Friday, August 26, 2011

Review: Steelseries spectrum 5XB

The Steelseris spectrum 5XB. Designed and manufactured by Steelseries. Here's the low down.
Pros
-One of the most comfortable headsets I have ever worn. Surrounds your entire ear and super prolonged usage of this will not affect you. Soft large cushions at the ear muffs and a leather rubber like skin with padding on the top makes it an extreme comfort to wear.
-Braided cable of about 1-2 meters. Pretty sufficient.
-Audio is pretty impressive also. Large ear muffs give the feel of you actually inside the game and you can hear things distinctively coming from different directions.
-Comes with a Steelseries audio converter that is compatible with many other headsets. The audio converter has individual audio and voice sound adjusters, a large front microphone on and off tab, at the back a audio mixer where if on, game volume will automatically decrease once some one is talking in your party for example and game volume goes back to normal levels after talking from party, making extreme convenience for user.
-Portable in parts. The headset can be easily dismantled into 3 different parts for maximum portability and can be also easily reassembled.
-Hidden microphone at the side that can be pulled out allows maximum space.
-Ascetics are nice too, with a glossy side ear muff plus a Steelseries logo and the top with a smooth plastic piece that shows that quality has been put into the product.

Downsides
-Heavy. It gets noticeably heavy after awhile and starts to feel awkward.
-The rounded earmuffs make you look a bit funny.
-These are designed for home use and brining it out is not really a great idea.
-Music wise there are not that great.
-The microphone is of pretty bad quality. Good enough to be heard clearly. Bad to the point where you sound like you are using a cheap microphone.
-No additional accessories
-Over priced. This costs 189 SGD. About 160+ USD. Totally not worth the price for this headset.

All in all, I do not recommend this unless you really have no choice. Which shouldn't be the case. An Astro A30, which is way better than this, costs about 130+ USD on Amazon for a brand new one.

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