Turtle Beach Ear Force PX5 Wireless Headset for £143.20 ! Great but isn`t that your Astro A40 money?

So  I am the happy recipient of a very expensive some may venture too expensive Astro A40 gaming sound system ... which I talked myself into getting over the PX5 ... and boy am I glad because the PX5 just dropped a whopping £50 in price ..... 

The bane of all wireless headsets is interference with your internet connection , this is one of many reasons Apple pulled Bluetooth headsets from its stores , you can pair one with your iPad 2 , but watch for drop outs as you download an app, the same happens on PC , PS3 or 360  , this is also the reason why Sony ..ok ..hopefully why Sony is bringing it`s official PS3 Bluetooth headphones late to the game and A2DP is missing on the PS3 since it launched... 


If you need a Bluetooth 7.1 headset that does not kill your Internet connection then wait a few weeks till Sony brings out theirs ( which may still revert to using RF for 7.1 and Bluetooth for chat and A2DP) ..it is promised at $99 which will likely translate to £99 in olde world money. The thing that turned me off the PX5 is the 2.4ghz frequency it uses.. mixed with Bluetooth radios . I know from experience all these things interfere with wireless N ( the ONLY source of the Spice Melange) and having used the Astro A40s for all of one day ..I have literally been floored by them ...falling out of my chair every time something shot by my head ... or somebody shot me ( in gameland)


So whilst the PX5 may now be a budget wireless headset compared to Astros , there be a darn good reason for that .... and that is highly likely to be the design choice to include 3 radios that interfere with your favourite wireless internet connection  and run at the same frequency as your beloved Xbox 360 slim joypad... and remember not to walk by your microwave with them switched on..... oh and of course there may also be a new version on the way to coincide with one of the AAA releases due this Autumn.....


thegameveda is currently testing the Astro A40 2011 Edition to see if there are drop outs whilst downloading and streaming using wirless N , but since I was having too much fun opening and closing the Bento styled box of the mix amp... the results  will have to wait ...


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