Headsets
A headset lives or dies on its microphone. Whether you need a certified UC headset for back-to-back meetings, a trucker rig with real noise suppression, or a gaming set that doubles for calls, these guides rank picks on mic clarity first.
Best Wired Gaming Headset (2026): 5 No-Battery Picks
A wired gaming headset never dies mid-match, never needs pairing, and never adds the latency that wireless can. For a desk — which is where most gaming happens — that isn't a compromise; it's the better choice, and it's cheaper too. These five span $20 to $93 and cover every wired setup from a first headset to a streamer's boom mic, and the pick comes down to your platform, your budget, and whether the microphone is the point.
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EKSA E900 Pro Review: A $50 Wired Gaming Headset
The EKSA E900 Pro is a wired gaming headset that costs about forty dollars and behaves like it costs more — a detachable microphone, two removable cables, virtual 7.1 surround and, unusually for the price, a two-year warranty. Wired is the whole idea here: no battery to die mid-session, no pairing, no latency. This review is about what that forty dollars actually buys, and the two things about the surround-sound claim worth understanding before you count on it.
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HyperX Cloud III vs Cloud III S: Worth Going Wireless?
These are the same headset twice. Angled 53mm drivers tuned by the same engineers, the same aluminium frame, the same memory foam, the same detachable boom microphone with its mute light. What sixty dollars buys is the removal of a cable — and, on the listings as written, it also changes which consoles the headset says it works with. That second part decides this comparison for more people than the price does.
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Logitech G935 Review (2026): Eight Hours of RGB
The Logitech G935 was the company's flagship wireless headset when it arrived in February 2019, and it has been quietly outlived by cheaper models that last three times as long between charges. It is still on sale, it has dropped in price, and its 50mm drivers are still the largest Logitech puts in a headset. Whether that adds up to a good buy in 2026 comes down to one number on the box, and to whether you sit near a USB port.
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Logitech G Pro X Review: The Features Need Windows
The listing says it twice, in a sub-clause both times: the microphone processing and the surround sound each require the included USB sound card, a Windows PC, and Logitech's software. That sentence is the whole review. Plug this into a PlayStation controller and you get fifty-millimetre drivers, a steel headband and a detachable microphone — a good wired headset at ninety-odd dollars, and none of the two things the box is actually selling. Which of those two products you are buying depends entirely on what you plug it into.
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BlueParrott B450-XT Review: Built for the Cab
The accessories tell you what this is before any specification does. In the box: a vehicle charger, two microphone windscreens, and a spare set of ear cushions. Nothing about that list is aimed at a desk, a commute, or a gym. The B450-XT is built for people who spend their working day in a vehicle cab with the window down and the engine running, and almost every decision in it — mono, over-head, twenty-four hours, three hundred feet — follows from that. Judged as headphones it is poor. Judged as the tool it is, very little competes.
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Jabra Evolve 65 Review: A Generation Behind
This is the most searched-for product in our catalogue by a wide margin, and almost nobody arrives at it by browsing. People search the Evolve 65 because it is the headset their employer standardised on years ago, and they want one for the desk at home. What the listing does not make obvious is that Jabra replaced this line some time ago, that Amazon no longer sells this version itself, and that the current generation costs roughly the same money. None of which makes it a bad headset. All of which you should know before ordering one.
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Poly Voyager 5200 Review: One Ear, On Purpose
Almost everything this site measures is the wrong lens for the Voyager 5200. It has one earpiece, so stereo is not a concept that applies. Its battery is quoted in single-figure hours next to gaming headsets claiming eighty. It has no active noise cancellation for the listener at all. Every one of those reads as a failure on a spec sheet and none of them is, because this is not a device for listening to anything. It is a device for being heard, outdoors, while moving, and it has been quietly doing that for one of the largest owner bases of any product in our catalogue.
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SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Review: Never Charge It
Wireless gaming headsets compete on battery life the way phones compete on megapixels, and the numbers have reached the point of meaninglessness — eighty hours, a hundred, whatever the next one claims. SteelSeries went the other way with the Arctis Nova Pro. It ships two batteries and a base station that charges the spare while you use the other, so the runtime figure stops being a specification and becomes a question you never ask. That idea costs money, needs a desk, and is the reason to buy this over anything cheaper.
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Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 3 Review: Check the Box
Turtle Beach has a habit of selling one headset under two listings, and the Stealth 700 Gen 3 is the clearest case of it. There is a version labelled for Xbox and a version labelled for PlayStation, sitting a dollar apart. The interesting part is that the Xbox one is not the narrower choice — it is the wider one, covering every console the PlayStation version covers and one more besides. Almost nobody shopping for a PS5 headset would think to look at a box with Xbox on the front, which is exactly the problem.
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Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Review: 80 Hours, Two Versions
Most wireless gaming headsets under a hundred dollars ask you to charge them every second or third session. The Stealth 600 claims eighty hours, which would put it in a different category of ownership entirely — the kind you plug in monthly and otherwise forget. The specification is genuinely strong for the money. The thing that will actually decide whether you are happy is not on the specification sheet at all: there are two different headsets sold under this name, and picking the wrong one leaves you with hardware your console will not talk to.
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Logitech H390 Review (2026): The Office Default
The H390 is the headset most offices buy without thinking about it, and that is a reasonable thing to do. It solves the call problem cheaply and reliably. There is exactly one specification that will disqualify it for some people, and it is worth checking before anything else.
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Turtle Beach Recon 50 Review (2026): The Cheapest Safe Buy
The Turtle Beach Recon 50 is not the cheapest gaming headset, and that is the entire argument for it. Six dollars above the bottom of the market buys a company that replaces the thing when it breaks — which at this price matters more than any specification on the box.
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BENGOO G9000 Review (2026): What $20 Actually Buys
The BENGOO G9000 is the headset most people mean when they say they bought a $20 gaming headset. It works, it is comfortable enough, and its owner base is enormous — but knowing what $20 cannot buy matters more here than any feature list.
Read fullBest Gaming Headset for Xbox: 5 Picks That Actually Work
The HyperX CloudX is the safest Xbox headset to buy because it is officially licensed, which removes the compatibility question entirely. Xbox is the one platform where a headset can be excellent and still not work, so this page leads with that problem rather than with sound quality.
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Best USB Headset for Work: 5 Picks for Calls All Day
The Logitech H390 is the work headset most people should buy — a boom microphone that sits near your mouth, USB connection that needs no configuration, and a price under $15. This page ranks on the microphone first, because that is the part your colleagues actually experience.
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Best Gaming Headset for PS5: 5 Picks Worth Buying
The HyperX Cloud III is the PS5 headset most players should buy — it plugs straight into the DualSense, costs under $60, and its microphone is the clearest at this price. Want wireless instead? The Turtle Beach Stealth 500 is the one to get, but it now costs roughly $30 more than it did a month ago.
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HyperX Cloud II Review (2026): Still Worth It?
The HyperX Cloud II is a decade old and still one of the most comfortable gaming headsets made. Whether to buy it or its successor comes down to price, and right now the older one is cheaper — which reverses the answer this page gave a week ago.
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Best Wireless Gaming Headset: 5 Picks Worth Buying
The Logitech G435 is the wireless gaming headset most people should buy — Lightspeed 2.4 GHz plus Bluetooth covers PC, PlayStation, Switch and a phone from one budget headset with a real warranty behind it. Spend more only for a boom microphone or a longer battery.
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Best Headset for 2026: What to Buy (and Skip)
"Headset" covers two different products: the one you game in and the one you take meetings in. This guide ranks both, because most people buying one are deciding between them — and the honest answer is that a headset optimised for calls and a headset optimised for games are rarely the same purchase.
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