Bought Gen 5 Astro A50 Lightspeeds, might be going back already.

For some context, I've been using Astro A40 GEN 1's (yes, the first generation from 2013). I've used, and rebought, the same headphones for over a decade now because I've just never found anything that sounds like it. Recently, I realized astro actually still made headphones, so I figured if anything is going to sound the same it will be the same brand. So finally, after all these years I anxiously upgraded... and it was exactly what I was worried about.

So, I really need some help here. What I specifically like about my a40's is hard to describe but I hope someone can know what I'm talking about so I can figure this out. Any other headphones I've used always sound "too close" to my ears I guess. With my a40's (as long as I'm using optical because through USB it sounds like all the other headphones), the sound almost feels like it's coming from outside of the headphones. As if it's not a speaker right next to my ear but instead a few feet away, just with the clarity of a speaker up against your ear.

Does anyone get what I'm talking about? I feel like I'm losing my mind here because I don't get why such old GAMING headphones, which shouldn't even be that good, would sound so much better to me. I'm wondering if I'm wrong and that "effect" is actually really bad and I only like it because I'm used to it. I just don't know what to do at this point. I guess this is how most people hear their headphones and no one else has an issue with it, so maybe I just need to get used to it? I just wish I could find another pair of headphones that had that same type of audio in a better and more modern form.

Edit: Enabling dolby atmos helps a little bit, but it's still only like halfway there to my a40s.

Another thing, music is very clearly night and day between the two. I thought the low ends were acceptable on the a40's, but going between them it almost sounds my a40's have negative bass. As in not only is there no bass, but it breaks the laws of physics to have sound waves that are in the negative Hz. Not like |-hz|, but -hz. But sound quality aside, I can't get over how that sound is experienced.