SteelSeries Arctis Nova 5X Wireless Xbox Gaming Headset
SteelSeries Arctis Nova 5X Wireless Xbox Gaming Headset – Neodymium Magnetic Drivers – 100+ Audio Presets via App – 60H Battery – 2.4GHz or BT – ClearCast Gen2.X Mic – Supports PC, PS, Switch, Mobile
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| Weight: | 267 g |
| Size: | For Xbox |
| Dimensions: | 8.95 x 17.46 x 18.59 cm; 266.7 g |
| Model: | 61676 |
| Batteries Included: | 2 Lithium Polymer batteries required. |
| Dimensions: | 8.95 x 17.46 x 18.59 cm; 266.7 g |
| Size: | For Xbox |
Mid range price with high end features…I don’t only use them for gaming I use them to listen to music on my phone, there’s an app you can download to mess about with over a 100 presets or download the app to your PC and mess about with it yourself. So good I got two sets, battery lasts for days causal users will probably last a week…
This truly is a headset for every gaming situation. The comfort is top tier and the mobile app allowing you to change EQ on the fly is fantastic. Great purchase
This is an excellent gami headset. Build quality is good, sound quality is amazing works with xbox series x spacial audio (dolby atmos, dtx), as well as PS5 3D sound. On top of that it also works with the switch and as a regular bluetooth headset for android devices which is also good for calls. The app it comes with has various sound presets for various games which only increases the sound fidelity but in all honesty the default out of the preset is amazing and there is no need for tweaking. Not forgetting the ridiculous 60hr battery, at this price point, these are a amazing and a bargain.
Soo, These are really good headphones. They are light, feel good on the ears, the sound is great. Make sure you turn up the volumeon the left side and swap between 2.4 and Bluetooth on the top right side. I ended up with uninstalling the software as it was messing with the Elgato WaveLink.
I bought these specifically because of the phone app which has 100 presets. Not just game modes but also presets for music and movies which is cool.
Sound wise it’s very similar to Nova Pro’s and a cool feature is that you can change the sound profiles independently while using Bluetooth especially for music.
Comfort wise I found these hurt my ears after a while which surprised me because they’re so light but maybe I just need to adjust the fit.
unfortunately a problem has arisen with the mike not working for some reason so I’ve requested a replacement set which hopefully will address that problem. They worked fine to start off with but ended up not connecting with the series X. Apart from that they are pretty good headphones for the money. I’d say they are pretty similar to the official Xbox wireless headphones in build quality and sound and compare favourably with the Nova Pro Wireless which are twice the price. It would be nice if Steelseries bought out an app that worked for all models not just the 5X.
Where do i start for the price these are really nice headphones. Upto 60 hours battery which is a must have. i think there’s nothing worse than having to stop gaming to go charge them. one down side for me i find the ear cups to be a tad on the small side but that’s just me. The sound quality more than makes up for it. In game i can hear every foot step from left left or right or behind you its a great help. I have been using the sonar app on my pc and phone the presets are really helpful with mw3 been one of them. Haven’t had chance to play music on them as yet but i expect the same quality as in game music. All in all you cant go wrong for the asking price. Like i said the only thing for me was the size of the cups but i do have big ears lol. apart from that they look good sound great what more would you want.
So far, the Sound quality and microphone quality seem very good to me. Very comfortable headset, hardly notice I’m wearing it. Only problem I’ve had so far, I had a random popping sound every now and then but seemed to have eliminated it by updating the firmware via my laptop.
I’ve been using the AN5X for a few days now, which replaced my broken Blackshark V2 Pro 2023 and overall I prefer it over the more expensive Razer headset.
I’ll get the bad out of the way first though, and that’s the microphone, it’s slightly above average for a wireless headset but it’s a noticeable downgrade over my Blackshark, it’s not even in the same league. I also had major issues with it on Discord, all of my friends commented on how awful I sounded, but when I recorded myself it sounded fine, after a lot of frustration I discovered that I needed to disable noise gate and noise suppression built into Discord, as they seem to conflict with the Sonar software, after doing this my microphone improved 100x, but as I said earlier, it’s still not amazing. I would also advise enabling compressor in Sonar and maxing it out, otherwise you’ll be extremely quiet on Discord even at 200% volume. I would like to see Steelseries and Discord work together to add the AN5X to the certified list, this would remove the frustration I initially went through.
Now onto the good, the headset is very comfortable, the ear pads are extremely soft and even with my big head they fit perfectly with almost no clamping force at all. I can game all day without any ear or head pain at all.
Sound quality is good and bad, out of the box they’re okay but luckily the Sonar software has the best EQ I’ve ever used, you can very precisely customize the sound and really bring out the potential of the headset. I would highly recommend that you check out the Youtube channel GadgetryTech, his EQ settings for music made a massive difference, music went from sounding decent to incredible, it was truly night and day. You can also switch between Bluetooth and wireless with a press of a button, so you can use your headset on PC or console and instantly switch to your phone for a call or to listen to music, this works much more seamlessly than on the Blackshark.
The Sonar software is very competent and feature rich (on PC at least, you get far less features if you’re using the headset on Xbox), and the AN5X comes with over 30 pre-installed EQ presets for different games, with some hits, and some misses. I personally use the Diablo IV, Call of Duty and Fallout 76 ones and they’ve all been great. I would recommend leaving spatial audio off though, as with all fake surround sound it just doesn’t sound right, turning it off keeps the audio pure. I would also increase the clearcast AI noise cancellation to 75%, as my friends could hear me doing stuff in the background at the default 50%.
I can’t speak to the build quality or durability as I’ve only had the headset a few days, but it does feel very cheap as it’s almost all plastic, which does make it very light (which is a positive in my book), but I cannot say if it will hold up to the test of time, my advice would be to treat it like a newborn baby.
One last thing is noise isolation, this is personal preference whether it’s a positive or a negative but it doesn’t have the best noise isolation, so you can hear yourself speak and other noise around you, which I personally prefer, but if you want full isolation this isn’t the headset for you, that being said it does cancel out a decent amount of background noise, just not all of it, and noticeably less than my Blackshark. I think it’s the perfect middle ground, where you’re not hearing every little thing but you can still hear someone speaking to you or the doorbell ringing.
Overall for the price it’s a great headset, you could make an argument for a high 4/5 or low 5/5. With a better microphone it would be an absolute slam dunk 5/5. I would have preferred it to retail at 150 MSRP with a better mic, but I’m very conscious of how my mic sounds so I don’t become the “bad mic” guy on Discord.