Review: Logitech G Pro X3 Lightspeed gaming headset — better comfort with a vastly improved microphone

When buying headphones, it’s easy to focus on sound quality. Many headphones on the market deliver clean sound, but what separates some from others is microphone quality. Logitech G has emphasised this with the Pro X3 Lightspeed, focusing mainly on improved microphone specs, with a few other tweaks.

While the Logitech G Pro X3 uses the same graphene drivers as the Pro X2 Lightspeed headset, it is still a big improvement. It offers a much-improved microphone, with full-bandwidth 16-bit 48kHz support, improved EG software support to fine-tune the game audio to the game you are playing, and improved comfort with perforated leatherette cushioning.

Design

The headphones’ design is similar to the X2, with a change to a perforated leatherette headband. The X3 Lightspeed has a perforated headband, which increases airflow and breathability and keeps the top of your head cooler during gaming. When comparing the X2 and X3’s comfort during prolonged gaming, I could definitely tell the difference: the X3 felt cooler and more comfortable, but let’s face it, with the same material, just perforated, the difference isn’t going to be much.

Hardware

The X2 and X3 use similar drivers, both PRO-G 50mm graphene drivers. The X3 features a specialised live-edge driver design and refined DSP tuning to deliver cleaner sound across high and low frequencies. Logitech also added a 10-band parametric EQ, up from the X2’s 5-band parametric EQ, giving players finer in-game frequency control. Finally, the headset’s battery life increased from 50 hours to 70 hours.

The new parametric EQ lets you fine-tune the sound to the game you are playing, amplifying subtle sounds you may miss during a match.  It may seem inconsequential if you’re reading this but it certainly made a difference.  Of course, you can source starting points (or the final product) from the Logitech G database and community.

Microphone

Logitech G focused on greatly improving the headset’s microphone quality – the X3 Lightspeed has a full-bandwidth 16-bit 48kHz microphone, compared to the Pro X2’s 16-bit 16kHz microphone. The microphone is also omnidirectional and has an expanded frequency response from 75Hz to 20kHz. This provides much clearer, more natural voice comms when in-game. 

As you can hear, there is a clear difference between the X2’s microphone and the X3’s, and my teammates noticed it too in competitive games.

Software

Logitech G really do software support for its products well. The G-HUB software for the Pro X3 Lightspeed is no exception, with plenty of options to tweak the headset to your liking. Of course, if you just want to set and forget it as quickly as possible, you can plug and play one of the many community and included professional gamer settings.

Conclusion

Logitech G successfully identified what needed upgrading from the Pro X2: microphone quality and clarity, and they improved it greatly. The difference between the two is night and day and worth the upgrade by itself.

Other improvements include a slight upgrade in sound quality and comfort. The software support has also improved with the hardware and G HUB software now supporting a more detailed parametric equaliser.

If you play a lot of multiplayer competitive games in which you need to be heard clearly by teammates, then I highly recommend upgrading to the Logitech G Pro X3 Lightspeed at RRP AU9.95.