Vocal tracks can suffer a little more notably, though-for instance in Falling Apart by Wilco, where Jeff Tweedy’s voice routinely gets a little lost in the guitar and bass. During louder parts of the song, the dueling guitar parts sound a lot less distinct from each other. In Playing God by Polyphia, the whistling that comes in during the song’s bridge is very hard to hear amidst the crush of the bass guitar. Music sounds mostly fine coming through the SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7, but that bass emphasis can get in the way of some music’s subtler details. The Arctis 7P is predominantly white, and. However, while bass and midrange sound have some definite foibles, the high range frequency response is considerably wonkier, with a huge dip at 5kHz and a big over-emphasis at 7kHz. The Arctis 7X features an all-black design with green lines stitched into the Ski Goggle Headband that pairs well with the Xbox Series X design. While the sub-bass is nicely emphasized, the bass comes through up to around 5dB louder than we generally like to see between 100-200Hz, and there’s a pretty significant dip around 400Hz. The SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7 features audio output pretty close to our in-house target, with a handful of notable deviations.

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