Calling all Astro (headset) users and experts (Off-Topic)

by Speedracer513 , Dallas, Texas, Monday, December 14, 2015, 18:57 (3270 days ago) @ dogcow

My first question is, what is the difference between the A40 TRs and the A40s? They have three different A40s listed, and it seems that the main difference in their prices is because some of them come with the Mixamp Pro, whereas these $149 A40 TRs I am looking at (probably?) do not come with a Mixamp. Does that sound accurate? Do I need a Mixamp?

Yes, you need a mixamp.

Are you sure? I'm looking at the accessory cable with the inline mute button. If the end of the cable really is a 4 pole headphone jack then you should be able to just plug that right into your ps4 controller. I use something like this to connect my el-cheapo fatality headphones.

Edit: admittedly you will miss out on the niceties provided by the mixamp (pseudo surround sound, etc).

Yeah, upon further research, it appears that I could use the headset just fine (on either platform even) without any mixamps - but that it will just be boring old stereo audio instead of the 7.1 surround sound...