Speaking of battery, Plantronics boasts 24 hours of use, and surprisingly the headphones pretty much do deliver that.
Options include telling you remaining battery life or starting a playlist, or more gym-centric settings like starting a stopwatch or timer. By default they’re used to play, pause, change the volume, skip tracks, and activate your phone’s smart assistant, but you can also set up to two custom controls. The accompanying app gives you some adjustable EQ settings, along with the option to tweak the touch controls. There’s also an Awareness mode that lets you tweak how much outside noise is let in, whether that’s to hear traffic on an outdoors run or chat to your gym buddy between sets. The sound is at its best when you latch the headphones down for workouts – improving the passive noise isolation from the ear cups and blocking out any background gym audio – but it’s actually great all the time, with no sense of any compromise in audio to hit the sports features.Ĭall quality is also strong, though that’s no surprise – Plantronics is primarily a headset company, so knows its way around a microphone or two. Plantronics has also kept them compact (well, by over-ear standards at least) meaning they a) fold up nicely, and b) are unlikely to get in the way even if you’re lifting weights overhead or throwing your arms up during a HIIT session. You can twist the band round any which way and they’ll survive, so you also shouldn’t worry about throwing them into a gym bag with your other gear. Pull this down and you can latch it, tightening the bands’ fit to help keep the headphones in place during your sets – and conversely, undo it to loosen the clamping feeling to make things more comfortable for everyday use.
You can slide the cups up and down just like on any other cans, but there’s also a small fabric pull cord on one side. The headband is adjustable in two different ways. I wouldn’t exactly swim in them (over-ears have many good qualities, but hydrodynamics are not among them) but even your sweatiest gym session shouldn’t pose any problems, and everything is easy to wipe clean afterwards, so they shouldn’t accumulate too many gross smells.
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