When it comes to CES , you’ll find everything from robot vacuums to gaming headsets popping up at the booths surrounding the showroom floor, and JBL is introducing the latter with its new and improved Quantum series gaming headsets for 2026. When we say new and improved, we really mean new and improved. JBL is introducing three new gaming headsets to the market this year: the Quantum 950X, the Quantum 650X, and the Quantum 250. As you have probably guessed, these will represent the flagship high-end, mid-tier, and entry-level price points for the gaming headset market.
JBL wants to ensure it’s covering every category of gamer, and it believes it’s doing so with these three headsets. For instance, the Quantum 250 is a wired headset that offers a no-frills approach to gaming. It uses a simple plug-and-play experience, so if you don’t care to mess about with dongles and extra features, you can simply plug this headset in and start playing games. For some gamers, that’s all that’s important. Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s completely devoid of special features. It does offer spatial sound, and it has a noise-cancelling mic for better vocal clarity in voice chat. The lack of extras means it has a much smaller price tag as well, as it’ll retail for $79.99.
The flagship JBL Quantum series headset for 2026 includes several notable upgrades
There are so many options for gaming headsets out there, but not all of them are created equal. One of the best gaming headsets available for the past few years, the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless , comes with what is arguably one of the best features any gaming headset has ever offered: the hot-swappable batteries. Now, JBL is offering an alternative with the Quantum 950X.
This is JBL’s new flagship gaming headset, and while it comes with a flagship price of $399.99, it also offers some of the best tech a gaming headset can. The hot swappable batteries are one of those features, allowing the headset to essentially have unlimited uptime. The headset also comes with a wireless base station. What’s more is that the base station will charge the second battery. So, just like with the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless (and the more recent Arctis Nova Elite ), you can keep a charged battery in the Quantum 950X, and then swap it out when the battery is about to die and recharge it.
In addition to the hot-swappable batteries, the Quantum 950X has dual wireless connectivity with Bluetooth 5.3 in addition to the 2.4GHz low-latency audio from the base station. If the top-tier option isn’t really your thing, then JBL’s new mid-tier Quantum 650X retails for $199.95, and it offers many of the same great features. For example, it still has the dual wireless connectivity, noise-cancelling mic, and spatial audio. It also has up to 45 hours of playtime. JBL says that the Quantum 950X and the Quantum 650X will launch in April, while the Quantum 250 launches in March.
