Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Headset review

I’m glad I’m reviewing the next budget model in Logitech's G series Lightspeed model headphones. The G321s were good, but I wanted to know if the new Logitech G325 Lightspeed Gaming Headset—$20 more—would perform better. My friends, it’s not even a contest. The G325s are superior to the G321s and have become my gaming headset for maximum comfort.

The G325s continue the series tradition of extremely lightweight headphones. I'll get up to use the bathroom and almost forget to take them off because I don’t feel them. When I’m dozing off with music, and I’m smashed into my pillow, they don’t squeak or make other hardware noises because there are hardly any moving parts. And the padding is so soft that it doesn’t hurt when it squishes into my head.

The pads—I'm trying to think of headphones with more comfortable padding. These are even better than the G321's, which are already pretty comfortable. It helps that the headphones are light, but the fabric is soft—almost silk-like to the touch. There's also a sexiness to the way the pads feel and to the way the light softly glows off them.

But sound is where the G series has struggled for me. The G325s are advertised as having "great bass and accurate sound," a bold claim after the unbalanced, midtone-heavy, and Skype-sounding microphone of the G321s. I won't consider the G325's bass as "great," but it's certainly better.

Battlefield 6's explosions don't distort, and the G325s carry marginally deeper resonance compared to the 321s. I tested Kendrick Lamar's Big Shot once again, and they didn’t distort, even at the highest safe volume levels.

Now, accurate? That's laughable. They're still tuned to produce mostly mids, though there is a better balance between the mids and the bass compared to the 321s. But after spending over a week using these for nearly every gaming and audio related thing I did, as soon as I put on my Audio-Technica M50x's, I immediately noticed how much detail I was missing. If accurate means you can hear the most important sounds you need to hear, yes, the G325s do that.

It also has a much better microphone. It's a built-in noise-cancelling microphone with a frequency response of 20-20 khZ. It sounds clearer, with less distortion and crackles compared to the 321. Here's an example below of the microphone sound, only edited with normalization:

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It still sounds like you're in a well-insulated bathroom, but it blocks the most obnoxious sounds. However, it was very sensitive to my mechanical keyboard and mouse clicks.

All of the functions that make the Lightspeed series great remain. It's still easy to turn on—flip the switch and it takes about 4 seconds to start listening to everything. Changing between Lightspeed and Bluetooth modes is as simple as pressing the Bluetooth button, and Bluetooth connectivity is very quick.

The box says these headphones can last for 24 hours before charging, and I'd say that's correct—maybe longer. I used them for everything. There was a three day stretch where I worked out with them, played games, listened to music while doing chores, and went to sleep with them. The volume at different times varied, but I only had to charge them once.

Now, the volume buttons on the headset do something interesting with the volume on my phone when connected to Bluetooth. Normally with my other Bluetooth headsets or the phone itself, if I press the volume button, there's a noticeable jump in the bar signifying a volume change. When I use the G325s to adjust it, it moves in very small increments. At first, I thought the volume wasn't moving, but it was actually moving in very small decibel changes. I wish more headphones did this.

It's most useful to me at night when there's a threshold where it's too low or too high, and with other headsets, I can't set it the way I like it. I can with the 325s. I wish there were an option to hold the volume button and let it increase on its own. Instead, I have to vigorously tap the button, and it ultimately forces me to pull out my phone to adjust the volume quicker.