This combination is cheaper than buying these products separately.
Thanks to the ear hooks, the earbuds will stay firmly put in your ears.
The earbuds are sweat resistant.
The in-ear design ensures that you hear less ambient noise.
Description
With this set, you can listen to hours and hours of music during your training sessions. The Bose SoundSport Wireless Bluetooth earbuds have ear hooks that allow you to move freely without cables getting in the way. The sweat and weather-resistant design means you're able to use them for intensive training sessions or in the rain. You can listen to 6 hours of music before the battery needs
to be charged. The Charging Case gives the earbuds an added 18 hours of battery life. A short, 15-minute charging session gives you an extra hour of listening. The earbuds are fully charged in only 2 hours. When you're done listening, you can take the earbuds with you in the included bag.
With this set, you can listen to hours and hours of music during your training sessions. The Bose SoundSport Wireless Bluetooth earbuds have ear hooks that allow you to move freely without cables getting in the way. The sweat and weather-resistant design means you're able to use them for intensive training sessions or in the rain. You can listen to 6 hours of music before the battery needs
to be charged. The Charging Case gives the earbuds an added 18 hours of battery life. A short, 15-minute charging session gives you an extra hour of listening. The earbuds are fully charged in only 2 hours. When you're done listening, you can take the earbuds with you in the included bag.
After a week or so already asked to review these, I deliberately postponed it because I first wanted to gain more experience with my ears.
To give my first impressions, the earphones themselves are well finished. You can clearly feel the on and off button. Placing it in your ear is a bit confusing at first, but once you know how it goes, this is no longer an issue. The fit to my ears is fine, if I put them on I can go on for an hour without having to push them.
The only thing I find questionable is the quality of the cable between the two parts, I think this is a bit too stiff to remain flexible over time, and too brittle to be really sturdy.
The sound itself is fine, until before I always had the EX series from Sony where I bought sets of +/- 80 euros but always wired. I was always pleased with the sound of this one. The Bose here isn't doing too bad either. The lows are not very tight and the highs are spread out quite a bit but are not sharp. If I had to give a score out of 10, it would be a 6.5. Quite a bit of equalizing is also applied to the sound and sometimes things go completely wrong, because with certain songs it consistently goes completely wrong, while that same track, from the same source with other headphones, works well.
The wind noise, which is often mentioned in the reviews here, is present, but does not disturb me. If you're at 60% of the volume you don't even hear anything from the traffic around, so it's not that bad.
I mainly use the earphones when walking with the dogs, cycling on speedelec (at 40 km/h along the canal and the wind is neither disturbing nor dominant. Shell headphones are much more annoying.) and when stepping (also with the dog) .
I've also worn them in the car now and then to listen to music and they work fine there too.
Also worn while cleaning in the house, but then you have to take the phone with you, because as soon as you are in another room, you will lose the sound. In my workspace that is 14m wide you can stay in the room and despite the many machines on motive power, the connection remains stable, it is really the walls that do it.
The remote control is especially useful for taking a break while on the road if you want to hear something from the outside world or say something to someone you meet.
What you do have to learn to accept is the view you have with it on the street. The caps really stick out of your ears and people look not once, not twice, but three times. Cyclists even turn their heads to effectively stare at you again as if you were a Black Mirror creation.
Cars slow down and cans roll along. So if you don't want to stand out, it's best to buy something else.
I tested the earphones with a Nokia 8 (pairs with NFC), a Lumia 830 (also with NFC), a Vaio laptop in my workshop (also NFC) and a Bluetooth transmitter to the television without NFC, so you can pair them manually.
The Nokia 8 also got the Bose Connect app installed, which also did a firmware update of the headset, went fine and without many worries. Watch out for people without much data in their mobile subscription, the app also downloads the firmware via mobile data without questions. Also, on my Nokia 8 main screen, I also see the headset battery percentage.
The battery easily reaches its specified time for me. When turned on, a voice says the percentage of battery and I easily get the hours indicated by Bose. I bought the set with the charging case, you plug it in and it charges while.
The only thing you can't use these earphones for is in combination with hearing protection, they are too big to fit in the headphones, so for my workshop I'll be limited to small in-ears with a cord for the time being. You cannot use them with hearing protectors when pruning and sawing in the garden. A hat in the cold does work, it just goes on, even if you have two knots under the hat ;)
Would I buy them again? Yes! I debated for a long time which one it was going to be and in this price range, even if I went $100 higher, I'd pick this one again. Sound is great for on the go, autonomy is very good and the carrying case with charging function actually means that you can go away for a long time without more. The Bose app is unnecessary apart from the firmware update, connecting is easy and as soon as you switch on a source with BT, the headset reports connection within 3 seconds. I also have a Sony MDR-1RBT as a comparison, but it takes a lot longer, if it automatically picks up the connection, you can be happy.
Sources tested are Spotify app, music from NAS and music locally from phone via VLC app. Radio 1 and Topradio are also listened to via internet radio.
Dieter gevaert
8 March 2018
Automatically translated from Dutch
8,8/10
Ideal headset
Can be connected to multiple devices at the same time
Good sound
Easy operation
cord a little short
This headset is good and in terms of sound it is one of the best.
What I find very easy is the cord (with control panel). This way you can also hang it over your shoulders when you're not using it. Only thing is that the cord is a bit on the short side. I often wear the headset on the bike and when I look back you sometimes want to pull out an earpiece because of the short cord. Furthermore, the headset stays in your ears well.
I think the best feature is that you can connect the headset to multiple devices at the same time. For example, I can listen to music on my phone at work and when my work phone rings, the headset switches automatically. Works very nicely.