By Steve Boxer
When buying a gaming headset, you should first assess what sort of a gamer you are. Turtle Beach’s new Recon 150 is clearly aimed at gamers without pretension – those who harbour no aspirations to jack in their day-jobs and become the next e-sports star.
It’s cheap – at $69.99 (£49.99, AU$99.95) – and basic in terms of features, eschewing bells and whistles like surround-sound and active noise cancellation.
That said, it’s also well made and comfortable and contains the basic ingredients to do a very fine job for those who simply play games for fun.
Design and build quality
$70 gaming headsets can sometimes look a bit cheap and nasty, but that isn’t an accusation you can level at the Recon 150, although neither is it a headset whose fit and finish is classy enough to make your friends think you’re richer than you are.
It has a nice, comfortable leather-clad strap and big earcups, whose blue detailing signals that it has been designed for use with the PlayStation 4 (although it will also work with PCs: commendably, Turtle Beach includes an adapter for separate audio-out and microphone-in channels). The detachable microphone is on a long, bendy arm that even people …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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