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It's charged via an included USB cable, and sports a generous battery life of up to 15 hours. The LucidSound LS35X is a direct-to-Xbox wireless headset, meaning it connects straight to your console without any intermediary USB dongle or anything like that. Best Xbox headsets right nowĪ few years after launch, the LucidSound LS35X is still my go-to recommendation for the vast majority of Xbox gamers due to its comfort, price, general quality, and ease of use.
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If you'd like to ask any further questions, feel free to hit me up on Twitter or join us in the Windows Central Discord. In any case, here are our picks for the best Xbox headsets you can buy in 2022. Turtle Beach's "Super Human Hearing," for example, gives priority to frequencies where sound effects like footsteps or enemy movements may sit.
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Some headsets even let you configure this using accompanying apps or software tools, or even onboard switches and features. Some headsets prioritize a more realistic and balanced cinematic experience, while others focus on tactical play, emphasizing highs that might give away an enemy position, for example. That being said, each headset is unique essentially based on a wide variety of factors, so we tend to focus on a general idea of what you'll be getting out of each headset's soundscape. Headsets that go beyond the standard 20 Hz to 20 kHz range may offer a richer sound experience as frequencies that dissipate beyond the standard range sound more natural as they slip out of your perception. Sound reproduction can be a bit subjective to the listener, as things like age, general preferences, and even skull and ear shape can affect how we perceive sound.
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We also list things like frequency response to give you an idea of how broad each soundscape is per headset, although it doesn't tell the full story. In our top Xbox headset picks guide, we list out as many features as possible to help you compare, contrast, and choose what's best for your set up. Although we are seeing a trend of swappable batteries coming to wireless headsets too. Over very long periods of time (years), lower-quality wireless headsets batteries may completely dry up too, with no way of replacing them easily. The downside is of course, the price, but also the fact you often have to keep them charged up. Wireless headsets often come with onboard software too for configuring things like equalization, mic-monitoring volume, and even active noise cancellation at the higher end.
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Using something like the Arctis Nova Pro or the Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen-2 MAX, for example, you can feed comms from Discord on a phone or PC, while using the Xbox signal for your game sound. Wireless headsets sometimes come with Bluetooth, so you can mix sound from two different sources into one headset. To get good sound from a wireless headset, you often have to pay $100 or more when compared to a wired headset for the privilege, but you most likely will get a boatload of added features as a result. Wireless headsets sidestep some of these limitations, but it comes at a price. In addition, using a wired headset with an Xbox controller that is plugged in and charging also can introduce nasty distortion into your sound mix, and also for those listening to you through party chat on your microphone. Indeed, the main downside of a wired headset is that they often sport less features than wireless headsets.
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Wired headsets on Xbox also come with some basic spatial sound for free using your console's Windows Sonic algorithm, and also some basic mic monitoring through Xbox party chat - although on-board solutions tend to be better, they're usually exclusive to more expensive wireless headsets.

There's certainly not a "one-size-fits-all" approach to choosing the best Xbox headset for you, especially when you consider things like features you want (or need), and what your general setup is like. While writing this guide, I paid careful attention to the fact that not every headset is ideal for every person. What are the best Xbox headsets right now? It's with this in mind that I built this guide, to showcase the best options from a wide variety of usage types and price points, to help you get the most out of your Xbox sound experience. In reality not every user needs a multi-function wireless receiver in their headset, and not every user wants mic-monitoring, and so on. When it comes to recommending the best Xbox headsets, I think many stumble at the "one size fits all" approach. We examine every angle of the sound experience, every part of the design, and showcase every feature to help you make the best decisions for your setup. I've been personally testing Xbox headsets for almost a decade now, having published dozens of reviews on Windows Central since I joined.
