Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I've used, hated, and (mostly) loved the G930s for a long time, so I've compared the G933s to them in this review and in the attached pics. Aesthetically, they're great. The G933 has to be the sleekest headset I've ever had. The microphone is hard to even find; it looks like it was part of the cup. There's a sidepanel for holding the USB dongle affixed by two magnets, making it really easy to take off and providing a valuable function if you're traveling with these. Underneath is clear plastic for some soundboard eye candy. The pic of the earcups shows what is, for me, a crucial difference. The deathknell of the G930 was never its battery -- that's replaceable. It was the nagahide earcups (not replaceable) which degrade and tear off, ruining the sound seal and necessitating that nightmare tape operation I have on the right cup. The G933s have cloth earcups, precluding that problem as well as being more comfortable (and, FYI, they're *extremely* comfortable). The pic of the sides shows the G933 really "shine". Those strips can strobe colors so FAST! Very beautiful <del>and an unnecessary battery drain which about cuts operation time IN HALF</del>. Unfortunately, here's my biggest gripe and my only con so far: they actually don't have more buttons than the G930s, as is apparent. In fact, they have one LESS button: the surround toggle switch. By default, the center of the three G# buttons is set to surround toggle, but I like using those as media keys with the center one as Play/Pause. After that, I have no way to conveniently toggle surround like I did before; the G930s had a dedicated slider. The reason this is so important is probably only apparent to people who share my unhealthy familiarity with the G930s. Occasionally, in some media players or games, you have "omitted" sound channels -- you'd hear everything but the dialogue in a movie, for example. Like all of the G930s' issues, this has an obscure solution that's just become second nature to me: toggle the surround switch. It's muscle memory at this point. I toggle it once when I start playing a movie with complex sound or a game. I won't be able to do this with the G933s unless I sacrifice a media key. I hope that I won't have to -- that these don't have the same surround problem, but I think that's unlikely. 2016-04-18 update: I had two more issues with this headset: mic crackling (fixed by toggling the "Automatic microphone noise removal" box in Logitech Gaming Software) and its refusal to heed its device manifest XML file like the G930s would, which I used to disable the automatic shut off. I'm thrilled to report that, as of Logitech Gaming Software 8.82.151 (which included a firmware update for the headset), the mic crackling disappeared regardless of the noise removal option's state and an option has been added in the LGS GUI itself to set or disable automatic shut off. Kudos to Logitech. I only wish LGS had bugged me to update; I simply put up with those problems with an outdated version for who knows how long before hearing that it was worth to update! I'm updating my review to 5 stars.