Logitech is kind of in a mess right now.
Their gaming peripherals lineup has had some deeply underwhelming recent launches built on outdated tech. Their brand new CEO stomped out there into a very public and prominent interview and said “why yes, we’d like to charge people a subscription to use their mouse one day!” which the company then quickly had to panic over and retract. Their audio gear, once on the forefront of wireless and speaker driver technology, is now mostly centered around their high margin Astro headset line. They feature these models prominently on their PC-gaming-centric web site even though the Astro brand has a long legacy of targeting console users.
Buried under all this nonsense is a really cool gaming headset that still has one of the most accurate sound profiles I’ve ever heard in the space: the G535. It doesn’t really fit into the market in this post-covid-buying-boom, post “chase Apple’s AirPod market share” era. Where other gaming tech companies are downsizing their lineups as they cram in optional Bluetooth modes and try to make their products more “premium” with questionable features, the 535 is slumming it down at the bottom with a sub-$100 price and excellent audio performance as its only defining…
