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Steelseries Arctis 5 headset.

I won this headset in a survey and I only tried them on to compare with my favourite headset Turtle beach Z60's. I love the Z60's because they have 2 channels and 2 volume controls for chat and game. But Turtle Beach headsets are prone to fall apart regularly. The Arctis 5 is the most durable headset I've used in 30 years of gaming. I've dropped them, sat on them, trod on them and kicked them. I've caught them on my swivel chair and dragged them across the floor so many times ;) but these take a huge beating. The design has a cloth headband that sits on my head and I don't even notice it is there, they do not squeeze my head so I can game for many hours and always feel comfortable with them on. Plus they are lighter than other headsets (which seems strange considering how tough they are). The sound quality is excellent but even better is the quality of the mic, which seems to make me much clearer to my online mates.... even when I am panicking mid battle ;) I have had these for 5 months and by now my Z60's have usually lost some minor plastic pieces or I've taped the headband together.... but the Arctis 5 will probably outlive me ;) it does have an inline volume control and another volume control on the headset, The mic retracts or pulls out from the left earpiece and although it is very easy to move it stays wherever I put it. A very nice feature is a 3.5 mm jack in the left earpiece so others can plug in and share my music or game sound with me. The inline volume control turns chat volume up while turning game volume down and vice versa but I've never set it up correctly. That said it will just plug and play but I downloaded the steelseries engine and I've been enjoying changing sound settings and light colours. I may not have to ever buy another headset...

After nearly a decade of Checking TR almost daily I’m sad to say - NO MORE!! It’s gone from being the absolute benchmark in tech reviews and news to an absolute mess. If you manage to get through the constant freezes of the web page you’ll get blinded by the ad-blitz exploding on the screen. A real shame...

Good reviews. Rubbish site. Half the time it will not even load due to the ads on iPad 6th gen. poor.

Stopped using this site and removed from favourites list two years ago but felt it was time to add my two penneth. It used to be the "go to " site for tech news and reviews,now it's just a disastrous mash of ads that slow down your browser to a crawl. I understand the need to generate revenue but, c'mon TR,did you really expect your target audience to tolerate this,we just go elsewhere. YouTube channels do a much better job (Linus tech tips,MKBHD,Autin Evans,Unbox therapy and even Casey Neistat, where shall I stop?). Far better to had elsewhere!. Update: after quick visit this morning,it looks like they may be taking notice,except for those annoying autoplay videos. Sort that out TR and you may be back onto an online winner!
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Your messing with the layout AGAIN,OK,its your site but,changing just for the sake of it,c'mon! Why cant you just leave a good formula alone!
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Loads of targeted ads again,scrolling down pages is now a never ending constant loading of ad after ad.Apparently I need to go on a river cruise when I get a new battery for may car after leaving my senior living accommodation,thank goodness for adblocker.
You millennial's never stop messing do you "hey we have a good site,lets **** it up"

My goodness, the adds are completely insane! repeatedly bombarded by them with refresh cycle of around every 5 seconds or so, absolutely ludicrous. if you have an add blocker just makes it even slower or doesn't even load. I wont be back again. Shame, such a shame to have a good website destroyed. You have to wonder at what point does gaining revenue from adds mean less visitors, I think they have well exceeded that threshold.

Back in the day this was a site for reviews. Kind of like a Which? for gadgets. Clearly it didn't make any money so the whole ethos of site was changed. It goes by the same name, which is now just an oxymoron. Vast quantities of 'editorial' are now devoted to rumours about upcoming products. Products that don't even exist. Usually Apple. Probably gets more clicks. Target age range seems to have declined to about 12. You can spend 11 months reading about Samsung Galaxy 11 a week after the 10 comes out. At least an update on the latest 'news' aka 'guesswork' every month until it does. The site is now a total yawnfest, the ultimate in pointless activities - read speculation about products that don't exist from someone who wrote the article whilst sat on the toilet before they left for work. When trusted reviews actually decides to review something anymore, they have their favourites. A strange number of Philips TVs pass their way, usually to glowing praise, despite Philips hardly being a player anymore in sales terms. To sum up, the whole site and ethos now is vomit inducing. Hope it shuts down, the earlier the better.

This used to be my daily go to site for reviews. Now they think the only way to make a profit is to overload me with ads! I bet most of the people who visit these types of sites dont click on the ads anyway.

1 ad takes up almost half of the screen! Now i try to avoid this site and look elsewhere!

Bring back the old trustedreviews format!

Very Very pathetic company. Their tools doesn't work properly. Their customer service is really bad. NEVER EVER USE THEIR COMPANY FOR THE REVIEWS.

Terrible, unprofessional and for the most part unfactual reviews. #fakereviews.

Not a honest company. Misleads people who are foolish enough to trust their reviews.

Site is so slow - giving up visiting it. Worst of it's kind. At times, the browser will just hang as it struggles to process the huge ads.

The dish washer I bought on their recommendation (the only item I did) was very, very poor. I also have serious issues with their website. Heavily loaded with advertising which makes it extremely laggy, slow and unresponsive. You'd think that webistes like theirs don't exist these days, but there you have it.

Honestly, Trusted Reviews are absolutely clueless in most things they review. I don't know who they are, but they have absolutely little knowledge and the last thing you want to do - is trust them ! It's a shame the internet has sites like these because they are a major problem. Avoid, and go to sites that review impartially and with intelligence.

Great reviews and choice of products but terrible website - takes an age to load and then stutters and stammers all over the place - surely this can't be right in this day and age?

Website is so full of adverts and trash that I can’t even scroll through any reviews in a timely manner. This is despite have BT infinity 2 and an iPad Pro. Frustrating!

the reviews are great and really useful, helping me buy most of my purchases as i look on trusted reviews first but,,, the website is absolutely awful. it is so unbelievably slow and will crash repeatedly freezing up whilst loading its many adverts and very long pages.

Still a good site for reviews, but....

Holy moly the adverts, it's the only site I visit with Ublock origin which has a TON of issues loading, it freezes my browser tab up completely with ublock
Turn off ublock and it takes upwards of 20 seconds to load and it's like looking at a fruit machine with all the flashing ads, banners and other stuff going on, not to mention full volume videos which auto play.
Horrible site to use now.

Clicked on their link for the-walking-dead-season-8-release-date-news-trailers-cast-leaks

It's actually just a guy gushing over several fan made "trailers" of Negan' s back story (or Megan, as he repetedly calls him)
Footage is not from AMC The Walking Dead, instead its from various Jeffrey Dean Morgan films, including The Posession.

Used to be great, now really bad. Actually, the worst optimised site i have ever visited. Please sort it out.

Use to be one of my favourite websites with unbiased and honest reviews and a useful comments section, to the point users even use to correct the grammar of writers when they'd made mistakes. If I was thinking of buying something, I always go to trusted reviews.

Now (if I can get it to stay open without crashing due to adverts), adverts dominate most of the page to the point it's too hard to follow or read the article. Some reviews are much more biased than they use to be, most are still good. It's such a shame that it's sole aim now is making money considering what it had and what it use to be.