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It’s hard to do an internet search for cheap gaming headsets without discovering the EKSA E900. This relative newcomer to the gaming peripheral space has lit up the sales charts with its combination of a low price and styling that’s brazenly borrowed from HyperX.
Back in May, which feels like a lifetime ago at this point, EKSA cold-emailed me and asked if I would like to review their headsets. I didn’t get back to them at the time, because I like to try and buy headsets on my own if possible unless it’s an unreleased product I’m receiving under press embargo. Plus, things were rather hectic back then as I was only just settling-in after the extended chaos of the sudden work-from-home transition.
The E900 comes in two flavors, the standard model and the “Pro/USB” model, which is the one I bought for this review. Both models regularly sell for under $50, so we’re firmly in budget territory. In spite of that, the feature set here is truly remarkable, packing in things I’d normally expect to see on more expensive headsets, and a certain type of USB port that will please the connector elitists among you.
If the sound signature were less of a throwback to the gaming headsets of 6+ years ago, I could…
