If you're looking at buying a wireless gaming headset, without breaking the bank,
then here we have the Eksa E910’s. This is a wireless headset that will support PC,
Mac, PS4, PS5, XBox, and Nintendo Switch, all whilst costing under $100.
So are they any good?
Welcome to my Tech Gear…
Let's find out!
Straight out of the box we have this really nice pouch. It's a lovely
leatherette material and it's really thick so that's really going to help
it give great protection if you want to store it in your bag and take it with you on the go.
In the pouch itself we have the headset, and I'll go into the details of the design and fit of this
in a minute. Other than the headset we also have a USB-C charging cable,
and it is great to see USB-C on what is essentially a budget pair of wireless headphones.
It also comes with a 3.5mm cable, but that's not used for what you think it might be.
I'll get to that later. And we've got a USB wireless transmitter which plugs into your PC,
or whichever device, to transmit your audio to your headset.
Looking at the design of the headset itself, it is a really good build quality.
There is a metal band that goes from the ear pad brackets all the way through the
headset to the other side. This means that it is super strong and it is massively flexible.
You can really bend these from dead straight, all the way out. You can twist them.
It doesn't make any difference. They snap right back. Super sturdy. Super durable.
The ear pads themselves are made of this super soft leatherette material which makes them
really comfortable on your ears. Combine that with the really deep memory foam here as well
and that just makes them super super comfortable on the ears
for long gaming sessions. The padding continues through to the headband itself
where you have this nice thick layer of foam at the top to help it cushion against your head.
The left ear pad is where all of the controls sit. So we've got our volume wheel here. We've got our
mute button, and we have our on/off switch, and we've got the USB-C charging port down there
as well. The retractable mic on the left ear pad obviously retracts and comes out as well.
That's a really nice touch for keeping the mic out the way when you don't need it.
Let's not forget the RGB. So when you turn these on
you will get a red symbol on each ear. Now you can't turn it off,
but I don't think it's over the top and I actually think it's been done quite well.
Fit-wise these are really easy to put on, with it being really easy to work out
which ear cup goes on which ear. The thick memory foam on those ear pads also make
these super comfortable to wear when you put them on. The headband itself is nice
and easily adjustable and it will fit a wide range of head sizes. The weight of
these is 305 grams. So that doesn't make them the heaviest, but it doesn't make them the lightest
either. It's about the same weight as the HyperX Cloud II wireless headsets for comparison.
Now there's not much clamping force on these, so that's the tightness when you actually put them
on your head. Some people have complained about them being loose but, to be honest, I don't want
a tight clamping force! What I want is comfort, and that's something that these have in spades.
Let's face it, the most important aspect of a headset is the sound. And out-of-the-box these
definitely have a bass bias, gamer-centric focus. So when you play them in games you can definitely
hear the bass front and center. However you can still clearly hear footsteps as well
so it is a headset that is best for gaming, unsurprisingly so,
and probably not so much for music and dialogue.
Fortunately you can change the sound profile of these using the equalizer in the headset app.
Unfortunately that only works for PCs and it won't work with other devices.
That is pretty common with headsets that claim they support multiple devices though.
The PC has equalizer presets for both stereo music and 7.1 surround sound so you can switch
your sound profile whether you're listening to rock, jazz or blasting something to hell
in your favorite FPS or MOBA games. You can also fully customize the equalizer with your
own custom presets. You also have ENC, or ‘Environmental Noise Cancelling’ available
in the app as well. Now this is a feature that you often only see in more expensive headsets.
That allows you to cut out your background noise when you're chatting on your mic.
I'm going to do a sample of that in a minute when we go do a mic test.
So the sound, once tweaked, is good. But the surround sound modes not so much. I could make
out left and right and center but I couldn't really make out front left and back left to
distinguish between that. To be honest though I don't really rate many virtual surround sound
systems because essentially you only have two speakers and you are trying to replicate
seven sound sources using those two and I don't find they work particularly well.
So, surround sound modes excluded, I have happily been killing zombies in Back 4 Blood for hours
using this headset and the sound has been great. Pleasant, full,
easy to listen to, I've actually really enjoyed playing with these.
So now we're doing a mic test. So this is with the environmental noise control turned off. So
this is basically what it sounds like without any post processing, out of the box. I think it sounds
quite good, especially for a pair of headset that really doesn't cost that much. However
I will say when you start pressing keys you can probably hear the keys in the background, although
it still does a pretty good job of making sure that my voice is heard over the top of the keys.
So now with ENC turned on, if I type the keys here, you can't really hear the keys in the
background, but the quality of my voice takes a significant hit to give you that feature.
It's not the best in the market but then it's also not the most expensive headset
so again having this feature on a headset that cost $90, it's actually pretty good.
So for the battery it is great to see a USB-C charging port here for the charging,
and it will charge to full in about two hours. However, it will only give you about 10 hours of
battery life, and in real world scenarios you actually only get about eight hours
if you're listening to it at a pretty loud volume, which, let's face it, most gamers
do. So it's definitely not the best and it’s probably the weakest component of this headset.
If you compare that to microsoft's XBox wireless headset for instance,
which is roughly the same price although very focused at the xbox,
that gives you roughly twice the battery life that these do.
So the headset is touted as being compatible with a lot of different devices and it does
this through the USB dongle that I've got here. However, your ability to connect to
lots of different devices is going to be variable, and let's get into why…
So it does say that it's compatible with your PC, Mac, PS4, PS5, XBox, Nintendo Switch, and your TV,
but in reality it is only kind of natively supporting the PC, PS4 and the PS5. To support
things like the Nintendo Switch and the XBox it actually relies on your TV supporting the
USB dongle for both audio and mic, and that's not common. So I tried it with three different
TV’s. I've got a Sony, a TCL and an LG. The Sony is actually just under a year old so I thought it
would have worked but it just wouldn't. I could plug it into the USB port and it would recognize
the headphones. It said the headphones were connected, but I could get absolutely no audio.
The other TV’s didn't work with it at all. So if you do need it for those scenarios then I
would absolutely say check the manual on your TV first to make sure it absolutely will work.
Now the dongle itself probably is a little bit on the big side. However, that 5.8GHz frequency that
it operates at gives you no perceivable latency in games so it is great for a gaming headset.
So that 3.5mm cable that I was talking about isn't used for what you'd think. Now you'd
think it would be used for just plugging into a 3.5mm jack on your headphones and connect it
to your mobile phone. However, there's no 3.5mm jack on here so you can't do that!
What it's supposed to be used for is actually taking the dongle,
there's a little 3.5mm jack on the dongle here, now you plug it into that and then plug that
into the 3.5mm jack of whatever device you're trying to connect to. It is the most bizarre setup
and I don't know too many people that would do it that way. But it's an option there if you want it.
What you can actually do though is you can actually use that functionality
to actually get around the fact that it's probably not going to be compatible with many TV’s.
So if your TV has a USB cable, or a USB port, and even if it doesn't you can just plug it
straight into a power supply if you've got a USB plug. Plug that into your TV, or the plug,
and then plug the 3.5mm cable into this and into the headphone socket of your TV.
You should then be able to get audio from your TV to your headset. Now it does mean that the mic is
not going to work but if you just want to use it for TV it at least gives you a workaround.
So at the end of the day, should you buy it? Well for $90 it's a wireless gaming headset
that supports PC, Mac, PS4, PS5, and potentially Nintendo Switch and XBox depending on your TV,
and it comes with a two year warranty so it certainly has a lot going for it.
The battery life could be better, and there are some quirks with its
connections that I've just kind of gone through,
but it's really well built, it's super comfortable to wear, and it has good sound,
although the best sound is reserved PC because of the software app that I mentioned before.
If you are looking for a truly wireless headset for your PC,
your PS4, your PS5 then the Eksa E910 is certainly a headset that's worth
considering. I'll place a link to it in the description down below for you.
If however you want a truly wireless headset experience for your XBox then I thoroughly
recommend checking out Microsoft's own XBox Wireless Headset. That is a great truly wireless
headset for roughly the same price. I've reviewed it up here so be sure to go and check that out.
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