Turtle BeachAtlas Air Wireless Open Back PC Gaming Headset - PC, PS5, PS4, Mobile - 24-bit High-Fidelity Audio, Broadcast Grade Mic, Bluetooth, Floating Earcup, Memory Foam Cushions, 50-Hr Battery

The sound is great for both games and music, the microphone is clear and I have heard no complaints from friends, the headset is comfortable and doesn’t sit too tight, there’s a dial for volume control that works great, and the battery lasts a week or more with casual (2+ hours per day) use. I personally like the open back design since I don’t really need noise cancellation on my headset. If you need ANY kind of noise canceling, do NOT buy these.

I was comparing this headset for Black Friday sales against a few other headsets. Eventually, I narrowed it down to two. This and the Logitech G Pro X2. Both are great headsets, but ultimately, I went with the Atlas Air and it wasn't even close. This was my first time trying an open back headset. Because it is open back, the sound is just so crisp and pure. It's hard to put into words. It just sounds very natural with no distortion. The wideness of the sound (soundstage) is very impressive. For the types of games I play (Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Horizon Forbidden West, Witcher 3, Elden Ring, etc., it is perfectly made for those games.There were two things I was worried about. One was whether being that it was open back, the sounds of my surroundings would bother me. For me at least, the answer is a big no. When you are playing a game, the sound itself blocks out most everything around you. I don't hear my gaming laptop fans, I can hear to some degree things around me, like if someone was blasting the TV in another room, but nothing so far has distracting me from the game I'm in.The other thing that I was worried about was the Swarm II software. I had read for weeks about how firmware updates broke the volume and even doing a firmware update could be challenging. I'm happy to say that they must have fixed things because this thing gets quite loud, I only have the volume around 50-60 and to me it is more than loud enough. In addition, I really don't use the software for sound. I use the Dolby Atmos software instead. That is what you want to focus on and turn most things off in the Swarm Software. Keep the sound on "Signature", get a Dolby license for about $10 of whatever it costs, and use its presets or equalizer to tailor the sound to your preference. If you bump up the left two equalizer settings, the bass is more than good enough. Don't use Bass Boost in the Swarm settings. Again, focus on the Dolby Atmos app.Comfort was in my top 2 priorities, and this is by far the most comfortable gaming headset I've ever warn. I have zero connection issues, no perceivable latency, and I feel like this was a steal for the price I paid. It is such an immersive sound and the rating should be much higher than what some here are stating.

The outer headband is designed for the outlier most enormous human skull size, and has this "adjustable" mesh that's supposed to tighten inwards to allow the inner band to fit smaller skulls by pulling straps on either side and fastening them in place with velcro.EXCEPT: THE VELCRO ON THE HEADSET IS HELD ON WITH EXTREMELY WEAK GLUE. The available adjustment range is already MINISCULE, and if you take it to the max setting, the tiny elastic force will pop that adhesive right off. If it did work, the other downside to this is that it makes the inner band completely horizontal instead of concave so it just rests upon the tippy top of your head instead of spread out. It doesn't really help the incredibly weak clamp pressure either.As such, this will always be the loosest headset you will ever use. It will wobble any time you turn your head and if you stand up too fast it's likely to fall off. The mute position of the microphone also doesn't lock in place so the microphone will fall back down if you tilt your head.The mic monitoring is also really weak, and there's a strong noise filter built in that cant be turned off, so it will drop any softly spoken words and you'll never be able to get singing to come across if you wanted to. There's an additional noise filter you can apply if you really want it to cut out every time you whisper.Also I've never held a cheaper-feeling non-premium headset. I feel like they disguise the cheapness as tech, like this mesh headband is probably way cheaper to make than an adjustable one, and the free-floating earcups when you take everything else into consideration are not high tech at all, they are just securing them to the headset with rubber bands which is probably way cheaper to manufacture than real joints. And why would you want earcups that want to forever resist a set position against your ear instead of ones that hold the position you put them in? If you think that maybe these are sound-isolated by being suspended, well somehow they aren't. if you even lightly touch the top of the headband it will sound loud in your ears, so it all travels through the bands anyway.Also, the wheel on the side adjusts the volume in four steps only. Four steps is a huge difference. This means that you cant get very precise with volume. There is no way to adjust the game/chat balance on headset like other turtle beach headsets. You have to do it in an app- Another cheap decision.On the plus side, they are open-back and you can pretty much hear your environment normally, which is great if headsets normally give you a headache from the isolation. For that reason alone it will be a tough decision to return these, but I mean if it's not even picking up my voice when I mutter, how do I know when my party is hearing me?

Sound signature is great, they are not fatiguing at all. I have a big head and they can fit me. I bought two pairs to be used with two computers in the same room, unfortunately they didn't think of this scenario and the headphones will connect to the wrong dongles, it's annoying as T%^&*I(O)P{ - So now we have to boot one PC at a time, power them on and make sure it connects and then power on the second PC. If they allowed multiple computers at same time and had swappable batteries they would be end game.The mic sounds great too! I unplugged my Yeti

My friends always say I sound quiet, even when turned up on my end and in Discord. I switched to this headset brand and LOVE it. It's light, comfortable, and my friends can finally hear me (I'm soft spoken).