A50 (Gen 5)

My wife and I got A50 gen 5' early last year and could not be happier with them.

Thinking about getting this for my Xbox. I have the a50x that I won last year but honestly have never been all that impressed with them,or more-so that I liked them but that theirs no way I’d spend $449.99 plus tax CAD on them. Just found out these and from what I’ve seen are a large fitting headset I think I’m gonna pick these up and sell the a50x. Only thing I will miss is the simultaneous Bluetooth using my phone and game like if I’m waiting in a lobby or if im following a guide or walk though, but I can live without that. Had a turtle beach stealth 700 gen 2 max before I won the a50x but just tossed it and bought a wired headset. they became awful with constant cutting in and out and worse when audio got loud. That with occasional disconnects and mic monitoring randomly activating and distorting the sound and having to turn the headset off and on to fix it.

No I ended up keeping them since I didn’t want to give up the simultaneous blutooth, I also used an eq and got stealthz earpads and I like them a lot more. I also tried on a friends Logitech g522 which is essentially identical to the a20x and preferred the a50 over it, or at least once I got the new pads. Also mine are the a50 gen 5 not the x, I didn’t realize there was 2 and thought the x ment xbox since the box said designed for Xbox and any prior knowledge of new Astros was the a50x. Learned that after deciding to look them up, only difference is the dock, the a50x has hdmi pass through to use chat mix on ps5, the gen 5s are just usb only.

I have the Astro A50 gen 5 with my PS5 pro and i really love them. There is only 1 thing that i wish was better, the app is useless so i had to connect them to my macbook pro to set the sound and mic as i want, but it was a one time thing and now they are connected only to my PS5 pro. The sound is really good, and i dont have any connection problems.

Oh , and the mic is the best i ever used, my brother got the same headset on his base ps5 and on the party we hear each other so good with the a50 gen 5 mic

I love mine, they are the clearest, most accurate headset I’ve used to date. Very comfy, good mic, and the sound beats anything I’ve used before, including Astro A50 Gen 5s (which I have just sold since getting the Maxwell 2), before this I tried Razer Black Shark V3 Pro, Nova Elite (most overpriced headset ever made), HyperX Cloud 3S. Nova 5P, and many more over the past few years. Maxwell 2 is the best so far. Bass is very much there and it’s tight & clean, no distorting. I have no complaints about the bass.

Astro A50 gen 5 are awsome. bought them for 180 eur. equalizer is great, wors also on xbox, you have also bluetooth for Apple TV