This is the review of EKSA GT1 True Wireless Gaming Earbuds. We are writing this review after properly testing the earbuds with gaming, music, workouts. Continue reading to find out more about the same. What Do We Get? Let us start this review by going through the contents of the box. The earbuds come in a small little package. After sliding it open and lifting off the lid, it reveals the charging case. The case has the earbuds in them. We will talk about the earbuds in the next section. Taking out the case, we have a small plastic bag containing USB-C Charging cable and two extra pairs of ear tips / cups (small and large, while the earbuds come installed with medium tips). On the front of the case, there are four strips on each side. They also light up in blue and indicate charge status or when the buds are inserted and charging them. If the earbuds are outside the case, place them in the case and close its lid. This will power down the buds and charge them. Now, open the lid of the case and take out the earbuds. This will make the GT1 earbuds to go into pairing mode. During this time, the blue LEDs on the earbuds (snake eyes) will blink at a faster rate. You can now turn on the Bluetooth in your phone or laptop and pair with the earbuds. They will come up as ‘GT1’. Once connected, the led blinking stops and the light blinks every 10s. In addition to the LED indication, the earbuds also voice read out of the status during power on / off, waiting to be paired, connected, game mode and music mode. Let us now see how the EKSA GT1 Gaming Earbuds perform. First, we tested with music.We played all kinds of music with these earbuds: classical, alternate rock, bass boosted, EDM. The music is really well balanced. Vocal are very clear and the mids and lows are also nice. To test out its IPX4 splash resistant rating, we used these earbuds during workout. The sweat during our workout session did not cause any performance issues. Then we moved to the highlight of these earbuds, its ultra-low 38ms latency in game mode. Just double tap on the earbuds to activate game mode and the buds acknowledge with a voice saying ‘game mode’ and also the blue LEDs on the buds change from blinking every 10s to breathing LEDs. In game mode, the audio transmission delay is significantly less and you can clearly observe the difference from regular music mode.Gamers will definitely love these earbuds. Although these buds are targeted towards gaming, the integrated microphones can be very useful while making calls. We tested with regular phone calls, skype chats and zoom calls. The voice was very clear without any disturbance. Other parties never complained about voice quality. As this is a Bluetooth device, you can pair with smartphones, laptops, TVs, gaming consoles (except PS5 as it doesn’t support audio over Bluetooth) or any device that has Bluetooth and supports audio. The range of the connection is pretty standard. In regular homes and offices, you can easily expect the buds to work up to the next room. But beyond that, the connection drops. Finally, the lightweight design of the EKSA GT1 True Wireless Gaming Earbuds make them very comfortable to use. Even after hours of continuous wearing, we did not feel heat around the ears. There are no fatigue or pain and you can choose the right ear tip from the three provided in the package.
Touch for 2s to manually power on the earbuds.When the music is paused, touch for 3s to manually power off the earbuds.When the buds are powered off, touch for 10s to clear the pairing.During music play, single tap to pause or play the music.Double tap to switch between game mode and music mode.Triple tap to invoke the voice assistant.For phone calls, single tap to answer or end the call.Double tap to reject an incoming call.
Once the battery is down to 10%, we charged the earbuds using the case. It took less than 1.5hours for completely recharging the buds to 100%. Using a fully charged case, we could recharge the earbuds 4.5 times.
