Weak mic and makes your ears sore 1 minute after ...
585590
Weak mic and makes your ears sore 1 minute after putting them. Dangerous to the longer playing time gamer
2715537
Really s***ty bass. Had to turn it way down. Even though ive been spoiled by my sennheiser hd280s, you notice the bad sound quality from the first second. I guess its allright for gaming but i find it impossible to listen to music with this thing.
Extremeley light an comfortable. I love the retractable mic. Overall an ok product. Dont use it for anything other than gaming.
4264809
I wanted a microphone for use with gaming while using speakers instead of a headset/mic combo because I don't like the feel of headsets.  I picked up two of these microphones due to favorable reviews but the mic just doesn't work very well for gaming.  My voice doesn't get picked up unless I have the microphone practically in my mouth, and my voice comes out choppy (with a few seconds of silent time stutter) and it's overly loud with a large amount of air/puffiness noise.  I've been adjusting and readjusting this mic (moving it away from speakers, trying it with earphones so no feedback, varying push to talk vs. manual on/off, etc) as well as adjusting my voice software for over a year now and just had to go back to headsets because this mic is so crappy and I can't speak for longer than 5 seconds at a time without transmit problems.  A $25 Logitech headset that plugs directly into my soundcard worked fabulously.

No more USB mics for me
1509133
Pro: Looks really nice with the LED light, amazing sounds and options for bass/movie surround etc.
Cons: REALLY REALLY bad mic, give up static sounds and even with maxed mic volume people can barely hear you. 2nd day using this and my mic completely died. If you are buying this for gaming, get a different brand. The headset is also heavier than your usual gaming headset due to the white plastic on the side around the light.
1257631
This headset has great sound quality, but other than that I am highly disappointed. The volume adjustment seems to be in a poor location so when I lean in my chair it often changes. But that is only a minor inconvenience, the problem is that I am a PC gamer who might spend 9 hours (on the most glorious free days) with the headset on. And it is SO uncomfortable. I don't think I have overly large ears, but the cushions on these are so shallow my ear rests against the inner part of the headset, and makes it unusably uncomfortable
3862835
cheap and low quality buds with mic
 - barely adequate as back up voip headset
 - simply awful for music, no high/bass, just mush
3184024
I bought these based on the name and reputation I've heard about Astro. I hated muffling the game sound in one ear using the old school Xbox headset and wanted to have unobstructed sound.  So a gaming headset with a built in mic should solve the problem, right? Well I have to say I have been severely let down and will never purchase anything from Astro again. I'll start with the good.

Pros:
-game sounds are really good. High fidelity and the EQ is manually adjustable when you connect to a computer to bring the lows mids and highs to your desired levels.
-good range without losing signal.
-feel really comfortable. Could wear these for hours at a time.

Cons:
-the mic. It's HORRIBLE... when it actually works. The mic on mine has only worked for 2 out of about 10 gaming sessions. My Xbox won't even recognize I have a mic when using this. What is the point of a gaming headset if I can't talk to my team? If I play with others, this headset ends up sitting on the table and I have to resort to the crappy one that comes with the Xbox.
-of the 2 sessions where my voice did go through, my friends had a really hard time hearing and understanding me. Said I sounded robotic and distant. Had to use the software to tweak my voice settings and that made it so my friends could understand me, but they still said I sounded really weird and distant.
-I've wasted more time trying to get this headset to work than time I've spent using them in a game. That's pathetic usability. In today's world if I pay $300 for anything, it better do its job. These fail miserably in that regard. Not plug and play.
-in order to get these to "sort of work" I had to manually configure them using my computer. Not a huge deal - except when your team is yelling at you for being AFK for 10 minutes to make minor tweaks that don't amount to much. I'm not running to my computer every time I join a group chat. That's stupid and not how things are supposed to work.
-I can't comment on the microphone-related features because I can't get these to work long enough to try them out.

If the microphone actually worked, I would give these a much higher score. I bought these specifically so I could talk to people - if I just wanted to have better game sounds I would have purchased a nicer pair of AudioTechnica regular old headphones for half the price and been happier with better sound quality. Either the designers at this company do not have the skills required to design wireless VoIP, don't care about quality at all, or rushed a crap product out the door for a quick buck. Regardless, this ends up being a terrible product. I'm so disappointed this mistake cost me $300. Learn from me and take a hard pass on this expensive pile of garbage... Unless you play exclusively solo games and never intend on using these to talk to others.
1475585
I was really dissapointed when I got these my sound quality went way down and my mic quality was so bad to the point it was unusable. Would not recomend.
2331905
This is a good mic but it is completely overrated. I bought it so I could do game  commentaries, which this mic isn't amazing at. If you get to loud you will hear a screeching sound in the recording and if you are far away you could pick up some background noise. If you are going to spend this much money on a mic, I suggest something with a mixer, like an AT-2035 or something.
2990866
I recently bought this mic knowing it had bad reviews. I'm a youtube game commentator with about 1k subs and I thought this would be an upgrade over my internal mic. Boy was I wrong after a couple times of recording it started to buzz like crazy do not buy i'm returning
4599874
This headset has done nothing but give me hell. So i didn't by it from amazon, however i did buy it at my local Best Buy. It was great for the first week until i dropped it once and now the mic has stopped working. But then again my friends on a Skype call say this mic is no better than my 10 dollar earbuds that i usually use. So i do not recommend this mic.
1011878
Hurts my ears after less than an hour. I've used many more comfortable phones.

Sometimes my computer looses the microphone until a restart. That could be my computer and not the product??
2797535
I would never buy this again!! Good luck to the person listening to you. If you like to scream as you talk, this mic works great for that.
2945972
The only thing saving this from a one-star review is the better-than-mediocre sound. The mic is terrible - recording at about half the level of most other mics - and the headset was so tight on my head that it hurt within minutes.  The headset looks elegant, but is made out of a cheap plastic. Sending it back.
4005072
The mic sensitivity and quality are both terrible. It sounded as if I was covering it up with a pillow. I had a few friends give me their input and they completely agreed. Plugged it into three different computers to make sure it wasn't on my end. I'll just stick with my webcam mic.
4289108
The sound that actually goes through the microphone is so soft I have to blast both the microphone's and the speaker's sound in order to hear it unless I'm shouting. I was very sad that it didn't work since I thought it'd be a good starting mic. I don't suggest anyone gets this because it'll only lead to sadness and no sound at all. And yes, I tried everything to get it to work.
3830031
Mic doesn't work after a while, you can't talk or hear anyone, you get what you pay for i guess