Turtle BeachAtlas Air Wireless Open Back PC Gaming Headset - PC, PS5, PS4, Mobile - 24-bit High-Fidelity Audio, Broadcast Grade Mic, Bluetooth, Floating Earcup, Memory Foam Cushions, 50-Hr Battery

I absolutely love these headphones! The open back design allows clear game and discord audio while still able to hear my surroundings. I wanted this design so I can hear my husband, dogs and delivery people and still enjoy the gaming experience.I did have some connectivity problems with my set and did finally need them replaced but I want to stress that the turtle beach support team answered my first email under 24 hours. And they continued troubleshooting with me for about six weeks. I’d receive an email with a fix suggestion, try it, evaluate and update them. They countered with another fix suggestion and we would do this cycle…almost reaching 100% satisfaction but there was just something not communicating correctly in the headset so I am waiting for a replacement.Here’s what I love about them:Clear audioGood volumeNatural hearing, not feeling like I’m in a vacuumVery comfortableLightweight but still full sizeEasy to useLong battery lifeHere’s the problem that I encountered:Unreliable connection - sometimes I logged into my game and discord and it was perfect. The next time, I would hear my game but not discord or visa versa. Sometimes just leaving one discord channel for another caused the disruption.Also, it would toggle between Bluetooth and wireless until I finally just unplugged the dongle and just used the wireless connection. That fixed a lot right there. Honestly, the problem might be my computer’s Bluetooth connection and I’ll find out when I get the replacement.When these work, they are the best headphones that I’ve ever had. But they are not meant to deliver a full immersive experience so if that’s what you want, you will not be happy. And I love that tech support never gave up and responded knowledgeably and listened to me. They earned a lifetime customer as long as their quality doesn’t wain.

For $140 these are pretty solid. I bought them mainly for PS5 and I don't care about mic quality because I don't play online but I am sure it's decent according to tests on youtube I watched. I bought these to upgrade from the official pulse 3D headphones which I found to be pretty uncomfortable and my ears would get sweaty so I decided to go for something open back. There are barely any open back gaming headsets.The first thing I did when I got them was charge them up and then I plugged them into my PS5. I tested Dune II 4k Bluray to see how they sounded. Right away I thought wow these are really low volume and to my dismay I saw they were at the highest volume setting in the PS5 settings. I figured the only thing to try was to see if they had a firmware update so I plugged them into my PC and downloaded the Turtle Beach Swarm software. Once downloaded, the software recognized the headset and it said there was an update for the headset and dongle.I did the update, plugged them into my PS5, and restarted the PS5. Now the volume is way louder. So long story short, you really need to update these to get the full ability of them.PROS- Sound quality is impressive at this price point (I got them for $140 new).- They are really light, don't squeeze my head at all, and the ear cups are comfortable.CONS- The only con I see with these is there are no volume adjust buttons on the headset itself which my Pulse 3D had. Not a huge deal to me because I barely ever adjust my headset volume once I have it set to something I like.- The bass isn't super strong but what do you expect for this price.SO MAKE SURE YOU UPDATE THE FIRMWARE!

The outer headband is designed for the outlier most enormous human skull size, and has this "adjustable" mesh that's supposed to tighten inwards to allow the inner band to fit smaller skulls by pulling straps on either side and fastening them in place with velcro.EXCEPT: THE VELCRO ON THE HEADSET IS HELD ON WITH EXTREMELY WEAK GLUE. The available adjustment range is already MINISCULE, and if you take it to the max setting, the tiny elastic force will pop that adhesive right off. If it did work, the other downside to this is that it makes the inner band completely horizontal instead of concave so it just rests upon the tippy top of your head instead of spread out. It doesn't really help the incredibly weak clamp pressure either.As such, this will always be the loosest headset you will ever use. It will wobble any time you turn your head and if you stand up too fast it's likely to fall off. The mute position of the microphone also doesn't lock in place so the microphone will fall back down if you tilt your head.The mic monitoring is also really weak, and there's a strong noise filter built in that cant be turned off, so it will drop any softly spoken words and you'll never be able to get singing to come across if you wanted to. There's an additional noise filter you can apply if you really want it to cut out every time you whisper.Also I've never held a cheaper-feeling non-premium headset. I feel like they disguise the cheapness as tech, like this mesh headband is probably way cheaper to make than an adjustable one, and the free-floating earcups when you take everything else into consideration are not high tech at all, they are just securing them to the headset with rubber bands which is probably way cheaper to manufacture than real joints. And why would you want earcups that want to forever resist a set position against your ear instead of ones that hold the position you put them in? If you think that maybe these are sound-isolated by being suspended, well somehow they aren't. if you even lightly touch the top of the headband it will sound loud in your ears, so it all travels through the bands anyway.Also, the wheel on the side adjusts the volume in four steps only. Four steps is a huge difference. This means that you cant get very precise with volume. There is no way to adjust the game/chat balance on headset like other turtle beach headsets. You have to do it in an app- Another cheap decision.On the plus side, they are open-back and you can pretty much hear your environment normally, which is great if headsets normally give you a headache from the isolation. For that reason alone it will be a tough decision to return these, but I mean if it's not even picking up my voice when I mutter, how do I know when my party is hearing me?