Jeff: Hey, I'm Jeff, your Blue Shirt Expert at Best Buy.
Today on "Unboxed," we're gonna be opening up
the Steel Series Arctis Nova Pro headset
for PlayStation and PC.
I'm excited to open it up. Let's get into it.
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All right, I like the box right up front.
We have the manual and a first edition card in this version.
Here we go.
All right, we have the carrying case.
Kind of like a mesh feeling.
Little Steel Series logo on it.
That's pretty neat.
And then we have the headset.
Take the--I'll set those off to the side.
We'll get into that.
Here's our controller for multi-device connection.
This is gonna be amazing to get into.
Big thing about this is it's going to be able connect multiple devices,
as well as control our EQ and a bunch of other cool stuff.
And in this packaging,
it says "microphone positioning" on the side.
Got our 3.5 millimeter cable.
USB, USB-C connector.
Make that two of those.
Multiple devices.
Here's our cover for the microphone.
Stop some of that popping noise that--
limit some of that popping noise that could come out.
What that actually does is connect right into...
And that can attach right on.
There.
So it retracts in and out, that's great.
The headset comes with two batteries.
It's hot-swap batteries.
It's really fantastic because I always forget to charge batteries
on my headsets,
and this way, I will always have one charged.
So you pop it right in here.
I think it's pretty easy.
Slide it right in.
The on the side of the headset you'll see there's a little release on a magnet.
So this side has your charging port, which is USB to type C.
All right, so the magnets on it on each side hold that in for your charging port,
and then on the other side is where we access the battery hot-swap.
Never miss a beat in the gaming action.
Change it right out with the other one.
All right, so the headset itself has the nice comfort band on the top,
a firm plastic on the top.
See how they feel.
They feel pretty good.
Feel like it's doing a good job canceling out some of that background noise.
One of the cool things I like about this product is the quality;
the high-fidelity audio that's gonna be coming out of this.
So we have an acoustic system from the Nova Pro,
and what that's gonna do is create some full immersion for me.
So there's 360-degree spatial audio.
Hear those footsteps in the distance,
hear the full gameplay all around me.
You got the noise cancelation to help just get in that game experience.
So the high-fidelity audio with this acoustic system
is gonna help a ton for my gaming, in my opinion.
What's really neat is the ability to change the EQ.
So you're gonna have an option within this device
to change the levels to get it to your liking.
You can turn up your friends, the chatter in the chat,
you can turn up the gameplay, turn it down, either way.
And you're gonna have the experience that you're looking for in gaming.
So this connects to multiple devices, so you can have two devices connected
at the same time and switch between them.
So I can have my PlayStation 5 set up,
and then also switch over to my Switch for the other people in my house.
That is another device that connects to PC for Windows,
Mac, and like I said, Switch.
With that multiple devices, I can connect in Bluetooth to my mobile device
and not miss a beat.
So if I have a incoming phone call, I can hear that coming in, a text,
and I can have that going while I have my game on,
with my noise-canceling, I'm not gonna miss out on it.
I can even listen to my podcast and music,
so there's some music that you might not like in your game,
or you're just in a slower-moving game and you want to be entertained,
so you can listen to whatever music you want on your mobile device,
podcast to stay entertained.
So on top of the headset, you'll see there's a four-mic hybrid system
to help with noise-cancelation,
and that will allow you to drown out all that other noise
that you don't wanna hear.
But then there's also transparency mode.
So you can have the headset on and still hear the things around you,
or if you're like me, I'll keep my headset on
and just pretend that I can't hear anything else around me.
Well, that's it, this is the Steel Series Arctis Nova Pro
wireless gaming headset for PlayStation and PC.
Once again, I'm Jeff from Best Buy, your Blue Shirt Expert.
It's been fun. I'm gonna go game.