Logitech G35
Logitech is a long-time company of premium computer parts for all uses ranging from mice to headsets to keyboards, wheels, and speakers. Many of Logitech's products are formidable rivals to many other companies' products. The G35 is mainly rival to Razer's Megalodon, Turtle Beach's HPA2 and various others. With its lower price tag and high ratings, the Logitech G35 is the headset I chose to buy. And lo and behold, it has served me well.
The G35 comes as shown with a pre-attached head cushion and two extra Velcro-attached head cushions each labeled A, B, and C respectively. The headset's ear cups have cushions of the same material. The cushions are soft and wear very comfortably however they do induce a lot of sweating when worn for a long period of time. The headset also seems a bit weighty. The G35 sports a flexible microphone that can be pivoted to an upright position to move it out of the way. When upright it also automatically is muted. On the left ear cup, there are 6 objects to modify your experiences. It includes three programmable G-keys, a mute button, a volume adjuster, and a surround sound switch. The programmable G-keys are actually very limited in what they can control currently, but can be used for many things including music control and Ventrilo control.
This headset comes with a braided cord to eliminate tangles and is of ample length at 10 ft. The build quality suffers a bit. It's easily broken at the ear cup attachments. The plastic is of flimsy quality near the pivoting point of the ear cups. I, myself, had one break on me. The top of the headband feels quite flimsy as well, but I have yet to have anything break there. The serial number is quite the impossible thing to read on some older models and other numbers you need to get replacements in the event of a hardware malfunction is tedious at best. Nevertheless, Logitech's support is quite quick in replying and getting a replacement sent out to you.
The sound quality of the headphones is amazingly clear and the microphone is very capable of picking up your voice for those intense gaming sessions. Many times this headset will save your skin in an exciting match of Call of Duty when you most need to hear your enemies' footfalls. However, in this category, I more prefer my $20 JVC Marshmallows. They cancel sound much better than these. With the G35, you can still hear your fingers tap tap tapping away at your keyboard. Your brother playing Call of Duty very loudly on the Xbox across the room from you will be heard. Another problem is that sometimes it seems the sound in surround sound is skewed to the left.
All in all this is a very good headset and I do recommend this to anyone looking for a good buy; however, what headset you buy and prefer is always totally up to you.
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Comments on other reviews:
CNET said:
7.1 sound, I agree, though it only seems to have them sometimes. An very little in mine.
3.5mm jack, it would be nice if they came in a 3.5mm jack version, but then what cord would power the headphones? No. USB is the only solution at the moment.
Windows only, this is undesirable. Linux and Mac OS X compatible software should be developed.
DigitalTrends said:
Heavy, yes, this is a headset slightly on the heavy side.
Uncomfortable, sweat buildup and the clamping of the headset does makes this uncomfortable.
Muddy bass response, I'm not sure on this. But then again, I use my Boston BA635 speakers and sub woofer for movies.
USB, true, but there is no other way unless you want three cords to have to plug in. Speakers, Microphone, and Power.
Xen at NewEgg said:
Static, I've never had static in my G35's, but I have had them in my microphone on my other Logitech headset that I don't know the model of. Then again, that's probably my fault. Some wire must be screwed up when I was messing around with the VERY flexible microphone.
