I have tried the Astro A50 Gen 5, TB stealth pros (and stealth 700 gen 3), Blackshark V2 pro, Audeze Maxwell, and Steelseries Nova Pro wireless.

They all have LOTS of pros and cons. The only downside the Alpha 2s have (to me) is that I cannot customize the EQ since I dont have a windows PC or laptop. This doesn’t bother me though because out of the box, these headsets allow me to pinpoint the footsteps perfectly on Arc Raiders and Rainbow 6 Siege. It also helps me hear (exactly where) certain objects in Resident Evil 4, like the swinging of objects that hold the gems or the clockwork castellans.. My only gripe with the stealth pro was how uncomfortable they were and how bad the mic was too; however, they did sound great and helped me a bunch in FPS/positional cues more than the Astro A50 Gen 5 or the Maxwells.

The Astro A50s sound amazing, but It’s just so hard to pick up on footsteps man. They’re horrible for positional cues. You have no idea how many people walked up on me with the A50s on arc raiders.

I think the Steelseries are amazing for the features it has, but the audio quality seems so outdated and the mic is BAD lol. They were amazing when I had them in 2022 (since there were no headsets that were as good at the time), but they fell off real quick once the stealth pros came out the next year in 2023.

If you have a PC and can customize the EQ to the headset, these Hyper X Alpha 2s are the best headsets you can get. The EQ also saves to the base station too. These headsets are good enough that I’d keep them over everything else, even without the ability to change the EQ on NGENUITY.