Expert's Rating
Pros
- Stylish yet understated design with great color options
- The audio quality is decent
- Spatial audio support and Blue Vo!ce are great additions for gamers and streamers
Cons
- The microphone is quite short and won’t stay put
- There’s no Active Noise Cancellation (ANC)
- The all-plastic headband feels a bit flimsy
Our Verdict
The Logitech G733 Lightspeed is stylish, comfortable, and has excellent battery life. Despite a few inconveniences in the headset’s design, nifty functionality like spatial audio support and Blue Vo!ce means there’s plenty for gamers and streamers to enjoy.
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The wireless Logitech G733 Lightspeed is a very attractive headset, but not in a plush, luxurious kind of way—more of a casual way befitting the headset’s $149.99 base price tag. How so? There’s no plush leatherette or metal to be seen, but the cups are sculpted with tight angles to bestow a futuristic look and RGB lighting ripples down the front side in two neat grooves.
It comes in four colors, each with its own unique styling—there’s a stately black, vibrant white, pretty pink, and my review unit’s blue color, which features contrasting electric/navy hues and a stretchy headband with awesome “glitch” styling.
Note: See our roundup of the best wireless gaming headsets to learn about competing products, what to look for in a wireless gaming headset, and buying recommendations.
Logitech G733 Lightspeed: Design and build
Despite looking like “the bomb,” a few drawbacks do present immediately. For one, the all-plastic headband feels a little too flimsy. That wouldn’t have been a problem if the G733 folded down into a streamlined, satchel-friendly unit, but the earcups don’t swivel and the headset’s band is quite big, so it fits awkwardly alongside your other possessions in bags.
Additionally, the notch-less slide mechanism in the G733’s band doesn’t extend all that much, so it won’t fit everyone’s head perfectly. The G733’s detachable microphone only measures a teeny 6mm (less than a quarter-inch), so it doesn’t stretch across your mouth, nor will it stay in any position, so finding consistency in voice chats is also a little hard to do.
Gaming with the G733 was still absolute pleasure. The headset drummed up immersive soundscapes in current favorite games like Elden Ring that had me glued to the action.
The G733’s design is somewhat redeemed by other, more flattering features, like its light weight of only 278 grams (9.8 ounces). This makes it only slightly heavier than the impressively light 252-gram (8.8 ounce) Asus ROG Go Core Moonlight White.
The clamp pressure is also excellent, and comparable again to another recent headset we reviewed for gamers, the Nacon Rig 800 Pro HX. That being the case, the G733 is ideal for gaming marathons where you simply can’t muster up the willpower to drag yourself away from your game.
The mesh covered earcups, too, are far more practical than leatherette ones—they’re perfect for hot, uncomfortable days when you know you’re going to work up a sweat. The dual-layer memory-foam cups are remarkably soft, and the funky headband always keeps the pressure off the top of your head—so well-done to Logitech G for incorporating it.
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Logitech G733 Lightspeed: Connectivity
Sometimes simplicity trumps fanciness and connecting the G733 is child’s play. There’s no mucking about with multiple dongles or adapters; you simply plug the Logitech Lightspeed 2.4GHz dongle into your PC, Mac, or PlayStation 4 console, turn it on and voilà, you’re off.
The one and only dongle in the box is a USB Type-A receiver, which is a little on the bulky side, but it does give you a reliable connection. Logitech claims the signal reaches up to 20 meters away, which saw me making long, slow, Darth Vader-like marches all the way from my desk to the kitchen in the PCWorld offices to test it. The result? It will certainly go the distance and manages to keep static and distortion under control quite well too.
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That long-range audio comes in handy if you’re listening to audio from your PC because the G733 can’t connect to your phone, so switching your audio over for roaming about sadly isn’t an option.
You do, however, get excellent battery life—Logitech claims up to 20 hours with the RGB lighting on in the default setting, or up to 29 hours when you switch it off. I didn’t quite have my headset long enough to flatten my battery, but after 15 hours of play with RGB switched on I still had 24 percent of my battery life remaining, so it’s quite decent.
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