Overall and FV
When SteelSeries first introduced the 9H I was extremely excited that they would finally be making a headset that would hopefully fit me properly. I loved our 7H but its size didn’t fit me well causing comfort issues, no matter how good a headset sounds or performs you aren’t going to keep using it if it hurts you. Because of that my first concern with the 9H was to make sure it would fit me properly. Happily I can confirm that it fit me great and was actually extremely comfortable. The black and orange design is both eye catching as well as clean looking, so in the end it came down to audio performance. I was really hoping the audio performance would be a little better than it was, but it wasn’t bad enough to be concerned as well. My main issues with the 9H ended up being small details like the microphone boom being too short and a few issues with the cable connection going into the headset. I was also a little concerned with I saw the 159.99 MSRP, the 9H is a good headset but I feel they may have priced themselves out of their market slightly. Especially when their competition is selling for much less, hell you can get a wireless headset for less in most cases. Hopefully SteelSeries is able to lower the price in time to make the 9H more competitive; I can see a few people sporting them at their next LanOC event for example.
