Roccat Syn Pro Air review: Sound quality over comfort?

(Pocket-lint) - Now that Turtle Beach and Roccat person combined forces, products specified arsenic the Syn Pro Air correspond the ethos of the 2 companies. Here it's a operation of a great-looking headset with intriguing dependable plan features.

The Syn Pro Air wireless gaming headset has loads connected offer, too, including large sound, 3D audio, eye-catching RGB lighting, and much besides. But are its operation of bully looks and tempting audio features enough?

Snazzy plan with flaws

• ProSpecs earpads 
• Turnable, lay-flat earcup design
• Breathable diversion moisture-wicking fabric
• Detachable flip-to-mute TruSpeak microphone
• 24-hours artillery beingness with fast-charging (5 hours recharge successful 15 mins)

Out of the box, the Roccat Syn Pro Air is undeniably eye-catching. We were archetypal struck by a fewer absorbing plan choices which marque this headset peculiarly basal out.

One of those is the lay-flat plan of the earcups and the antithetic layout of the headband extension. This headset's earcups tin beryllium easy twisted and turned to marque it level and portable (or worn astir the neck) and besides extended easy to acceptable nicely connected the head. The plan has been cleverly thought-out too, with representation foam padded receptor cushions that are built to springiness a comfy acceptable for spectacles wearers.

We some emotion and loathe those earcups though. They're ample and heavy and appear, astatine archetypal glance, to connection a high-quality style. But erstwhile you popular them connected you'll find they're scratchy and not terribly bully connected the noggin. Certainly not arsenic ear-pleasing arsenic the ultra-soft pads connected the Corsair HS80 arsenic 1 comparison. That said, they are large capable to screen the receptor nicely without adding unwanted pressure.

Despite not being faux leather, they besides artifact retired a astonishing magnitude of biology noise, particularly erstwhile you commencement gaming. The bonus of this benignant is they're crafted from diversion moisture-wicking cloth - which is cleanable if you get blistery and bothered erstwhile gaming. 

The headset itself weighs successful astatine 390g, which isn't excessively heavy, and the earcups worldly is besides utilized crossed the entirety of the headband too. So it's acold from uncomfortable successful presumption of the unit it puts connected your head.

One country it falls down though is clamping force. It's a tad excessively escaped truthful we recovered that if we bent forwards that it would conscionable cleanable autumn disconnected our caput and driblet onto the floor. If you flick your caput astir rapidly for immoderate reason, it'll besides alert disconnected that mode too. So if you're a peculiarly energetic gamer who likes to determination astir a batch erstwhile you play past this headset mightiness not beryllium for you. 

Another striking portion of this headset is the RGB lighting. Like the Roccat Kone Pro Air, the Syn Pro Air has a partially honeycomb plan hidden nether a coagulated outer shell. That is utilized to amusement disconnected immoderate eye-catching lighting that's adjustable wrong Roccat's Neon software.

Immersive 3D audio?

• 50mm Nanoclear drivers with neodymium magnets
• Superhuman Hearing dependable settings
• 20Hz – 20kHz frequence response
• Waves 3D audio tweaks

This headset boasts 50mm Nanoclear drivers which are susceptible of cranking retired immoderate superior volume. This headset offers satisfying audio, with a affluent sound, coagulated bass delivery, and an wide satisfying experience. 

Download Roccat's Neon software and you tin unfastened up a satellite of different customisation options - from customized equalisation (EQ) tweaking to accommodation of assorted dependable settings.

Those settings see Superhuman Hearing mode, which emphasises indispensable game-changing sounds truthful you tin get the precocious manus connected your opponents. This includes elemental things similar force footsteps oregon limb reloads which you mightiness person different missed. Roccat claims this tech could amended your Kill/Death Ratio (KDR) arsenic overmuch arsenic 44 per cent - but successful world it's conscionable a neat summation to the audio settings. 

But we recovered it a small pugnacious to get these settings down to a idiosyncratic preference. Superhuman Hearing, for example, is surely bully for games similar Rainbow Six Siege oregon different competitory shooters wherever proceeding footsteps is key. But it besides washes retired a batch of the warmth and bass from the crippled audio - making things dependable a batch tinnier.

Those controls are each wrong the software, truthful you'll request to fiddle with that to get it working. On the headset, you person constricted hardware controls for powerfulness and volume. There are 2 measurement wheels, 1 per earcup. One adjusts wide volume, portion the different is simply a mic monitoring adjustment. So if you're utilizing the headset's microphone, you tin tweak however overmuch oregon however small of your ain dependable you're proceeding connected the fly. We recovered this is beauteous indispensable - but, again, it'll beryllium a idiosyncratic preference. 

Although this headset doesn't person immoderate different transportation options successful presumption of 3.5mm oregon Bluetooth, it is imaginable to link to your telephone utilizing the USB-C dongle and play euphony that way. The tiny USB-C dongle has a USB-A adapter for PC successful lawsuit you don't person a port, but this plan makes the Syn Pro Air that small spot much flexible. 

Removable mic 

This headset has a removable unidirectional TruSpeak microphone. If you don't privation to usage it you tin popular it disconnected and usage the included bung to screen the hole. Alternatively, it's a flip-to-mute microphone with reasonably decent seizure capabilties. As we've said, it's surely utile for things similar proceeding yourself speech if you're gaming with friends.

As you tin perceive (snippet above), it's surely not arsenic bully prime arsenic a standalone dedicated microphone. It's rather compressed but does an good occupation of blocking retired inheritance noise, isolated from plosives. Certainly bully capable to crippled with your friends though.

Writing by Adrian Willings. Editing by Mike Lowe. Originally published connected 16 October 2021.