Gaming headphones with particular options that make them suited to the trials of aggressive gaming are in all places, however gaming earbuds are few and much between. There are loads of Bluetooth earbuds and wired earbuds that market themselves for gaming, however the EPOS GTW 270 Hybrid buds and HyperX Cloud MIX buds are two of the one units that supply the low-latency wi-fi connection (learn: not Bluetooth) gaming all however calls for. This means the Logitech G Fits are coming into an exceedingly small market. The Logitech G Fits set themselves other than these two rivals with a particular UV-hardened mould that makes a customized match to your ears. At $229, they’re an expensive gaming audio machine it doesn’t matter what they provide, and whereas that’s quite a bit, their worth proposition doesn’t rise up well towards the devoted competitors in each the gaming headphone and on a regular basis earbud markets.

A brand new set of buds, a minimum of so far as branding is anxious

There’s just one model of the Logitech G Fits, technically talking, and it comes in both black or white colorways. However, these buds are practically an identical to the Ultimate Ears UE Fits from 2020 in kind and featureset, save for his or her assist for Logitech’s Lightspeed Wireless connectivity. So, what you get right here is actually a gaming model of these, which is able to up the worth by $50. For the uninitiated, Logitech acquired Ultimate Ears in 2008.

They seems like buds, if just a little unusual

The Logitech G Fits are available in a compact, pebble-like case that’s pretty typical of earbuds. It’s even a bit unremarkable, besides that it’s terribly straightforward to blemish, seeming to select up the colour off of every thing it touches. The case’s lid can be fairly flimsy, wiggling about an excessive amount of when dealt with. The case fees with USB-C—notably missing the wi-fi charging you’d anticipate on such an costly pair of buds. More shocking, it lacks any outward indicator lights to point out it’s charging or how a lot cost it has.

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Between the buds and charging case, the Logitech G Fits will supply as much as 15 hours (7 for the buds and eight for the case) of Lightspeed Wireless use and 20 hours (9 buds + 11 case) of Bluetooth use. That’s not dangerous for a pair of buds, nevertheless it’s nonetheless on the decrease finish for each Bluetooth buds and wi-fi gaming headsets.

The inside the case seats the earbuds in a single slot with a magnetic groove that holds the buds towards pogo pins for charging. The buds themselves are fairly uncommon. Instead of getting a rounded physique or having a single stem that sticks down towards the chin, they’ve a T form with twin stems pointing up and down. They function contact controls on the stems and twin beamforming mics on every bud.

An uncommon setup course of

The earbuds come out of the field with eartips which can be a gentle, silicone-like materials. The buds have a setup course of that can see you press them into your ear with this gentle materials, after which they’ll use built-in UV lights to treatment the mould for a form-fitting seal particular to your ears. It’s sort of scorching and uncomfortable to do, and also you solely get one probability to get it proper. For what it’s price, Ultimate Ears often gives to ship new bits of the ear tip materials if it didn’t work properly for you, however Logitech doesn’t seem to make any such supply.

The goal of this setup is to provide you a precise match that allows you to seal out exterior noises for superior passive noise cancellation, which doesn’t require the mics, processing, and battery drain that lively noise cancellation requires. That tailor-made match also can guarantee a comfortable foothold in your ear for the buds.

Two methods to attach

The Logitech G Fits supply the wide-ranging connectivity you’d anticipate from a tool that helps each Bluetooth and a devoted wi-fi connection. Bluetooth connects to absolutely anything that helps it, and the Lightspeed dongle works with Windows, macOS, PlayStation 5, Playstation 4, Android, and Nintendo Switch.

The Bluetooth connection proved largely secure whereas paired with an Android cellphone and pill for my many hours of listening to podcasts, music, and films. It did curiously drop out as soon as in my testing, not choosing up any audio however not really disconnecting from the paired machine. But that was merely resolved by disconnecting and reconnecting the buds, and it was not a constant situation.

The Lightspeed Wireless connection is particularly potent. I used to be capable of get about 30-40 ft away from the transmitter, with partitions between me and it, and I might nonetheless choose up the sign, although it began to degrade just a little previous 30 ft. While linked, latency from the audio is undetectable, and the buds don’t endure the identical bandwidth limitation that Bluetooth does, which severely degrades audio high quality when utilizing the mic.

Switching between the Lightspeed and Bluetooth connections ought to be so simple as three faucets to both earbud, however I usually discovered myself having to provide it a couple of tries earlier than the buds would appear to get it straight. Even after they do get it proper, it may well take a number of seconds earlier than they re-establish the connection, so it’s removed from seamless. The buds use ineffective beeps and bips as audio queues, too, making it unclear which motion they registered or mode they switched into.

The buds use a one inch-long USB-A dongle for Lightspeed Wireless, and Logitech features a USB-C-to-A adapter as properly. This does make for an sadly massive and flimsy protrusion for any USB-C port, reminiscent of these on the entrance of a PS5, the underside of a Nintendo Switch, or the underside of an Android cellphone. It doesn’t look like a wise alternative if Logitech desires anybody to really use the USB-C connection, and each EPOS and HyperX went with extra logical USB-C native transmitters with USB-A adapters.

It’s price noting right here that the earbuds can get a bit heat, unexpectedly so, whereas utilizing the Lightspeed Wireless connection for an prolonged time period. Heat isn’t a difficulty I’m used to from any headphones or earbuds. It’s not painfully scorching, nevertheless it’s not nice both.

Modest beats, however unexceptional

Right off the bat, there’s one noticeable factor about these buds: there’s refined noise coming by always. It’s simply drowned out by a correct sound sign coming by as properly, nevertheless it’s a touch that pristine audio isn’t on the menu.

The earbuds have impressively balanced sound. In the opening observe of Of Montreal’s False Priest (a fantastic take a look at for audio units due to its broad ranging dynamics, complicated combine, and sheer busyness), the Logitech G Fits show able to holding the mid-range properly represented as bells and cymbals ring out within the excessive finish and the sleek bass line carries alongside by the observe. The bass is decently thumpy for earbuds, although lacks the fullness you’d get from a high quality pair of huge, over-ear cans. Best of all, although, the Lightspeed Wireless connection has all of the bandwidth wanted to current the wealthy, instrument-laden combine with out a great deal of compression spoiling the present—a frequent drawback for Bluetooth on this take a look at music.

Part of the audio supply is coming from the buds’ distinctive ear ideas. With the eartips, correctly molded, they do quite a bit to dam out exterior sound and channel sound into the ear canal. That mentioned, I didn’t discover the passive noise isolation all that a lot better than customary buds that slot into the ear canal, just like the Anker Soundcore Liberty Air 2 Pro I recurrently use. The sound-quality benefit continues to be Logitech’s, although. The match I bought is sweet, and surprisingly comfy with how properly balanced the stress on varied elements of my ear is. It’s not hermetic, as regardless of how I attempted, I couldn’t get the left ear tip to seal fairly in addition to the best, nevertheless it’s impressively stable, and I haven’t as soon as had the buds fall out whereas shaking alongside to the heavy hits of Alabama Shakes’ Sound & Color.

While the music efficiency is respectable, the gaming audio fails to be something extra than simply acceptable for its low latency. The buds current every thing clearly sufficient to get pleasure from most video games, however there are some essential shortcomings that gained’t do for the choosy listener or the aggressive gamer.

A giant situation is that I couldn’t get an correct sense of verticality by the buds. I recall a particular occasion after I was pushing the robotic in Overwatch 2’s new recreation mode the place I assumed I might distinctly hear a Hanzo skulking about above us simply round a nook. It turned out he was across the nook the place I heard him, however he wasn’t above us. This type of audio positioning hasn’t been an issue for me on the SteelSeries Arctis 9 Wireless, however these are a really totally different type of gaming headphone (and a a lot better choice for anybody who doesn’t particularly need earbuds).

There’s additionally a difficulty of dynamics. I struggled to make out the distinction in stage between sure sounds, significantly enemy footsteps and teammate footsteps in Overwatch 2. That gained’t at all times be essential, however it’s in such a recreation, as it may well make the distinction between pondering your teammate has your again coated and giving an enemy Reaper a free cross to pop you at the back of the top.

These are simply earbud mics in spite of everything

A key side of high quality gaming headsets is the mic, and the Logitech G Fits aren’t going to be the headset you need if communication and mic high quality are a main concern. They do an honest job. These earbuds took me by all of my aggressive placement matches in Overwatch 2, chatting with a staff that by no means had a grievance about my callouts or mic high quality.

Checking in on them with a voice recording, I can see that the mics do a stable job isolating my voice. Background noise, reminiscent of an air filter I had operating and the clicks and faucets of my keyboard and mouse, is basically silenced within the audio combine. But, my voice continues to be coming by with all the standard you would possibly anticipate from a pair of Bluetooth earbuds, missing a lot fullness. At least the shortage of a growth mic in entrance of my mouth means it doesn’t choose up on popping sounds. Ultimately, these buds will do for getting the purpose throughout to associates, teammates, and colleagues. But they’re not what you’ll wish to use for those who’re livestreaming or identical to to spend hours chatting in Discord.

A vital app, a minimum of to begin

The Logitech G Fits have their very own particular cell app, and it’s all however required to make use of them. It takes you thru organising the earbuds and operating the molding course of. I discovered it a bit fussy, because the buds didn’t wish to hook up with my cellphone initially. This was worrying, as a result of the app emphasizes the significance of being fast to go from unsealing the buds (they arrive in a particular case to guard the UV delicate materials) to the UV curing.

The app permits for EQ customization, together with 5 presets, reveals every bud’s battery life, explains and allows you to frivolously remap the contact controls, and gives to allow you to take a selfie with the earbuds’ UV lights glowing although 99.99% (if no more) of the time you employ the buds shall be with out the UV gentle on.

Should I purchase the Logitech G Fits?

It’s powerful to suggest Logitech G Fits when you will get nice over-ear headphones for a similar value. They’re most likely the very best wi-fi gaming earbuds in existence, however that’s partly as a result of your choices for correct gaming buds are actually missing. The EPOS buds don’t have microphones, so there go your in-game comms, and my colleague at Tom’s Hardware had constant connectivity points with the HyperX Cloud Mix Buds during her review, which might disappoint anybody who tries to select them up because the cheaper various to the Logitech G Fits. They’re principally simply fantastic at every thing they do, which makes them each dangerous earbuds for $230 and dangerous headphones for $230, as a result of you will get higher Bluetooth earbuds and gaming headphones for $100 every. If you want an all-in-one, although, these will work.