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This means you have no idea what kind of scale you’re adjusting during setup. The app is also required if you want to turn on ANC at all.Ī big issue I have with the app’s ANC setup is the ANC “profiles” are unlabeled in the setup process. But at least you won’t need to give Jabra your email to use it. Without the app, the earbuds only let you use “HearThrough” (Jabra’s equivalent of a transparency mode) or ANC-off mode. The app is also required if you want to turn on ANC at all. In the app, you need to choose one of Jabra’s noise-canceling presets to make sure it works for your hearing, as well as perform a quick hearing test so the earbuds can focus on playing frequencies you can actually hear during music playback. To start, you need to download the Jabra app to get their full functionality. The process of pairing and setting up the Elite 7 Pro is tedious but I can see the benefits. After five days of extensive use, I never managed to drain the buds in any long listening sessions or drain the case enough to need a recharge. The buds also have fantastic battery life, rated at 8 hours by themselves with another 30 hours in the case by Jabra. The Pro’s headlining feature, and the reason behind its $20 price premium over the Active, are the two bone-conducting sensors it uses to enhance the quality of your voice during phone calls. Jabra didn’t send me a pair of Active buds to test so I can’t verify if that material is comfortable at all, but the comfort of the Pro gives me lots of reasons to doubt it would be. Jabra says ShakeGrip is a liquid silicone and rubber coating that helps lock the earbuds into your ears better than the matte plastic found on the Pro. The reason you would want the Active over the Pro is the coating material on the Active called ShakeGrip. The two buds share a lot of similarities, the most important ones being audio quality and the ANC tech packed inside. The Elite 7 is actually two wireless earbuds, the $199 Elite 7 Pro and $179 Elite 7 Active. However, the soft-touch material inside the case that cradles the earbuds attracts dirt and grime super quick, so expect to clean the case often or learn to live with having earwax residue constantly visible. Jabra’s new buds tuck neatly into more people’s ears and the case is now small enough to fit right alongside AirPods and Galaxy Buds. Gone are the bulky earbuds that made you look like a cyberpunk executive and cases too large to shove into a tight jeans pocket. The best thing the Elite 7 Pro has going for it is its design. The charging cases for Jabra wireless earbuds are no longer comically huge. The following is an update of Input’s original Elite 7 Pro review, with the appropriate sections changed to reflect improvements made in a November firmware update. The audio performance here is back to what I expect from Jabra earbuds and right up with the rest of the $200+ earbud market. To say the least, the Jabra Elite 7 Pro are now a product I can confidently recommend to prospective buyers, provided they fit you comfortably. But, if you’d like to know more about their audio performance changes from that November update, that section is all new. Much of what I wrote in that review still stands and is left unchanged, including my issues with comfort, and the Elite 7 Pro’s remarkable call quality. This re-review was conducted on my original review unit. Re-evaluating the Elite 7 Pro made sense since we love to give companies credit for fixing critical flaws with products and will update reviews to reflect those changes. After seeing recent reviews that did not mention the same audio issues, I was able to confirm with Jabra that a recent firmware update was released about a month after that first review that specifically addressed audio performance. Jabra is a company known for long-term product support and a commitment to quality, which is why I was so surprised when I first looked at the Elite 7 Pro. The primary issue I had was how the Elite 7 Pro struggled to create a convincing stereo effect, often failing to mix together the left and right channel properly on the default EQ setting. The Jabra Elite 7 Pro really let me down when I reviewed them in October, mainly due to some pretty glaring audio flaws.ĭespite delivering exceptional call quality, some of the best I’d ever heard thanks to their bone-conduction sensor, audio performance just wasn’t up to par with what I expected from a $200 pair of wireless earbuds.
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