The earbuds have a small silicon loop allowing for a better fit in your ear. If you have ever tried running and having your music low so that you can hear around you, trust me, it’s not very motivating. You can have your music up at a level that you can jam to your music and noticeably hear your surroundings around you.
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This is a big plus when you are out running on the road so you can still hear traffic for added safety. As I wore them, while mowing the lawn, exercising and running, and having the volume at a modest level but not too low I could definitely hear my surroundings in different environments. However, keep in mind this is when the volume is at a moderate level and not blaring so loud you can’t hear yourself think.
I don’t know if it is the way the earbuds are designed or what it is, but they do allow for ambient noise to be heard. To decline the call you can just press and hold the same button for 2 seconds.Īs great as the sound that these headphones produce, one key benefit is that they still allow the user to hear your surroundings around you. To answer an incoming call you press the Call button, the Phone icon, on the right earbud. Anything past that and you start to loose the connection.
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Just keep in mind that as with many other Bluetooth headset the range on these headphones are around 33 feet or 10 meters. No conversations dropped or calls with static. I could hear callers with no problem and they could hear me just as well.
So if you like house music, EDM, hip-hop or any music that has accentuated bass then you will be completely satisfied using these headphones.Īside from the music audio, the phone call quality was just as good. You can really feel the deep bass with these earbuds which is something you don’t get with a lot of high end earbuds. I was actually impressed at the evidence of resonating bass in the earbuds when I place them deeper into my ear. The highs are crisp and clear without distortion and the lows and mids were apparent without any muffled tones thanks to their 13mm dynamic drivers. Now as far as sound for music goes, I found the BackBeat FIT to have great sound quality. I was quite pleased on how quickly and responsive the Power button was to turn on and off. To turn on these headphones, you just need to press the right ear Power button for what seems literally like less than 2 seconds and to turn them off you just press the Power button again for about 1 second. With the BackBeat FIT, the buttons are so responsive, yet not too touchy, that you won’t accidentally brush against it and activate a feature you didn’t mean to.
Some other Bluetooth headphones I have don’t respond so quickly so you have to actually press so hard on the buttons to function that you are pressing the headset straight into your ear which becomes uncomfortable and can cause discomfort in your ear when you do it often in your workout. I like the fact that when I press the Power button, or any of the other control buttons for that matter, the button works right away. I never found myself having to push down hard on any button to work. The BackBeat FIT buttons have just the right amount of response and pressure to operate. So basically there are no other buttons except for the ones mentioned and the great thing about them is that these buttons have multiple functions which keeps the FIT to a minimalist form. And since these headphones are AVRCP compliant, just below the Volume button is the button for the Play/Pause/Skip/and Previous to control your media device. On the left side earpiece the small raised button is for the Volume Up/Down. On the same right earpiece, just below the Power button, is the Answer/End button. The raised right ear button is for the Power. These raised bumps are tiny yet big enough and easy to operate and are very responsive to touch. The design of the BackBeat FIT is very minimal with virtually no protruding buttons except for a small raised “bump” located on each earpiece. The hooks are thin and didn’t feel like they were cutting into the top of my ears after wearing them for literally hours at a time. Because of the FIT’s low profile and minimized bulk, they sit very close to the wearer’s head and gives the wearer a modest outline around the ears. It is a behind the neck style headphone and has less bulk to it than its predecessor. In comparison to the BackBeat 903/906, the FIT appear to be an updated and more streamlined version of the 903/906. With these headphones being water resistant they help your level of exercise and activity go further. The BackBeat FIT from Plantronics are a colorful modified Bluetooth 3.0 A2DP version of the BackBeat 903/906 but geared more towards the active individual since they are made with a flexible P2i rubber coating to help protect it from heavy moisture like sweat or rain.