Turtle Beach Recon 70 vs Sennheiser PC 373D (2016)

Techradar, a review site with a history of doing objective hands-on testing, has great things to say about the Turtle Beach Recon 70. In fact, it's "Best budget" in its "Best Nintendo Switch headphones 2022: the top Switch gaming headsets" roundup, which points toward it being a good Gaming Headset.

Taking a look at the Sennheiser PC 373D (506528), it got featured in roundups from two reliable sources that conduct their own testing - Tom's Guide and realgear.net - but it fell short of earning a top spot in either.

We conducted an analysis of all of the review data that we could find on these two products. First, we focused on sources that tested and rated both of them, like Tom's Guide, and learned that they all showed a preference for the Sennheiser PC 373D (506528).

Then we took a look at the highest review scores that these two Gaming Headsets received. We found that the Turtle Beach Recon 70 managed to earn a rating of 8.4 from Headphone Review, whereas the Sennheiser PC 373D (506528) got its highest, 8, score from reviewers at Tom's Guide.

Lastly, we averaged out all of their review ratings and observed that the Turtle Beach Recon 70, with its 7.5 average, performed considerably better than most Gaming Headsets - the mean score for the product category being 7.2 out of 10 - while the Sennheiser PC 373D (506528) managed an average of 6.5.

There's one caveat here - it might not be entirely justifiable to do a direct Turtle Beach Recon 70 vs. Sennheiser PC 373D (506528) review average comparison since they aren't priced the same and more expensive products tend to get higher review scores from some sources.