SteelSeries - Arena 9 5.1 Bluetooth Gaming Speakers with RGB Lighting (6 Piece) - Black

First of all, this is not for audiophile people. Music, even videos are OK. But when it comes to gaming this is just phenomenal. I do audio engineering and mixing in my professional home studio. I totally understand the purpose of the speakers. They are not meant to listen critically. But it comes with a lot of benefits. It is easy to use. You don’t need an extra sound card with 5.1 outputs or any other sound decoding devices. This would easily add an extra $100 to $200 $ just to get DTX sound or anything else. THIS ITEM DOES NOT ANY OF THOSE SOUND FORMATS. According to the customer service, they just take five channel audio and put it out of GG software. They didn’t answer me on my questions of licensing issues. I assume as a vendor, they have to pay license fees to Dolby. Etc… You do not have any control over the levels of the five channels. But you have a very good control over paramedic EQ and different modes for gaming and chat. I set up my battlefield game, audio output to surround and advanced warfare mode. It is extremely precise, loud punchy with massive bass (for it’s limited size of course ) . Bullets flying through the room. Choppers flying behind and above me. This is the impression I have. It is so fun and beautiful with the lights that I can’t express my happiness whit this item. There is no power button, which is so good because it puts itself on sleep and turns back on when needed. The lights are super bright and gorgeous. You don’t need hundreds of watts of sound when you sit right in front of it because in real world, loudness degrades over distance. There’s a math for it. You can do the calculation online. But if you sit right in front of it, it hits you right in your face when playing games. Overall, great quality for gaming, ease of use for set up, especially the rear speakers since they don’t need any wiring. This the right purchase for me.

Steelseries has been on top of their game. They've been perfecting their craft over the last few years. I enjoyed using the nova pros and thought this set of speakers could bring a whole new level to my gaming experience. I built my pc not long ago and noticed quickly that the speaker market for pc gamers is quite bad. These can get very loud and have very clear sound. I enjoy using the app to adjust settings to my liking. Very easy to set up and has tons of awesome features!

Great product. Everything was packaged well and easy to set up. Iblive that ut connects to a usb port making it great for desktop and laptops. The sound quaility is amazing and the RBG lights ad a great feel to the room. Love it so far.

First off, sounds great for the price. Not hard to hook up at all. Be sure to connect the surround sound speakers Bluetooth. The two right speakers should have lights on to indicate power. Now, my issue was in game dialogue was muffled when i had 5.1 upmix ON but the rest of the game sound was great but background sounds was muffled and extremely annoying and if you had 5.1 upmix OFF the sound was low but the background sound was good… so after hours or trying to figure out the issue i read somewhere (not specific to these speakers) that you have to disable your audio driver which mine was nahimic and then boom problem solved sounds great now i dont have to return them

This product provides excellent quality surround sound. Plus, the speakers have lights on them that can be in almost any configuration you want. Gaming with this sound system is very immersive.