Turtle Beach Atlas Air Wireless Open Back PC Gaming Headset - PC, PS5, PS4, Mobile - 24-bit High-Fidelity Audio, Broadcast Grade Mic, Bluetooth, Floating Earcup, Memory Foam Cushions, 50-Hr Battery

I was comparing this headset for Black Friday sales against a few other headsets. Eventually, I narrowed it down to two. This and the Logitech G Pro X2. Both are great headsets, but ultimately, I went with the Atlas Air and it wasn't even close. This was my first time trying an open back headset. Because it is open back, the sound is just so crisp and pure. It's hard to put into words. It just sounds very natural with no distortion. The wideness of the sound (soundstage) is very impressive. For the types of games I play (Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Horizon Forbidden West, Witcher 3, Elden Ring, etc., it is perfectly made for those games. There were two things I was worried about. One was whether being that it was open back, the sounds of my surroundings would bother me. For me at least, the answer is a big no. When you are playing a game, the sound itself blocks out most everything around you. I don't hear my gaming laptop fans, I can hear to some degree things around me, like if someone was blasting the TV in another room, but nothing so far has distracting me from the game I'm in. The other thing that I was worried about was the Swarm II software. I had read for weeks about how firmware updates broke the volume and even doing a firmware update could be challenging. I'm happy to say that they must have fixed things because this thing gets quite loud, I only have the volume around 50-60 and to me it is more than loud enough. In addition, I really don't use the software for sound. I use the Dolby Atmos software instead. That is what you want to focus on and turn most things off in the Swarm Software. Keep the sound on "Signature", get a Dolby license for about $10 of whatever it costs, and use its presets or equalizer to tailor the sound to your preference. If you bump up the left two equalizer settings, the bass is more than good enough. Don't use Bass Boost in the Swarm settings. Again, focus on the Dolby Atmos app. Comfort was in my top 2 priorities, and this is by far the most comfortable gaming headset I've ever warn. I have zero connection issues, no perceivable latency, and I feel like this was a steal for the price I paid. It is such an immersive sound and the rating should be much higher than what some here are stating.

I got this headset in today and used it for working and gaming. with working I take a lot of zoom calls which can be anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours. The comfort with these are unmatched. They are extremely light, and the strap with mesh mechanism makes it feel like nothing is on top of your head. These will bleed sound though so if you are in an office i’m not sure i’d recommend. In gaming i typically play FPS, and some say open back isn’t great for FPS but i strongly disagree. The wider soundstage makes all the difference when trying to place footsteps. I’m able to pinpoint where people are with ease (there are some settings in the swarm app that help as well). Microphone quality is great. I needed to switch it to clarity in swarm for it to sound the best with my voice but i think most will be suited for the full preset mic eq. Sound quality is great as well, people said these do not get loud but i could not disagree more. Some notes: I’m playing on a PC and i have not tested on console. Your eqs save to the headset (at least from the pc application but i have not tested with the phone application). These will not work wirelessly on xbox but will work wired. No simultaneous wireless/bluetooth. I don’t care for this but i know that others do. No sidetone hiss! You can turn it as loud as you want and you will not hear that audible hiss that most headphones suffer from. All in all I am loving these headphones. They fit my needs perfectly. I have tried many headphones over the last 3 years and these are up there with the best.

I was quite surprised with the quality of this headset. After being disappointed with the wired open back corsair headset, I was expecting this to have at least one or two sacrifices in quality or features for being around the same price. Instead, I noticed better sound quality (I did have issues with sound drivers, so this may not actually be from the headset itself) an amazing battery life, great mic (and I enjoy how muting it just requires you to lift the mic up) and for the build quality, it still looks brand new. This was worth every dollar and I will be buying Turtle Beach for the next time I need to get a headset.

The outer headband is designed for the outlier most enormous human skull size, and has this "adjustable" mesh that's supposed to tighten inwards to allow the inner band to fit smaller skulls by pulling straps on either side and fastening them in place with velcro. EXCEPT: THE VELCRO ON THE HEADSET IS HELD ON WITH EXTREMELY WEAK GLUE. The available adjustment range is already MINISCULE, and if you take it to the max setting, the tiny elastic force will pop that adhesive right off. If it did work, the other downside to this is that it makes the inner band completely horizontal instead of concave so it just rests upon the tippy top of your head instead of spread out. It doesn't really help the incredibly weak clamp pressure either. As such, this will always be the loosest headset you will ever use. It will wobble any time you turn your head and if you stand up too fast it's likely to fall off. The mute position of the microphone also doesn't lock in place so the microphone will fall back down if you tilt your head. The mic monitoring is also really weak, and there's a strong noise filter built in that cant be turned off, so it will drop any softly spoken words and you'll never be able to get singing to come across if you wanted to. There's an additional noise filter you can apply if you really want it to cut out every time you whisper. Also I've never held a cheaper-feeling non-premium headset. I feel like they disguise the cheapness as tech, like this mesh headband is probably way cheaper to make than an adjustable one, and the free-floating earcups when you take everything else into consideration are not high tech at all, they are just securing them to the headset with rubber bands which is probably way cheaper to manufacture than real joints. And why would you want earcups that want to forever resist a set position against your ear instead of ones that hold the position you put them in? If you think that maybe these are sound-isolated by being suspended, well somehow they aren't. if you even lightly touch the top of the headband it will sound loud in your ears, so it all travels through the bands anyway. Also, the wheel on the side adjusts the volume in four steps only. Four steps is a huge difference. This means that you cant get very precise with volume. There is no way to adjust the game/chat balance on headset like other turtle beach headsets. You have to do it in an app- Another cheap decision. On the plus side, they are open-back and you can pretty much hear your environment normally, which is great if headsets normally give you a headache from the isolation. For that reason alone it will be a tough decision to return these, but I mean if it's not even picking up my voice when I mutter, how do I know when my party is hearing me?

The sound out of the box is surprisingly good. It's reasonably compliant to a neutral target curve, with elevated bass and treble but not too much. Bass extension is good for an open back, sounds like it starts falling off around 50hz. What really stands out are the spatial qualities; the imaging and staging are actually really good. If you take the earpads off, the drivers are really aggressively angled, which is what Sennheiser also has done in some of their headphones, that is probably a big reason how it's able to stage and image so well. It's an extremely light headphone, and the clamp is relatively light. The adjustment is done by adjusting the slack of the suspension headband with velcro, which is comfortable but doesn't provide as much range of adjustment as a traditional-style headband. So depending on the size of your head YMMV. For me it was really comfortable. The software is buggy, and it keeps turning on a setting I don't use when I open it. I just don't bother with the software after I updated the firmware, since I don't really need the features. Also one more note about the comfort, it's actually a little less breathable than most open-backs, kind of closer to a semi-open back. But still a lot more breathable than closed backs. I've been looking for exactly this kind of product for years - an open-back wireless gaming headset with low latency. And I'm happy that it sounds good and doesn't have any major issues for me. Minus 1 star for the buggy software. Just keep in mind, buying a newly released headphone is always a bit of a risk - always possibility of manufacturing or design defects. I would still recommend this headphone for anybody looking for a wireless open-back, or a low-latency gaming headset for PC/PS/Switch. And for anybody looking for a wireless open-back gaming headset, this is the only one on the market rn as far as I'm aware.

I absolutely love these headphones! The open back design allows clear game and discord audio while still able to hear my surroundings. I wanted this design so I can hear my husband, dogs and delivery people and still enjoy the gaming experience. I did have some connectivity problems with my set and did finally need them replaced but I want to stress that the turtle beach support team answered my first email under 24 hours. And they continued troubleshooting with me for about six weeks. I’d receive an email with a fix suggestion, try it, evaluate and update them. They countered with another fix suggestion and we would do this cycle…almost reaching 100% satisfaction but there was just something not communicating correctly in the headset so I am waiting for a replacement. Here’s what I love about them: Clear audio Good volume Natural hearing, not feeling like I’m in a vacuum Very comfortable Lightweight but still full size Easy to use Long battery life Here’s the problem that I encountered: Unreliable connection - sometimes I logged into my game and discord and it was perfect. The next time, I would hear my game but not discord or visa versa. Sometimes just leaving one discord channel for another caused the disruption. Also, it would toggle between Bluetooth and wireless until I finally just unplugged the dongle and just used the wireless connection. That fixed a lot right there. Honestly, the problem might be my computer’s Bluetooth connection and I’ll find out when I get the replacement. When these work, they are the best headphones that I’ve ever had. But they are not meant to deliver a full immersive experience so if that’s what you want, you will not be happy. And I love that tech support never gave up and responded knowledgeably and listened to me. They earned a lifetime customer as long as their quality doesn’t wain.

For $140 these are pretty solid. I bought them mainly for PS5 and I don't care about mic quality because I don't play online but I am sure it's decent according to tests on youtube I watched. I bought these to upgrade from the official pulse 3D headphones which I found to be pretty uncomfortable and my ears would get sweaty so I decided to go for something open back. There are barely any open back gaming headsets. The first thing I did when I got them was charge them up and then I plugged them into my PS5. I tested Dune II 4k Bluray to see how they sounded. Right away I thought wow these are really low volume and to my dismay I saw they were at the highest volume setting in the PS5 settings. I figured the only thing to try was to see if they had a firmware update so I plugged them into my PC and downloaded the Turtle Beach Swarm software. Once downloaded, the software recognized the headset and it said there was an update for the headset and dongle. I did the update, plugged them into my PS5, and restarted the PS5. Now the volume is way louder. So long story short, you really need to update these to get the full ability of them. PROS - Sound quality is impressive at this price point (I got them for $140 new). - They are really light, don't squeeze my head at all, and the ear cups are comfortable. CONS - The only con I see with these is there are no volume adjust buttons on the headset itself which my Pulse 3D had. Not a huge deal to me because I barely ever adjust my headset volume once I have it set to something I like. - The bass isn't super strong but what do you expect for this price. SO MAKE SURE YOU UPDATE THE FIRMWARE!

This is by far and I mean FAR best sounding headset. These sound almost has good as high end studio headphones. The ear pads are extremely comfortable and suited for gaming or watching movie all day. I tried 4 other headsets and none of them even came close to the sound quality. I’m talking these headphones are loud even at 50% volume and have huge drivers. So now you’re wondering why I gave it 3. Connection issues. Yeah. It can be extremely annoying. You have to disable Bluetooth on your connected devices to stop it from sporadically disconnecting from the PC or console. The main problem is this is made to do it all when in reality they need a dedicated model for each system. You can forget about switching between devices with disabling Bluetooth on the other. The headset is pretty wide. By that I mean if you have a small sized head, these will fall off. They barely stay on mine and my hat size is well into the medium range, I can’t remember my measurement. I typically wear my baseball hats with o or 1 loose notch. Meaning I never have to notch my hats past the snap. Basically if you have to tighten your caps past 1 notch, these will probably fall off easy. Other than that, the SOUNd cannot be matched. By anything. I’m glad Dr Disrespect use to be sponsored by them.