Top positive review
Excellent battery, build quality & sound for the price.
By PlantBasedStarChild on Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2017
I did not know how these would sound considering the price of them were low, but I have got to say I was totally surprised by there performance. Now take in mind I am NOT a audiophile type of person, so I'm not an ear purest, so okay is good enough for me as long as they are built well and last. These ear phones batteries last so long that I can't believe how long they last. I use them 10 to 12 hours per day sometimes and they never seem to ever run out of power. I hook them up of course that night if I used them 10 to 12 hours or so playing video games or watching YouTube videos or movies or TV shows. To me they sound awesome, but again I'm by no means an audiophile or a ear purest like some maybe, good enough is good enough for me. These have very clear sound for listening to my tech podcast, movies, TV shows and music, but do not expect huge deep base because they will totally not satisfy in the deep base area, they do have some base and once again it sounds good for a person like me with a regular sound ear, but for an audiophile this base will totally let your ear down, but for us regular ear types, this is more then good enough for our just okay ears. The build quality to me is excellent. The ear pads that go over /on the ears sort of hurt a little because they are much to small, they should be a lot bigger so they go over the ear instead they tend to sit on top of the outside of the sides of the ear which tend to hurt a little and not a lot but a little and take in mind that I even have really small ears and a really small head, so for me this should not be a problem, but I can deal with it considering how I like mostly everything else about these ear phones. The weird gap space at the top sides look not normal, so instead of the band going straight up tightly around your head it instead is rounded in a weird way and goes round out around your head which sort of make them look weird on your head which kind of stops you from wearing them in public because you look kind of weird that they don't hug your head tight instead they have this weird wide rounded shape around the top sides of your head and it should be going straight up around your head to look normal, so wearing these at the gym or out in public I tend not to do, but around the house or office is just fine. Now the connector that you use to put the charging cable in is weirdly mounted in a weird position which makes you have to turn the cable on a slant type of way and wiggle it slightly to get it in the connection, because the connection seems to be offset and slanted, so in order to get it in to the connection you have to slant it and wiggle the cable in order to get it into the charge connection. The case that came with it is excellent and seems to be really good quality with an excellent good quality zipper which these days is very hard to find, so great case to carry the ear phones. Also I have purchase many many other bluetooth ear phones and usually all those other ear phones, when you leave the room while listening to the ear phones in bluetooth mode those other ear phones would start to get static and cut the connection and you could not listen to what you were listening to, but with these ear phones I can walk all around my whole entire house and they never drop the signal, they stay clear and the bluetooth signal seems to go really far and my devices are stored in back of my house, but these earphones transmit the bluetooth signal all the way to the front of my home which is very very rare at least in my eyes for bluetooth ear phones, so to me that alone is a really really awesome pro to using these earphones because I can be cleaning the whole entire house and these ear phones will never break there connection no matter where I go around my home, so the best bluetooth signal that I have ever saw on a pair of bluetooth ear phones and I am extremely happy about that. I read in other reviews that the controls like the volume, play, pause, next track and reverse track buttons did not work on Android and I have to say for me all the controls worked perfectly, but I do have the latest android version because I have a Nexus 5x from google project fi and I'm on Android Nougat 7.1.2 and every button control on these ear phones work for my phone, so what others are saying I have not experienced at all. The buttons even work with Amazon Music and I love it. I just purchased an android tablet and when it comes in the mail I will test these ear phones on this tablet and I will test the ear phone buttons on that after it arrives and I will update this review with what happened and if it worked or not and that tablet does not have the latest android operating system on it, so this is going to be cool to test it on. So people to me these ear phones are a total buy and they are awesome, so go and pick you up a pair.
Top critical review
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No sir. Not at all.
By Real Raleigh Reviewer on Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2017
I'm testing out many, many headsets to find the best of the best at any price range - best value. I spend so much time listening to music every day that it's worth it to me to whittle down a few very very good ones. I love bass, but I have to have clear, separated, articulate mids and highs as well - and good call handling and voice quality - and strong bluetooth connections that don't stutter outdoors - and good build quality - and so on - and I'm finding that while higher-end headsets I've tested are all generally very good to excellent (Bluedio Victory, Plantronics BackBeat Pro 2, Sennheiser HD1, Sony MDR1000X, Bose QC35, Bang & Olufsen H9, Bowers & Wilkins P7), the <$100 price range is very much a toss-up. I have a pair of $18 basic headphones here: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JTYWJSI/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 that outperform a number I listened to in the $40 to $90 range. Lightweight and cheap-feeling to be certain, but downright decent sounding. So I'm agnostic to the price. I expect cheaper ones to be cheaper built, but obviously, they can still sound good or very good. So, here's this Photive - which seems to have sold quite a few - but dear me, what a belly flop. The bass is dismal, and I do mean dismal. No need to nitpick the frequency at which it gives up trying... it's "all bass". It sounds like it can get down around 50 or 60hz but you have to turn them way up and squint a bit to make it out. Everything under 150Hz is pretty well useless. Quiet and flaccid. The sound is completely neutered. Not "flat", not "balanced and controlled' like folks usually say about other headphones that aren't really bass-forward. This is "no bass". They designed these and said: battery, check. Call handling, check. Bluetooth, check. Treble, check. Midranges, check. Bass... no, no need. I don't think people who buy headphones really want to hear bass. Let's call it a day and go home. By way of comparably-priced units, I found the Cowin E7 (and equivalent whitelabeled units) to be a pleasant surprise, very enjoyable listening. As I mentioned, that brandless cheap headset identified above clearly has better full-range sound performance than these. The Bohm B-66 with ANC turned off also makes some downright decent sound, although they are quite a bit less comfortable than these Photive headphones. Another big win I'm just now testing is the "Elegiant over ear wireless headset" https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B06XY1J264/ which is odd - given that the brand on the box is "NUBWO", but, whatever - these cost a few bucks less and have WILDLY superior sound to this Photive headset. I mean, embarrassingly better. I'm not being facetious that reviewing call quality, battery life, connection quality is irrelevant when a pair of headphones sounds this bad. Good-or-better sound is the cover charge that gets it in the door; then we explore it a bit more and pick apart what else it can do. This one just doesn't make it in the door. As for many positive reviews... not sure there. I wouldn't use these even if they were given to me for free. Perhaps folks are more paid directed marketing campaigners, or just don't have any other point of reference. That's about all I can fathom. These are pretty easily among the 2 or 3 worst-sounding bluetooth headphones I've ever tried.
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