Astro A40 2011 or Turtle Beach PX5 : elfin beauty or multifunctional beast?

Story old as time......

Thegameveda needs a new gaming wireless headset ... my ageing but awesome ( 17 hours game time) Motorola S805s have literally biodegraded in my hands ... they actually fell apart piece by lego sized piece...like some plastic eating nanites chewed through them .. the cones and Bluetooth still function .. just the band has disintegrated ....

A piece of your favourite hardware dieing of course makes an excellent excuse to look at some upgrades... And  so I take to the web and find the awesomely expensive Astro A40 2011 edition and the now a lot less expensive Turtle Beach PX5

Hands down the Turtle Beach PX5 has so many more options to mess with wireless sounds 2 Bluetooth radios , and 7.1 2.4 Ghz wireless

And the beauty and mountain of kudos on which the Astro A40 proudly sneers down from on all rivals is also quite the deal clincher ... most Steve Jobsian in fact ...

But I come at this dilemma with years of experience , whilst I  loved the freedom and 17 hour battery life of the S805s , as the world moved to wireless broadband I started to notice , cut offs , playing with consoles , external Bluetooth transmitters and downloading on iPad , PCs ,laptops and tablets which is mostly where thegameveda lives now all produced cut outs or complete drop outs .. downloading a Steam game on a tablet or PC , or a game on PSN or Xbox live would kill the music or sound stream to the Bluetooth receiver

So when I read the official blurb re possible interference of  the 2.4ghz speed of the wireless used on the otherwise excellent Turtle Beach PX5s coupled with the fact that it also has 2 Bluetooth radios .... a nightmare scenario of hours spent pairing , unpairing , messing with router settings followed , plus the certain knowledge that the number of wireless devices we use will increase with time really made the decision easy for thegameveda...

So it is not the kool aesthetics ,or the chic boxing , or the heaps of praise that lead me to make my choice : which as you probably guessed is going to be the Astro A40 2011 edition

7.1 sound in Bluetooth headsets will arrive for $99 this September in the Official Sony PS3 7.1 Bluetooth headset , cannot wait to connect it to my mix amp and see what happens .


It is the wise choice of the developers of the Astro A40 2011 edition  to use a 5.8 ghz frequency , and all that experience of Bluetooth vs Wireless N Broadband  that made me part with what now seems far too much money . 

Full review when I have finished cracking my piggy bank collection and have the Astros in hand...


In the USA 

  














and in Blighty : if you reside in a wired Internet gaming household : get the PX5 from Game or

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