I walked into an appointment with gaming headset and accessory maker Astro at this year’s E3 with a specific chip on my shoulder. I own too many headphones already. In fact, I own five pairs of Ast…
In fact, I own five pairs ofI have a pair of Astro’s A40s from 2013, including the controller-based “mixamp” that shipped with them at the time, as well as a 2013-era pair of the company’s wireless A50s. Then, a few years later, I acquired a new pair of Astro’sTR set, a performance version of their older line with a revamped mixamp, more customizable colors, and a slightly retooled headband, along with its second-generation A50s, which used a charging base station for the first time.
The stars of the show, however, were Astro’s revamped A40s and A50s. First of all of this should be taken with appropriate skepticism, because I’m operating entirely on the feature set and build of the new headsets — review hardware is not yet available and I didn’t have a chance to spend any time with the new kit. But the new features are quite appealing, in large part because things seem to have changed almost explicitly toward my use cases.have changed considerably.
But the big difference for both headsets is an entirely new set of audio drivers, designed and tuned to provide support for spatial headphone audio in the form of native Dolby Atmos on PC and Xbox One . Just as importantly, the A50s for Xbox One include a two-year license for Dolby Atmos, which is critical — because the Xbox One was not initially designed for Atmos, Microsoft’s license is not universally applicable, and in some case, you’d have to pay to use it.
Meanwhile, I’m excited to find out just how Atmos performs in these new headphones. Spatial audio is a phenomenal addition in games that properly support it, and headphones are much easier to set up than seven or nine speaker configurations .
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