Jabra Elite Active 65t Review: Great. Not Perfect.

This is the Jabra elite active 65t. A terrible name, but completely wireless earbuds with great sound quality. But how does it hold up to its competition? You’d be pretty surprised. Great sound quality doesn’t automatically make these the best earbuds. Let’s get
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Straight out of the box you have the earbuds, the charging case for the earbuds, some different changeable ear tips, and a short micro usb charging cable. The earbuds are a decent size and don’t stand out too much. The elite active 65t has a 20 dollar premium over the standard 65t model because it comes with water resistance. That’s probably why it also comes in blue. For “water” resistance. Each earbud has a button. They have 5 hours of battery life when listening to music and an additional 10 in the charable case. Now lets talk about what you really want to hear, how these sound. I like the sound quality. The bass is deep, the mids aren’t muddy. I’m no audiophile by any means, but for my casual listening ears they sound absolutely fantastic and, unlike some other truly wireless earbuds, I found myself adjusting these very little once in my ear. They fit snuggly and isolate your music from the world and despite me wiggling my head around and head banging around like I’m too into some heavy metal music, the Jabra elite active 65t don’t fall out. The Jabra Sound+ companion app works with the earbuds decently. It provides some standard stuff like EQ changes, and access to their hearthrough feature. Which uses the Jabra elite active 65t’s mics to mimic outside noise and let you hear them more clearly. You can easily turn this on and off by double pressing the right earbud when connected to a smartphone. For some reason, I can’t use that feature on my macbook. It just doesn’t work.

Now onto the negatives, first off, let me say that the earbuds are great. They are amazing. BUT. The case holding them? Are utter garbage. Out of the only three truly wireless earbuds I’ve tried, this is the only one with a case that just can’t hold onto the earbuds. Like, flip the case upside down, and the earbuds just fall out. This makes these Jabra elite active 65t something you don’t want to take out if you’re active, because the chances of them falling out of the case and onto the ground is much higher. The case is decently small, that’s fine, but it’s also kind of hard to open, because of how its designed, and you can really only open it with one hand a very specific way. Otherwise, both hands are required. So, again, difficult operation if you’re in the middle of something. Next, the hearthrough feature at least on the active 65t, is not so great. External noise that people would want to hear, like voices, barely sound clearer, but noises no one wants to hear like a ceiling fan, or road noises, are much louder, making the hearthrough feature of these earbuds, practically useless.Lastly, this might just be a me problem, but after wearing them for around 30 minutes, my right ear starts hurting with these in. It doesn’t help that the right earbud controls play pause for music. Which means I’m pushing the earbud against my ear, causing more pain, to pause and play music. Great. Music is painful It also doesn’t help that the only way you can use one at a time, is by using the right one. You can’t use the left one along. So it’s either use the right one or both of them, guaranteeing me ear pain.

They have water resistance, and they form a nice seal in your ear. It’s just, the case for them sucks, they might hurt your ears if you have ears like mine, and the hearthrough feature doesn’t work well on these. But what do I think? They’re appealing to the right audience. These are a good earbuds choice for the gym, great sound, to drown out the people on weights grunting. Sound isolation to drown out the people on weights grunting, and sits in your ear snuggly to help you enjoy your music instead of the people on the weights grunting. If you’re looking for a pair of wireless earbuds for sport, these might be it. If you’re looking for something for your everyday use? These aren’t it.

[harryhasbeard]

Not sure who opens up any true wireless earbuds upside-down 🙃

[keyonastring]

I appreciate your honest and critical review. Thanks to this review I placed an order for them so I dont have to hear the guys on the weights grunting.

[eddieyakin]

Only review that’s actually thorough and mentions the bad of these headphones.

[samulai]

You're not yelling at me and you have good, valid points. You're the first out of 10 who actually answered what I particularly was looking for :D

[Anmaghiz]

This is the kind of review that I was looking for. Straightforward. I considered these Jabras, but first I want to try the Galaxy buds, because they are apparently light and comfortable for everyday use.

[ranas]

Just bought them and out of the box had 80% battery went str8 to gym sound quality is very good bass is amazing as long as it’s all the way up they look great on overall I like them a lot

[runthecamera]

0:50-0:55 WHAT? Maybe you meant that as humor, not sure. Caressing the bud isn't a function of these buds and does nothing. I guess caressing the bud is simply being kind and gentle as if you were petting a kitty to get it to purr.

[dhuffu]

Uh they both have water resistance just different levels

[psirianni]

I dropped these by accident in a snow bank by my driveway.u daughter found them a week later once the snow melted and they still work. Amazing ! Case protects them and the battery was still full

[nylethecrocodilee]

Why u wanna open ur earbuds with one hand?

[RisingStarLA]

The left earbud ended up having being non-functional after 2 months used. I’m glad that they gave me a Warranty which I’m able to get it fixed.

[bodhisattva]

So... if you're careless... it makes the earphones... not perfect?

[kaseybanks]

Ong thanks I was coming here to find out why the left ear bud didn’t work when I wanted to listen to jus one thank u❤❤❤❤

[harshit]

I had these for 3 years and they are still good

[shameer]

So wait the world has gone to so lazy that using two hands is an issue?

[jesusfreakx]

I use these every day. And have for over a year. The block out weed eating traffic noise. Loud construction. Metal work in the shop. They are my every day carry. I use the hear through at work to talk to customer and coworkers. Its sometimes muffled but in a close range its perfect. If you size up on the cushions the ear pain goes away. Or it did for me

[EnduroStrokeRider]

This review is incomplete! What about calls? How the microphone works? Is it OK for audio conferencing? Please add!

[DeepenWadhwa]

I just got these and have been using them for 2 days now. Everything that's been said about these in the video is spot on! Great review!

My favourite feature? Top of the line sound quality and good for working out (good fit and sweat resistance). This one checks those boxes perfectly and is, as a result, gonna be my daily driver for a year or 2. The case could've been better but that's a minor nitpick for me. No problem when the lid is closed and when you do open it, don't keeo it upside down, simple. The "pain in the right ear" thing is also true but once you use these for a day or 2, you'll learn how to adjust the fit properly and most of that pain will go away.

[shaf]

Sadly there are knock off and people bought them and review it badly, luckily the online warranty help to differentiate the original from the knock off. In 2020 it still my favourite beside the Sennheiser momentum

[alejandroi.rodriguez]

All the problems will be resolved in a few weeks whith the new versión, the 75T.
Smaller, with magnetic case, more battery and Type C👌