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Summary: This headset is light, comfortable, sounds good, sounds clear, good microphone, and has a surprisingly good surround (7.1). I did a 2 hours comparison with my wired Astro MixAmp... and I was surprised with the results... I highly recommended it. About me: I have been using flagship headphones for 7+ years for both music and gaming. About my headphones: Audeze LCD-2 (balanced) / Ultrasone Edition 8 LE / Beyerdynamic DT990 / AKG K702 / Creative Aurvana Live! / Astro Mixamp Review: I did my testing with Destiny 2 for 2 hours, and by chatting with another audiophile friend using the party chat. - Microphone The microphone sounds better than the earplug microphone that came with the PS4. Clearer and more natural sound. - Separation of sounds I had no problem listening to different sounds coming from different places. There is a scene with refugees after the initial invasion, and I could hear all the different things happening (people crying, people coughing, sparks) - Sound quality The sound was pretty good, sometimes I forgot I had the headsets on. I could hear the fire cracking, the explosions, shouting, rockets, etc. - Surround sound (7.1 VSS) In headphones there is no such thing as 7.1 or 5.1 because that is physically impossible. However, there are algorithms such as Dolby Headphone, DTS Headphone:X or Virtual Surround Sound that use the 5.1 signals and transforms the sound in a way that fools our brain into thinking we are listening from a 360 degrees. I tested the following 2 rigs: 1) PS4 -> optical cable -> MixAmp Pro -> Creative Aurvana Live! 2) PS4 -> new gold headsets with VSS enabled 3) option 1) with dolby turned off 4) option 2) with VSS turned off I tested in 3-4 places by closing my eyes and rotating the character to check how good the positioning of the sound were. I could hear a difference in both the gold headset and mixamp with their respective surround algorithms disabled (that's good isn't it?) Now, comparing the gold headset and the mixamp... I listened almost the same positioning... honestly, they were pretty close to call a winner... I would need to use a different headphone with a wider soundstage to probably notice a difference. Conclusion: For me, is a pain to setup the cables and have cables everything every time I want to play. There is a beauty on just wearing the headset and that's it. Before getting this headset I considered Astro A50, HyperX Cloud II and SteelSeries Arctis 7 among others... However, if you only care about having a good wireless 7.1 in your PS4 (and PS3), this headset is hard to beat. I'm not saying they are better than the Astro A50 (I want to try them someday)... but for this price... is a really good deal.