The Tracks Air Wireless is delivered in a transparent blister pack whose magnetic lid after opening provides a view on the blue headband and two drivers. After having pushed this on the respective end of the headband and adjusted according to the own head shape, the device is ready for use after a charging time of approximately 60 minutes. If you want to not wait this time, you can connect the headphones alternatively with the enclosed blue cable with mini-jack on the music source.
The headband and the two drivers are covered with a sufficiently thick padding made of synthetic leather. The contact pressure of the strap is not exactly low, which ensures on the credit side, the headphones do not inadvertently slides from the head, but on the downside just when wearing glasses for about 30 minutes is uncomfortable.
The pairing via Bluetooth works flawlessly with all of mine tested devices (Samsung Galaxy S5, iPad Air and also the stationary PC with Asus P67 Deluxe motherboard with Atheros Bluetooth chipset). The connection has been established more quickly and remained stable even during operation. Only during operation on the PC, the range could be somewhat larger. The Tracks Air Wireless informs the user acoustically during and at hergesteller coupling. After pressing the pairing button located with the volume control on the right driver, the phrase "Tracks Air is ready to pair" sounds. Then the corresponding Bluetooth device found, calls the headphones, the remaining time, z. B. "More than 13 hours playtime." The battery power of Tracks Air is very good indeed, as listening to music on a single charge is actually possible between 13 to 15 hours.
Sonically leaves the Sol Republic Tracks Air a good impression, which he (bass and treble are lifted) a typical Baden When voting has. This vote makes less bass intensive music pieces have fun, but is fast for my taste at bassy song too much. Pop and rock music from the 80s and 90s (A-ha, Simple Minds, Camouflage, Foreigner, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, The Pretenders, Pet Shop Boys, etc.) make the Tracks Air z. B. a great deal and make friends for a pleasant Fusswippeffekt. Also very well come Italo / Euro disco songs such. B. the productions of Dieter B., Luis Rodriguez or Giorgio Moroder on the Tracks Air over. For classical music or orchestral works as soundtracks (John Williams' The Empire Strikes Back "or Danny Elfman's" Batman Returns ") drops the bass emphasis on unpleasant and overlaid the middle frequency ranges quite clearly. This also applies to jazz recordings, as Lizz Wright's excellent audio CD "Dreaming Wide Awake", in which the voice of the singer is totally overshadowed by the booming bass.
All in all supplies of Sol Republic Tracks Air On-Ear Headphones from a good overall performance. Haptics, material quality, desing and Blutooth functionality are very good, only the overemphasis of the bass and treble range I find disturbing, and it also strongly coming here on the personal taste and different music genres.
