SteelSeries Arctis 5 Gaming Headset Review

Performance

The same speaker drivers found in SteelSeries flagship $300 headsets, the S1 drivers are engineered to deliver a detailed, balanced soundscape with ultra-low distortion. Their goal: create a soundscape that provides a natural and accurate reproduction of all sounds, not just explosions. After a significant amount of time prototyping and tuning the Arctis soundscape, SteelSeries created a headset that sounds amazing for all types of games, movies, music & everything else. 

Personalize your lighting effects with 16.8 million different colors. Each earcup can be customized individually with effects such as breathe, color shift and more.Enter a virtual 3D environment with the most accurate placement of audio cues.

SteelSeries partnered with DTS Headphone:X to use an entirely new algorithm specifically designed for Arctis. DTS Headphone:X goes above and beyond any other surround sound solution. You can perfectly identify positional audio, including enemy location and environmental cues. No more alt-tabbing, easily control your volume and mute directly on your headset everywhere you game. Every Arctis comes with a detachable, modular cable system, giving you optimized cables and connectors to match your every need from PC to XBox, Playstation, mobile and more. Sharing is caring. Your friends can connect to the share jack and listen in on the action.

The ClearCast microphone uses an exclusive bidirectional design delivering unmatched voice clarity and background noise cancellation. Every gaming headset has been using the wrong microphone. Even SteelSeries. Until now, nobody ever went back to the beginning and challenged the status quo. All Arctis models feature a bidirectional ClearCast microphone. This re-engineered noise-canceling mic delivers incredibly clear voice communication, focusing on the user’s speech while acoustically eliminating virtually all background noise. ClearCast is setting a new bar in gaming microphones, against which all future headsets will be compared.

Compatability

PC

There we have it! The Arctis 5 brought to us by SteelSeries! Let us cover a few final thoughts in the conclusion of our review.