This minimalist design wins it big points as far as we're concerned. There is no space wasted on the sides, as the Apex Pro virtually ends where the keys stop. The aluminum frame of this laptop is just big enough to house it, without too much excess. Luckily, the SteelSeries Apex Pro avoids this trend. You'll constantly find these huge, foreboding slabs of plastic jutting out of the sides of a lot of keyboards. The bass on songs like Block Rockin’ Beats by The Chemical Brothers also comes across wonderfully thanks to the headset’s enhanced low end.One of our biggest pet peeves when it comes to gaming keyboards in general is just how big they can get.

Other genres of music sound fantastic here, however, such as the second movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony where the headset accurately reproduces everything from the low bass instruments to the air of the high strings. Reptillia by The Strokes suffers a little bit due to the particularly “hissy” hi-hats and cymbals used in the song, which don’t fit with this headset’s high-end response as well. The guitars of No One Knows by Queens of the Stone Age fit the frequency response of this headset particularly well, with the high-end sounding clear and the bass guitar being easily distinguishable alongside it. Although this frequency response isn’t perfect, it still makes for an impressive and enjoyable listening experience for both games and music.

The narrow 8kHz peak, and high-end roll-off beginning around 10kHz aren’t too noticeable, but it is noteworthy if that’s something you might be sensitive to. Compared to our ideal consumer curve, this headset has a slight emphasis in the bass range (around 100Hz) and a slight dip around 4kHz. The Arctis Nova Pro Wireless has a pretty good-sounding frequency response.

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