PC Gamer {Hardware} Awards: The most effective gaming headsets of 2022

On Dec 29, 2022

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Once I sit again, chill out and play some video games on the finish of a protracted day, I attain for my gaming headset. I’ve a set of audio system, however there’s nothing higher for the immersion and high quality of in-game audio than an awesome pair of headphones. Audio system can provide one thing glorious, too, and so they have their very own time to shine, however for my prime gaming hours I select a headset.

I do not know if I am an audiophile however I am into the audio aspect of PC gaming greater than another components of the equation. Do not get me flawed, I like a giant display screen, and I am mainly in love with my many mechanical keyboards, however one thing about superb audio simply sends tinglies up my backbone.

Although I’ve skilled the worst of the worst on this job, too. These gaming headsets that make your pores and skin crawl with tinny audio, overblown bass, and inarticulate response. I’ve worn gaming headsets that genuinely gave me a headache earlier than, so I am fairly essential in terms of this all-important peripheral.

So under you will discover among the headsets that I, and my glorious colleagues, have examined over the previous 12 months. These are the perfect round. The most effective for high quality, consolation, and connection of their respective worth ranges—as a result of it is not at all times about choosing the perfect, however choosing the perfect on a funds.

Greatest gaming headset 2022: the nominees

Solely considered one of these three headsets might be topped the champ and awarded the PC Gamer {Hardware} Award for the perfect gaming headset in 2022. Discover out which on New 12 months’s Eve.

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Jacob earned his first byline writing for his personal tech weblog from his hometown in Wales in 2017. From there, he graduated to professionally breaking issues as {hardware} author at PCGamesN, the place he would later win command of the equipment cabinet as {hardware} editor. These days, as senior {hardware} editor at PC Gamer, he spends his days reporting on the most recent developments within the expertise and gaming business. When he isn’t writing about GPUs and CPUs, nonetheless, you will discover him attempting to get as far-off from the fashionable world as potential by wild tenting.