Abstract: In the world of headsets and microphones, you may not think of a company that mainly makes cooling systems for computers. Surprise Arctic Cooling actually makes some impressive headsets and even keyboards. Not pricey at all Arctic’s P531 headset is an ...
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Published: 2010-09-24, Author: James , review by: tweaktown.com
The P531 from Arctic Sound is a well built and reasonably well designed surround sound headset that uses a USB interface rather than an analog interface in order to be a totally flexible solution. This is current to the trends we are seeing now, and ...
With premium gaming headsets costing north of $100, the lower price tag on the Arctic Sound P531 did raise a bit of eyebrows over here. At first, I wasn't really expecting a very good gaming experience from the headset let alone some decent movie and musi...
Abstract: Though Arctic is new to the audio industry side of things, this was not a bad first try. So, let's take a look at this product's features:This product came with a couple accessories:From the first look at this headset, it seemed more cons stood out than p...
Starting with performance, music was overall quite mediocre on the P531. Again, this wasn't too surprising as music is recorded in stereo and simply doesn't work too well with any true 5.1 surround sound headsets on the market at the moment. Personally I ...
Nice long cord, Inline controls, Excellent sound overall, Good bass and treble, Good noise isolation, Great design and construction
Heavier than most other headsets
The ARTIC P531 headset is very well made, it’s got a solid construction and decent design. They look good and they feel good wearing them. They are plastic but they don’t have a cheap feel to them like some headsets do because of all of the plastic th...
Build Quality, Audio Quality, Very Comfortable, Design, Audio Controls, Price
Positioning Audio In Movies Could Be Better, USB Soundcard only, Finish
Testing the P531 Surround Headset by Arctic was a nice flashback since it was just like using the same exact unit as with 2 months ago, minus of course the nice rubber coating of the Sandberg headset. So the P531 headset proved to be as comfort...
It’s not often that I regret purchases I’ve made, since I enjoy doing research before plunking down what little cash I have. After using the P531’s, I am regretting all the money I sunk into the Creative Fatality sound card and gaming headphones. I...
True 5.1 surround sound in a headset bendable quality mic Bass sounds fantastic and feels real with the built-in vibration devices Long cord so it stays out of your way Easy to use control box for gain and volume levels Lots of adjustment and extremel
Software had to be manually installed, used device manager to update driver from disk Could not find software online to download newer version (if any) Software interface could use some work Via Arctic