How to fix static noise on macOS headphones

A bit over a year ago, I bought a pair of Steelseries Arctis Nova Pro headphones. They are amazing for what I need—they work great over 2.4 GHz, so I don’t experience noticeable latency like with Bluetooth, and I can connect four devices to the base station simultaneously. This is something I do daily when working on multiple computers.

I never had any issues until I connected them to a Mac mini with an M2 processor. After an indeterminate amount of time, static noise started coming out of the headphones, getting progressively louder until they became unusable. Rebooting the headphones didn’t help, nor did changing the output device to something else and back again. If I hadn’t used them successfully on other devices, I would have assumed they were broken.