There’s nothing worse than having your wi-fi gaming headset run out of juice mid-game, however the brand new Sennheiser GSP 370 ought to hopefully delay that sudden, deathly silence a bit longer due to its incredible-sounding 100+ hours of battery life. That’s over 6x longer than Sennheiser’s personal GSP 670, which at present prices a whopping £300 / $350. Not dangerous for a £169 / $200 headset, eh?
I’ll be placing the GSP 370 by its paces quickly to see simply the way it lasts in actual life, however to place that 100-odd hours into perspective, Sennheiser reckons that will provide you with 4 months of use from it in case your gaming habits recurrently clock in at round six hours per week. Naturally, the variety of months could decline considerably should you spend all weekend enjoying games, for instance, however that’s nonetheless much more spectacular than different wi-fi gaming headsets you should buy for the time being, such because the 30-hour HyperX Cloud Flight, the 20 hours supplied by the Steelseries Arctis Pro Wireless, the 17-hour HyperX Cloud Stinger Wireless, and the 16 hours of our present best gaming headset champ for the price range wi-fi class, the Corsair HS70.
Admittedly, the important thing to the GSP 370’s secret is a bit obscure. All Sennheiser have stated on the matter is that it has an extended lasting battery than their different wi-fi headsets, in addition to decrease energy consumption. Sennheiser don’t go into any specifics about both of those, however in a manner, the sheer variety of hours the headset can supposedly pack away speaks for itself, actually. Plus, when the GSP 370 does ultimately run out of energy, you may stick with it utilizing the headset whereas it’s charging through its bundled micro USB cable.
The GSP 370 doesn’t have any Bluetooth assist just like the GSP 670, so you may’t take cellphone calls on it or something like that sadly, however its USB dongle does use an analogous low latency connection to verify there aren’t any delays between what you’re listening to and what you’re seeing onscreen. Again, I’ll be testing this completely as soon as I’ve received my arms on a assessment pattern, as I positively had a number of points with the wi-fi vary of the GSP 670 once I had it in for assessment final month.
The design, in the meantime, has extra in frequent with Sennheiser’s lower-end GSP 300 headsets. This additionally has me a teensy bit nervous, because the cut up padded headband of the GSP 350 I examined (the 7.1 encompass sound version of the 300-series) began to provide me a headache after about 30 minutes or so. Still, its leatherette ear pads have been fairly comfy in opposition to my cheeks, and its sound high quality was very good, so right here’s hoping the GSP 370 will reside as much as the identical commonplace.
