I didn't know how videogames could sound until I picked up this exact headset

Nova Pro above view — (Image credit: Future)

The first time you put on a properly high-fidelity gaming headset, it can be something of a life-changing moment. If you game a lot, there's nothing quite like a headset upgrade to change the level of immersion you enjoy in your favourite titles, and I think on balance that my biggest-ever upgrade came in the form of the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless.

This is technically no longer SteelSeries' highest-end headset (supplanted by the astronomical Arctis Nova Elite), but for years and years, it reigned supreme, and I had previously been using a headset half its price.

Of course, I can't pretend that this Presidents' Day deal makes the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless cheap – even with this amount of money knocked off, it's still a super-premium headset by most people's standards.

Aside from the raw sound quality, though, it does have the chops to back that price up. For one thing, it has active noise-cancelling to help cocoon you in your gaming environment much better (ideal for when someone else is watching a movie, vacuuming or anything else).

It also has a genius battery-swapping system that ensures you never need to plug it in while wearing it – when it runs out of charge, you just hot-swap the battery out of one earcup with one charging in its base station. I rely on this feature constantly!

So, I'd recommend grabbing this deal while you can, to see just how immersive games can really be when you have the kit to enable them.

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Max is T3's Staff Writer for the Tech section – with years of experience reporting on tech and entertainment. He's also a gaming expert, both with the games themselves and in testing accessories and consoles, having previously flexed that expertise at Pocket-lint as a features editor.

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