Sennheiser GSP 370 wi-fi gaming headset evaluation: 100-hour battery life

With a parsimonious price ticket and all of the makings of the very best gaming headsets going, the Sennheiser GSP 370 is the cream of the mid-range wi-fi can crop. Perhaps even dangerously so for its producer, who inadvertently created a wi-fi headset nigh-on the standard and capabilities of the premium Sennheiser GSP 670 – however for half the worth.

The Sennheiser GSP 370 follows the standard Sennheiser gaming headphones strata: sturdy and comfortable. Noticeably slimmer than the premium lineup, the GSP 370 follows within the footsteps of the wired GSP 350 and settles for a barely pared-back design with solely slight touches of that tell-tale premium Sennheiser aptitude. It additionally disposes of the brilliant colors of the wired entry-level equipment in favour of a moulded gray and black end.

The GSP 370 weighs simply 285g, significantly lower than the GSP 670 at 398g. With much less onus on the adjustable band to distribute fairly a lot weight throughout your skull, the slender match makes for a much more ergonomic design, which your ears will thanks for over prolonged durations of damage, and helped alongside by plush suede-like/leatherette ear cups.

But regardless of its featherweight physique, the GSP 370’s staring function is its 100 hour battery life. That will see you thru any marathon gaming session, even should you’ve little regard for consuming or sleeping. And as long as you’re pretty pro-active with the odd cost every week, you gained’t have to fret about this headset conking out mid-game.

The wi-fi connectivity is delivered through a USB dongle, so you need to use this headset throughout PC and PS4. Sennheiser is touting a “near-zero delay” and we’re inclined to agree. There no tangible latency launched from shifting between wired and wi-fi.

So with wi-fi battery life and connectivity each getting high marks, it comes all the way down to audio high quality to essentially impress. Sennheiser is but to allow us to down on this regard, which ought to shock nobody, and the GSP 370 provides a broad and detailed profile suited completely to gaming.

Clarity is the identify of the game – and the GSP 370 delivers in swathes. While barely bassier than some high-end Sennheiser designs, leading to a a lot hotter profile general, the low-end is much from overpowering with loads of definition within the vary to choose up the finer particulars of music or distinct in-game audio cues. It’s additionally a surprisingly spacious profile for a closed-back headset with respectable sound isolation – what a distinction skilled audio tuning could make to quite mundane 20-20,000Hz drivers.

The microphone is equally succesful, efficiently blocking out most background noise whereas delivering clear and constant audio to your teammates/strangers you need to chastise. The mic is completely hooked up to the left ear cup, and concurrently mutes and swivels up and out of the way in which when not in use.

On the other ear cup, there’s a single infinite quantity wheel that ties immediately into your system sound.

While you’ll discover higher imaging and element within the firm’s high-end cans, particularly the open-backed GSP 500, the GSP 370 makes for a unbelievable all-round surrogate for pricier gear – you’ll see diminishing returns the additional you head up the gaming vary anyhow. And that’s an enormous boon to the GSP 370, not as a result of it’s the very best, however as a result of it’s roughly half the worth at £169.

While removed from low cost, that’s cash effectively spent should you’re after a wi-fi headset that gives the whole bundle. It’s proper in that candy spot, providing readability, consolation, and battery life. Not typically will we see a wi-fi headset hit all three with out sacrificing one thing to get there – or tacking on one other £100.

But the Sennheiser isn’t with out competitors within the wi-fi market. Both the HyperX Cloud Flight and SteelSeries Arctis 7 are providing wi-fi chops for cheaper. And whereas the GSP 370 tops the Flight on virtually all counts, the Arctis 7 is an awfully tempting supply for much less. Both, nevertheless, fall far in need of the Sennheiser’s 100-hour battery life by fairly some margin – 30 and 24 hours respectively – and that might be what suggestions the GSP 370 into the lead.

The Sennheiser GSP 370 units a brand new bar for wi-fi battery life that places the remaining to disgrace – together with Sennheiser’s personal 30-hour GSP 670 we reviewed earlier this yr. And whereas you will discover loads to admire concerning the high-end headsets, as an entire bundle for £169, the GSP 370 has obtained them beat.