My astro a20 cod mw2 headset lasted since.. well the original mw2 game came out i guess just replaced them like a month ago
Using artic or some shit now
Astro, or at least they were when I bought my pair of A20’s.
I was in the same position as you in 2019 and then I bought a pair of Astro A20’s and they’re built like a tank and practically fool proof. The headset bends a lot meaning it’s pretty impossible to break them and the foam pads for the ears are still solid to this day and have no sign of breaking off. There is no part of the headset that has physically shown any sign of degradation. If you’re looking for BIFL durability wise then Astro is the way to go—at least the A20 and A10’s are since I have no experience with their more expensive models.
With the said, the audio and mic quality is middling. The mic I straight up wouldn’t use if I were you. For years I wondered why my friends pretended like I wasn’t talking—turns out I was just so quiet that they couldn’t hear me (That’s more of a console problem since you can’t really alter your mic level). The default audio is okay, not great not terrible. I have my own preset that I stole from some random guide long ago so I’m really satisfied with the audio quality at the moment. Also, having owned it for almost a decade, the battery is obviously degrading to the point I’m considering buying new headphones but I haven’t started to notice until recently and 7 years after the original purchase.
Obviously, it seems times have changed and Logitech seems to be more involved with Astro now so I can’t speak of modern Astro headphones, but the ones I got were definitely a BIFL durability style purchase and I would 100% recommend it for reliability.
I can only speak to my experiences. I’ve tried the pulse 3d, which I liked until they broke, then Astro A20s, which were the most comfortable, but the sound wasn’t much better than the pulse 3d. And these arctis 7s sound unreal compared to the two. I’m no audio expert - just my personal experience.
I’ve had the Xbox brand one, Astro A20s, and Steelseries arctis 7s the Steelseries are my favorite by a mile they have great battery life I feel the others don’t.
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