Logitech has simply held a lavish grand unveiling of practically a dozen new gaming merchandise at its Logitech G Play occasion. Nevertheless, among the many high-end sim racing gear and experimental new gaming mice, maybe my favourite new product is a finances wi-fi gaming headset known as the Logitech G321.
This modest Logitech noise maker would not make any grand claims for beautiful sound high quality or any revolutionary new tech. What it does ship is an extremely comfy, secure-fitting, light-weight design, and twin wi-fi connections for an extremely low worth. It’s miles too early to say if it should positively turn into the brand new finances selection on our greatest gaming headset information, however based mostly on my testing on the G Play present flooring, it stands an excellent probability.
Operating by means of its core specs, the G321 is a wireless-only headset, with each Logitech’s Lightspeed 2.4GHz wi-fi tech and the flexibility to hook up with Bluetooth units too – although not on the similar time. It additionally incorporates a flip-down microphone and on-headset controls for quantity, energy, and enter switching.
Thus far, so commonplace – it’s extremely comparable in core specs to the G435 Lightspeed, as an illustration, however with two additional hours of battery life. Nevertheless, what actually gained me over with this headset is its low weight and luxury. It weighs simply 210g, which is a large 100g lower than many typical wi-fi gaming headsets. This instantly helps with decreasing discomfort from weight coming by means of the headscarf, plus it means the headset stays actually safe as you tilt your head round.
It additionally helps that the earcup padding is deep and comfortable, with loads of room inside the earcups in your ears. The headscarf padding is not tremendous thick – it makes use of a band comparable in design to that of the Apple AirPods Professional, however with padding as a substitute of mesh. Once more, although, the lightness of the headset makes the distinction.
The pure sound isolation of the headset can also be actually spectacular. Regardless of being in a really busy house, and this headset having no energetic noise cancellation (ANC) tech, this headset decreased the din sufficient to permit for an honest degree of sound high quality evaluation. In distinction, the brand new $170 Astro A20 X did not actually scale back surrounding noise sufficient to evaluate it properly on the present flooring.
Bass heads can be happy too, as this headset actually thumps. Nevertheless, that is truly the place this headset actually exhibits its finances worth. Its sound is large, beefy, and enjoyable, but it surely very a lot lacks refined element, noticeably getting muddy even within the noisy listening surroundings of the G Play present flooring. Nonetheless, for $59, it is a enjoyable sufficient sound to get enjoying comfortably once you’re on a good finances.
For these of you considering that the G435 is already broadly obtainable for $50 and is even lighter, you are not incorrect. Nevertheless, that headset launched at $80, whereas this one is hitting the market at simply $59.
Logitech G Play is the corporate’s annual large showcase of the corporate’s newest gaming gear, with this 12 months’s occasion going down in Madrid and seeing the launch of 11 new merchandise. These embrace its new McLaren F1 racing gear and its new Logitech G Professional X2 Superstrike gaming mouse, which does not have regular microswitches however as a substitute makes use of analog switches with adjustable haptic suggestions.
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