Logitech G930 Wireless Gaming Headset Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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Welcome to another exciting unboxing. These are the Logitech G930 gaming
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headphones, headsets, whatever it is you want them to be. They're wireless and
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they are in 7.1 Dolby surround sound.
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So, we're going to go ahead and take a closer look at the back of the box here,
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which basically tells us everything that we need to know. I suppose gaming grade
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wireless. So, they're claiming with a range of up to 40 feet or 12 meters, so
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nothing stands between you and Victory. Sounds good. 7.1 surround sound. Guys, I
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am not a huge um I'm not a huge advocate
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of the necessity of surround sound sort of technologies for gaming. I I've
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always taken sort of a well, you've got two ears, so you probably only need two
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inputs sort of philosophy. However, if you do enjoy the surround sound
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experience, one thing I will tell you is
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use a digital surround sound headphone or headset, do not use one with
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dedicated speakers. And this again sort of comes back to the whole if you have
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two ears, you probably only need two speakers argument. But when you when you
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put more speakers into a small area like headphones would have you do, what
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happens is you end up with a lot of lower quality, lower sound fidelity uh
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speakers as opposed to two much larger,
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much better ones. There's a reason that every high-end, you know, gaming
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headphone wants to tell you how big the drivers are. And the reason for that is
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because bigger drivers basically will
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equal, you know, a better overall ability to produce noises more better.
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So lots of smaller speakers is not the solution. Free programmable G keys
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allows you to take command over music. Well, what they really allow you to do
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is do whatever you want. You can program them. So you can set up voice morphing
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uh launch chat clients or whatever else. Memory phone line headband should be
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good. Noise cancelling microphone. Okay. Oh, glows red when muted and
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automatically mutes when rotated out of the way. This is a feature we see on a lot of headsets these days. A full speed
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USB charging base which recharges even while you're still playing and powers
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the wireless adapter with a single USB connection. So, let's go ahead and put
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that away cuz we're pretty much done with it now and open up the headset
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itself. So, it comes in a little plastic clam shell. Looks a little something
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like this. Comes with a base station. I'm actually going to switch to our
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wider cam for just a second here so that you guys can see what in the heck I'm
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doing. There are the G930s. So, right, G
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series. That basically means optimized for gaming. I'm going to go ahead and
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throw these on my head for now while I get some idea what I think of them in
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terms of the comfort. Not bad, actually. The foam's a little bit stiffer than I'm
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used to encountering. Uh, let's have a look at what is included in terms of
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accessories. So, inside this right here, love the way Logitech does their
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packaging, although they still include CDs. Totally pointless. You can go ahead
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and download the latest drivers off of the Logitech website. Getting started
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with Premier Utiliz Logitech wireless
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gaming headset G930. It's going to go ahead and point you in the direction of
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all the buttons that you need to press or or not press. Let's see if any of
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them are labeled do not press. No. Power buttons, rounds on switch. Let's go
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ahead and leave that open. End of life battery disposal notice. Okay, cool.
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That's good to let you know about. Safety, compliance, and warranty. Excellent. So, here's that base station.
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So, this guy goes ahead and plugs into your computer. You can see it actually
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coils up like this. Okay. So, if anyone
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says they're going to drop a coiler on your desk, you better hope they're referring to this
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thing. I'm getting a look from the filming crew that would indicate that
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that joke is not very funny, but it stunk. It's okay. Diesel says my joke
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stunk. So, I'm going to Wow, this thing is really uh difficult to uncoil.
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Although, you know, getting your hands in it probably isn't helping matters at
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all. So, there you go. Okay. So, there. So, there's a
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little hub thing. So, you can go ahead and plug this guy into here. So, that's
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the wireless transmitter receiver. You go ahead and plug that into any USB
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port. And then this right here plugs into the back of your computer. So, this
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will act as kind of a hub. So, this will provide power to the headphones/ headset
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themselves. This will provide signal and power to the dongle and then this plugs
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into the computer. So, I don't know that this is necessarily the most elegant
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solution ever in terms of sort of how they've implemented this. Although it's
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not the worst. I probably would have personally gone with just two separate
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cables. Although, I guess since it uses it looks like it uses a standard micro
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USB. You could Yeah, it just uses a standard micro USB. So, you could go
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that route if you wanted to as well. It does have little rubber grips on the
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bottom. So, if you wanted to make sure that it doesn't move on your table, then
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you wouldn't really have any issues with that. There you go. I think that pretty
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much takes care of that. Moving on to the headset itself. So, as I mentioned
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before, once you rotate it up and out of the way, it will mute itself. It also
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glows red for mute. Let's take a closer look and see what we think. And oh, I
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probably just adjusted my voice volume because these are they are closed, so
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they are somewhat noise isolating. I was not able to hear myself very well while
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I had them on. So, here we go. Three programmable G keys. These guys right
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here are allow you to change your voice effects or do whatever else you want,
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like a G. Haha. No, I'm getting the head shakes
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again. Not a good joke, apparently. Uh, here's your mute button right here if
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you did want to mute it manually, even though the boom mic is lowered. You can
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adjust the position of the boom mic, although not as much as we've seen on
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other headsets in the past. Okay. So, there's your microphone there as well as
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your noise cancelling doodad right here just to make sure that it's only picking
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up your voice and not anything else. I mean, it's not that bad, but yeah, I I
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wouldn't mind seeing something with a little bit more vertical play. There's
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your volume right there. Do like to see the volume wheel. Uh, it's the most
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comfortable sort of volume adjustment method for me personally. I don't really
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like tactile buttons for volume. I like to have a nice wheel that I can go, no,
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too loud, and sort of quickly reduce like that. There's your power input.
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Remember guys, that'll charge the batteries as well as just allow you to
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use the headset as a wired headset should you so desire. Here's your Dolby
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headphone button. Nice to have a dedicated button for this. That way you can just kind of decide on the fly if
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this particular game or this particular movie or song or whatever sounds better
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to you in one mode versus the other. Power buttons right here. So, we can go
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ahead and press that button and the light will This is probably in pairing
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mode right now. So, that's probably why it's flashing. On the other side, we
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don't find much in terms of buttons or anything. So, it's just a speaker in
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there and none of the electronics are being housed like that. So, in terms of
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rotation, they go they go about 90° away
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from centered from to this side and then just about looks like only about 15 20°
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away from centered the other side. So, that gives you about as much adjustment
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as any sort of human will need. However, if they are intended to be used by
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nonhumids, human humanoid humanids
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homminids, uh, nonhumans, then they'd probably need greater adjustment, but
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this should be just fine. I think I did say before that the foam feels a little
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bit stiff. I'd expect it to break in. Uh, there's memory foam in the top, but
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it's not the softest memory foam that I've ever felt in the past. Here, I'll
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give you guys a closer look at that, actually. So, I'll just kind of squeeze
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it and show you guys. I guess it does take a while to retract. I just wouldn't
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mind if it was a little bit thicker. And then the ear cups themselves. I I think
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they specifically call out the memory foam in the top band because I don't
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think it is memory foam here. This actually, see, you can see that retracts
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extremely quickly. So, I would expect there to be a bit of a break-in period
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with this headset before it would be 100% comfortable, which isn't
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necessarily a a shot at it. It's not necessarily a mark against it. I mean,
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even my HD555s were not nearly as comfortable at the beginning as they
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were after using them for, you know, six months.
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But I think that pretty much covers
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it. Have we missed anything here, folks? Oh, yeah. Right. Adjustments. So,
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adjustments are pretty Oh, look at that. They're numbered. That's adorable. So, they're numbered from 1 to 11 so that if
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you, you know, pay attention and you want to know exactly which one you uh
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you you prefer, you can go ahead and get it sized for yourself correctly and then
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you can always get it back to the right thing if you want. They are it's a metal
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band, which is nice to see. I've seen too many plastic ear headband
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adjustments and they just break or they they start to not uh they start to not
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click into place over time. So, I do prefer to see metal construction there.
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Especially if it's the kind of thing where, you know, gamers, they lose and
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then they're like, "Ah." And they throw their headset off in disgust. I can
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pretty much guarantee that that headset did survive the fall. And that carpet is
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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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So, there you have it, guys. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first
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