JBL Everest Elite 700 Platinum Edition review: Tune into style

Critic Rating4/5

User Rating4/5

Top Features

*Excellent sound
*Good design
*Noise cancelation with app support

What happens when an iconic audio electronics company completes 70 years? They introduce an anniversary edition of noise cancelling wireless headphones called the JBL Everest Elite 700 Platinum Edition. While these are yet to come to India, we got our hands on the headphones (exclusively) to know more about them, first hand.

Right out of the box we did find these (wireless) noise cancelling headphones to be quite modern. The JBL Everest Elite 700 Platinum Edition is not your usual noise cancelling headphones with simple ear cups connected to the headband. These are designed for extreme comfort with the ear cups sitting on a swinging arm on the headband for the best ear and around the ear flexibility.

The audio drivers have good cushioning around them, however once worn they were a bit firm for our liking. They are also slightly heavy. That said, however, this is the case with all headphones that are wireless. Since wireless headphones carry the additional weight of a battery, lots of buttons et al, ultimately the burden falls on the wearers head and neck.Setting up and connecting these bad boys to your Android or iOS smartphone is child's play. Charge the JBL Everest Elite 700 Platinum Edition headphones with the help of the supplied charging cable, power up the headphones, turn on Bluetooth on the smartphone and simply connect.

As soon as we connected them to play some of our favourite HD quality tunes, the JBL Everest Elite 700 Platinum Edition just blew us away. They are mind numbingly loud, at the same time filled with bass and clarity one expects from a high-end noise cancelling headphone. JBL has also added a microphone to the mix so that the users can take voice calls wirelessly. The clarity here is superb, as well.

Active noise cancellation works well, which can be managed with the dedicated NC button on the right end of the head band. These can be managed via the JBL headphones app, which also manages the headphones equaliser and calibration settings. This app also shows the amount of battery left in the headphones.

We could manage volume, power and other functions of the headphone with the easy to reach buttons on the head band. The battery charged quickly and we squeezed almost 14 hours of playback time from the JBL Everest Elite 700 Platinum Edition. In case the user runs out of battery juice, these headphones do support auxiliary cable so that one can enjoy seamless music or take calls with it.

A nice cloth case comes in the box, in which the users can carry the headphones as well as the supplied cables. This is nice but not as nice as the hard box that comes with the Bose Quite comfort.

The JBL Everest Elite 700 Platinum Edition headphones, carries a USD price tag of $299 and is expected to come to India very soon. If they launch these around the same price category (roughly Rs 19,000 to 21,000) these would be a force to reckon with in the segment.

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