The headphones are great. The supporting app needs workThe headphones are awesome. The quality of sound exceeded my expectations. Jabra Sound+ app is the only downside side to the use use of the headphones. The app is not always accessible during use. Some updates to app would help make them the best in the market (in my opinion).

PC bluetooth connectivity issues (update: 50% success rate)As others have noted, pairing this headset with a PC is hit or miss based on your bluetooth adapter (or, more likely, its chipset / driver). For me it was a miss. It connects and appears as two devices in the Windows 10 bluetooth interface but they both appear as “other devices” rather than audio devices and no amount of finagling can make them pass audio. I will update if I can resolve this, or if a future headphone firmware / bluetooth driver update resolves it for me.I live in the PNW and bought these due to their rated water resistance. I am mostly a pedestrian / transit commuter and it rains here often and unpredictably for much of the year. As such, these were basically my only option in this class (higher end ANC bluetooth headphones with water resistance).The Sony or Bose standard options are likely better in many regards, but I’ll be darned if I’m going to buy them only to have them break in a downpour, or worse, to always be leaving them at home out of fear.I really do like nearly everything about these so far, but the PC support issue is borderline inexcusable in a product of this class. Especially because Jabra obfuscates this fact, failing to mention this caveat on their product pages. My only confirmation that Jabra is even aware of this issue and has committed to *not* supporting general PC use is based on a Jabra official account Reddit post, of all places. At the very least they should mention the caveat on their product pages and/or offer official support on one of their own dongles (they don’t, though users have apparently gotten it working).I’ll be using these with the 3.5mm jack on my PC and with bluetooth on my phone. And in the meantime, I’ll be eagerly watching to see if any other manufacturers adopt water resistance in the future.addenda:☙ Comfort is overall good, but the clamping force is a little bit high and caused me minor wear fatigue after a couple hours. Similar clamping force to the old Sennheiser HD 280 (iirc). Minor for me, but it may be terrible for truly large-headed people. On the other hand, they may “break in” a bit in the headband or the earcup.☙ Included software works fine. The EQ isn’t terribly sensitive (to my ear maybe a 1.5 or 2 dB swing either way) so feel free to crank it in whichever direction if you want to make a non-trivial difference.☙ The sound signature is pretty natural. It reminds me most of my Sony MDR-V700. Relatively flat frequency response with nothing conspicuously under or over-represented.☙ The physical controls are overall wonderful. However, the next-song shortcut is mapped to the volume up (top) button and the previous song to the volume down. This is somewhat counterintuitive to anyone used to reading “down” playlists in software (i.e. everyone).☙ These headphones are in the minority that has their cable (or in this case their 3.5mm jack) on the right ear rather than the left. Fine by me.Update:The headset pairs with the bluetooth adapter in my new-ish Acer laptop which uses an Intel wifi/bluetooth adapter. Increased to 4 stars. Will update review to 5 stars if bluetooth driver/headset firmware updates allow pairing with my main PC (but as of now I’m 1 for 2).

Great sound, great design and quality, But with deal breakers.Very good sound quality. Build quality is awesome, the design looks beautiful. However, I chose to return these.— Pros —[Sound]The sound is very good. For BT headphones, these have great sound stage and clarity which is what I value. The sound signature is very similar to my DT770 pro 80 ohms which I’m very happy about. I really don’t like sound signatures like Bose’s or Sony’s ones, Bose’s sound is not natural and Sony’s is too bass-heavy. These 85h are a bit treble emphasized and the base may not be powerful for most of the people. It might make your ear fatigue after a long time listening because it’s not something like Sennheiser’s warm sound signature. But I’ll take it, I like the sound.[Build quality and design]The build quality is first-class. The material they used is very good. And the design looks cool and handsome. It’s around 300 grams, so heavier than most of BT headphones. Overall, it’s a good looking, quality headphones.— Cons —[ANC]I really don’t think their ANC is working well. It only decreases a small amount of low frequency, and that’s it. The ANC performance is much worse than Sony or Bose. It’s even worse than a $60 ANC headphones I bought on Amazon. Just disappointed.[Volumn]The volume is not enough. Trust me I’m not someone loves to play the music to shake the car door. I need to set the volume to 70 – 85 % for the music, and 90% for movies. Yes, 85% is enough for me and I won’t go higher for the most of the time, but it makes you feel less confident about the volume and the battery may drain faster than other headphones.[App]The App is really buggy. That’s it.— (Personal) Deal breaker —[Comfort]I’m 5’9″ 155 lbs. I don’t think I have a big head. But the headband is not long enough for me, even I extended it all. If I try to place my ear at the center of the earcup, I need to push the headphone downward hard which makes a lot of pressure on the top of my head. After 20 mins wearing, the top of my headphone is in pain.BTW, The earcups are comfortable, not as well as Bose’s but they are fine.[No power off button]These headphones use a mechanism that enables to auto turn on and off when you rotate the hinge. So if the right earcup is facing forward, it will be turned off. And if the earcups are facing to each other which is like when you are wearing them, they will be turned on. This is smart. However, for me, I don’t want to leave these in the case when not using them. I have a headphone hanger and I used to hang my headphones to make them handy. When I hang these, earcups need to face to each other. For these headphones, I can’t turn it off in that way bc there’s no power button and it will be always on like that. Why can’t there be a power button…— verdict —I can’t keep these because of the above two deal-breakers. Those are very personal though. I can endure those three Cons because I love the sound and the design of these. What a pity, I think I have to keep looking for my next BT headphones.

Not comfortable, but I’m pickyI will say that these are lighter and more comfortable than most. When I experienced some issues with the new Apple Ipod Pro, I ordered these. The over the head is just too bulky to me and they didn’t fit right over my ears. I have average sized ears, lol. I’m sure these are perfect for people used to wearing headgear, it just wasn’t for me. I’m not a gamer, I use these for business all day.

Probably the best $200 NC headphonesI moved to these from a Sennheiser HD450BT. My issues there can be found in it’s own review. But, this ticked all the boxes for a better headset even at $50 (33%) more. This comes with a USB C cable, headphone cable, AND a plane adapter. Booyah.First, Noise cancelling is obvious and visible in the app. Speaking of the app, it’s amazing compared to Sennheiser. You can control noise cancelling, EQ, track your headset location, change call noise background (big gripe with the other set). Not to mention the white and nature noise options in app.Audio quality is about as good, I’m not an expert. I think there are some EQ changes I can make to really help this set shine though. it has various ways to customize and is relatively useful.The physical controls are probably the weakest as they are split between sides, with voice assistant on the left and all others on the right side. The volume/play/pause/skip is on the side of the right earbud.Couple of neat things. First, it can be set up to scan your surroundings minute to minute, process that audio on your phone (app says no data is sent out), then modify noise cancelling to adjust. While typing this review there was a moment where it kicked in and I could not hear my keyboard at all! Slick. Also, this has a common feature for calls where it pipes in surrounding audio so you can be aware of alerts or how loud you are talking. But, this can be turned off in app and you can change the audio level in real time to better suit your ambient noise. Huge upgrade from the other set there.I think for me, where $200 was the line for a new set of decent BT over ear headphones with some noise cancelling, usb C charging, and decent controls, this set is the right pair. I’d need to go to $300-$380 to get the high end Bose set I also liked or a Sony set that is very well reviewed. I think I’ll keep this set for a bit.