After a bit of experimenting, I was able to find the culprit: crosstalk is primarily caused by the supplied dual TRS splitter cable. Heavy crosstalk on the SteelSeries Arctis 1 exists even when the microphone is muted or physically disconnected from the headset. If not handled, it's highly distracting and very, very annoying.
In other words, if crosstalk happens, your teammates will hear the sounds from your game, the music you're listening to, their own voices, etc. One issue with the microphone is crosstalk-an anomaly where the microphone is picking up whatever is playing through the headphones, usually through poorly isolated internal input/output wiring. To my ears, the one that comes with the SteelSeries Arctis 1 sounds the best. By listening to the following samples, you can compare this microphone to the microphones of a couple of other popular, inexpensive brand-name gaming headsets.
Even though the capsule isn't equipped with a pop filter, there are no audible pops while I'm talking. The bidirectional microphone capsule even picks up a fair amount of depth-you can easily hear that I don't sound tinny or telephonic. My voice is clean, uncompressed, and perfectly understandable. Microphone quality surpasses anything one could expect from a $50 gaming headset. This is the sound recorded by using the detachable microphone the SteelSeries Arctis 1 is supplied with: The sound was recorded with microphone sensitivity set to 100% and was not postprocessed or edited in any way.įor reference, this voice recording has been made with Rode NT-USB, a high-quality studio microphone: Testing was done in Discord, Skype, and Audacity, and I also used Audacity to record the sound from the microphone.
I connected them to Audiolab's M-DAC, a high-quality digital-to-analog converter that functions as an external sound card when connected to a PC. To review the microphone's sound and compare it to similar headsets, I used the Adam A7X speakers and Shure SRH840 headphones (both of them fall into the studio monitor category). I tested the microphone of the SteelSeries Arctis 1 by connecting it to my integrated sound card (ASUS SupremeFX S1220 audio codec), as well as a couple of other sound cards, such as the EVGA NU Audio Pro (PCI Express interface) and Creative Sound Blaster X3 (external USB sound card).
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