Underneath the over-arching support struts is a piece of soft padded material which rests atop your head, elastically attached to the headset allowing it to stretch to fit any head size. Rather than opting for a mechanical, manually adjustable design SteelSeries have gone for a one size fits all approach with the Siberia 200. The wide, polyester padded earcups offer a lot of room meaning that those of us with larger lobes won’t find their ears getting squashed uncomfortably into a space too small for them. The Siberia 200 one of the more comfortable headsets I’ve worn, with a few caveats to that statement. The model that SteelSeries sent us was the descriptively named White model, but there are a range of colours to choose from to suit your style I’m partial to the Proton Yellow model myself. The earcups themselves are circular rather than the more traditional, if somewhat vaguely termed ‘ear shaped’. The Siberia 200 is a stylish piece of hardware, offering up a series of curves and circles rather than any sharp edges and straight lines.

It’s rather bizarre that we put so much stock into the appearance of a headset when we basically never see it, but we’re vain creatures and we want to look good, even when we’re sat at a computer by ourselves.

At £60 it’s not going to be the best and SteelSeries damn well know it, but what they’ve built here is certainly in the running for the title of best entry-level headset on the market at the moment. The Siberia 200 is SteelSeries’s spiritual successor to the Siberia V2, aiming to bring the ageing headset into the modern age with a goal of ‘ reclaiming its title as the best gaming headset in eSports and PC gaming’.

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