Customer Ratings & Reviews

Audio quality is fantastic. Biggest issue is it's been less then a month and the band has paint chipping.

Great headset for sound quality, after a year and a half or so, the mounts are starting to lose their grip on the metal bars that adjust the height of the ear phones. Have to readjust A LOT.

Good headset except that they needed more maintenance they were some issue on the headband

Astro Gaming has had a reputation for being top-flight gaming headphones and the A40 with mix-amp live up to that pedigree. I guess at some point they were acquired by Logitech which has a great pedigree as a gaming and peripheral maker that needs no explanation. I've used plenty of wireless units as I prefer that for gaming despite the degraded audio quality, so I was looking forward to trying the new A40s with mix-amp and boy was I pleasantly surprised. There's so much tech built into these headphones, from the premium quality headphone aspects but there are trade-offs as well. 1) Unbelievable build quality. You're not going to find better built gaming headphones from the felt ear covers to the chrome ear covers, accents and vertical ear pillars, memory foam head rest and lux wires and microphone boom. 2) The mix-amp isn't a gimmick, its well-built, responsive and basically functions as a mini-receiver. You can quickly control volume as well as mix level of voice vs. game volume which is huge for online gamers. 3) Excellent sound quality. Again, blows away any wireless headset with no risk of cutting out since everything is wired. You won't find better sound quality except for actual audiophile headsets. 4) Non-noise cancelling, open back. This may be a pro or con but overall I think for gaming this is a pro so you can actually hear your S.O. or parents if you REALLY have to. Onto the negatives: 1) It is ONLY wired and requires power over USB to fully function with the mixamp. You can plug the headphones directly into other devices but you don't benefit from the mixamp sound treatments. 2) At its largest setting, it was just comfortable for me, if you got a big buckethead you may not like these headsets. I wear a 7 3/4" baseball cap. 3) There's no wireless or even Bluetooth functionality like some competitors. Again, not a huge negative if you use wired headsets but something to consider. These also work great on the PS4, its too bad they don't officially support Xbox as well, not sure what is preventing that other than maybe licensing/politics, but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend these headsets for any serious gamer that also wants excellent audio.