I saw on a piece of paper that the Game/Voice buttons can be removed by a little button under them, is this true?
I don't feel like testing it, but I just got my RMA'd headset
Prove me wrong if I am wrong, haha
I just got these a few days ago and noticed that when sound plays, there is random popping noises. It doesn't happen often, but man it's so annoying. I've tried a few different USB ports, hard reset the headset, and tried a different power outlet. Is this defective or is there anything I can do?
I bought the a50 gen 4s way back at release. They served me well, but theyre on deaths door. The things are slowly falling apart with the right earpiece falling off and the top headrest part popping out ever once in awhile. I was willing to deal with these issues until functional problems arose. Now the headset randomly dies, doesnt hold charges, when I turn it on and off the battery percent in the astro command center goes from 4 to 127 to 77 percent and when I take it off the base station it just dies. I have to randomly reset it over and over and leave it charging till it'll hold for awhile.
This led me to getting a new headset while ive seen a lot of people bashing astro when I was researching these headsets lasted over 7 years without major issues. (And technically still work fine when plugged in while used)
Im looking at both astro a50x and regular gen 5s, but I have a key question. I do play on xbox and pc but my xbox is in the living room while my pc is in my room. When I don't want to move myself and my headset base station I just stream the game to my pc. If I do this theres no reason to buy the a50x as the cool features would only work if my xbox was setup close enough to wire it in right? This leds me to the regular astro a50 lights peeps being the right choice, but was wondering if I missed something.
Thank you to any that give their input.
If I care somewhat about audio quality should I buy another set of Astro headphones.
(I currently own the Astro A20 gen 2)
For some reason my astro a20 gen 2s won't turn on unless being on charge. When I dont have them plugged in nothing happens and when I do I get a flashing orange light. I even tried putting them on charge for a whole day and they still won't turn on.
I found these for 5 bucks at a liquidation store but no base came along headphones as is. I’m coming too see can anyone verify what base I would need too use these on pc?
Hi everyone, I'll explain briefly. I was given these Astro A50 headphones, and when I tried to connect them to my PC, the PC showed "charging" and all the modes were normal, but the PC didn't recognize them. So I did some research and found that I could reset them with a pin on the bottom. Now the Astro software doesn't recognize them (neither of the headphones), and basically, I can't connect to the PC. I've tried different ports, another PC, a different cable—I've tried everything, and it still doesn't work. I also tried the Dolby + Game button trick, which got the headphones to recognize the base, but the base is still exactly the same. The problem is that if I unplug it, it doesn't even light up; I have to do the same thing again with the pin. I hope someone can help me.
So I went and bought a new A50x to try to replace my old one, and it's still not reading my headset. I've reset the PC updated all the drivers and firmware and for some reason I still keep getting lights on the base as if it's trying to connect to my PC but yet can't. what's going on??
I've owned a pair of HD800S for a few years and enjoyed the heck out of them! But, today I received the A50X in the mail, and started listening to some music and HOLY MOLY!! Why is it so good?? Is it the graphene drivers? Or dolby atmos? or is it my ears? I'm loving this headset, and now I think I'll be selling my beloved hd800s for somebody else to enjoy.
I cannot get my Astro A50s to work on my Xbox Series S. They work perfectly fine on my PC. I have my firmware up to do date. I have a usb c in the A50 docking station connected to my Xbox series s usb A port. I have tried multiple different usb c to usb a cords, I have tried every port in my Xbox. I have tried resetting the Xbox cache by unplugging the system’s power cord for 5 minutes. I have tried switching the docking station from PC to Xbox to PS back to Xbox with no luck. I never get a pop up on my Xbox recognizing the device. No audio no mic connection, just the crossed out microphone. Please help.
Ironically my $20 turtle beach headset that connects via aux cable into my controller works just fine
Anyone here play bo7 using astro a50 gen 5s? And if so have you had any issues with using a50 voice for voice chat I cant get it to work anymore...
I have had Astro A40's for 15 years now and they held up so well that I am considering A50's. Only reason is because the wired A40s are for desk use on my PC, and since the A50's will be for a console I want them wireless. However, every battery has a limited life span that can be just a couple years.
Anyway, I read some random posts about it and apparently for the gen 5's it is super easy to replace, there is a button to pop a cover off on the headset and then there is a battery you just disconnect and reconnect. However I can find no information as to how to do this. I can find older videos of people re-soldering the battery which I think is no longer the case. When I look up A50 replacement batteries, I see batteries with loose leads not an actual connector.
So whats the real situation? From what I can tell, it seems that the battery isn't so easy to replace.
So my Astro headset appears dead. I've hard reset it, no response only a single flicker then it dies. All four lights in the base just blink wildly. Tried to update the firmware it ALWAYS fails at 75%. Any one have this issue?
My battery completely failed finally, and I’ve been using the headset wired for years because it wouldn’t hold 5 minutes worth of charge anyway. Can I just bypass the battery altogether and make it a permanently wired set up?
Hey, I would like to upgrade from a Corsair Void elite wireless. Which one should I buy between a Steelseries Arctis Pro (160€) or a Astro A50 lightspeed (150€) ?
Thank you !
So let me preface this, I just upgraded from a set of Astro A50 Gen 4s to the A50X due to the Prime Day deals. Nothing in my setup changed, with the exception of unplugging my old base of course and setting up the new one as configured in the instructions.
* Base to PC with USB A and C cable plugged in * Headset cycled to PC on the Base
While playing games now and talking in Discord, my game and chat audio are essentially tied together which is a no go for me. I play a lot of War Thunder and can barely hear anyone over the sounds even with their audio cranked to 200%.
So I have Voicemod installed and use a Stream Deck just for soundboard fun, not actually streaming anything.
In Discord I've set my mic to Headset Microphone (A50 X Mic) and my Speaker to Headphones (A50 X Game). My windows 11 Volume Mixer is set to those exactly as well. I even tried closing Voicemod out to see if that would fix it, but it didn't seem to change anything. I even did the Windows + G and set everything there while playing, but no luck.
Looking for assistance on why this is happening because if I can't solve it, I'll just send these back in and go back to my A50 Gen 4s.
**EDIT** Fixed
Apparently the Astro A50 X is picky about which USB controller it's connected to. On my MSI X870E Carbon, plugging both cables into the rear USB-C and USB-A ports on the bottom, 12 and 11, (next to the 5G LAN port) fixed it immediately. The Game/Voice mixer works correctly there, while it didn't when I had plugged it into 'random' ports. My best guess is because MSI lists the ports as going to various controllers. It seems it has to be on the same controller, which makes sense because my front case ones did work.
Hi everyone! I recently bought the Astro A50 Gen 5 and I'm mainly using them on Xbox and PS5. I spent quite a bit of time tweaking the settings in the Dolby Access app on Xbox to find a sound profile I really like, and I think I've finally found a good balance.
Now I'm wondering about Performance Mode. Is it worth turning it off? What exactly does it do? Is it mainly designed for competitive FPS games, or is it also beneficial for single-player games and other genres?
I'd love to hear your experiences and recommendations. Thanks!
So, this is kind of a weird issue. I have my Astro's plugged into a USB3.0 port, however I unplugged them from the computer for a minute and plugged them back in and now anytime I use an app that is set to use the Voice channel, no sound at ALL comes out. If I switch everything to Game - audio works for Discord, games, Apple Music, everything.
I've tried:
- swapping to different ports, no avail
- turning off exclusivity mode on both game and voice channels
- set everything to default
- reinstall the current audio drivers
- restarted the computer 2x
I have to legit fully disable Voice for it to work properly. Is there anything I'm missing? It literally was working FINE right before unplugging and plugging back in.
Can u use The A50 X with the mobile phone?
Just wanted to check my thinking before ordering a pair of A50x’s on a prime day deal. I think from what I’ve read this should work with no cable switching but can anyone who’s tried it confirm?
PS5 - PS5 HDMI in and USB
Xbox - Xbox HDMI in and USB
Switch 2 - PC USB
Appreciate I’ll be giving up 24bit audio for the switch 2 but swapping inputs is a step too far.
Also I plan to never dock the headphones and just charge them by the USB port. Any issue doing that? Can I swap inputs on the base or is the playsync button only on the headset?
