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how exciting can gaming headphones get throw it slightly lighter how exciting can gaming headphones get large tech seems to have added some spice to the game with a G 433 nobody let's check it out choose be quiet to join the silent revolution designed and tested in Germany they're meticulous passion for quiet PC components ranges from premium power supplies CPU coolers and fans and innovative PC cases all of which aim to achieve one thing is this thing even on that's right totally quiet power supplies even under load silent wings fans the little awesome airflow with noise that doesn't reach your ears all enclosed in the package designed to be quiet so the g4 33 comes in as a very appealing price point at $99 switch for a surround sound headset in this very crowded marketplace it's pretty good and largest thing is trying to impress us from all the angles and one of the most notable changes here is the fabric cover on the headset that is available in red blue bull camo and this boring black and I think it's a very good approach to cover up the crappy feeling plastic so it's a good way to introduce a good feeling headset because our perception of quality is usually derived from handling a product and feeling it and how it sounds and was there any creaking plastic because the quality on the G 233 was terrible because of the plastic so have they succeeded with the g4 33 well the size adjustment is good it doesn't crack and it certainly looks good but it still feels like a bathing suit material it's very harsh it doesn't have the softness that I expect and unfortunately the ear cups feel the same and if you have dandruff I'm sorry as all the little crevasses pick up dry skin very well it's very visible the hair gets stuck a dark gray color as the phone would have worked much better they're not irritating to wear but they sound like sandpaper when the headset moves on your head it's very unappealing and the replacement ear cups are therefore appreciated I swapped mine right away and because the large rectangular shape of the ear cups you have to be kind of rough when removing and installing the ear pads and because of the different material on the replacement ear cups the headset doesn't look so good anymore having these two types of visible fabric in terms of shape they're not particularly bulky they're a bit wider than my sign Heiser game one but I love the ability to fold them on your neck with no restriction to head movement but unfortunately even the headband padding has the same harsh feeling and that is not very comfortable the material choice here is very poor and it's upsetting because everything else around the headset is excellent in terms of comfort there's no large clamping force they're light enough so you can wear them they breathe and so that you know the actual ear cup size is large enough so there's no clamping force even if you have large ears they expand so all those elements are excellent but why do you go with such soft par and just terrible padding I don't understand but hey you are paying for something and packaging here is incredible so we got dual layered box fantastic print job but who is this guy plus the hidden keep playing slogan yeah I appreciate it but it's way over the top and you could have easily shaved off a lot of the cost on the packaging and invest those resources into things that matter on the headset when will they learn quality products first before quality packaging please but we do get plenty of accessories so there's a carry pouch that is good to store extra cables an extra set of ear pads that I mentioned earlier then a rural microphone that is flexible and there's only one way to insert it into the headset so that's good and if it's not populated the input jack seems kind of lonely and exposed so that's what the microphone sounds like it's plugged in directly into the USB sound card there's not enough power in it to drive my car properly and it's very quiet and you have to boost it either in post or add gain which introduces hiss but yeah this is what the quality is like then there's the main USB sound card for surround sound audio there are no Oh LED indicators here it's very simple plug-and-play and control through the gaming large stick software then we have the main PC cable with a mic mute function and volume control plus a short clip all of which feel excellent so nice feedback on the button and the firm volume wheel plus different ends so you cannot confuse what plugs and where then there's the mobile cable with a mic built-in and a multi-function button and finally mic / headphone jack splitter for the PC if you want to plug this into your sound card so I do appreciate the very modular nature of the g4 33 with all the possible cables that you would need but I feel there is your compromise in order to meet that $99 price point with good packaging and good accessories they have to chip out on some things like very important padding on a headset come on Logitech and also a subpar USB DAC that has very low volume mic output and the only thing left to cover is the audio I was pretty satisfied for $99 to get a clean detail and a powerful signal that is not harsh it's not tinny and you get a nice bass boost that actually vibrates the drivers a little bit yeah I don't think that's a defect it's felt very powerful without destroying any other frequencies so that's pretty good to hear so from an audio perspective I would use this as my main gaming headset if it wasn't of course for the really terrible padding on the top the replacement cups are fine though but as soon as you enable surround sound through the you know the launched gaming software you lose the powerful volume everything becomes distant mess and you lose all the positional accuracy that you normally get with stereo so just experience and the surround sound through the DAC is terrible so I would just leave it at stereo and the flat profile is very good but of course you can play around with the EQ settings and those different profiles that are built in which all have their nice quirks and they don't destroy the audio frequency so there you have it another example on how a gaming headset that tries to do it all have good packaging with accessories good customization options for color as in terms of the frame design comfort level is good but there's so many things that are wrong starting with the material on the padding it's not comfortable I would gladly ditch all that fancy packaging for nice lure paths that you see on you know other quality headsets or maybe even like give me a pleather headband that doesn't feel like sandpaper on my skin please but when it comes to the USB DAC in stereo mode it's excellent with different EQ profiles but in surround sound mode which is what you're trying to sell us for this headset it's not a good experience the powerful volume is not there and the detail is not there and that's unfortunately because we've heard good surround sounds from large tech in the past with their g6 33 so you know these compromises here just really downgrade the whole experience with a $99 price point that is so appealing but all these little drawbacks that kind of chip away at the value and it makes me difficult to recommend the G's 433 and so my final remarks for Logitech would be to focus on good tiding in their next revision of the headset because I think that really destroys this product which is quality in perhaps if you're trying to be fancy with packaging have the fancy packaging sleeve but the rest of packaging to be simplified and those resources to be invested into the product itself and I wish that more gaming companies would recognize that and really invest everything into here and not to here so guys I hope you enjoyed this review I love the material direction but the implementation is just not there yet but let me know what you think of the g4 33 and everything we discussed in this video I'm Dimitri with how our 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