With a $329.99 price tag, the Stealth Pro must attain high scores across the entire scorecard if it wants to be taken seriously. The second I opened the box, I knew I was looking at a contender.

It’s not uncommon for turtles to live up to 60 years, and they have a tiny home range. A box turtle removed from its native habitat will spend the rest of its life trying to get home.

Given Turtle Beach's lackluster recent output, such as the garish and rather uncomfortable Stealth 700 Max Gen 2 (a $200 headset), I didn't really expect the Stealth Pro to rival the Arctis Nova Pro.

A 13-mile stretch of beach in the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, an area southeast of Orlando set aside in 1991, had about a thousand green sea turtle nests in 1994, almost 12,000 in 2013 ...

There's been a decline of the ornate box turtle population within recent years, according to Nickell. "It's primarily due to habitat loss," Nickell said.