EKSA E900 Pro Gaming Headset Review – When you get even less than you paid for

1 - Einführung und Unboxing 2 - Technische Daten, Konstruktion und Haptik 3 - Teardown und erste Ernüchterung 4 - Sound- und Mikrofon Check 5 - Tragekomfort und spekulierte Haltbarkeit 6 - EKSA Software 7 - W1 RGB Headset Stand 8 - Galerie und Fazit

EKSA Software

Our attentive and constant readers will immediately notice that the following software seems strangely familiar. And there is a good reason for that, because the software also comes from C-Media (as a customizable developer kit for the provider) and belongs to the chip identified in the teardown. In terms of features, the CM108B chip used seems to fall somewhere between the much cheaper Sharkoon SGH30 and the similarly priced B2, whose sound quality it can’t quite match.

In the main menu, the software displays the volume control and the choice between speaker and microphone related settings.

The secret of the software is that you have to select the submenus of the respective headset part via the right mouse button!

The microphone settings are straightforward: we can adjust the level and activate the Mic Boost, which also results in some noise here. Of course, the input can also be “tapped” directly.

The noise reduction is supposed to reduce the pickup of interference and background noise, but, as with all inexpensive headsets tested so far, tends to make the recorded voice sound like an “aquarium”.

We have considerably more settings for the speaker part. Here, for example, the virtual 7.1 sound, which I still think is a marketing stunt. I just don’t see the added value of the slight reverberation.

A quite funny, but completely useless gimmick are also the switchable ambient effects. Here you can add more reverb and echo.

Overall, the well-known software is clear and resource-saving, but also only interesting because of the equalizer, which can correct the inherently grotty sound at least to a small degree.