Even if you have a full surround sound, house-shaking gaming audio setup, you sometimes need a good headset to either chat with friends or just give the neighbours a break...
While audio quality is important, arguably comfort is more important when it comes to a set of gaming headphones, but having both is obviously best. And Logitech may have just dropped a set that combines both, and at a surprisingly reasonable price too.
The G325 Lightspeed wireless headset is part of Logitech's G3 Series, and retails for $229.95. It is compatible with PC, macOS, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Nintendo Switch, and offers two forms of connectivity: Bluetooth 5.3 and Logitech's proprietary “Lightspeed” wireless connection via a USB-A dongle.
The Lightspeed connection transmits uncompressed 24-bit/48 kHz audio and has a range of up to 30 metres, while a rechargeable battery provides more than 24 hours of usage time on a single charge.
The headset is equipped with 32mm audio drivers, and a dual-mic beamforming array includes optional AI-powered noise reduction designed to filter out ambient background sounds, such as keyboards or fans. Users can further customise the audio experience using a 10-band EQ through the G Hub software or mobile application.
Both wireless connections were absolutely rock solid during our testing of the G325s, with the Lightspeed connection even staying stable through several concrete block walls that usually manage to obliterate any wireless connections in my flat.
The EQ is simple and easy to use via either the G Hub app on mobile or the G Hub software on PC, and while the sound of the G325s is excellent straight out of the box, some tweaking will be necessary for personal tastes.
For example, I found that while they packed plenty of bass, they did lack the kind of warmth I prefer in the lower mid-range. This was most noticeable during expository cut scenes in games, with voices being a little hollow.
Clarity and separation are deeply impressive, with something like Star Wars: Outlaws, Cyberpunk 2077 or Assassin's Creed Shadows coming to vibrant life around you.
However, this is something that a simple tweak in the EQ settings helps massively with, although they still remain a little scooped for my personal tastes. However, the truly excellent positional imaging more than makes up for slightly hollow waffling from characters that you just want to skip over anyway.
Clarity and separation are deeply impressive, with something like Star Wars: Outlaws, Cyberpunk 2077 or Assassin's Creed Shadows coming to vibrant life around you. In fact the arrival of the G325s coincided with my first forays into the post-apocalyptic world of Arc Raiders on PC, where the detail and precise placement of sounds makes a huge difference to your chances of avoiding that 13-year-old griefer hiding out near an extraction point ready to jump you and loot your corpse...
But where they truly shone for me – and most relevantly to our purposes here – was in racing games, where the detail and spatial placement make a simply enormous difference in immersion, making it easy to pick out the individual engine sounds of the cars behind, and beside you.
The supreme lightness of the G325s comes into play here as well. The G325s weigh in at a mere 212 grams, making them among the lightest gaming headsets out there. In fact, they are so light that it is genuinely possible to forget you are wearing them, even after a long gaming session.
This is noticeable when going the whole nerdily obsessive racing game route with a full racing seat/wheel setup and VR, where you already have the weight of the VR headset.
For the money asked, the G325 headset provides excellent audio quality and perfectly acceptable voice chat in a superbly comfortable lightweight package.
While Sony has made the PSVR2 impressively light at only 560 grams, and adding the roughly 300-gram weight of the Sony Pulse 3D headset isn’t that big a deal, that 100g saving does make a noticeable difference at the end of a long race.
Dual-layer memory foam ear cups and breathable fabric help immensely in this regard as well, making the G325s supremely comfortable and perfectly suited to epic marathon gaming sessions.
The G325's mic is integrated into the unit, meaning no boom mic, and does an admirable job of reproducing clear, if not exactly top quality voice chat. It uses Logitech's AI noise cancelling system that did a good job of isolating my voice, even when I positioned a fan right next to my face.
Speaking of noise cancelling, while the mic features it, the headphones don't. The ear cups also don't rotate or fold, so portability is limited, but the fact that the G325s are squarely aimed at home use makes the lack of these features a negligible issue, although the lack of noise cancelling is unusual for this price point.
Logitech says that compared to its other headsets, the G325 uses less materials, with optimised architecture designed to reduce carbon emissions via things like using less coating materials on PCBs and recycled plastics. The G325 also offers an optional battery charge limit of 80 percent to help extend battery life.
The use of recycled plastics and Logitech's drive to remove as much weight as possible does mean that the G325's don't exactly feel like premium headphones, but then they also aren't priced like premium headphones either.
and for the money asked, the G325 headset provides excellent audio quality and perfectly acceptable voice chat in a superbly comfortable and lightweight package.
