laptop/PC. Tbh though, I rarely need to use the phone app. Occasionally I'll accidentally mash the headphone buttons and spin all 3 volume wheels so lose track of where everything is. Having the app to be able to get better visual indicators of the settings makes getting the balance back where I like it much easier. If you do go with Turtle Beach, I wouldn't go cheaper than the Stealth 600s. One final tip, follow the advice Crytek gave recently. Either use Cryospacial and turn off any audio enhancement built into the console or use the built in audio enhancement and turn off Cryospacial. Picking Stereo Uncompressed in the Volume & Audio Output menu is how you turn off the built-in enhancements on Xbox. I used Cryospacial for a good while and found it worked well. But I play too many games and got sick of turning Windows Sonic on and off so I've switched to just using that now. Either option works well.

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.

I have the stealth 700 v2. It works well for me.

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.

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.

Do not buy the pulse. 7P is nice, but I'm a turtle beach fan. But do not buy the pulse. That's important.

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