- 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 crown?
I don't know, let's find out.
This is the Logitech G435 headset.
And this is actually a pretty exciting piece of hardware.
It's Logitech's newest entry
into the budget space of headphones.
I'm gonna start with this one,
because this is probably the one I like the most.
It comes in at $80 US.
It's a pretty standard headset, it's wireless.
It has a USB-A dongle,
but it can also connect to your PC,
your PlayStation, and your phone.
It's got Bluetooth and LIGHTSPEED.
I believe this is the first 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 ho 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 gonna choose the color you like.
I also like the lilac off white.
And the black and neon's probably what I'd pick,
just 'cause I'm gross.
And I make everything look dirty really easily. (chuckles)
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.
Inside, again, there's no fabric.
It's just straight onto plastic.
So if this padding is not doing great,
your ears are gonna 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 beamforming microphones,
which helps keep it lighter.
Yeah, I like these little cables.
It's kind of a retro aesthetic.
And there's something kind of retro-gamery
about the whole thing,
but I think it all comes together to be pretty pleasing.
We got power, we've got a volume rocker.
We've got microphone mute.
And then we've got our type C for charging, which is great.
They say that there's 18 hours
worth of battery inside this headset,
which would be very impressive if true.
We're not gonna test that today,
so we'll just take them on faith, baby.
Let's just get these peels, you know.
(stickers peeling)
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.
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 at least 22% recycled plastics,
and the packaging as well.
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.
(sticker slaps)
We got the other ones as well,
just to see what they look like.
(cardboard clunks)
(paper rustles)
(cardboard clunks)
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 how they sound,
see how they feel on my head.
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Wow, that was easy.
I plugged in the dongle, hit the power button,
and then it immediately connected.
I think I might be out of juice, though.
Huh, so much for 18 hours.
Well okay, already these don't feel great. (chuckles)
So I'm like, I need good padding
because I have lots of earrings.
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 cups feel like a little bit small for my ears.
And I think this would be fine to wear for extended periods,
but it's not the 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.
I could see it still becoming like,
a bit annoying after a rubbing or something.
But overall, comfort's fine.
Give it like, 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's just for power, don't worry.
You don't need it plugged in. (chuckles)
Just 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 you're not gonna run it wired from a headphone jack.
Just to know.
- [Jono] (clapping) Can you hear this?
- I can definitely hear you.
The sound isolation's pretty minimal.
Like, speak to me at just like, at a normal volume.
- [Jono] How was your weekend?
- That's good.
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 Dolby Atmos and Tempest compatible.
It means nothing.
(laughs) Every headphone is Dolby Atmos
and 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 a 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.
In terms of other specs, it's a 40 millimeter driver.
It's 20 to 20, which is a pretty standard response range.
So 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz.
Again, these specs mean very little.
We'll see how they actually sound.
This is what the audio sounds like.
I am clipping.
There's no auto volume, which is fine.
I'm gonna 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 (indistinct),
but I promise you, it's velvety not smooth.
That's not great.
(laughs) That's not great.
I don't know if that's like,
that digitalization glitching is part of
the headphone to 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.
- [Jono] Is it adjustable?
- 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 G HUB compatibility until it's out.
Like 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 reviewers docket about customizing EQs.
It's fine if you were gaming with friends, it's fine.
All right.
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 base is like a little forward.
I'm sure you could EQ 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 wanna hear is if,
like I'm not losing my competitive advantage
of using like high end.
Why's it set to hold?
That's why.
'Cause that's like a big reason for,
in my opinion, when you're playing competitive shooters
to have really high end headphones
is that you get a lot better clarity,
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 RE-45.
Let's find out if this was a really bad choice.
(chill music)
(laughs) Bad choice.
But yeah, okay.
In terms of audio, it's still like, not perfectly balanced.
Like, if I could go in with an EQ,
I think I would like it a little bit better.
I can already feel the comfort level kind of diminishing.
In terms of adjustability, it's not great.
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 this a little bit more.
And like, there's no give, there's no play.
There's a bit of adjustability kind of this way,
but it'll be plastic resisting against you, like the flex.
So it's not ideal.
I'm really impressed
with the audio quality of these headphones.
I wanna go into something
where it's a little more spatially aware.
So I'm gonna 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,
and the volume control in the console is different.
Sometimes that's kind of nice,
but it's also kind of annoying. (laughs)
Okay. Let's pop into Returnal, 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 wazoo
after X-Box bought two years of 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 (beep) save states.
Housemarque, Housemarque, I don't know how to say it.
Put save states in (beep) Returnal.
I'm so sick of this bull (beep).
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 lower end of that sound
is coming out a little too strong.
It's not bad.
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,
but because of the sound isolation's not amazing,
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think like the,
I'm a big fan of the Arctis series by SteelSeries.
Depending on your budget,
you can kind of just go up and down.
I think they're all pretty good.
If not the HyperX Cloud IIs are very good as well.
If you wanna buy one of these,
check them out in the link description.
They're there.
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- [Jono] Not reviews.
- Not reviews, unboxings!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
And I will see you on the next Circuit,
which it will be small.