Welcome to another exciting unboxing. These are the Logitech G930 gaming
headphones, headsets, whatever it is you want them to be. They're wireless and
they are in 7.1 Dolby surround sound.
So, we're going to go ahead and take a closer look at the back of the box here,
which basically tells us everything that we need to know. I suppose gaming grade
wireless. So, they're claiming with a range of up to 40 feet or 12 meters, so
nothing stands between you and Victory. Sounds good. 7.1 surround sound. Guys, I
am not a huge um I'm not a huge advocate
of the necessity of surround sound sort of technologies for gaming. I I've
always taken sort of a well, you've got two ears, so you probably only need two
inputs sort of philosophy. However, if you do enjoy the surround sound
experience, one thing I will tell you is
use a digital surround sound headphone or headset, do not use one with
dedicated speakers. And this again sort of comes back to the whole if you have
two ears, you probably only need two speakers argument. But when you when you
put more speakers into a small area like headphones would have you do, what
happens is you end up with a lot of lower quality, lower sound fidelity uh
speakers as opposed to two much larger,
much better ones. There's a reason that every high-end, you know, gaming
headphone wants to tell you how big the drivers are. And the reason for that is
because bigger drivers basically will
equal, you know, a better overall ability to produce noises more better.
So lots of smaller speakers is not the solution. Free programmable G keys
allows you to take command over music. Well, what they really allow you to do
is do whatever you want. You can program them. So you can set up voice morphing
uh launch chat clients or whatever else. Memory phone line headband should be
good. Noise cancelling microphone. Okay. Oh, glows red when muted and
automatically mutes when rotated out of the way. This is a feature we see on a lot of headsets these days. A full speed
USB charging base which recharges even while you're still playing and powers
the wireless adapter with a single USB connection. So, let's go ahead and put
that away cuz we're pretty much done with it now and open up the headset
itself. So, it comes in a little plastic clam shell. Looks a little something
like this. Comes with a base station. I'm actually going to switch to our
wider cam for just a second here so that you guys can see what in the heck I'm
doing. There are the G930s. So, right, G
series. That basically means optimized for gaming. I'm going to go ahead and
throw these on my head for now while I get some idea what I think of them in
terms of the comfort. Not bad, actually. The foam's a little bit stiffer than I'm
used to encountering. Uh, let's have a look at what is included in terms of
accessories. So, inside this right here, love the way Logitech does their
packaging, although they still include CDs. Totally pointless. You can go ahead
and download the latest drivers off of the Logitech website. Getting started
with Premier Utiliz Logitech wireless
gaming headset G930. It's going to go ahead and point you in the direction of
all the buttons that you need to press or or not press. Let's see if any of
them are labeled do not press. No. Power buttons, rounds on switch. Let's go
ahead and leave that open. End of life battery disposal notice. Okay, cool.
That's good to let you know about. Safety, compliance, and warranty. Excellent. So, here's that base station.
So, this guy goes ahead and plugs into your computer. You can see it actually
coils up like this. Okay. So, if anyone
says they're going to drop a coiler on your desk, you better hope they're referring to this
thing. I'm getting a look from the filming crew that would indicate that
that joke is not very funny, but it stunk. It's okay. Diesel says my joke
stunk. So, I'm going to Wow, this thing is really uh difficult to uncoil.
Although, you know, getting your hands in it probably isn't helping matters at
all. So, there you go. Okay. So, there. So, there's a
little hub thing. So, you can go ahead and plug this guy into here. So, that's
the wireless transmitter receiver. You go ahead and plug that into any USB
port. And then this right here plugs into the back of your computer. So, this
will act as kind of a hub. So, this will provide power to the headphones/ headset
themselves. This will provide signal and power to the dongle and then this plugs
into the computer. So, I don't know that this is necessarily the most elegant
solution ever in terms of sort of how they've implemented this. Although it's
not the worst. I probably would have personally gone with just two separate
cables. Although, I guess since it uses it looks like it uses a standard micro
USB. You could Yeah, it just uses a standard micro USB. So, you could go
that route if you wanted to as well. It does have little rubber grips on the
bottom. So, if you wanted to make sure that it doesn't move on your table, then
you wouldn't really have any issues with that. There you go. I think that pretty
much takes care of that. Moving on to the headset itself. So, as I mentioned
before, once you rotate it up and out of the way, it will mute itself. It also
glows red for mute. Let's take a closer look and see what we think. And oh, I
probably just adjusted my voice volume because these are they are closed, so
they are somewhat noise isolating. I was not able to hear myself very well while
I had them on. So, here we go. Three programmable G keys. These guys right
here are allow you to change your voice effects or do whatever else you want,
like a G. Haha. No, I'm getting the head shakes
again. Not a good joke, apparently. Uh, here's your mute button right here if
you did want to mute it manually, even though the boom mic is lowered. You can
adjust the position of the boom mic, although not as much as we've seen on
other headsets in the past. Okay. So, there's your microphone there as well as
your noise cancelling doodad right here just to make sure that it's only picking
up your voice and not anything else. I mean, it's not that bad, but yeah, I I
wouldn't mind seeing something with a little bit more vertical play. There's
your volume right there. Do like to see the volume wheel. Uh, it's the most
comfortable sort of volume adjustment method for me personally. I don't really
like tactile buttons for volume. I like to have a nice wheel that I can go, no,
too loud, and sort of quickly reduce like that. There's your power input.
Remember guys, that'll charge the batteries as well as just allow you to
use the headset as a wired headset should you so desire. Here's your Dolby
headphone button. Nice to have a dedicated button for this. That way you can just kind of decide on the fly if
this particular game or this particular movie or song or whatever sounds better
to you in one mode versus the other. Power buttons right here. So, we can go
ahead and press that button and the light will This is probably in pairing
mode right now. So, that's probably why it's flashing. On the other side, we
don't find much in terms of buttons or anything. So, it's just a speaker in
there and none of the electronics are being housed like that. So, in terms of
rotation, they go they go about 90° away
from centered from to this side and then just about looks like only about 15 20°
away from centered the other side. So, that gives you about as much adjustment
as any sort of human will need. However, if they are intended to be used by
nonhumids, human humanoid humanids
homminids, uh, nonhumans, then they'd probably need greater adjustment, but
this should be just fine. I think I did say before that the foam feels a little
bit stiff. I'd expect it to break in. Uh, there's memory foam in the top, but
it's not the softest memory foam that I've ever felt in the past. Here, I'll
give you guys a closer look at that, actually. So, I'll just kind of squeeze
it and show you guys. I guess it does take a while to retract. I just wouldn't
mind if it was a little bit thicker. And then the ear cups themselves. I I think
they specifically call out the memory foam in the top band because I don't
think it is memory foam here. This actually, see, you can see that retracts
extremely quickly. So, I would expect there to be a bit of a break-in period
with this headset before it would be 100% comfortable, which isn't
necessarily a a shot at it. It's not necessarily a mark against it. I mean,
even my HD555s were not nearly as comfortable at the beginning as they
were after using them for, you know, six months.
But I think that pretty much covers
it. Have we missed anything here, folks? Oh, yeah. Right. Adjustments. So,
adjustments are pretty Oh, look at that. They're numbered. That's adorable. So, they're numbered from 1 to 11 so that if
you, you know, pay attention and you want to know exactly which one you uh
you you prefer, you can go ahead and get it sized for yourself correctly and then
you can always get it back to the right thing if you want. They are it's a metal
band, which is nice to see. I've seen too many plastic ear headband
adjustments and they just break or they they start to not uh they start to not
click into place over time. So, I do prefer to see metal construction there.
Especially if it's the kind of thing where, you know, gamers, they lose and
then they're like, "Ah." And they throw their headset off in disgust. I can
pretty much guarantee that that headset did survive the fall. And that carpet is
disgusting. Diesel, stop looking at that. Let's come back up here. I'm just going to change camera away from him.
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