Turtle Beach's budget gaming headsets fuelled my childhood years of yelling at friends on Call of Duty, but there's a reason I haven't touched them in a while. In my experience, poor audio quality, flimsy builds, and mediocre microphones proved to me (or more so, my mum) that putting just a little extra cash in often gets a much better investment in the long run. However, I'm fully prepared for the Turtle Beach Recon 70 to change my mind.
At its $40 price point, I reckon it mostly just needs to do its main functions well enough to be unnoticeable, or at least not noticeably bad. We've seen the HyperX Cloud Alpha all the way down to $50 during sales events, which is still confidently the best gaming headset, even so long after it arrived on the scene. It's a tough price point, mostly because the jump in quality is tangible once you move out of the tightest of budget brackets.
