There's something to be said for choosing your style and sticking to it. Mad Catz has done just that with its PC gaming range of capitalised peripherals and is rolling out that now familiar angular aesthetic to its FREQ range of gaming headsets. While the Mad Catz designs polarise opinion, you generally can't argue with the quality of components used, and the FREQ 5 headset boasts a decent technical specification. I have to be honest and admit that I'm not entirely au fait with what difference neodymium magnets make in terms of sound, but the 50mm drivers give you excellent sound levels. The clarity is impressive at this price and the headset's USB sound chips are likewise effective in the PC environment. The FREQ 5 comes with three different preset equaliser levels, one of which is the necessary gaming mode. The problem is that because it's accessed via a simple toggle switch, I'm not entirely sure which is which. The other two presets are for music and chat, and while the talk mode is pretty obvious (and fairly effective) I'm not sure how useful they are. Either way the bassy game mode is clear and allows you to pinpoint noise direction relatively accurately, while still giving you that ear-shaking boom you want in the middle of a BlOps battle zone. The secondary mode is perfect for music, stopping it getting unnecessarily fuzzy with excessive bass, and promoting vocals without them getting too spiky or too harsh. Sound as a pound Sadly sound quality is not the only feature
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