logitech is probably who i would consider the king emperor god of mice
but not headphones but have they made a headphone that finally might take the
budget tier uh crown i don't know let's find out this is the
logitech g435 headset and uh this is actually a pretty
exciting piece of hardware uh it's
logitech's newest entry into the budget space of headphones i'm going to start
with this one because this is probably the one i like the most
comes in at 80 us uh it's a pretty standard headset it's
wireless it has a usb a dongle uh but can also connect to your pc your
playstation and your phone it's got bluetooth and lightspeed i believe this
is the first uh logitech certainly the first budget
logitech wireless headset that can connect both bluetooth and lightspeed
which is a pretty compelling thing this thing is light holy smokes i don't know
if that's indicative of quality or not but it feels good but oh boy
they say that it comes in at 165 grams
there you go spot on 164. holy
i really like this color i think that's pretty cool purple pink blue it's kind
of like playful cyberpunk i mean you're going to choose the color you like i
also like the the lilac off-white and the black and uh neon is probably
what i picked just because i i'm gross and i make everything look dirty really
easily the padding here is pretty good that
feels like memory foam you can see how slow it is to squish back
that's not necessarily the best padding at the top is nothing there's literally
no padding it's like right onto
plastic but because it's so light that's probably not a big deal
um inside again there's no fabric it's just
straight onto plastic so if this padding is not doing great your ears are going
to be touching plastic which is again maybe not that strange for a cheap
pair of headphones there is no boom ARM there's instead dual beam forming
microphones uh which helps keep it lighter yeah i like these little cables
uh it's kind of a retro aesthetic and there's something kind of retro gamery
about the whole thing that i think it all comes together to be pretty pleasing
we got power we got a volume rocker we got microphone mute and then we got our
type c for charging which is a great they say that there's 18 hours worth of
battery inside this headset which would be very impressive if true we're not
going to test that today but so we'll just take them on faith baby let's just
get these peels you know
these are hard peels to get holy one of the nice things about this lineup of
headphones is that they've tried to be as ecologically friendly as possible uh
they're they're paying for carbon offset so they're supposed to be one of the
first carbon neutral headsets which is pretty cool i believe the headset they
said is is at least 22 recycled plastics
and the packaging as well uh and it's a
simple packaging there's no plastic it's all cardboard which i am a fan of there
wasn't much else inside the box but there was this little box which is gonna
have a little dongle oh that's cute that it's color appropriate i like that
you got your type a to c cable
and your instruction manual not a sponsor
we got the other ones as well um just to
see what they look like
now that i have them out i think these ones kind of look the cheapest so i
think i would actually probably pick between the black
and the white off-white and lilac and in fact i think i'm gonna pick the
lilac one i really like the look of this i'm super excited to try these out see
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wow that was easy i plugged in the dongle hit the power button uh and then
it immediately connected i think i might be out of juice though
so much for 18 hours well okay already these don't feel great
so i'm like i need good padding because i have lots of earrings um i'm just sent
i'm sensitive to like really good padding and like making sure there's not like pressure on a specific part of my
ears these are okay these definitely aren't the worst that i've had the the
cups feel like a little bit small for my ears um
and i think this would be fine to wear for extended periods but it's not like
kind of headset you're gonna wear comfortably for like seven eight hours
at a time so hey maybe the battery lasts that long you won't
that being said it's so light that the fact that there's no pad on the top isn't a big deal uh i could see it still
be becoming like a bit annoying after rubbing or something but overall
comfort's fine give it like a a b minus i gotta say
i'm kind of coming around to white peripherals they do look pretty slick
all right so it's working this cable is just for power don't worry you don't
need it plugged in just so a thing of note is that there is
no aux cable so it's wireless or nothing
you could do this if you ran out of juice but uh you're not gonna run it
wired from a headphone jack just just to know
i can definitely hear you it's the sound isolation is pretty minimal like speak
to me just like at a normal volume that's good it's your it my weekend was
good the sound isolation is almost non-existent let's just test out the
microphone let's see how it does so one thing that is advertised on this
headphone is that it's uh dolby atmos and tempest compatible it means nothing
every headphone is dolby atmos and uh tempest compatible as far as i
understand it's just that's more of like a computational side thing where it's
processing the audio different and giving you better spatial audio it's not a headphone side thing that being said
it's nice having the sticker you know it's a cool sticker uh in terms of other
specs it's a 40 millimeter driver uh it's 20 to 20 like which is a pretty
standard response range so 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz um
again these specs mean very little we'll see how they actually sound this is what
the audio sounds like i am clipping uh there's no auto volume which is fine i'm
going to bring my volume down into what looks more appropriate hello everyone
this is david your radio host for ShortCircuit today unfortunately
it won't sound like a race but pride promise you it's velvety
not smooth that's not great it's not great
uh i don't know if that's like that
digitalization glitching is part of the
the headphone to uh receiver being like there's a desk in
between or if that's like a recording thing but i don't think that's a
recording thing that's like a d that's not good is it is it adjustable
uh it's not showing up in g-hub i don't know if there is another way to get it
often with logitech stuff there is no gcub compatibility until it's out like
i've i noticed that with a mouse or something where i wanted the compatibility but until it was out i
just couldn't get it so it's possible that there might be eq
stuff later but i didn't see anything in the reviewer's docket about customizing
eqs it's fine if you were gaming with friends it's fine all right uh let's see
how it sounds though we still haven't even tested the audio so let's play some
apex yeah these are totally decent like i can
hear everything i think like the mid bass is like a little forward um
i'm sure you could eq it a little bit i can hear a lot of little details and i'm
kind of excited to see how these do it sounds a little bit thin but what i
want to hear is if i'm like i'm not losing my competitive
advantage of using like high-end uh why is it set to hold that's why
because that's like a big reason for me in my opinion when you're playing competitive shooters to have really high
end headstones is that you get a lot better clarity uh not necessarily
spatially but in terms of like granularity of detail so it helps with
placing yourself in the world i don't know why i'm rushing into a fight with
an 45 let's find out if this was a really bad choice
bad choice but yeah okay in terms of audio
it's still like not perfectly balanced like i if i could go in with an eq i
think i would like a little bit a little bit better i can already feel the comfort level kind of diminishing in
terms of adjustability it's not great uh
they say that these are designed for a small head and i don't have a particularly small head so i can already
feel i wish i could extend uh this a little bit more like there's
no give there's no play they there's a bit of adjustability kind of
this way but it'll be plastic resisting against you like the flex
um so it's not ideal i'm really impressed with the audio quality of
these headphones uh i want to go into something where it's a little more spatially aware so i'm going to pop into
the ps5 and let's try it out there turning the ps5 on and off plugging the
thing in it's already connected this is really easy so that's interesting the
volume control on your headphone the volume control on the console is different
uh sometimes that's kind of nice but it's also kind of annoying
okay let's pop into eternal which is i think probably the best example of
tempest audio which is sony's answer to atmos
that they had to kind of pull out of their their wazoo
after xbox bought two years of exclusive exclusivity so
all right it's been a long time since i've played this game the big reason being they still don't have save
states house marquis house mark i don't know how to say it put safe states in
king return i'm so sick of this on this soundscape i feel like i'm
missing a little bit of like the the crispness at the top end like that rain
sounds good but it doesn't sound
quite like rain it sounds like a little muted and it's like
as if like the the lower end of that sound is coming out a little too strong
it's not bad uh and i feel like i'm getting a lot of detail a lot of the kind of like the
micro it's also like the volume is pretty loud
uh but because the sound isolation is not amazing uh you might have a problem
just like getting it loud enough if you're in a loud room with other people
these sound good for 80 headphones though i've got no complaints uh i don't
think the comfort's great i don't think the microphone is great but in terms of
audio quality these are really good for cheap
headphones i'm very impressed okay let's get into a fight let's see if i remember
how to play this game like most cheap headphones the bass is a little much uh
once i'm in the thick of it and there's a lot of different sounds i can definitely feel the rumble more than i
can feel the clarity uh so these are
these are still cheap headphones but they're they're good they're good so all
in all these are a really good option if you have a small head or if you're a
young person and a microphone's not particularly important to you i think
for 80 you could do much much worse if
you're willing to spend a little bit more money i think you can get a more well-rounded headset um
i think like the art i'm a big fan of the arctic arctis series by steelseries
uh depending on your budget you can kind of just go up and down i think they're all pretty good if not the hyperx clouds
twos are very good as well if you want to buy
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