Mad Catz TRITTON AX 720 High Performance Audio System Review

Audio/Others by stefan @ 2011-01-04

The TRITTON AX 720 High Performance Audio System from Mad Catz is a great addition for people that own consoles and prefer listening to headphones but also PC; the system comes with an AMP/decoder box that features Dolby Digital 5.1 Dolby Headphone Technology, delivering surround sound to our ears even if the headphones are stereo.

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A Closer Look Part 2

The AMP box is the size of a wireless router and has little vents on the laterals:

 

 

 

The frontal part of the AMP has some buttons on the left: the on/off button, the volume down/up, but also a button to change the operating modes of the device; in the center we have the status LEDs:

 

-the first LED from the left is lighted up when the device is turned on; if the sound that is received from the source (PS3/Xbox 360/PC) is Dolby Digital 5.1, the LED is white, otherwise, the LED will light up blue;

-the second LED lights up when the Dolby Pro Logic II mode is on; otherwise, if Dolby Digital signal is received from the source, this LED will be turned off;

-the third LED is signaling the presence of the Dolby Headphone mode; in Stereo mode this LED will be turned off;

-the last fourth LED lights up white if we are in the Movie (Game) mode, or turns green if we switch to the Music mode.

Finally, to the right we can find two headset output jacks, so we can connect two identical ones to the same AMP/decoder box:

 

 

 

In the back of the device, we can find a DC-IN port, where we have to connect the included power adapter, an optical port and an USB port:

 

 

 

On the bottom of the AMP, we can see that it does have little rubber feet, to avoid scratching the surface it sits on:

 

 

 

In the little white cardboard box I have mentioned earlier, we can find an optical cable, an adapter so we can use the headset with any other device on analog, the adjustable microphone, a jack plug cable that links the headset console on the wire to the Xbox 360 controller, a power adapter and an USB cable:

 

 

 

The optical cable comes with small transparent protective caps that must be removed before inserting it into the AMP or the sound source:

 

 

 

The microphone that comes with the headset is detachable and flexible:

 

 

 

 

The small power adapter that powers the AMP/decoder comes from Powertron Electronics Corp. and is rated 9V, 0.5A:

 

 

 

The headset looks very solid and is not as heavy as the ROCCAT Kave 5.1 headset I have tested in the past (although not as light as the World of Warcraft Wireless Headset), near it we can find the small white console:

 

 

 

On the inside, the headset has a little soft cushion and the rest of its body is made from rubberized plastic:

 

 

 

The earpads are removable and also replaceable; inside the manual we are shown step by step how to do that. On each side, the cups are marked (L/R):

 

 

 

The outside earcap covers are also replaceable and hold the TRITTON logo:

 

 

 

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