The Nova Pro Wireless has large pill-shaped buttons that are well-spaced around the stepped design of the earcups, a nice improvement compared to the tiny M&M mini-sized power and Bluetooth buttons I’d have to feel around for on the old design. The new design’s stepped profile looks more stylish in my opinion – less like an earmuffs-looking gaming headset and more like a sophisticated pair of wireless headphones from the likes of JBL or Audio-Technica.īeyond the updated styling, SteelSeries has improved on several of the onboard controls. The earcups are also noticeably smaller and thinner compared to the large, oblong earcups of the older Arctis headsets. But on the plus side, because the new model’s elastic band sits beneath the metal headband, it also won’t get dusty as quickly. You can adjust the elastic band to rest tighter or looser to your head in three one-centimeter increments – though this means you can’t fine-tune it with quite as much precision as the old velcro design. The elastic headband is also a bit different in that it connects to the metal headband with plastic snaps similar to the ones you find on an adjustable baseball cap. I don’t have to worry about that with the new design – I can even extend the arms fully to make the headset a few sizes larger than my head, which I find makes wearing it even more comfortable. The older ones were great unless you, like me, have a larger head, in which case the tension band would press down even when set to its largest size. The first change you’ll notice is that where the older Arctis line featured a rigid metal headband with an elastic tension band to adjust fit, the headband now also features telescoping arms so it can accommodate larger heads.

This headset and its wired sibling, the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro, features a new design that diverges quite a bit from the existing Arctis line, which until now hadn’t really changed since it debuted in 2017.

20 Images SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless – Design and Features

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