![]() You can visibly see the fancy lighting effects on a keyboard or mouse and admire them, but unless you have the ability to somehow view the back of your own head then having LEDs on a headset seems rather pointless, except possibly to blind potential atackers sneaking up on you. To see it on a headset, though, is somewhat odd. LED lighting has become a massive trend within the gaming market, becoming a staple of mice and keyboards. In a lovely touch the right earcup panel can be removed to reveal a small compartment to store the USB dongle needed for wireless, while both earcups can be swiveled to lie flat on the shoulders with almost no restriction on head movement. The same padding runs along the headband and provides ample support. Seriously, I had them on while binging on a mixture of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (animated series), Jessica Jones and Fallout 4, and the only flaw was having to take them off every now and then for a bit of a cooldown. ![]() The half-inch wide padding on the earcups is made of a sports mesh material with memory foam that is just a tiny bit itchy and warm for my own tastes but is otherwise extremely comfortable for those long sessions into the early morning hours. It all feels solid in the hands aside from a small tendency to creak a little when being moved around, the entire unit feeling all the stronger for its relatively hefty weight of. The headset sports a relatively clean, black look with a few molded lines that break up the flow and a chunky design philosophy when it comes to the earcups, which look a bit like they’re actually some form of breaching charge intended for blasting through human skulls. The level of comfort and build quality manage to impress almost across the board, Logitech crafting within their mystical forges a pleasingly comfy set of cans that seem quite sturdy, although I’m yet to take a hammer to them in order to test this. With the software installed you just plug in the wireless USB dongle, plop them on your head and proceed to drown out the general sorrows of life by shooting lots of people online. There’s a lengthy micro-USB to USB cable used for charging the headset, a reasonably long 3.5mm jack for stereo connection and a 3.5mm splitter, meaning that in total the Artemis can can have up three audio sources feeding into it at any time, presumably in case you want to let people hear what the voices in your head sound like when they’re arguing. The box has a chunky, slide-off lid that immediately reveals the headset which lies nestled in its own little molded plastic tray that also lifts out to allow access to a small box containing all the bits and bobs you need to get going, minus the official Logitech software which will need to be downloaded. Packaging is normally such a boring thing to talk about, but Logitech always seem to make unpacking their products a simple little pleasure. So yes, they have the capacity to blind people, but do they sound good? But how Logitech may have taken things slightly too far by slapping on LED lights on their newest headset. For those people a good headset is a worthy investment because they can really increase the quality of your gaming, as well as the clarity of your spewed insults. For some people a stack of colossal speakers and an amplifier the size of Wales is not a viable option, and we shall pity those people because they will never know the joys of listening to Back in Black at a volume so loud France has begun complaining.
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