The pulsing electronic tunes delivered both precise highs and solid – although not booming – bass tones, with nice differentiation between them. This large headset has voluminous cans that should easily fit around your entire ears, and they're plenty comfy too. With gaming and audio hardware alike, you usually get what you pay for – and when you're not paying much, then you probably shouldn't expect much.

You see more of a premium touch with the large metal arches that connect the cups to the headband, while also allowing the flexibility to fit on all types of heads. It's a straightforward stereo headset, built for pumping your ear holes full of shotgun blasts and thumping tunes, as well as keeping you in sync with your squad via its unidirectional noise-cancelling microphone. Usually this can be adjusted in the app settings, or disabling Exclusive control in the advanced tab of your second screenshot.It shines in nearly every respect, starting with the durable, premium-feeling build, which has a nicely understated appeal and comes off as a pricier device. In following thread the phenomen is described as "sidetone audio through the earcups" [ https://forum. While the very solid Astro A10 came off as a simplified, utilitarian devolution from the company's pricier efforts, Corsair's headset punches a couple notches above its weight class in both polish and build quality.

Furthermore, the band has sleek faux-leather with color-accent stitching on the plush inside and the Corsair logo on the top. Some of our teammates even commented that it sounded like we were talking through a mask, due to how muffled it sounded. Better yet, you can fully remove the microphone – also on the left cup – which makes the HS50 all the more ideal as an on-the-go headset. The bendy, detachable microphone is very compact, but size doesn’t affect its great recording quality.Right off the bat, we noticed that the HS50 Pro is definitely not the headset for you if you have a larger than average or a particularly petite head, as it doesn't expand or contract all that much. If you're willing to spend more on a headset, then you'll find plenty of perks, including Bluetooth wireless support, dazzling designs and surround sound capabilities – and those may be worth spending for.

If your ticket is still open, try following up with it - otherwise open up a new ticket at https://help. This type of device allows you to listen at lower volume levels, causing less ear fatigue as you don't have to crank up the volume to overcome background noise. This mirrored our results in the positional test, with our judges able to accurately locate the origin of an in-game sound the bulk of the tie.It also has the benefit of filtering out most external background noises but unfortunately will pick up just about any side conversation unless it's happening more than 15' away from you. But if you don't want to splurge on a headset and just need something that's capable, versatile, and seemingly built to last, then the Corsair HS50 absolutely lives up to the task. It also did well in the driver matching test and made it easy to locate where a sound is coming from in the binaural test. In fact, it's pretty similar to the slightly pricier Astro A10 headset, which we recently reviewed – but in nearly every respect, the Corsair HS50 goes one notch better.