­­­­­It's really hard to believe that the SteelSeries Siberia v2's that we know and love have been out for over four years now. In that time most of you have rebuilt your PC at least once, have played countless game, and even lived through the Harlem Shake and Gangnam Style.

We're used to gaming headsets making a bold first impression, but the Siberia Elite immediately caught our eye with its oversized padding, brilliant white colour scheme and illuminated ear cups.

Fantastic looks and great sound, but rather heavy for prolonged gaming sessions

With just a few hours left before the calendar finally turns to 2014 and after having just got back from our very short vacations on the mountain none of us can really focus in testing computer hardware so we decided to do the next best thing which is to continue testing of gaming peripherals.

- Superb Build Quality; - Design; - Audio Quality (Excellent Mids/Highs; - Powerful Bass Levels; - 7.1 Virtual Dolby Surround USB Sound Card (For Some; - Extremely Comfortable; - Noise-Cancelling Uni-Directional Retractable Microphone; - Volume & Microphone Controls; - Colorshift Illumination; -...

- Price (For Some

The SteelSeries Siberia Elite is a top of the line headset with a USB sound card or stereo connection but sound quality is where the Siberia Elite excels.

USB; stereo and stereo with microphone connections; Soft comfortable leather ear pieces; Excellent sound quality; Fantastic Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound

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The SteelSeries Siberia Elite is a top of the line headset with a USB sound card or stereo connection but sound quality is where the Siberia Elite excels. Ease of Use, Performance: 5/5 Look & Feel: 5/5 Features: 5/5 How much I enjoy: 5/5 Recommendation: 5/5 Stars The SteelSeries Siberia Elite...

The SteelSeries Siberia Elite is a gorgeous-looking headset with a great sound, but a strange ergonomic design with earcups that have a small inner space.

Odd looks, but superb gaming sound.

feels good; build quality, sounds need to adjust with he program; install driver before plugin anything

Right ear cup sound will go away, right out of the box wend it works sound's like a charm; but the right side will go out completely, i know its refurbished but come on i just got a single side headset?

The latest Siberia Elite high-end headset from SteelSeries has picked up some of the elements of the V2 series and improved quite a bit. Distinctive elements could be considered the large and comfortable ear cup padding, the funky lighting but also the dedicated sound card which works hand-in-hand...