Packaging & delivery: The headset comes in a relatively large cardboard box, well protected and easy to open. In addition to the headset is a round fabric-covered pocket, the charging cable, 3 pairs of silicone tips in different sizes and clear orange "stabilizers" in the delivery. As a documentary of the Quick Start Guide is only settled.
Commissioning: First, the loading clamp to the right ear to be clamped. The clamp surface must be pressed on the ear very precisely, otherwise there is no contact. After all, the design does not act as if they would break apart tomorrow. At the next best USB, the first charging took less than 2 hours. Through a medium long press on the power button (until the Kontrollled blue lights) on to the headset. A new long press enters the pairing mode (red / blue flashing LED). Pairing succeed right away, from then on it is called when the Bluetooth on One only headset on and the connection is there. After selecting the Eartips insertion took place in the ears. The so important for the bass Seal succeeded right away that I do not need stabilizers. The cable I lead through the neck, it could also be the front let your chin. Mobile at moderate levels, music player start - and first came the positive surprise. JBL-typical, relatively clear, dry sound, not neutral, but far more accurate than expected. Actually, here lays JBL for mainstream music that according to what is often lost in mp3.
Carefully increase the volume then brought the first surprise: Long before "Loud" it beeped loudly in the ear and the sound was not loud. A view of the mobile phone display brought clarity: With the +/- buttons to fix not as usual the volume on the playback device, but the headset amplifier's volume. This allows a finer adjustment to (it provides the cell phone to the desired maximum volume and controls within which the headset buttons), but has presented the possibilities of a real 3-button headsets regarding player control.
Extended Test: After several days of hearing results in a more nuanced picture: A stage not really builds up, but that is not to be expected in disposable InEars. The maximum volume is "friendly ear", ie, it is sufficient or out while vacuuming, but really loud is different. Language for audiobooks is rendered unobtrusive and neutral, contemporary music from the Beat David Guetta is fun, also because of the JBL here a little seals thereto. Even though I'm not a fan of this sound manipulations, the easy-listening, I admit that my joy has given every now and then.
Flac recordings of high quality he plays satisfactory, but thanks to the sound manipulation inaudible better than mp3s. The bass is dry crisp, not overdone, the highs clean and free of hiss. The bad surprise came when David Garret (Music): In a serious burden and the volume Verstärkerchen dies completely, neither remains an instrument separation of audibility is no longer to speak, helpless he gives something back, but hardly comes afterwards. To leave the church in the village, we speak of a miniaturized amplifier which is powered by a mini-battery and as a source (though thanks to apt-X low-) gets compressed music. In this respect, this test is unfair, but JBL advertises yes explicitly with its extraordinary sound.
The first call also then brought disillusionment: For his opposite number one is quietly _sehr_, unwatchable. I have not figured out where the microphone is hidden in the operating unit, it is not, and also a bring of two InEars near your mouth is useless.
Battery life and performance: I have at a moderate volume for two days several hours a day heard mixed audio books and music. The 5h specified maturity exceed certainly. Unfortunately, you can not appreciate the battery level even begin, because at the end of the term of an indefinable sound Sign Alto, which means that you look at the then flashing red status LED. The remaining operating time is then no more time to listen to the next USB port - after 2 minutes of JBL goes from simple, unfortunately impractical.
The Bluetooth reception is quite satisfactory. If one the player, for example, on a shelf at eye level, you can in the 4m-radius move relatively freely, without it comes to dropouts. I've been through worse with apt-X receivers. The problem arises when one really his entire body between
Conclusion: Overall, the JBL does a decent job, because of unusable telephony features and impractical battery handling one would actually each deduct a star. But he sounds too good and too long by keeping what He in turn brought an extra star -> 4 stars!
