Logitech G333 – Design & Features
In fairness to the G333, they are very well constructed for basic, wired earbuds. In a world where nearly everyone’s had a pair of cheap Apple earpods fall apart on them, the G333 is the very picture of durability. The aluminum coated buds feel sturdy, fashioned with the Logitech gaming G logo on the back. The flat, rubber cable is tight and resists slicing. Even the rubber-coated buttons on the inline controls feel like they’re built to weather your pocket day after day for quite some time. The earbuds come with three pairs of interchangeable silicone eartips – small, medium, and large. The tips stay locked in when attached: I’ve ripped them out of my ears a few times and the tips never so much as budged. They can be a little tricky swap out though. Pulling them off the buds is easy, but getting the new ones on takes a little finesse. [poilib element="poll" parameters="id=870b69f5-d7f9-4a4f-ab4f-4eecb83650b5"] The G333s are surprisingly comfortable. I’m not an earbud person, per se (I normally just wear them while exercising), but the G333s slide into your ears gently and stay in place without overfilling your ear. That said, I also found that they grew uncomfortable relatively quickly: After a couple of hours, my ears started to feel sore. Also, make sure to put them in the right ears! The earbuds are marked “L” and “R,” but only in small letters on the backs of the buds. (The inline controls are on the right, which should make it easy to remember… unless you use a lot of headsets and are used to manufacturers putting them on the left side). I made the mistake of putting them in backwards many times, and they do not fit properly or sound right when worn in reverse.
Inside the buds, the G333 features a dual-driver design. One driver produces bass tones while the other produces mids and highs. With the two-driver approach, the G333 is able to produce booming the low tones we generally associate with gaming headsets, but without overpowering the overall soundscape. As mentioned, the right bud’s cable has a small inline control panel with three buttons – volume up, volume down, and a play/pause button – as well as the headset’s small but capable microphone. The inline controls are a weak point on the G333. While the headset’s 3.5mm connection makes it work with most gaming hardware, the controls are only compatible with mobile phones and PC while connected via an included audio-to-USB-C adapter. (The controls also work on iOS when using Apple’s 3.5mm to Lightning adapter). It’s a minor annoyance – there are other ways to adjust the volume on consoles – but for basic earbuds, any loss of functionality is substantial. Speaking of the adapter, for a cable meant to pair the earbuds with your gaming PC or gaming laptop, it’s incredibly short. The earbuds, by themselves, are not long enough to pair with a desktop gaming setup. The adapter could have provided an easy solution, but it doesn’t. 
Logitech G333 – Gaming
The Logitech G333 is a basic gaming audio solution and, by that standard, it performs fairly well. Though I wouldn’t describe the sound as rich or expansive, the earbuds do create a fair amount of detail without sounding muddled or compressed. In Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, you can clearly hear the clang of katanas clashing, the bass in that poof of smoke from your friend’s smoke bomb, and other complex sounds. That said, you aren’t going to get a full, immersive sound experience from the G333. In Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War menu music, the mids feel flat and the bass doesn’t have the punch that you’d get from the larger speakers of an over-ear headset. Though it produces strong directionality and some detail across the board, it simply doesn’t enhance the audio as well. In fairness, though, you won’t get that from any pair of earbuds. And a clear, detailed experience counts for a lot.
They also work surprisingly well with positional audio. In Ghost of Tsushima on PS5, you can hear the detailed positional shifts, like a sliding door that gets louder as it opens from left to right, then closes right to left. As a survivor in Dead by Daylight, I was able to track a killer's movements by sound, and follow the crackling of a trashcan fire as I circled around. In Call of Duty on PC with Dolby Atmos, I was able to track footsteps and bullet trajectories by ear, though some directional sounds had a slight echoey quality, which obscured their location. The inline microphone is, like most open microphones, an ambient noise magnet. It will pick up your voice just fine, but also noises like PC fans, mechanical gaming keyboard typing, and music from another pair of headphones. That said, it does seem to avoid picking up noise that isn’t being played in the microphone’s general direction, which is more than I’d expect from a mic that works when resting below my chin, rather than in front of my lips. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=best-gaming-headsets&captions=true"]
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