the Jazz mini is a beautiful and compact aluminum stand for your smartphone that
even holds tablets up to 8 in Click now to learn more the first thing that
caught my attention about this product was its excellent packaging something I
appreciate as someone who sees a lot of packages if you get my drift the second
thing that caught my attention was how infuriatingly difficult it was to
extract the goods from the package so to speak and I'm sure there's a joke in
there about how blue my buds were getting by the time that I actually finished but the real question here is
not how much inuendo can I cram into my point about how hard you have to work to
get the j-bird BlueBuds X earphones into your hands but rather is it even worth
the effort I normally avoid doing videos about lifestyle audio products they
advertise a bunch of features and then fail to perform their most basic
functionality that is to reproduce audio with as much Fidelity as they can with a
reasonable degree of proficiency so let's start with the bottom line then
audio quality when I was doing my listening tests on the blue buds X I was
not only pleased with the level of performance I was getting out of a
mid-range pair of IMS but I didn't even feel like I was making compromises
because they're Wireless rock on j-bird I spent some time digging through my
music collection and figuring out what kind of sound signature jbird was going
for I had determined that they sounded pleasing with satisfying impact at the
low end reasonable detail in the highs and mids that were less pronounced than
I like when I realized that they advertised their response curve right on
the box Kudos appreciate this saves me
some time because I can just say they sound as advertised once I had
determined they sounded good the features started to matter the BlueBuds
X feature a remarkable 8h hour battery life that it pretty much achieves in
real world use an integrated microphone for voice calls that my brother
described as decent and spite of the fact that it was located behind my ear
at the time and Liquipel sweat repellent nano technology with a lifetime sweat
warranty to back it up the package includes a variety of ear tips three
sizes of sports ear cushions to help
them stay in and a large hard carrying case that fits the included charging
cable and the earphones themselves there are also Cable Management clips for
wearing the blue buds X as an over-the-ear headset and finally there
is a ual with excellent instructions on
how to set them up so let's take a look at them physically these are big iners
but that makes sense since they have to contain Wireless communication Tech and
a battery it did make me worry about how well they would fit though since I have
pretty small ear canals more on that later speaking of batteries the micro
USB charging port is accessed by popping off the backing of the left earpiece
just like so and it's got three inline
buttons that you can use to control power calls media playback and volume
control depending on how long you press them for in practice that works but if
you've also got a pebble or other Smartwatch that's even awesomer I find
reaching for my wrist a bit easier to do between rallies than reaching behind my
head but your mileage may vary on that one so back to how well they fit the
manual says to try the under the ear fit
first so I promptly set myself up with the smallest ear tip and between the
size of the buds and the weight of the cord they just fell out I guess I was
expecting that so I gave up immediately and set them up as over the year
something I'm already used to from my ie80s it took me about 5 minutes to set
up and adjust the wire management Clips by the way the inclusion of an extra
wire management clip in the case in case I lose or break one is a very nice touch
and now they fit so it's time to head to
the court and stress test them with some badmon singles pairing is lightning fast
and the range is perfect for the products intended use I didn't experience any interruptions whether my
phone was actually on me or sitting at Courtside the tops of my ears easily
support the weight of the wires and I didn't even need their Sports ear
cushions for them to stay in flawlessly A+ for comfort the only thing that
weirded me out a bit is that as someone who carries imem 247 I felt a little bit
naked without wires but I'm sure I'd get used to that noise isolation is maybe a
Touch Too Much to use these in a team sport but but this is a big point in the
product's favor for base response and listening immersion so there's no 100%
right answer there the product isn't perfect yet though volume adjustment is
something they need to address I'd like to see it tied into the phone's volume
control like most other Bluetooth audio devices as it is they're separate and
when you make adjustments using the inline button it actually temporarily
cuts off the music with each button press also when you wear of them in over
the ear mode the stereo sound is reversed because you are physically
inserting them into your ears the other way I guess it's not a huge deal since
the product is not intended for me to sit back in my comfortable chair reving
in my audio snobbery but rather for me to use when I should probably be focused
on something else but it's still something I wouldn't mind seeing
addressed with a version two product something good did come out of that
channel switching issue though their support blew my giraffing mind you call
the number on their website go through one menu layer to indicate that you're a
customer yes a company that doesn't divide callers up further by support and
pre-sales inquiries or as I call it people whose money that we already have
and people whose money we're still trying to get and a real person picks up
in like 10 seconds their live chat was actually even faster they responded
while I was on the phone for 10 seconds so much wow anyway it's conclusion time
now and let's put it this way they will
not be replaced ing my ie80s as my daily drivers but these cost three times as
much no they're going to be my workout and gym iners and they absolutely Rock
for that though honestly if I didn't already own mid to Upper tier imem then
they would be a candidate for everyday use they're really solid I mean I was
intrigued when a viewer sent me this review suggestion but I didn't have much
hope for them because mainstream audio stuff is usually flashy junk but I
figured I couldn't go wrong because in my conclusion for the video either I'd
end up with a rock solid product that I could recommend with confidence to
anyone who wants to listen to music while they work out or I'd end up
getting to use the awesome punchline I wrote about how I just spent the last
eight minutes mocking a jbird a joke that worked better in my head than it
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