Logitech G35 7.1 Surround Gaming Headset Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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one so today we're going to be doing an unboxing of the Logitech G35 I had a lot
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of people requesting this I couldn't get my hands on one I finally have one this
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is a 7.1 surround sound gaming headset
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Logitech figures Victory never sounded this good that means that you actually
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have full 7.1 surround that is multiple
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speakers per ear cup giving you none of this sort of phony 3D positional
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algorithm stuff with two speakers although there's something to be said
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for that approach as well but Logitech has gone ahead and implemented multiple
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speakers to give you that true positional sound now I'm going to
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preface this with telling you guys that
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this approach is not ideal for music I'll tell you that right now these are
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not going to be the best music headphones in the world they're not
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meant to be they're part of Logitech G Series I mean have you seen a Logitech G
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Series keyboard that's ideal for music
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huh so this is a gaming product first
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and foremost ahead of any other priorities and that is what the features
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are designed for so once I can finally
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figure out how to stop stalling and get this box open we'll be able to proceed
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with the unboxing which I have finally managed to do so we'll go over the back
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of the box first and have a look at what Logitech has to say for themselves on
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this here product 7.1 surround sound powered by dub technology delivers a
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detailed sound field excellent three swappable headband pads let you choose
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the one that best fits your head we'll show you those in a minute three
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customizable G keys for One Touch command over music voice morphing and
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more so pretty much whatever you want on ear audio controls for quick access to
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volume mic mute and Surround Sound adjustments adjustable noise cancelling
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microphone reduces background noise awesome noise counseling microphone is a
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definite plus full speed All Digital USB connection delivers clean clear audio so
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it is entirely non-dependent on your sound card this is
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a USB headset oh this is just this is
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just a filler no no this has something inside I'm going to find out what's
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inside here for you guys so that you don't have to buy one just to find out
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what's inside this box all right so these are the uh top pieces so you can
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see they attached by velcro this is the b cup and this is the C cup so that'll
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cup cup on your head there all right next we'll go ahead and
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uh open up the plastic clamshell here
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we'll have a look at the G35 itself now that we've seen the
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accessories I'm just going to go ahead and see if I can uh you know what let's
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resort to the unboxing knife to get that out of there okay so these are looking
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pretty nice so far let me just hold on let me see if there's anything
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worthwhile in here there's probably a CD that I'm going to tell you to throw away
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okay uh yeah this one and then there's a
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quick start guide as well as a tell us what you think um inquiry from Logitech
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okay so let's start with the overall look of this guy very industrial look
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you can see they got you know little dots and lines now it looks a little bit
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kind of Dusty out of the box but I think that's just a byproduct of the finish on
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here it's a very satiny uh velvety type finish so it's not glossy that means
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it's going to be very very durable it's actually made of like a rubber material
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you can see that it's quite flexible so if you were to say for example throw
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your headphones down in anger and they landed on the rubber here then they
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should be quite safe indeed all right the hinges as you can see are made of oh
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they're are they made of metal no okay no no the
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adjustable uh head head piece or earpieces use this metal slider and you
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can actually this is kind of nice because if you remember what size you
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are like oh okay I have it on five and it's the most comfortable then you can
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just leave it on five at all times and then if it someone comes and you know
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come comes into your room and uses your headset then you can easily adjust it
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back to where you need it to be so that's pretty cool the hinges right here
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have a little bit of sway in them so depending on the shape of your head
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you're going to be able to have those fit on there nicely and you can see
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there's a bit of give to them this way so that's going to account for different
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head shapes different ear positioning on the side of your head you can see here
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the ear Cups have like a nice pley material on them that's quite thick so
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I'm going to take my hat off in a moment and try these on for reals and see how
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comfortable they are you can actually H I don't know if I can get you guys a
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good angle but from where I can from where I'm standing I can see the
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multiple speakers in there as well and that's uh that's pretty cool too I don't
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know if you guys are going to be able to see that though it's pretty hard oh well
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no big deal on the side we've got a Logitech logo on this side on the other
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side we're going to find some more stuff so we've got our g123 keys and those are
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easily accessible on the side of your head and then we also have a volume
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control wheel as well as a microphone mute button and then we've got a just a
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gorgeous braided cord I don't think I've seen one this thick or with this high
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quality of a sleeving on it in quite a
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while actually that's really nice not a goldplated USB connector although it's
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pretty debatable whether that even matters although oh look at this no no
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the inside is goldplated which is what actually could potentially matter if it
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did matter so the one that's installed by default you can see the little velcro
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thing here is the uh the a cup so I guess that's for uh one size of the head
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actually ironically I think that's the largest one so here we go let's throw
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this on I'll show you guys the uh microphone on the side so we're finding
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out what size my head is right now this is quite comfortable very cushiony both
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on the ears as well as on the headband now that's unusual out of the box for a
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high-end headset cuz a lot of them are going to be sort of overtight to ensure
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that they're not going to squeeze the head of a new user although you know if
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I was using these for several hours at a time I'd probably want to break in
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Period to make sure they're going to sit on there real nice so we've got our
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lowerable mic here I'm going to show you guys that sliding
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action like GI gym with sliding karate
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chop action on the ARM anyway there's the microphone and
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then the G keys are very easily accessible you can see that here I can
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also easily adjust my volume mute the microphone do whatever it is I need to
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do so when I'm like great shot oh that
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guy's such a jerk I hate encouraging that guy yeah great go team so uh that's
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very very convenient as well I think that's pretty much everything I wanted
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to say about the G35 they do block quite a lot of sound I couldn't hear myself
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very well when I had them over my ears so while I'm not 100% sure whether
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they're a clo closed or an open style headset my guess would be they're fairly
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closed uh just because I don't see any holes here I don't see any gaps here and
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they are using a fairly noise isolating material on the ear cups themselves for
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so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Logitech G35 surround
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sound gaming headset and don't forget to subscribe to Linus TCH tips