SteelSeries Arctis 9X vs SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless for Xbox

I never had an issue with the audio or microphone quality on the Arctis 9X. When I tested the 9, the noise-cancelling function worked well enough, blocking out the hum of my ancient air conditioner and desktop PC fans without degrading the sound too much. I do have some nitpicks with the design, though.

As previously mentioned, the sound only gets better when you start making tweaks in the frequency curve and make per game profiles. SteelSeries specs ...

Great sound quality. Solid battery life. Independent audio controls. Only con is you can't do Game Audio and Bluetooth at the same time

Update 10/24/22 Lowering my review by a star. One of my batteries stopped charging in the dock or via headset entirely; Steelseries solution? Replace my entire unit with a new one but first requiring manual destruction of the headset by forcing the customer to cut headset wires, because they don't have battery replacements yet. First of all, why on Earth would you create broken garbage when the environment is filled with it as it is? Is there absolutely zero consideration to be green at Steelseries? If you don't have replacement parts, why are you selling the headset to begin with? If this is your policy, then just send a new headset unit for whatever the defect may be; even if environmental and waste concerns weren't a problem, am I supposed to now wait for a new headset to ship while my single battery unit that would've worked just fine in the interim sits unusable for who knows how long? It's sad because Steelseries had a different policy when I owned the Arctis Nova Wireless, which was simply to send a replacement unit for my faulty existing one: the correct way to go about it. I'm not sure why the policy has changed since but I didn't pay the premium price in a gaming peripheral sector for this kind of service

I bought a gaming headset for meeting because most "meeting-use" headphones with a boom mic are supra-aural, and I absolutely hate to have headphones clamping on my ears. Gaming headphones are usually circumaural and that works for my purpose. For meetings, the most important thing is the microphone and its ability to filter out external noise. The mic quality is pretty good, and it does a good job of suppressing background noise

And we've got a bit of a blurb there, so I'll tell you all about it, custom designed hi-res speakers, multi-system connect, active noise cancellation ...