The wireless headset that gets hot-swappable batteries right

Glorious made swapping batteries faster and easier (and more fun) in a $230 headset than its $400 competitors.
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New gaming gear is always promising to shave milliseconds off latency or response time. The improvements usually aren’t obvious. But the Glorious GHS InfinitePlay wireless headset, on the other hand, could save you far more than just milliseconds: It has the fastest hot-swap battery system I’ve ever used, and the headset doesn’t die when you swap out its battery either.
Glorious improves on the formula popularized by SteelSeries , which made swappable, rechargeable batteries a feature worth caring about in a high-end headset. Its new $229.99 headset has zero audio downtime while swapping batteries because it has a fallback battery that can run up to three hours. This is a big upgrade over competing headsets, like the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni and the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro 2, which disconnect the moment their batteries are removed for swapping.


Glorious GHS InfinitePlay headset
The InfinitePlay’s battery-swapping system is faster and more foolproof, too. Its batteries insert into the right earpiece’s open slot like a cartridge, and you can’t install them incorrectly, so long as their grippy edge faces down. It’s easy to slot it in without breaking eye contact from my screen, and the audio never stops. Removing and inserting the batteries is fun, too — though battery life is long enough that I rarely had to swap them during my monthlong testing period.


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