SteelSeries Spectrum 5XB Review

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The part that connects to the pad is has two volume controls. One for the microphone and one for the main audio. On the top is the microphone mute and below is the SteelSeries LiveMix which balances the levels to ensure that your team-mates speech is clear over the general melee of the battle.

      

The green touches extend to the SteelSeries branding on the band itself. The microphone is the always excellent retractable design which can be placed almost anywhere you choose.

      

Setup

As I’ve still got one of the original XBOX 360’s rather than the modern HDMI ones the 5XB was first plugged into the audiomixer, which then gets plugged into the pad as normal. The other end is plugged into the pass-through phono adaptor which finally gets put in the back of the TV.

Game time.