The Best Gaming Earbuds – 2019 Top Reviews

Earbuds are nothing new in the audio universe, however, with eSports becoming larger by the day, earbuds have managed to creep their way into the gamer specific category. Whether it's because over-ear headphones are too warm, or you're just looking for something slightly more incognito, there is an in-ear headphone offering that will suit your needs. 

In the following article we sit down with what we believe to be the best gaming earbuds available in today's market. We have a bunch of different options which range from the affordable all round gaming earbuds to the king of IEM's and everything in between.

HyperX Cloud Earbuds Gaming Headphones with Mic for Nintendo Switch and Mobile Gaming

Everything about the HyperX Cloud earbuds is designed for gamers. In fact, this is specifically designed for the eSports gaming community.

The design is carefully thought out to make sure these earbuds provide just about everything gamers will ever need. It has a built in in-line microphone which provides solid voice pickup even in the loudest gaming scenarios. 

The Razer Hammerhead Pro V2

The Razer Hammerhead Pro V2 didn’t compromise on anything.

Overall build quality of these earbuds is aboslutely fantastic. The earbuds themselves are made of aluminium which offer both solid aesthetics and a lightweight finish. Razer have equipped the V2's with much larger drivers than the original Hammerhead earbuds which hugely improve bass and acoustic performance.

The volume controls aren’t quite as well-built like the earbuds since these are made out of plastic. Nonetheless, they still feel very solid and sturdy.

Cooler Master Masterpulse MH710's.

One of the higher end, gamer specific earbuds in this guide come in the shape of the Cooler Master Masterpulse MH710's.

These earbuds come to the table with a tonne of cool features and benefits which we feel justify it's high price tag. FocusFX 2.0, superbly comfortable ear inserts, high build quality and newly enhanced 10mm Neodymium drivers are just some of the perks we can look forward to in these buds. 

Shure SE215-CL Earphones

The first true IEM's in our list are the Shure SE215-CL earphones.

The sound isolating earbuds from Shure come to shelves at the higher end of the price spectrum, but with that offer excellent audio output and fantastic comfort for hours of endless gaming sessions

Sennheiser IE800S in-Ear Headphones

What we have here is our luxury pick. The IE800s earbuds have been designed with the highest materials and product manufacturing available to bring the absolute best products to todays market.

They come equipped with the smallest extra wide-band sound transducer available which boasts distortion-free sound at high pressure levels. The sound quality these speakers provide is nothing short of superb boasting almost zero audio distortion and extremely deep bass.

Choosing the best gaming earbuds, or any other hardware component or peripheral for that matter, is a process which our team have done endless times before. We get each product in our testing studio and put it through strict benchmark and criteria tests. 

With the earbuds, it was a slightly different process because there's a huge number of different products to choose from. We decided to make a list of all the best and most reputable audio manufacturers and researched their latest offerings. 

Once we've selected the best gaming earbuds from each manufacturer, we specifically looked at features that matter most when gaming, such as:

Sound quality

Microphone quality

Comfort

Adapter

Drivers

Once each of the products we select completes the testing process, we narrow down our list into a refined top 5 which should cater to most consumers needs. 

We have the results in our conclusion section so check that out if that’s all that matters to you.

Gamers can get really sweaty just by playing games (not me). We mist the pair of earbuds every 20 minutes (plugged in and used) to see which earbuds show signs of negative effects first or which dies out throughout the process.

We also evaluated the extra features that come with the gaming earbuds to see whether or not they affect our gaming experience and comfort.

It’s a tedious job having to test these out but we had a lot of fun in the process. After finalizing the results we managed to put together what we believe is the best gaming earbuds of 2019.