Logitech G533 Wireless Gaming Headset – DTS 7.1 Surround Sound – Pro-G Audio Drivers, Black

All around awesome, despite what end up being minor problems when you stack the pros against the cons. After having these headphones for a nearly year, have to say they are amazing, but not perfect. I purchased them for gaming, and was looking at wireless for sake of comfort and mobility. First thing, and probably the most attractive feature, is the wireless. It works even better than I expected, I can go pretty much anywhere in my house, or out on my porch, I suppose I can get up to ~50 feet from the receiver, and still get reception, with exception of near the fridge and the laundry room, probably because of the metal. Now the quality is good, but these are definitely not the best sounding headphones I have. Not to say that they sound terrible, they sound great, but compared to other headphones I’ve used, these are a notch lower on the quality scale. Sounds are muddier then my Sennheiser 200s, and granted those are much cheaper headphones, I got them used for $40, and they’re also not wireless. After some tinkering with the equalizer, I was able to get slightly better sounding audio in my games, and *decent* audio with music. Without a 6.3mm or 3.5mm plug, can’t plug it in to my amplifier, so its the best I can do. The audio positioning is amazing, even with DTS surround off, but the quality is awful when its on. And speaking of, don’t even bother with the Logitech software features like the surround/bass boost, its just garbage, one of the only useful features is the battery meter. The microphone is amazing quality. To be honest, its near the quality of a blue yeti, which I’d borrowed from a friend to compare, and I suspect that in most scenarios audio compression will make that difference completely unnoticeable. The microphone was problematic for the first few days, but after some tinkering the mic was still quiet, then suddenly started working perfectly. As a matter of fact people I talk to were complaining about “wind” sound when I was talking, so I took a boom cover of another headset of mine that is about the same dimensions and slipped it over the mic, and can still be heard loud and clear without it sounding like I’m blowing into the mic every time I talk. Battery life is what surprised me, as I doubted the advertised 15 hours, but even after almost a year of heavy daily use, I still only charge it every three days, and usually use it for 4+ hours a day. So close enough to 15 hours I suppose. And the cord that comes with it is 6 feet so you shouldn’t have a problem charging while in use. The physical quality is amazing. They are very sturdy, not a whole lot of plastic wiggle, and even after a year of heavy use there’s no plastic creaking or anything of the like. The cloth mesh earpiece and headband are really comfortable, even in 2+ hour gaming sessions and movies, and better yet they don’t get sweaty easily. The cloth mesh is not to hard to take out and wash, (don’t know if they are machine washable, just went with the safe bet and washed ’em in the sink) and they’ve been washed 3 times now and look pretty much as good as when the headphones were new. I do have a few complaints. First about the charger port, I think there should some be something to bracket it in better, I feel like it would be to easy to accidentally bend the connector outwards when its plugged in, but so far no problems or accidents there. The other problem I’ve had is that if the headset is completely dead, you have to turn it off and let it charge a little bit before you can use them while plugged in, otherwise they with drop connection a lot. Also, though minor, the volume wheel is pretty easy to bump, being on the bottom back of the left earpiece and pretty sensitive, if you wear sweaters be warned!OVERALL: these are definitely my favorite headphones, despite what end up being minor problems when you stack the pros against the cons.If your are looking for good wireless headphones for long gaming sessions these are great! But if you are a stickler for high quality sound you might want to pass, as the quality is lacking and with no option of hard wired 6.3 or 3.5 port, no amplifier 🙁

Great product. Logitech always delivers.

Mic is terrible. and some software troubles. This is my first wireless headset so I can’t comment on it’s quality in that regard. But compared to a 40$ wired set I own the Mic is absolute garbage and the audio quality seems about the same. Minus the surround sound feature which, while it does work, muddies the audio quite a bit.That 40$ set, if You’re interested, is the SOMiC G941 which I’ve put up a review on as well. It’s biggest issues are a vibration feature that’s better left off, the cable failed as is seemingly guaranteed to happen with any wired headphones, and its lackluster software but at least it doesn’t have the issues this headset’s software has.I was looking pretty seriously at getting the astro A-10s before seeing that these were on sale. Those are probably worth giving a look over these as well unless you’re absolutely dead set on wireless.The mic is unbearably quiet and only barely sounds acceptable with mic volume capped out both through windows device management and its own software. Given that volume can be raised with software I don’t even understand how this is an issue at all aside form just pure negligence and lazines on the producer’s part. But if you plan to do any recording or streaming with it know that you’ll have to drop any additional audio’s volume to compensate or boost your mic volume through a 3rd party program. The audio quality itself on it is just generally poor. The telescopic action on the mic is so stiff I feel better just leaving it out, and you have to bend the mic towards your mouth to mitigate it’s volume issue, and bend it back to flip it back up which does not inspire confidence of longevity and ads an extra annoying step to muting. unless you map mic mute to the custom button which is what I did since I don’t intend to use the surround sound much.Sometimes the volume knob just decides it doesn’t wanna work, and when that happens the only fix I’ve found is rebooting your PC. this has occurred for me simply by messing with the software in any way. Opening and closing games, or turning the headset itself off to conserve battery when I’m not using it. Any of these actions can seemingly arbitrarily decide to break the functionality of the volume knob until you reboot your pc. Turning off and back on the headset, or unplugging and plugging back in the receiver have no effect.Turning the volume knob comes with this obnoxious beep that you can’t turn off in G-hub (the “reccomended” software. but you can through a different program. I’ll go into that in a sec). The beep doesn’t adjust its own volume so it’s not giving you any feedback on what the volume’s set to. It just tells you if you’ve turned it up or down based on the tone it makes which… you can just hear happen if you’re actively listening to something anyways. It’s needlessly annoying. The knob also has indexing that the inclusion of makes the knob less precise. It never lands on the same number consistently and jumps 4-8 numbers per notch. I find myself wanting to set the knob in the middle of an indexing notch more often than not, if it simply didn’t index and was just a smooth rotation it would be far better. it “feels” good, but functionally it’s a pain.About the software. There are two sepparate softwares for logitech gear. G-Hub, the new shiny software logitech is pushing on all it’s stuff, and the older “Logitech Gaming Software” or LGS for short. DO NOT install G-Hub. With G-hub installed, A windows process that controls audio (called “Windows audio device graph isolation”) will absolutely eat your processing. I saw it jump upto as high as 20% but it liked to sit around 10-15 most of the time. An absolute nightmare if you wanna do anything cpu intensive. Additionally it’s outright missing some settings. One of these, is the setting to disable the annoying volume knob beep.When I went to their sight to attempt to install LGS in place of G-hub after seeing many recomendations to do so when looking up issues I had with the set, the websight gave me the wrong version of the program, telling me it was the recommended version for my operating system. but when attempting to install it it would give me a pop up message that said something to the affect of “this version is incompatible with your OS” because of this I thought LGS had just been outmoded and I had no choice but to use G-hub for a while. Until I got fed up with the insane processing usage and checked again only to notice the version of LGS it was trying to give me had a “x86” at the end, and another version of the program in their downloads list had the same version number, but instead had “x64” the x64 version of the program finally installed properly, after I uninstalled G-hub, I haven’t had processing issues since, and am no longer plagued by the volume beep after finding that setting in LGS. I should note Surround sound in LGS doubles the CPU usage from that same program G-hub has cpu issues with. But I’ve never seen it go above 1%, opposed to G-hub’s 10-20% usage with all enhancements disabled.Plugging it in to your computer does not bypass the wireless connection and switch to a wired connection, and I find this extremely disappointing. I feel like some quality issues could be rectified if this was simply an option, and possibly extend the life of the battery if you chose to use wired when possible. The wireless receiver also gets concerningly hot. Especially considering it has to be plugged in close to my computer’s main exhaust fan. I saw someone’s post on here that theirs melted. Based on how hot mine gets, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s relatively easy to do on a computer that puts out much more heat than mine does and/or in a location that has much higher temperatures over extended use.After using it for a fair amount of time I can comfortably say I do love the wireless. and the better lasts plenty long enough for me to use it nearly all day without recharging. at least for now. the Battery is replaceable which is pretty nice. Not something you see often enough these days.

Llegaron en tiempo y buenas condiciones, fueron un regalo y a la persona le gustaron mucho, el único punto es que es muy grande el receptor Bluetooth

Just ordered my second one after 5 years of satisfactory use. I’ve been using this headset for 5 years, and although electrically it still works great, the foam padding is disintegrating (to be fair, I store it next to a window, by the ocean, and the window is often open). This has been my favorite wireless headset for several reasons: sound quality is great for music and videos, I don’t really play videogames which rely heavily on distinguishing sounds, so can’t say much there. It has a good range – I can wander all over my apartment, which considering the location of my computer, pushes past the 15m advertised range – only cuts in and out past the 15m and when there’s a wall in the way (I do notice more range when it is plugged into a top facing USB port vs a side-facing USB port). I don’t use the microphone that much, but when I do (mostly for work meetings) others have noted that I’m very clear and easy to understand – also the mic only picks up my voice and not loud cars, sirens, etc. It also has great battery charge life, even 5 years in – I only get the dreaded “beeps” of low battery warning if I was lazy and stayed in all day watching videos and playing games – and at that point, I somewhat consider those beeps the “go out and see the dang world” beeps. Definitely recommend and hopefully the one I just ordered is of the same quality as the one I got five years ago.