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over this 24 FPS like Diva oh it looks
more cinematic thing because you know what have you ever watched a movie and
gone oh there's a pan of mountains at least I think it was a pan of mountains
cuz it might have been a slide show from like my great A's trip to the Alps or
something because it's ridiculous anyway I digress this is my unboxing of the
g430 from Logitech which is pretty similar to the g230 now we've addressed
an issue with outdoor unboxings that people have been complaining about for a
while and that is that there's nowhere to put the product we have dragged a
table outdoors and that is the solution that we've come up with so this headset
is part of logitech's massive refresh of
their gaming series products including the g100s the g400s the g500s the g700s
the g510s the G uh um uh oh what's the
keyboard the g19s the g230 and the
g430 so unlike the g230 the g430 has a
blue theme which is kind of shaking things up a little bit because generally
speaking like the the um like The
Stereotype is that the high performance extreme Edition one is going to be uh
red whereas like the lower end one will be blue but in this case the g430 is
actually the more more premium headset because it does come with a USB sound
card integrated with it giving it 7.1
surround in software capabilities so
they're using Dolby technology which by and large is well it's definitely one of
the better Solutions out there but in terms of the actual headphones
themselves there hasn't been much that's changed so it's got the same wide
headband but narrow looking pad that I found because it's so soft and Squishy
see it has here I'm going to press on this and you guys are going to see it
has a very slow recoil see that that's really important because what that does
is it makes it feel kind of funny the first time you ever put the headset on
but once it mushes out a little bit it mushes out and it puts much more even
pressure on your head I mean logitech's good at ergonomics if nothing else
they've been doing it a long time the ear cups on the other hand do use a
harder foam but it's quite deep so what you're going to discover with headsets
like this is that they might not be instantly the most comfortable thing you've ever heard but they will
definitely improve over time as they mold to your head and these aren't the
kinds of things that I would lend to someone else because you don't want
someone else's head shape you know gunking up your your head Groove that's
going on here so the mic is a boom mic I'm just going to actually here we'll
show you the the fitting first metal pieces love metal pieces here they just
they Inspire confidence they make me feel good about the build quality of the
headphones that I just bought when you have plastic size adjustments it just um
it feels it feels cheaper it just really does and metal bands really don't add
that much weight so it goes all the way up to about here and then all the way down
to basically kid size which will sit pretty high up on my head just like that
so I'm going to pull those down again all right so the boom mic goes up here
boom mic goes down here and let's head into the cable so
it's got a nice blue braided cable very thin which I personally actually kind of
like cuz it means it's less likely to to like King can get caught on stuff and
oh yeah they've used a really high quality cable you can see even though
it's been packaged up there's almost no kinkiness to it my Logitech G9 by
contrast I've had for years and still has the original Kink from when it was
uh bound up in the box so that's that's a really nice Improvement and did I say
that this was USB holy crap Logitech is
doing it the right way here awesome this
is the way to do it manufacturers for those of you who are wondering instead
of integrating the USB connector directly into the headphones just
include this adapter there's your USB sound card now you have the option to
use it as a USB sound card or hook it up
to an even higher quality audio source so these USB sound cards are better than
onboard sound they do provide that virtual surround functionality remember
guys you don't need multiple speakers in your headphones in order to get a
surround experience you have two ears and when the speaker is sitting right
next to it you only need two speakers for surround go find the virtual haircut
uh Virtual Barber Shop or whatever on YouTube and you'll see what I mean but
this is the way to do it because then if you decide no I want to use a higher quality audio Source such as a dedicated
sound card bloop you plug those into that and you are ready to go so there
you go way to go Logitech doing things the right way the inline controls very
simple you've got a volume wheel on the side here there you go as well as a mic mhone
mute button I would have rather seen Logitech Implement a microphone mute
there's a little clip on the back uh by raising the boom pole Sennheiser did
this on their PC 36 3DS as well as their 350 SE it's a very elegant way to deal
with it so um there there there's a tip that I wish everyone would get from uh
from what sennheiser's done over there the microphone because it's a boom mic
and not a retractable mic isn't that adjustable in terms of positioning but
it is noise cancelling and you can kind of go up and down like this and it does
have some bendiness to it as well so you guys can see hopefully from that angle
that it can I find the easiest way is like ah put it right in my mouth and
then it'll kind of end up in about the right place you want it at the corner of your mouth for optimal listening for the
other people so I'm going to see if I I haven't even looked at what they have to
say about themselves on the box so performance sport cloth ear cups are
removable for cleaning oh that's actually really nice because some people
do get sweaty when they game I'm not judging uh 3year warranty USB adapter
Windows 8 Windows window 7 or Windows Vista to use the USB sound 7.1 surround
sound 40 mm drivers this is something that probably would have been good to
mention and I think that is pretty much
it ah Lake lay flat ear cups okay this is something so there you go lays flat
uh this might not be important for some people but if you fold your headphones
up and you put them in a bag this isn't quite as elegant as a folding design but
at least it allows you to slip it into a side pocket without worrying about it
getting messed up my parrot Zeke I sat on them on a plane and the the yeah the
ear cup that wasn't supposed to go like that went like that the other way and it
was a really really bad experience so being able to fold them up like that's
really nice just want to give you guys sort of a nice look at what they look
like so they do have the blue accent here as well as the blue cloth unlike
the 230s which don't come with the USB adapter but that's pretty much the only
other difference and they're red and then let's see if we can figure out how
to pull off that uh that removable ear
cut piece here oh that's simple okay so there you go you take that off wash that
make sure you dry it before you put it back on your head and there you can see the 4 cm speaker Grill behind where the
where this sits your sides are clearly labeled but remember guys the boom mic
is always on the left and I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out this unboxing online is
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