Logitech G533 Wireless Gaming Headset & G613 Mechanical Keyboard Bundle - Noise Cancelling Over-Ear Headphones with 7.1 Surround Sound, LIGHTSPEED Wireless Tech - Perfect for PC, PS5, Xbox Gaming & Streaming

Pros:1. Great battery life2. Relatively neutral sound profile3. Decent wireless range4. Extendable flip-up mute micCons:1. The size adjustments don't lock very tightly2. There is no on-board storage for the programmable button on the headset3. The volume controls are very inaccurate4. Software battery percentage readings are unreliableThis headset is a great option when you can find it on at least 50% discount, otherwise buy a different wireless headset because this headset is not worth the MSRP. I originally considered this solely because it was part of Logitech G peripherals, meaning I can just install a single piece of software to configure my Logitech G peripherals. Since I already had a mouse from Logitech G, I chose this headset.Here I'll explain more about the Pros:After well over 2 months of use, the battery life of this headset lasts me for about 1 and a half days, assuming I fully charge it properly (we'll get to that later), which is about 16+ hours in total.I've had no issues with the sound since day 1, only needed some small EQ tuning in the Logitech G hub software to suit my needs and the range of the receiver is able to cover most of my living space even with the amount of clutter in the way. But I would've liked if Logitech included some ability to extend the range of the receiver by allowing users to add an external antenna. I know that some phones with built-in FM radio can use audio cables as an antenna, and other Logitech wireless headset receivers do have an audio jack for a different purpose, but it would be nice if the designers thought about this. By all means, it is possible to add your own antenna, but that requires hardware modifications and some soldering skills, not something anybody can do.The microphone is passable for a typical headset marketed towards gamers and the headset allows for "Sidetone" where anything picked up by the microphone can be heard in the headset, so you're able to hear yourself speak. The microphone has a bit of adjustment for how far it extends, a bit of flexibility to angle the mic, and you can rotate the mic a bit. However, the minor mic adjustments you can make are extremely limited because the mic isn't entirely flexible, so angling the mic and rotating it is a bit limited.Here I'll explain more about the Cons:The size adjustments for the headphones are too flimsy in the locking mechanism, the loose locking mechanic makes it really hard to do any fine size adjustments to the headset itself. The bands slide in and out too easily when the headset is not on a head, and there is too little tactile feedback when extending the bands to know how far you want to extend them. I heard in a review somewhere that there are 15 individual notches of adjustment, but in reality, I couldn't even feel them because of how easily the adjustment slips. Thankfully for me, my head is big enough for the widest adjustment (I don't really know what the proper term would be) so this doesn't bother me that much.Above the volume roller on the headset is a button that can be reprogrammed using the Logitech G hub software. However, whatever you reprogram the button to do in G Hub would only work if the Logitech G hub software is running otherwise, the button would just mute the mic (don't know why Logitech decided to have this by default considering how flipping up the microphone does the same thing).Speaking of the volume roller, I completely hate the volume roller on this headset because there isn't enough tactile feedback or resistance when turning to know how much you've turned in one direction. The headset will play a tone when you touch the roller, but that is barely an indication on how much volume was increased or decreased. Since the roller is so loose without any tactile feedback, it is impossible to accurately control the volume (as someone who is picky in the volume percentage having to be a multiple of 2 or 5) as the small tactile feedback doesn't even correspond to how much the volume changed.Back to my earlier point about battery life, the battery life will only last for a decent amount of time if the battery is charged and discharged properly. I don't know if this issue is specific to my unit, or it is like this by design, but me saying that the battery percentage readings in Logitech G Hub being unreliable would just be an understatement. I completely disregard what percentage the battery is shown in G Hub, and end up only charging my headset when it plays a tone indicating low battery. Otherwise, the battery would charge up to when the software thinks it's at 100%, but in reality, the battery isn't charged anywhere near its rated capacity and I end up with half as much use per charge.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.I waited to write a review on the product, because I always want to see a little life used from a product being reviewed.The overall TL;DR of the headset is I'm quite happy with it, and would recommend as a wireless product.The main pro's of the headset are:-Battery life. At first, I was charging the headset every night just to be safe. I use it for gaming, and my daily job. Once I stopped charging it daily, I realized it can go 2.5 to 3 days without charging. It also gives a beeping warning that the battery is low, so you can use your charger (while still using the headset) at that point, or wait out the duration.-Accessibility. Without having to go to any settings in my Windows, it immediately configures easy-to-use buttons such as volume, mute toggle and power on one of the earphones, and if you raise the microphone to the up position it also mutes.-As a wireless headset, it's reach, quality and material are all excellentThe decent part of the device is the sound quality. As some users stated in here, it can be a bit bass heavy. But using it for gaming, that's pretty good considering footstep sounds are bass-triggered; Making it very easy to identify sound and location. For music, it's average, maybe a little above average.As for the cons of this headset, nothing really comes to mind right away. Some days it can be a little uncomfortable fitting, but I use mine for upwards of 10 hours in a day, so that's to be expected.The speakers are passable for a $50 headset (this costed me around $115 ON SALE TOO) and the volume control is nice. Battery life is quite good too. That's all I can think of for the pros.Now for the cons, and oh boy are they some big cons.Build Quality:The headset is way too bulky, it's made of plastic like some children's toy. The plastic guard for the speakers make them feel disgusting.Microphone:The mic does not have much gain and the audio quality is really bad. I bought a $20 Aukey headset two years ago that has a much better mic that this G533.Earcups Quality:And finally, the earcups are extremely uncomfortable and made of fabric so any movement from your head completely drown out whatever sound is coming from the speakers unless you have it at an unhealthy volume.Overall:Why did Logitech even make this?They seem to only have spent money on the wireless dongle and the volume knob. It feels like they really cheaped out on this. I had to return this. Really disappointed.Update, the good: after a year they still sound great when they work and charge to full. The bad: they lose connection and that is unacceptable. Replaced with Pro X wireless headset. To add, G Pro wireless mouse is awesome, needs Hotline grips though!Having read the reviews I am careful not to abuse this headset as they are not the most robust and heavy built as were the G35's but in all I am happy they don't have RGB lighting, they have ample battery life, they're comfortable on both my 7 year old nephew and on my watermelon size head, they sound great and the mic as reported by online team mates sounds adequate no complaints. Going wireless was several years of debate but at the sale price these are an excellent choice. I kept on having issues with a G633 pulling the wire when I didn't know it was caught under a wheel caster or wrapped on the chair arm and finally the connection was loose and made them almost unusable.To wrap up, they feel and sound great and I am happy to finally have a wireless solution.Unfortunately this headset is made to be thrown away if something really small goes wrong with it. My mic had static in it so I took it apart (I have 20+ years electronics experience) to have a look for loose wires and the speaker wires broke off. These wires were almost invisible to the naked eye and were run through the side of the plastic speaker cover which made it impossible to fix. To take the speaker off of the mount I had to cut and melt around the speaker before I could attempt to reattach the wires. When I tried to solder the wires back on, I found a rubber coating on the circuit board that made it impossible to work with. I can't believe I spent over $100 for something that cannot be fixed. Pretty much all of my gaming peripherals are by Logitech but that will change as I need to upgrade them for sure.I use this headphone for taking calls via Skype or Google Hangouts. The ear-cups have a very nice fit compared to other headphones; battery life is decent; sound quality is good on my end, and people on the other end have reported good clarity for the microphone.It's also very nice being able to walk around without yanking my laptop off the table. Pairing was easy and worked first-try.