Band: opinion spread · Dot: weighted average
Sources split. Most reviewers hear a lifted but controlled low end that suits games: PCWorld, Hardware Canucks, PCMag and ProSettings are the most enthusiastic. A smaller group hears it spilling into the midrange: Les Numériques calls it slightly boomy with music, IGN Middle East says it overpowers the mids, and PC Gamer reached for the equaliser whenever music was playing. The split follows the pads and the connection more than taste, since the cloth pads remove several decibels of bass.
Measured
With the stock leatherette pads over the dongle, three rigs place the bass 9.9–11.1 dB above a Sennheiser HD 600 or HD 6XX on the same rig at 50 Hz, 7.1–8.3 dB at 80 Hz and 3.9–5.6 dB at 100 Hz, returning to within about 2 dB by 200 Hz. Against RTINGS's own target it is +2.5 to +3.6 dB from 50 to 100 Hz. The cloth pads cut 50–200 Hz by 3.9–5.2 dB on Filk's rig and 5.1–6.8 dB on GadgetryTech's. RTINGS also notes that glasses reduce the bass.
vs. listeners — The cable and the dongle are not the same headset. Filk's rig shows the passive 3.5 mm connection running 4–8 dB higher from 100 to 300 Hz than the dongle, and RTINGS's testers describe the cable as boomier and thicker. Les Numériques and IGN Middle East heard the opposite, finding the bass better balanced and more controlled on the cable. SoundGuys, on its own rig, calls the bass relatively restrained, which none of the three other rigs shows with the stock pads.
“Logitech has also retuned the sound to deliver more bass, bringing additional thump, rumble, and punch to your gameplay.”
RTINGS
“les graves débordent alors légèrement sur les médiums, d’où un rendu “boomy” qui n’est pas très flatteur”
Louis Paillat, Les Numériques (the bass then spills slightly over the mids, giving a “boomy” result that isn’t very flattering)