When it comes to RGB lighting, the Arena 9 is not going to give you the most nuanced light show. For more EQ fine-tuning, you’ll have to go through the SteelSeries GG Engine and its Sonar add-on (discussed below) which we highly recommend. You can customize one custom setting where you can adjust a 10-band EQ. You have the usual options like bass boost, bass cut, or a high-mid boost appropriately called “Excite”, among others. You do have some EQ on hand through the control pod but you can only cycle through six different presets.

Otherwise, you won't be able to take advantage of that surround sound. Since this is a 5.1 system, make sure you have a place to put those rear speakers. The rear left and right speakers are all wall-mountable as well.

And, two rear speakers, one for the left and one for the right, turn the system into a surround sound experience. A downward-firing subwoofer provides that extended low-end. A dual-driver center speaker, as well as two tiltable front speakers, form the main part of your audio experience. There are a total of 6 speaker cabinets in the Arena 9 setup. All the speakers also come in matte-black hard plastic enclosures, traits they share with just about every other computer speaker. And, the SteelSeries Arena 9 speakers, not including the subwoofer, are no different. Lots of speakers and lots of connectivity on handįor whatever reason, PC speaker brands like to shape their speakers in a somewhat cylindrical, almost alien egg-type shape.

(Image credit: Future / James Holland) SteelSeries Arena 9: Design

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