Now I'm not an audiophile (that's what you call it) but I do like beautiful sound. As far as I'm concerned 5 stars for the design and comfort. The so-called ski strap is well adjustable, even for my small head, and you don't feel it. The headset pads are very soft and don't get very hot. The adjustable LED lighting is not a functional addition, but it does complete the design. Those are two things that don't often come together. The design is modern, but also comfortable. To get audio and microphone support, you’ll need to plug them into your controller using the 1/8” adapter.Finally the Steelseries Arctis 5 white arrived, and what a beautiful headset it is! It also has high latency, so your audio and visuals may not be in sync with one another. You’ll be able to use the USB cable and the channel mixing dock on PC and PS4, but you won’t be able to do so on Xbox One. The SteelSeries Arctis 5 have audio and mic support on pretty much every platform, but not via their USB connection. We have updated our review to reflect these changes. We tried restarting our PC and using different USB ports, but we still received very different results from our original measurement. We also conducted this multiple times, and each time, we measured over 100 ms of latency. Using this new methodology, we measured 111 ms of latency, higher than the previous measurement of 41 ms. We now use a click track in our software, and we measure latency three times and average the results.

In this update, we made changes to the way we test latency. Update : These headphones have been updated to test bench 1.5. The results have been updated to reflect these changes. However, the connector for the headset is a Mini B 8-Pin.

Update : The connection was originally reported as 1/8' TRRS.

Arctis 5 2019