Rusty's blog: 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.

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