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This has been answered before on another thread, but just to reiterate; Astros are great. I have a pair of a40s, and love them. I have heard however that the headset is not as good as others out there, but the mixamp is amazing. Some people prefer to get the astro a40s mixamp and use a different headset with it.I have both the mixamp and headset from astro and I can't complain. The only thing that annoys me is the controller wire (the one that connects your controller to your mixamp, it enables voice) is very fragile and breaks quite often. I have gone through 3-4 of them and I treat my stuff with care.
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I have the A40's too. I hear that the A50's have a lot of background noise, but the A40's are great. The mixamp is amazing and is perfect for recording video's and stuff from what I hear. The quality is great but It doesn't have as many customizable features like turtle beach. (such as moving the speaker preferences). I did have an issue with mine, it would make loud buzzing noises and I couldn't talk to my friends but after sending it in they fixed it. ALSO I'm pretty sure would have to buy an adapter for the Xbox one because when I got mine (around Christmas) it wasn't compatible with chat because of the Xbox ones new chat plug in thingy lol. I'm gonna end up buying the adapter when it comes out.(idk if it comes with it now or not)
"For Xbox One connectivity, a separate Chat Adaptor will be required for voice chat functionality. This Chat Adaptor is not yet available, but in the interim the microphone on the Xbox One Kinect will allow you to converse over Xbox Live. We hope to have this adapter ready in early 2014."
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Thanks for the responses, gents. Still have a lot of thinking to do.
The A50's are sweet because they (from what I've heard):
- Are more comfortable than the A40's
- Are Wireless (except for the chat cable to the controller)
- Have 3 EQ Presets (Media, Gaming, Shooter)
- Have all controls on the headset itself (no external mixamp)
- Have a closed-ear design (so essentially noise cancelling)
But the A40's
- Are cheaper (by $30 in my case)
- Are open ear (which might be a benefit because ASTROs don't have voice monitoring)
- Have a better mic chat quality
- Have customizable/swappable ear plates
- Have the Mixamp externally so other headsets can be used with it
- Have been around long enough that there are virtually no issues with the A40 quality/design
- Have a removable microphone
I think I want both. Lol.
That damn chat adapter and early March needs to come faster, dammit!
Former Field Marshal and General of the BLUE Army
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The A40's have FOUR presets. Shooter, core, media, sports. The A50's are wireless but I hear that it causes a lot of interference noise while the A40's are silent. The removable ear plates on the A40 are cool so you can buy some limited edition ones without buying the full headset. I've had 3 headsets before and I think that wired is so much better by far than wireless. I think that the A40's are very comfortable, playing from 10AM-3AM is great with no aches. Also switching from xbox 360 to xbox one to pc is fast and easy. There are two cords, one for xbox and the other for PC so I just leave them in and switch whenever I wanna play.Another cool thing is that you can still have the headset plugged into the 360 controller for talking while playing on the One.
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Former Field Marshal and General of the BLUE Army
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I also have the a40s, i personally don't like the headset all that much anymore, because of lost of problems with the pieces connecting it. But the mix-amp works wonders and i use a different headset with the mix amp. But, also recognize the fact that I had my a40s for a year and there was not any problems but then all the parts on the headset slowly deteriorated like most other headsets after that year. But all in all i believe its worth it because not everyone has the same problems as I did.
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Get the mixamp and get yourself a nice pair of headphones.
Then get this: http://www.amazon.com/Zalman-Zm-Mic1...attachable+mic
And thank me later.
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Get the mixamp and get yourself a nice pair of headphones.
Then get this: http://www.amazon.com/Zalman-Zm-Mic1...attachable+mic
And thank me later.
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