Introduction

Acefast isn’t a sanction you perceive often successful the wireless earbuds marketplace but its latest TWS earbuds bring a flashy transparent design, an LED show connected the lawsuit and six bold colour options which piqued our attention. The Acefast Crystal (2) Earbuds T8 are successful for reappraisal and we’ll beryllium taking a elaborate look into what they offer.

Acefast T8 surely basal retired successful presumption of plan and they connection immoderate neat bundled accessories. They diagnostic Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity, 10mm drivers and enactment the SBS and AAC audio codecs. The artillery beingness is rated astatine up to 30 hours of usage with the charging lawsuit and the full bundle is IPX4 splash resistant. Let’s spot however these earbuds stack up against the contention and if they merit a spot successful your pockets and ears.

Design

Purple, pink, blue, green, achromatic and achromatic - these are the six colors offered for the Acefast T8 and each of them travel with transparent bits that exposure the insides of the buds and their charging case. The charging lawsuit besides gets a seven-segment LED show which shows you the remaining artillery percent connected the lawsuit and each earbud.

There’s a definite inspiration from the Nothing Ear (1) which brought the transparent earbud plan past twelvemonth though you really get to spot much of the mainboard connected Acefast T8’s charging case. The buds connect via magnets to the sides of the case, which is besides seen connected past Acefast earbuds and is surely 1 mode to basal retired from the crowd.

There are nary buttons connected the lawsuit itself and each the controls are connected the buds instead. The earbuds enactment enactment erstwhile docked successful the lawsuit and I person not experienced immoderate problems with them falling out. The in-ear acceptable is bully provided you prime the due silicone extremity size.

The unboxing acquisition and provided accessories present are a measurement up from your mean wireless earbuds. The container features a transparent spot of integrative that lifts up to uncover 3 compartments containing a silicone gel lawsuit for the charging lawsuit colour matched to your earbuds, a lanyard strap, USB-C cablegram for charging and 3 pairs of other silicone receptor tips housed successful a integrative container.

Each bud weighs 5.5 grams portion the lawsuit comes retired to 47 grams. The earbuds are not the lightest we’ve tested though they consciousness bully successful your ears adjacent aft hours of use. The lawsuit is not that compact and hardly fits into your jeans' coin pockets but it easy slides successful different larger pockets adjacent with the bundled silicone sleeve.

Features

Going past their translucent design, Acefast T8 bring a reasonably constricted diagnostic set. There’s nary Hi-Res Audio enactment connected present and you’re near with the bequest SBC and AAC audio codecs. The buds bash enactment the precise latest Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity modular with Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) transmission via mode of the BES 2600 IHC Bluetooth chip. Sadly, there’s nary progressive sound cancelation (ANC) with the dual microphones connected each earbud lone offering ENC telephone sound reduction.

Multi-point pairing is different large lack connected the Acefast T8 and there’s nary smartphone app for fine-tuning the audio profiles oregon receiving firmware updates. The buds besides omit deterioration detection for pausing and resuming media playback which is simply a modular diagnostic adjacent connected fund earbuds today.

Acefast T8 diagnostic 10mm drivers with an aluminum moving coil and 6mm dome tweeters. The earbuds usage a Laser Direct Structuring (LDS) antenna plan which molds the antenna transmitter onto a integrative portion adjacent the bottommost of the earbuds stem. LDS is advertised to bring unchangeable awesome transmission and improved anti-interference.

The LED show connected the lawsuit is simply a bully interaction and it is surely 1 of the astir appealing features that the T8s person going for them. The show turns connected for a fewer seconds erstwhile you region the buds from the lawsuit and again erstwhile you dock them. This is truly utile since you person contiguous entree to your buds and lawsuit artillery presumption without having to excavation up Bluetooth settings connected your paired device. The LED show has a achromatic colour for the artillery presumption portion the underside has a yellowish hue that lights up the bits astir the exposed portion of the mainboard.

We emotion the plan attack though we consciousness Acefast could person added a carnal fastener that allows you to crook connected the show and cheque your artillery levels without inserting connected extracting the earbuds from the lawsuit each time.

The buds connection interaction controls for play/pause, measurement controls, telephone absorption and summoning your device’s integer assistant. The interaction controls are each done connected the apical portion of the buds and they enactment reasonably good though the measurement controls did not ever enactment connected the archetypal try. There’s nary mode to remap the interaction controls, which is simply a bummer.

Performance and Sound quality

Once you play immoderate audio contented you announcement bass output is pronounced portion the lows and mids are somewhat off. High midrange sounds similar vocals dependable good. Acefast T8 tin get plentifulness large which is an added bonus. The audio illustration is level and an equalizer tuning enactment could perchance amended their dependable output though there’s nary specified diagnostic astatine the clip of this review.

I noticed a subtle static sound connected the Acefast T8 aft pairing them to my devices though this is chiefly portion listening to podcasts and audiobooks successful a quiescent environment. Granted this contented was not replicated with immoderate of my colleagues who tried the buds connected astatine the bureau and volition astir apt not fuss you connected your regular commute oregon astatine the gym.

Connectivity show was connected constituent with nary dropouts erstwhile investigating connected an iPhone, Android tablet and laptop. Switching to calls, dependable pickup is beneath mean with radical connected the different enactment reporting my dependable sounding muffled during calls. Latency is connected par with different wireless earbuds we've reviewed with nary noticeable lag betwixt video and audio.

Battery life

Acefast T8 are advertised to past up to 7 hours with continuous euphony playback astatine 70% measurement and 4 hours connected calls portion the charging lawsuit extends the full listening clip to 30 hours - that's ample endurance for a brace of wireless earbuds and much than astir competitors. Each earbud packs a 45mAh battery, portion the lawsuit holds a 480 mAh charge.

I recovered the earphones to past maine betwixt 6-7 hours connected a azygous complaint during my trial period, which is successful enactment with the claimed values from Acefast. A afloat 0-100% complaint takes astir 90 minutes portion a 10-minute accelerated top-up gets you 2 hours of usage. There’s nary wireless charging truthful you’ll person to find a powerfulness outlet and plug successful a USB-C cablegram for top-ups.

Verdict

Acefast T8 earbuds bring a unsocial transparent plan with clever features similar magnetic retention wrong the lawsuit and a ample LED artillery indicator screen. Battery endurance is stellar and delivers up to 30 hours with the charging case. Audio prime is mean and there’s nary ANC oregon enactment for immoderate of the high-bitrate codecs. That wouldn’t beryllium a occupation for a brace of entry-level earbuds but the Acefast T8 presently retail for $100, which positions them successful a pugnacious abstraction considering the fierce contention successful the TWS market.

The T8s are exclusive to the Acefast online store for present though if the T6 bid is immoderate denotation they should look connected Amazon soon enough. Still, we'd hold for a hefty discount earlier pulling the bargain trigger.

We person to springiness recognition to the plan squad astatine Acefast for creating 1 of the best-looking earbuds connected the market. The six colour options offered connected the Acefast T8 each look large and we’re excited to spot what aboriginal iterations successful the scope volition bring to the table. We tin lone anticipation for a richer diagnostic acceptable with Hi-Res Audio enactment and much power implicit the audio equalizer.