Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Headset Review

The cost of gaming headsets is on the rise, just like with most peripherals. If you don't want to spend over a hundred dollars but are still hoping to pick up one of the best gaming headsets, the Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless might be the headset you’ve been waiting for. With budget conscious gamers in mind, it offers dual dynamic drivers, 24-bit audio, 2.4 GHz Lightspeed Wireless, up to 24 hours of battery life, and a stylish design that could let it slide into One Headset for Everything territory. At $80, it’s middle of the market for price — but it punches above its class in comfort and sound quality.

Design and Comfort of the Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless

The Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Headset is designed to balance affordability with comfort and sound quality. It accomplishes both of those goals with ease. However, hitting its $80 price point necessitated some simplifying along the way. This isn’t a headset designed to be flashy and catch attention; it’s a headset designed to nail the fundamentals and feel like a good value.

After spending the last couple of weeks with it, I can say that if my assumptions are right on its intentions and target audience, the G325 is a smashing success. There’s no RGB flashiness, but the sleek, greyed out design still looks good. More importantly, it’s exceptionally lightweight at only 212 grams, which allows even a short-hair like me to wear them for hours without experiencing any pain at the crown of my head — and believe me, it doesn’t take much.

But while I’ll take the end result, and especially like the reasonable price it comes in at, its light and almost entirely plastic design causes the headset to feel a bit flimsy. Is it actually more likely to fail? My gut says no, especially because Logitech headsets typically age well, but it doesn’t feel substantial in the hand at all.

The emphasis on comfort is clear in more than its weight. The ear cushions and headband are made of soft, isolating foam and trimmed in breathable fabric. The earcups are tight enough to properly seal but aren’t so tight that they feel clampy. While I still prefer headsets with channels built in for the arms of glasses, I was able to wear my specks with these no problem. Like soreness on the crown, this is another easy pain point for me, so it’s good to see Logitech release another glasses-friendly headset.

The controls for the headset are all positioned on the left earcup and are raised or imprinted to make them easily identifiable by touch. There are buttons for power, turning Bluetooth on and off, volume, and muting the microphone with some of them pulling double duty for media controls. It’s straightforward and easy to learn.

The microphone is also embedded into the earcup so there’s no boom mic to clue passersby in that you’re wearing a gaming headset. I’ll talk more about its quality in the microphone section below, but know that it features beamforming tech to narrow in on your voice, improving clarity and volume. It works better than most embedded microphones I’ve heard, which is a big compliment at this price, but still falls short of having a capsule directly in front of your mouth. It will be perfect for calls and teammate chats, but it doesn’t come close to the best gaming microphones.

The look of the headset, in part due to its embedded mic system, is very minimal and sleek. I was sent the white version, which has grey cushions and teal accents in the small bits of coiled wire. The G325 can also be picked up in Black or Lilac with purple and orange accents respectively. There’s no RGB or other visible customization.

This type of design makes it a good fit for taking outside of the house for mobile gaming, music, and general use as a pair of normal wireless headphones. The design is futuristic, so it still stands out a bit — but if you didn’t know what to look for, they could easily pass as traditional music cans.

Of course, if that’s the case, then the headset needs to have proper audio chops — not just gaming bass bloat. To that end, Logitech has outfitted the G325 with 32mm dynamic drivers. That’s on the small side of average but they get plenty loud and otherwise don’t sound “small” in any way. Part of this is because of the quality of the drivers and the tuning that Logitech has done, but the other part is the built in DSP (digital sound processing) and high-quality DAC Logitech has leveraged.

Unlike most gaming headsets, which transmit at 16-bit, 44.1kHz resolution, the G325 locks in with 24-bit audio, increasing the acoustic bandwidth of the headphones. Unless you go out of your way to source high-res audio (or set streaming quality to its highest setting and only on certain providers), you’ll likely still be streaming in standard resolution. For gaming, however, you can more frequently count on those sweet, uncompressed sonics bringing your game to life.

Flowery language aside, 24-bit audio is a nice-to-have feature and raises the ceiling on sound quality, but don’t expect that alone to result in a massively improved listening experience. Tuning is much more important to immediately hearing differences between headphones, and Logitech has virtually guaranteed that you’ll be able to find a tune that works for you.

Using the headset’s built in sound processor, you’re able to choose from a selection of premade EQ presets or choose your own completely custom sound. This, in my testing, was preferable but takes considerable trial and error if you’re new to the process. Still, it works well and is a very welcome feature for a headset as resilient to adjustments as this one is.

Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless Specs

Audio Performance of the Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless

The Logitech G325 features a gaming-first sound profile, but thanks to a high-quality equalizer built into G Hub, it also offers a greater-than-average ability to customize the sound to your taste for different types of content. Out of the box, however, they buck expectations when it comes to the amount of bass.

Out of the box, the sound is mid-forward with accentuation in the treble. Bass, while not absent, takes a backseat and fills in the foundation of the sound so it never sounds thin, but the stock balance is clearly aimed at the footstep range, increasing your situational awareness. It’s a smart choice by Logitech, because you’re able to add more bass at any time through the G Hub software but it’s refreshing to see an affordably priced gaming headset that’s actually designed to benefit your performance versus just sounding “big” with a fattened low-end.

That isn't to say that the headset makes things sound thin or unenjoyable if you're looking for that action-packed experience, or if you slip away with a movie’s cinematic score. But where the average gaming headset overplays the bass and winds up crowding out the mids and highs, the G325 provides a much more balanced experience.

That said, this is definitely a "gaming-first" headset. For music, I found myself raising the low end with the in-app EQ. A word of caution here: Start with small changes. Pushing the bass too much quickly bleeds into the mids and will leave you with a similar listening experience to other gaming headsets: bloated lows and masked audio cues. Slow and steady wins the EQ race.

For music in particular, the headphones are fine but aren't going to compete with the best music headphones but get the job done well enough to provide an enjoyable experience. While the G325 provides adequate detail and clarity to hear what's happening in a game or track, a great pair of music headphones like the Sennheiser HD HD 600 are better tuned to bring out the nuance, layering, and sense of space crafted into a track.

This is a closed-back headset, so you shouldn't expect a massive soundstage. I was impressed to find that the G325 is significantly more spacious-sounding than it looks like it will be. I'm not sure if it's the inner geometry of the earcups or the supporting action of the pressure vents, but there’s more width, depth, and layer separation to songs than I anticipated. A pleasant surprise, to be sure, and all but uncommon in the closed-back headset space without the help of digital surround sound.

On that front, it’s important to note that the headset is fully compatible with software-based spatial surround sound. Windows Sonic and Dolby Atmos can both be used with this headset and definitely seem to enhance the verticality of songs and audio cues. I recommend choosing one and leaving it enabled for the best listening experience across all types of content.

Microphone of the Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless

The microphone in the Logitech G325 is good for calls, but there’s audible distance that reduces presence and volume. I give Logitech credit because it is one of the better-sounding earcup microphones I've heard, but the extra reverb and ambient noise make it obvious that you’re not actually talking “into” a mic and are instead just being picked up by one.

That said, it is better than most other embedded mics and is clear enough that your teammates and the recipients of your voice calls will be able to hear you well. In other words, the microphone is great for what it is, but it’s still an earcup mic.

Software and Features of the Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless

Logitech G325 Lightspeed uses the G Hub suite for all of its customization options. Even if you're not a fan of keeping software running in the background, it's worth downloading because it can make a meaningful impact on the performance of the headset.

As with my other recent experiences with Logitech software, I found it to be polished, straightforward, and beginner-friendly. After choosing the headset on the launch page, you're greeted with a selection of tabs to customize its general behavior (such as how long it needs to be idle before going into sleep mode), sound, and microphone characteristics.

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Like I mentioned previously, you're able to choose from a limited range of genre-based EQ presets to customize the sound or to dial in your own using a 10-band equalizer. The combination of quality drivers and DSP make the headset especially responsive to and accommodating of different EQ profiles without risking distortion. Since most of these are designed around gaming, you'll want to take care to try the different options or your own tweaks using content you actually plan to listen to when using the headset outside of games. A mid, low-treble emphasis might be great for hearing footsteps but can make music sound nasally.

Just as importantly, given its lack of adjustable boom mic, G Hub also allows you to customize the tonal character of voice with more or less bass and treble, as well as apply a limited selection of effects to dial in its quality and noise rejection. While it's not a complete solution for the sense of distance created by hiding the mic inside the earcup, it definitely helps and can also give you golden pipes in the process.

Battery Life of the Logitech G325 Lightspeed Wireless

Logitech quotes battery life at roughly 25 hours. It’s important to note, however, that this is at 50% volume. The headset gets plenty loud, and I rarely found a need to turn it up past 70%, but you should expect less than this the higher you go over 50%.

In my case, at roughly 70% volume and connected over Lightspeed wireless, I averaged about 20 hours. Depending on how much you use it, that could mean anything from recharging every few days to uptime of a week or more. In my case, my job doesn’t require or allow me to wear headphones all day and I was able to stretch the battery life to 12 days before I needed to plug it in.

While the headset doesn't offer the absolute best battery life, it does offer enough to be functional and not feel short. This isn’t a headset you can use for months at a time between recharges, but, depending on how much you use it every day, it could go weeks — and that’s solid for this price point

Bottom Line

At only $80, the Logitech G325 Lightspeed is an exceptional deal. It’s lightweight, comfortable for full workday sessions, and offers an impressive and versatile sound for the price point… even if you trade metal for plastic to get there.

If you're looking for something that feels a bit more solid in the hand, the HyperX Cloud III is a very good alternative with a slightly higher weight and price point. Or, if you can stretch your budget, the Steelseries Arctis Nova 5 Wireless more than doubles the battery life while maintaining impressive comfort and customizability.

Overall, Logitech has done an impressive job balancing price and performance with the G325. For the price, it’s a great budget option that is well worth considering.