Turtle Beach’s Stealth 600 Gen 3 Headset — A Mini Review

The Best $100 Wireless Gaming Headset?

Nearly four years ago, I wasn’t super thrilled with the Gen 2 version of the venerable Turtle Beach Stealth 600. I reviewed the headset during my short-lived era where I would sometimes accept (fully disclosed and no-strings-attached) test units from companies. Turtle Beach sent a Gen 2 Stealth 600 to me alongside a whole bundle of other stuff, and I thought it was completely let down by lackluster build choices.

It’s amazing how much a design revision can change things.

Two weeks ago, I bought this year’s new Gen 3 edition of the headset to test out, driven by an intense curiosity. I’ve been using it exclusively that whole time. I wasn’t asked to review it by the company, nor paid to post this in any way.

The Stealth 600 Gen 3 comes in two different $99 flavors: an Xbox compatible model, and a “standard” PC/PS5 version. The Xbox edition has a little toggle switch on its dongle that allows you to use it with either a PC/Switch/PS5 or in an Xbox mode that satisfies Microsoft’s frustrating audio licensing requirements. The Xbox version is more broadly compatible, but if you don’t own any Xbox consoles I’d recommend leaning towards the other version instead as it has Waves 3D support on PC and slightly more…