What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
This is the first headset/headphone that are comfortable to wear for hours. They are soooo comfortable. It feels super light and i also love the airweave cushions they have on the earcups.
They are the most comfortable headphones i have ever owned. For gaming it has great direction sound quality for first person shooter games.
For a 60$ headset 100% recommend. Joking, its good. I know steelseries would have good customer service if need be.
Cons
For an few bucks less buy the corsair hs50, it is a lot better across the board and i recommend it over the arctis 3! Unfortunately, the replacement cable from steelseries has only one shipping option which is $40 (for no discernible reason), four tim... Read More
There isn't enough padding so the speaker pushes against my ear, and after about an hour of wearing them i needed to take them off. The plastic headband is too tight and doesn't have enough options to adjust it.
With the software open, it automatically adjusts the mic volume for some reason, and kept cranking it up to 100% and that would be way too loud for people to hear me. This is most likely a design flaw with the mic mechanism. I am now convince that thi... Read More
Highlights
Quality
Love theese headphones have had them for a week now mic quality is great sounds good and they are super comfy.
The sound quality was pretty good and it was very comfortable.
The sound quality is a bit muddy in the mid-range.
I know alot of people have trouble with the fact they don't fit them right.
Price
What a wonderful product for the cost!
I initially wanted to go for the arctis 1, but looking at the arctis 3 the price is almost the same.
Packaging/appearance
They had great packaging, all pieces included.
It feels super light and i also love the airweave cushions they have on the earcups.
Competitiveness
The lowest volume setting still leaks a very small amount of sound but having both drivers output the same volume at lower volu... Read More
Worked perfectly for both of my macbook pro’s
It's much better than no-name headsets, but the cheaper corsair hyperx cloud stinger had better sound quality despite lacking b... Read More
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- This product had a total of 8,091 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 14 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The sound quality is a bit muddy in the midrange
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Treble is alright but it seems to emphasize the fricatives and affricates in speech and cymbals in music
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Seems like a bog standard gaming headset mic
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I know alot of people have trouble with the fact they dont fit them right
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I have a smaller head so they fit perfectly but i would say if you have a bigger head than average skip these
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you dont want to break past 100 dollars
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
She uses discord on her phone and doesnt have a headset so when we game i can always hear myself and the game music in the background
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I also have an issue with traditional headsets such as the sony noise cancelling or bose noise cancelling ones
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