MG20

Sound. Nova Elite represents one of the worst values in the gaming headset market at the moment. Outside of I/O, 90% of the value the Elite's bring to the table could be had by going with the cheaper Nova Pro Wireless. Everything else is just tuning, and can be achieved via PEQ. Weighing the Maxwell

Steelseries Nova Elite Most of the value of the Nova Elite can be had with the Nova Pro Wireless. It does not compete with the Maxwell for sound quality; I would argue it doesn't even compete with the much older and even cheaper (at this point) Master & Dynamic MG20. And, frankly, I do not think the

90% of the value of the Nova Elite can be found in the Nova Pro Wireless, unfortunately. Besides the adjustment to frequency response, and an improved driver that you'll never really get to push to see the benefits of, at least in a gaming context, an improved mic and better I/O aren't enough to jus

That’s the main hang up. I would too. I’ve spent much more. But that $300 price point is very hard to push further in the market; the Master & Dynamic MG20 is a perfect example of this in action. Until the VZR Model One, and then the Maxwell after it, the MG20 was the best sounding headset on the ma

To be fair, you're already partly right; the best ANC on the market, even trumping what Sony and Bose are doing, are the AceZone headsets. The attenuation on those headphones is near black magic. The ambient/background noise reduction of the Audeze Maxwell is the best I've ever tested on any device,