Design and Features

• Lightweight plastic frame
• Handy on-board controls
• Solid connectivity and battery life

The G522 carries a similar design to some of the cheaper, lightweight G headsets of recent times, such as the G435, which weighed just 165g. With this in mind, this newer option has some more meat on the bone with a pleasant textured finish to the plastics used on this headset that exudes more of a premium feel.

It tips the scales at just 290g, which is lighter than its rivals, and means this isn’t a fatiguing headset to wear. The clamping force is pleasant and this is a comfortable headset to wear, thanks to both that and the textured fabric on the G522’s headband. Coming in purple on my sample, it provides a welcome splash of colour to an otherwise black headset. It is available in white with contrasting grey earcups if you’d prefer something a bit different.

Adjustment on the G522 is otherwise minimal, with only two positions for the headband with hooks at the base, as well as no swivel in the earcups. It’s fine, if a little unremarkable for a headset at its price, but I didn’t necessarily have any complaints with the comfort of the headset after extended periods of use. The earcups are textured fabric and deep enough to accommodate your ears well.

You get a decent range of on-board controls which are all loaded onto the left side. There are dedicated buttons for on/off, Bluetooth pairing, and mic mute, as well as a USB-C port and a volume wheel that has pleasant resistance.

Around the front, there is a 3.5mm jack that’s used for connecting the detachable microphone. The buttons themselves feel robust and tactile.

If you want it, there is some rather pleasant RGB lighting that illuminates the middle of the earcups and is addressable, too. It’s a welcome addition that makes the G522 cutesy enough for it to be used by hardcore gamers and those who focus on the aesthetic alike.

You get triple connectivity, with either Bluetooth or the 2.4GHz receiver available for wireless means, and USB-C for a more hardwired option. I had no issues using the headset over Bluetooth with my Honor Magic V3 for some casual music listening, or with the 2.4GHz USB-A receiver for use with my Windows gaming PC. With both, the headset was recognised virtually instantly, and I was off to the races. Logitech says this headset will work with PS5, and it has been reported to work with Nintendo Switch 2 as well.

There is support for Logitech’s G Hub software that provides reasonable configuration with an EQ, as well as for various game and music types, including FPS. You can add various effects to the headset’s microphone, and fiddle with the RGB lighting. 

Battery life is strong with the G522, with it lasting for up to 70 hours on a charge without the RGB lighting on, while turning the lighting on drops it to 40 hours. This puts it ahead of SteelSeries’ option, although still is way behind the 300 hours of the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless.

Audio and Microphone

• New, isolated driver construction
• Strong bass, and wide soundstage
• Excellent microphone

Arguably the most interesting thing about the G522 is the fact that Logitech has made a small, but important change to the implementation of its 40mm drivers to hopefully improve overall audio.

With this headset, they feature Logitech’s new ‘self-contained acoustic modules’ which isolate the 40mm drivers to eliminate distortion and, according to Logitech, ‘ensure audio symmetry and consistency’, as well as increasing endurance and bass output.

I’d wager this new tech has helped Logitech with the G522, as it resulted in some strong bass that aided immersion in FPS titles such as Counter Strike 2 in my testing, and in listening to heavier rock tracks such as Rush’s YYZ and Marillion’s The Invisible Man that are in my usual rotation.

Mids are quite strong, with good vocal handling on tracks such as Mac McAnally’s All The Way Around or James Taylor’s Caroline I See You, while helping sounds such as footsteps to be quite discernable and crisp.

This became especially apparent when using the G522 on the FPS preset that Logitech provides in the G Hub app, where the crisp mids combined with its wide soundstage and excellent imaging made it a lot easier to pick out where enemies were in my rounds of Counter Strike 2. Treble is okay with these, although higher volumes can lead to some distortion on finer and particularly bright elements.

The fully-adjustable microphone of the G522 punches above its moderate price, thanks to coming with the same 48KHz/16-bit option as the Astro A50, which is a headset that costs double this one. The quality of calls and comms with this Logitech headset is excellent for the price, with audio that’s crisp, clear and full-bodied. 

Far too often, headset mics up and down the price ladder can sound like you’re shouting into a tin can, and it’s pleasant to be away from that with the G522.

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