Trust GXT 38 Tytan Speaker Set Review

We’ve got a bit of a love/hate relationship going on with Trust. 

With a host of products available on the market, mostly at a lower than average price, this is a company who seemingly enjoy filling the gaming scene with plenty of options, hoping that some will stick. That was the case with their GXT 433 Pylo headset – at £19.99, it may not have been able to blow the competition away, but it really wasn’t that bad. But then their similarly priced GXT 310 Radius headset was a disaster. 

We come to the Trust GXT 38 Tytan Speaker Set then with mixed thoughts. This isn’t an audio provider that is going to set the world alight, but for a smidge under £80, if it’s a desktop set-up that you need some audio for, perhaps as you spend time immersed in PC or Game Pass play, we’d say it’s one to consider. In fact, stick it on your shortlist. 

The Trust GXT 38 Tytan is a three piece set that brings 2.1 sound to your lugholes. Promising 120W of power, it comprises a beefy wooden 7-inch subwoofer, along with a couple of cute little satellite speakers. Combined, they get pretty loud, pretty bassy and mostly pretty clear. 

There’s nothing here that allows the Trust GXT 38 Tytan to stand out too much. Without doubt it’s the boxy sub that will be the focus point and this is housed in a sharp wooden box, allowing for sound amplification like never before. Trust logo’d on the front, this black and grey detailed unit looks pretty good, although for the most part it’s this which you’ll probably stow away under a desk, out of sight, out of mind. 

It’s the two satellite speakers that will be in your eyeline much more and so it’s appreciated that these look good too. Small, fairly trapezoid in shape and fronted by a glossy black surrounded by grey and matt black stylings, each of these satellite offerings come with a couple of speaker grills front and centre. From there, single cables work their way from the rear. Upright and nicely angled, we’ve enjoyed having these two little units sitting either side of our desk. 

Connection is super simple. The sub itself plays host to the main control panel, with red and white input and output jacks in place alongside a power button and eco mode switch. Honestly, we couldn’t give two hoots about the eco and smart power management feature that Trust have thrown in here, as in our eyes any device worth its salt should power down when not in use; that is the case with the Tytan. A main volume dial and bass dial both sit alongside that panel of buttons. 

It couldn’t be simpler to set-up – attach some power to the sub, ram the red and white cables from the satellites into that same sub and your job is pretty much down. Except you need to find audio from somewhere and that is where a wired remote comes in handy. 

This plugs additional red and white cables into the input ports on the sub, with a further green 3.5mm jack running out to your source – what that source is is up to you, but as long as you’ve got a 3.5mm jack, this should work. That same wired remote has further headset and auxiliary ports for when times call, but also swivels around to act as a volume control. This is pretty much essential unless you fancy heading down under your desk to adjust the volume dial on the sub whenever you need a volume change. We’ve found it best to dial up the sub as far as it’ll go, then adjust volumes to suit whilst desk-side with the remote. 

For the ease of set-up, and black visual look, the GXT 38 Tytan is pretty impressive, especially when you consider that asking price. And it sounds good too. 

We’ve preferred to run bass levels just down from the max on offer, but even then this is a room-filling device that will happily pound out your game audio or musical mixes. We’ve tried it with a number of devices (Xbox Series X and Series S, PlayStation 5, laptop, desktop, mobile phone) as well as a variety of genres (both game and music) and have been pretty taken by how the Tytan handles things. At least that is until really cranking things up as it’s then when the audio gets a little bit muddy and mixed. 

That’s not something that has surprised us; in fact, we half expected it. See, there’s a reason where the likes of Sonos can charge the earth for their systems, and it’s not just because of multi-room set-ups and fancy apps. It’s because they sound flipping amazing no matter what is thrown at them. And that’s why Trust seemingly don’t bother trying to compete with the big guns, happily running the middle-to-lower ground where the majority of purchasers are found. With that in mind, you need to consider what you are getting here and whether the very slight downsides in terms of top-end audio are something you can dismiss. 

If you can, and if you’re after a fairly cheap 2.1 sound set-up that can attach to your console, PC or laptop for both gaming and music sessions, we’d tell you to seriously consider what is on – and below – the table with the GXT 38 Tytan Speaker Set. Going mad and plugging the 3.5mm cable into your Xbox controller for proper sessions is a good call too. Granted, it feels slightly weird powering such a big unit via a controller, but it certainly ensures that playing through the likes of Hogwarts Legacy and the newly rebooted Dead Space are all the more immersive. 

Today our love/hate relationship with Trust trickles over to that of endearment with the GXT 38 Tytan. Who knows where it’ll go next. 

Huge thanks go out to Trust for providing the GXT 38 Tytan Speaker Set for review. Grab the kit for yourself by heading to the likes of Amazon. 

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