Jabra Sound‪+‬ 4+

Really good app but some improvements would make it great

Using the Jabra 8 Elite Active and find this app an important benefit to using them. The app is fairly intuitive and useful. I love the equalizer presets as a fast way to get close to the sound I want, with the graph allowing me to tweak it. There are a few things that would make this app even better. 1. Add a toggle that turns off “device connected” alerts. With 2 devices connected, moving in an out of range of one keeps triggering the audio alert, which is distracting. One ends up turning off the Bluetooth for the one that’s not moving with you (in my case, iPhone on me and iPad at desk), which is not always what you want to do. 2. Add the option to tongle between having different settings in different devices, or automatically have settings synch. There are times when both are desirable. 3. Probably MOST important, an iPad version is badly needed. When watching media on iPad, you use landscape orientation (and probably most other things you do in iPad), but this app only works in portrait orientation. That’s a pain in the neck because you have to keep turning things while you tweak the settings. Orientation agile apps are everywhere — why not here?

Developer Response ,

Hello KS4321- Thank you for your 4-star rating! We appreciate your specific feedback regarding the few things that you believe would make the app even better. We will certainly pass this information along internally. Regardless, it is nice to learn that you love the app and believe it is fairly intuitive. If you have questions, concerns, or other feedback to share, please contact the Jabra Support Team: https://bit.ly/2xbNtEb. Thanks, again.

This App works extremely well!

This App works extremely well, and is much more feature heavy than you could imagine or possibly need.

With the Jabra Sound+ app not only can you optimize the headphones but you get pass through sound amplification that you can use while listening to music, on a call, or just with the headphones in your ears. This feature makes the 65ts and Active 75ts low grade hearing aids on top of being amazing headphones. With any variety of 75t or 85t earbuds you also get active noise cancellation as an added bonus if you’re one of those people that thinks you need it. Call quality on both ends is five stars all around, and the presets and equalizer controls allow you to customize your soundstage exactly how you've always wanted. The white noise feature along with its 12 different presets makes the any compatible pair of Jabras optimal for naps on a plane, or during your daily commute. I wouldn't use the feature over night only because I'm prone to ear infections. The ONLY downsides I could mention is the quick battery depletion when fiddling with the Jabra Sound+ app on the 65ts in particular. The 75ts did not have this battery drain issue when utilizing the Sound+ App.

Unbelievable quality

I was very skeptical of ear buds that required an accompanying app. I just wanted some quality ear buds that I could stick in my ears and go. Or so I thought. Let me explain…. I spent 20 years in the Air Force as an aircraft mechanic and have literally spent 10’s of thousands of hours around running jet engines along with a myriad of other hazardous noise sources. The current state of my hearing is absolutely a reflection of that. When I launched the app…begrudgingly…and it proceeded to give me what basically amounted to a hearing test, I was amazed. The app wanted to customize my listening experience while taking into account the frequency ranges each of my ears has difficulty with. As if that wasn’t enough, the app also allowed me to adjust the noise cancelling level and balance which is great because my left ear is a lot worse than my right. Probably from listening to those aforementioned jet engines out the driver’s side window of a maintenance truck in the latter years of my military career. These ear buds are amazing. And the app that accompanies them is unbelievably handy. It slows you to do things with the ear buds you didn’t even know you would love. Thank you, Jabra!