Logitech G430 Headset Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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click the link in the video description for more details filmmakers need to get
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over this 24 FPS like Diva oh it looks
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more cinematic thing because you know what have you ever watched a movie and
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gone oh there's a pan of mountains at least I think it was a pan of mountains
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cuz it might have been a slide show from like my great A's trip to the Alps or
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something because it's ridiculous anyway I digress this is my unboxing of the
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g430 from Logitech which is pretty similar to the g230 now we've addressed
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an issue with outdoor unboxings that people have been complaining about for a
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while and that is that there's nowhere to put the product we have dragged a
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table outdoors and that is the solution that we've come up with so this headset
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is part of logitech's massive refresh of
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their gaming series products including the g100s the g400s the g500s the g700s
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the g510s the G uh um uh oh what's the
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keyboard the g19s the g230 and the
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g430 so unlike the g230 the g430 has a
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blue theme which is kind of shaking things up a little bit because generally
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speaking like the the um like The
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Stereotype is that the high performance extreme Edition one is going to be uh
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red whereas like the lower end one will be blue but in this case the g430 is
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actually the more more premium headset because it does come with a USB sound
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card integrated with it giving it 7.1
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surround in software capabilities so
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they're using Dolby technology which by and large is well it's definitely one of
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the better Solutions out there but in terms of the actual headphones
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themselves there hasn't been much that's changed so it's got the same wide
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headband but narrow looking pad that I found because it's so soft and Squishy
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see it has here I'm going to press on this and you guys are going to see it
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has a very slow recoil see that that's really important because what that does
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is it makes it feel kind of funny the first time you ever put the headset on
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but once it mushes out a little bit it mushes out and it puts much more even
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pressure on your head I mean logitech's good at ergonomics if nothing else
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they've been doing it a long time the ear cups on the other hand do use a
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harder foam but it's quite deep so what you're going to discover with headsets
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like this is that they might not be instantly the most comfortable thing you've ever heard but they will
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definitely improve over time as they mold to your head and these aren't the
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kinds of things that I would lend to someone else because you don't want
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someone else's head shape you know gunking up your your head Groove that's
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going on here so the mic is a boom mic I'm just going to actually here we'll
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show you the the fitting first metal pieces love metal pieces here they just
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they Inspire confidence they make me feel good about the build quality of the
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headphones that I just bought when you have plastic size adjustments it just um
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it feels it feels cheaper it just really does and metal bands really don't add
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that much weight so it goes all the way up to about here and then all the way down
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to basically kid size which will sit pretty high up on my head just like that
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so I'm going to pull those down again all right so the boom mic goes up here
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boom mic goes down here and let's head into the cable so
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it's got a nice blue braided cable very thin which I personally actually kind of
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like cuz it means it's less likely to to like King can get caught on stuff and
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oh yeah they've used a really high quality cable you can see even though
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it's been packaged up there's almost no kinkiness to it my Logitech G9 by
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contrast I've had for years and still has the original Kink from when it was
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uh bound up in the box so that's that's a really nice Improvement and did I say
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that this was USB holy crap Logitech is
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doing it the right way here awesome this
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is the way to do it manufacturers for those of you who are wondering instead
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of integrating the USB connector directly into the headphones just
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include this adapter there's your USB sound card now you have the option to
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use it as a USB sound card or hook it up
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to an even higher quality audio source so these USB sound cards are better than
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onboard sound they do provide that virtual surround functionality remember
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guys you don't need multiple speakers in your headphones in order to get a
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surround experience you have two ears and when the speaker is sitting right
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next to it you only need two speakers for surround go find the virtual haircut
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uh Virtual Barber Shop or whatever on YouTube and you'll see what I mean but
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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
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sound card bloop you plug those into that and you are ready to go so there
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you go way to go Logitech doing things the right way the inline controls very
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simple you've got a volume wheel on the side here there you go as well as a mic mhone
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mute button I would have rather seen Logitech Implement a microphone mute
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there's a little clip on the back uh by raising the boom pole Sennheiser did
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this on their PC 36 3DS as well as their 350 SE it's a very elegant way to deal
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with it so um there there there's a tip that I wish everyone would get from uh
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from what sennheiser's done over there the microphone because it's a boom mic
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and not a retractable mic isn't that adjustable in terms of positioning but
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it is noise cancelling and you can kind of go up and down like this and it does
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have some bendiness to it as well so you guys can see hopefully from that angle
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that it can I find the easiest way is like ah put it right in my mouth and
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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
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other people so I'm going to see if I I haven't even looked at what they have to
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say about themselves on the box so performance sport cloth ear cups are
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removable for cleaning oh that's actually really nice because some people
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do get sweaty when they game I'm not judging uh 3year warranty USB adapter
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Windows 8 Windows window 7 or Windows Vista to use the USB sound 7.1 surround
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sound 40 mm drivers this is something that probably would have been good to
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mention and I think that is pretty much
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it ah Lake lay flat ear cups okay this is something so there you go lays flat
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uh this might not be important for some people but if you fold your headphones
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up and you put them in a bag this isn't quite as elegant as a folding design but
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at least it allows you to slip it into a side pocket without worrying about it
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getting messed up my parrot Zeke I sat on them on a plane and the the yeah the
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ear cup that wasn't supposed to go like that went like that the other way and it
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was a really really bad experience so being able to fold them up like that's
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really nice just want to give you guys sort of a nice look at what they look
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like so they do have the blue accent here as well as the blue cloth unlike
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the 230s which don't come with the USB adapter but that's pretty much the only
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other difference and they're red and then let's see if we can figure out how
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to pull off that uh that removable ear
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cut piece here oh that's simple okay so there you go you take that off wash that
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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
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where this sits your sides are clearly labeled but remember guys the boom mic
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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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