I can't say much about the elite but I myself have been using SteelSeries siberia since the start even when it was called Icemat Siberia. Moved on to the V2 and now I am using the Diablo3 version.

So far using all three of those, I have never seem to encounter any problems whatsoever with all. I think it really comes to how you take care of the headphones and dont abuse it. Or I am just lucky

Anyway, Good review on this, really makes me want to get it but damn, RM769 is alot
Really tempting, even the Diablo3 was only RM400++ when I got it. and that was around the time it came out aswell.

Guess Ill wait for the price to go down or just saving