I currently have a set of steelseries arctis 9x and love em. Comfy for long gaming sessions, good audio quality, good mic quality. However, they stopped charging last night. I swapped out the cord, hoping it was that, however it seems as though the charging dock on the actual headset is toast. So I need a new set.

I'm looking at buying something new. Been doing research and the turtle beach Stealth Gen 2 looks interesting, as does the ASTRO a50. I want something comparable to( if not better than) thr steel series in terms of sound quality, but don't want to spend more than $200-250.

What do you guys use? Any recommendations?

when i used a headset i used the sennheiser g4me zero i liked it a lot

Have had...

Triton 7.1s, Astro A50s, Rig800s, and Arctis Nova 7x is latest purchase.



Would recommend the Rig800s and Arctis Nova 7x out of those.

The Astro A50's did have the best sound quality of the bunch when I owned them back in ~2010, but their hardware interface is very dated by todays standard and I doubt their new baby daddy will be updating that setup anytime soon.

Rig800s were the best bang/buck in the $75 ballpark when I picked them up.

The Arctis Nova 7x sounds almost as good as the A50, definitely feels 100x more comfortable. The built in ability to mix bluetooth, microphone, and game audio is really nice. The more expensive 9x requires a base stations thingy to do the same. Also, while annoying, the paired dongle thingy isn't as bulky as the base station setups others using. All that being said, there are parts of the headset that feel cheaply built, probably not great for kids or if you hard on em.

This post was edited by RedFromWinter on Mar 3 2023 08:35pm