The best-sounding gaming headset of them all? Audiophile-grade sound quality from a gaming headset. That's the dream peddled by manufacturers with respect to their premium offerings. But history has shown, repeatedly, that gaming and true audio fidelity to be largely mutually exclusive - a £100 headset is routinely trounced by a quality set of headphones from, say, Grado, AKG or Sennheiser.

The latest in a long line of gaming cans to take up the audio challenge is from Danish outfit SteelSeries. Building on the Arctis 7 range from last year, in style and substance, is the Arctis Pro line comprising the £180 base model, a £300 wireless solution and a £250 intermediary that ships with a digital-to-analogue converter (DAC). It's this Arctis Pro + GameDAC that's in for review today.