By Darren Allan
SteelSeries has revealed the Arctis Pro range, a new line-up of headsets with a flagship model that promises some seriously smart sound.
The top-end headset is the Arctis Pro + GameDAC, which employs an ESS Sabre DAC and amp to pipe high quality sound straight into your lucky ears. SteelSeries notes that this is the first certified Hi-Res Audio system to grace the gaming world, delivering high-fidelity 96kHz/24-bit audio without any need for down-sampling.
The firm also boasts that the GameDAC is specifically tuned for gaming, and can transform your PC’s (or your PS4‘s) sound by bypassing the hardware’s lesser-quality DAC to produce tighter bass and impressive volume, while still maintaining a clean sound with no danger of distortion.
Furthermore, gamers will benefit from more accurate audio positioning – i.e. the location of sounds will be better pinpointed, which can be crucial in the likes of shooters – with support for DTS Headphone:X 2.0.
Another neat benefit of the GameDAC is that it has a built-in OLED screen to make adjusting settings a snap, whether you’re toggling surround sound or playing with the graphic equalizer. In other words, there’s no need to delve into software and menus on a PC (which is obviously …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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