Moondrop Space Travel 2 Earbuds mini review

Following on from my review of the G10 Wireless VR Earbuds, another pair of bluetooth in-ear headphones I saw as being recommended for low latency were the Moondrop Space Travel earbuds. Seeing they had a version 2 out, and they were priced about the same as the version 1, I thought I might as well get the version 2 (Ali Express affiliate link).

There is no way to force them into pairing mode, rather when you disonnect a device they will automatically go into pairing mode. Or if you remove them from the case and there is no previously paired device around for them to automatically connect to, they will go into pairing mode.

By default they are in 'Music' mode, which is not low latency. You have to quickly tap one of the earbuds 4 times and it will then change to 'Game' mode (tap 4 times again to back to Music mode). This can be a bit tricky as you do need to tap pretty quickly and it doesn't always seem to register all 4 taps. But overall it's not really a problem.

In game mode the latency does seem good and watching videos of people talking I see no sync issues. In music mode the latency is not so good.

Although I didn't see it advertised, you can actually also have the earbuds connected to multiple devices. You need to install the Moondrop app on your phone, and connect the earbuds (audio) to your phone. Open the app and it should then see and be able to connect to the earbuds. On the device page in the app for the earbuds, you go to Function Settings and then tap the > arrow. Here you can enable 'Dual device connection'. It gives you a warning that depending on your radio environment this might not be very reliable and you may get frequent hitches and disconnects. But I've found it to pretty good so far.

After enabling dual connection you connect the earbuds to 2 devices (note you must have already paired the earbuds with the second device, you cannot pair while already connected to a device). Then starting to play audio on a device will automatically switch the audio stream to that device. So there is no preference, like first comnnected device takes precendent, it is just whichever the latest device is to start sending an audio stream that the earbuds will stream.

I can't really comment on anything else with these yet, but the standard eartips they come with seem to fit my ears nicely. Sound quality seems decent. They claim to be Bluetooth 6.0 but I don't have any Bluetooth 6 devices to connect them to, nor know what difference, if any, that would make.

I couldn't find a manual online for them, but there clearly does exist a digital copy of it as you can open it in the app. The Space Travel 1 manual is available to download online, and it is basically the same as the version 2 manual anyway, there are no differences in the features or operations between the version 1 and 2 manuals.

Box front

Box rear

Headphones in charging case

USB-C port on bottom of charging case

Earbuds

G10 Wireless VR Earbuds from AliExpress mini review

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Recently I purchased some G10 Wireless VR Earbuds from AliExpress. They are a knock-off of the Soundcore VR P10, though I don't think I really realised this at the time I was ordering them. While they have the same design (and I assume the same features) as the Soundcore VR P10, neither the G10 VR product page or the product packaging claim them to be Soundcore earbuds. So they are a knock-off, not fake.

There are two main reasons I purchased these:

• They are advertised as being low latency. Most bluetooth headphones have bad latency so that when you watch video of someone talking, the sound and the video aren't synced, which I find very distracting.
• You are meant to be able to connect them via bluetooth and a separate USB-C 2.4G dongle and switch between the two. For me this would be very useful for switching between my Mac and PC - I could have them connected to one via bluetooth and the other via 2.4G dongle.

However, upon testing them, the latency with a bluetooth connection is still quite bad. With the 2.4G connection the latency is good. I tried the bluetooth connection with my PC (Ugreen 35058 USB adapter, Bluetooth 5.4), Windows laptop (Qualcomm QCA9377 chip, Bluetooth 5.0), Phone (Google Tensor G4 chip, Bluetooth 5.3), and Apple laptop (M4 chip, Bluetooth 5.3) and all had quite noticable latency.

The switching between bluetooth and 2.4G does seem to work okay. If you have one device connected via bluetooth and the other via the 2.4G dongle, both playing audio at the same time, it will prefer the bluetooth connection. When audio is only playing on one device, then it will just switch to whichever device it is that is playing audio. The switch is not instant, but it is only a couple of seconds, which is perfectly fine in my opinion.

Connecting the earbuds to a device via bluetooth requires the case. With the earbuds in the case you press the bluetooth pairing button on the bottom of the case for 3s to get them to go into pairing mode. Once paired it seems hit or miss as to whether you can re-connect them to a device outside the case or need to put them in the case. I did not have to completely forget and then re-pair them from scratch at all though.

I couldn't find a downloadable copy of the manual, so I have scanned in the English pages, which you can download here: G10 Wireless VR Earbuds manual.

Due to the bluetooth latency issue, I am not sure if I will use these headphones that much. So I'm not able to give a full review of them (at least at the moment).

They do seem to fit my ears fairly well, but I can't say how well they'd stay in if going for a jog, for example.

The touch controls on the earbuds worked fairly well, but not perfectly. Sometimes I would double tap to skip back or forward, and it would treat it as a single tap, pausing the music instead.

Sound quality seems fine.

Volume adjustment speed I think is a good balance between being too slow too to adjust and too fast to adjust to an accurate level.

Reliability over time, battery life, and charging speed I can't currently make any comment on at all.

To sum up, if you want Bluetooth soundbuds with low latency, avoid the G10 Wireless VR Earbuds. If you want 2.4G soundbuds with low latency (possibly all 2.4G headphones have low latency?) then they seem fine.

Box

Box

Open box with manual

Soundbuds and 2.4G USB-C transmitter in the charging case

The G10 Wireless VR Earbuds

Bottom of the case with the bluetooth button around the centre, but nearer the back where the USB-C charging port is

The USB-C 2.4G dongle, with a female USB-C on one side to allow for pass-through charging of whatever you've connected it to