Logitech G733 Lightspeed review: Lightweight, flashy, and functional

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The wi-fi Logitech G733 Lightspeed is a really engaging headset, however not in a luxurious, luxurious sort of method—extra of an off-the-cuff method befitting the headset’s $149.99 base price ticket. How so? There’s no plush leatherette or steel to be seen, however the cups are sculpted with tight angles to bestow a futuristic look and RGB lighting ripples down the entrance aspect in two neat grooves.

It is available in 4 colours, every with its personal distinctive styling—there’s a stately black, vibrant white, fairly pink, and my evaluation unit’s blue colour, which options contrasting electrical/navy hues and a stretchy headband with superior “glitch” styling.

Note: See our roundup of the best wireless gaming headsets to find out about competing merchandise, what to search for in a wi-fi gaming headset, and shopping for suggestions.

Logitech G733 Lightspeed: Design and construct

Despite trying like “the bomb,” a number of drawbacks do current instantly. For one, the all-plastic headband feels a bit too flimsy. That wouldn’t have been an issue if the G733 folded down right into a streamlined, satchel-friendly unit, however the earcups don’t swivel and the headset’s band is kind of massive, so it suits awkwardly alongside your different possessions in luggage.

Additionally, the notch-less slide mechanism within the G733’s band doesn’t prolong all that a lot, so it received’t match everybody’s head completely. The G733’s removable microphone solely measures a teeny 6mm (lower than a quarter-inch), so it doesn’t stretch throughout your mouth, nor will it keep in any place, so discovering consistency in voice chats can also be a bit exhausting to do.

The G733’s design is considerably redeemed by different, extra flattering options, like its mild weight of solely 278 grams (9.8 ounces). This makes it solely barely heavier than the impressively mild 252-gram (8.8 ounce) Asus ROG Go Core Moonlight White.

The clamp stress can also be wonderful, and comparable once more to a different latest headset we reviewed for avid gamers, the Nacon Rig 800 Pro HX. That being the case, the G733 is right for gaming marathons the place you merely can’t muster up the willpower to pull your self away out of your recreation.

The mesh lined earcups, too, are much more sensible than leatherette ones—they’re good for warm, uncomfortable days when you understand you’re going to work up a sweat. The dual-layer memory-foam cups are remarkably smooth, and the funky headband all the time retains the stress off the highest of your head—so well-done to Logitech G for incorporating it.

Logitech G733 Lightspeed: Connectivity

Sometimes simplicity trumps fanciness and connecting the G733 is little one’s play. There’s no mucking about with a number of dongles or adapters; you merely plug the Logitech Lightspeed 2.4GHz dongle into your PC, Mac, or PlayStation 4 console, flip it on and voilà, you’re off.

The one and solely dongle within the field is a USB Type-A receiver, which is a bit on the cumbersome aspect, nevertheless it does provide you with a dependable connection. Logitech claims the sign reaches as much as 20 meters away, which noticed me making lengthy, gradual, Darth Vader-like marches all the way in which from my desk to the kitchen within the PCWorld places of work to check it. The consequence? It will definitely go the gap and manages to maintain static and distortion below management fairly properly too.

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That long-range audio is useful in case you’re listening to audio out of your PC as a result of the G733 can’t connect with your telephone, so switching your audio over for roaming about sadly isn’t an possibility.

You do, nonetheless, get wonderful battery life—Logitech claims as much as 20 hours with the RGB lighting on within the default setting, or as much as 29 hours once you change it off. I didn’t fairly have my headset lengthy sufficient to flatten my battery, however after 15 hours of play with RGB switched on I nonetheless had 24 p.c of my battery life remaining, so it’s fairly respectable.

Logitech G733 Lightspeed: Controls and software program

With the G733’s on-ear controls consisting of only a energy button, quantity wheel, and mute-mic button, you’ll have to obtain the Logitech G Hub software program in case you intend on digging deeper into the headset’s extra advanced performance.

Here, you’ll be able to preside over a powerful stage of customization, together with modifying your EQ settings and Lightsync RGB colours and results. You may even tweak the quantity ranges of particular person directional fields for the G733’s DTS Headphone: X 2.0 encompass sound.

G Hub additionally consists of some helpful customized presets, named for what they’re predominantly for. For instance, I made good use of the Bass Boost preset to actually emphasize explosions in Battlefield I, and the FPS preset for listening to footsteps higher in Insurgency, and each labored very well.

Blue Vo!ce is one other neat function in G Hub value enjoying round with, particularly in case you do a variety of streaming or skilled gaming. It’s mainly a bunch of voice filters that remodel your voice from its pure (generally cringe-worthy) default state right into a cleaner, extra authoritative, broadcaster model that you’ll moderately fancy listening to.

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It’s straightforward to do and G Hub has a report and playback function that permits you to take heed to the adjustments you’ve made, so you’ll be able to hear variations immediately, with out having to load up another program.

Logitech G733 Lightspeed: Audio efficiency

The G733’s Pro-G 40mm audio drivers impressed me proper off the bat, producing a clear sound that appeared to leap proper out of the cups. The G733 additionally has an honest tonal vary, with respectable bass, but in addition full-sounding mids and highs that I applauded more often than not, and seen was only a tiny bit flatter than some extra premium headsets at different instances.

That stated, gaming with the cans on was nonetheless an absolute pleasure. The headset drummed up immersive soundscapes in present favourite video games like Elden Ring that had me glued to the motion. As Hollywood director Steven Spielberg has alluded to prior to now, sound and music could make up greater than half of speaking a narrative, and that rang true for me in my playtesting—particularly watching reduce scenes that the G733 actually did justice to.

But these first impressions have been only a warmup actually, as a result of the spatial audio was much more spectacular. Logitech’s choice to go along with DTS headphone: X 2.0 over the favored Dolby Atmos, comes with each execs and cons.

On the upside, DTS has the next bit charge than Dolby Atmos, and has consequently turn into considerably of a favourite amongst audiophiles and professional avid gamers. However, the concession right here is that DTS Headphone X isn’t as extensively supported amongst video games and different media as Dolby Atmos is. Indeed, evaluating my video games library with a listing of supported titles solely revealed a number of matches—like Metro Exodus and Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

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Still, what I heard in these video games made me hope that scenario adjustments quickly; the audio was loud and clear and had wonderful directionality. It’s additionally value noting that the G733 sports activities the newest iteration of the DTS software program—model 2.0—which features a few sweetener enhancements, together with to the bass, which implies you’re getting the perfect at the moment accessible.

My solely nit-pick relating to the G733’s audio efficiency is its noise cancellation, or lack thereof. It depends solely on passive noise-blocking from its cups. That principally works properly to dam out sounds within the decrease tonal vary, however a high-pitched leaf blower was fairly audible in one in every of my playtests, so in case you want absolute pristine audio on a regular basis, the G733 received’t match the invoice.

Should you purchase the Logitech G733 Lightspeed?

On stability, the Logitech G733 ticks sufficient packing containers to be a high quality headset for avid gamers and streamers. The audio is obvious and outlined, it has wonderful companion software program, in addition to strong spatial audio help. It additionally feels very comfy and appears engaging in an unassuming sort of method.

Sure, it makes concessions within the design division, the largest being that the band feels a bit flimsy, however in case you hold this headset near house and out of hazard, its positive to final you simply so long as another.