
Thankfully, it serves its intended purpose well. The headset is a basic plug and play model, albeit in a sleek and professional looking shell available in a variety of colors. With the Astro A10, what you see is what you get. The 3.5mm cable has a volume control attached about midway up the cord. Underneath the headset is a short information pamphlet detailing safety precautions and the one year warranty, a cool looking Astro sticker, and both the 3.5mm cable and 65mm PC splitter cable.

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When opened, the flap shows a diagram of what is included in the package along with a few of the items the headset is compatible with and how to properly connect. The Astro A10 comes in a box not much larger than the headset itself, with a flap which folds out to unveil the stylish A10 cradled in a nice docking shell that keeps the headset from moving at all when lying in place. Let’s start with the basics: The packaging. The Logitech Astro A10 Gaming Headset may not be feature rich, but it makes up for it with largely satisfying sound quality, excellent craftsmanship, and an extremely forgiving entry fee of only $59.99.


The latter of those two options, the features, are what really separates the $50 headset from the $300 headset. That fear aside, most moderate to high end headsets are technically fine and what really differentiates the various headsets tends to boil down to two things: pricing and features. In fact, the plethora of options available are almost too much to sift through, not to mention the incredible divide in pricing between brands, which all culminates to create a hard to shake fear that the headset that you choose may end up being wrong for your lifestyle or just not worth the cash. Choosing a headset can be tough, though not for lack of options.
