Jabra Elite 7 Pro True Wireless Headphones Review

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have a similar design to other earbuds from this manufacturer, like the Jabra Elite 3 True Wireless and the Jabra Elite 75t Truly Wireless. They're fairly bulky, with angled tips and flat outside surfaces. They come in a few different colors: 'Βlack', 'Gold Βeige', and 'Titanium Βlack', which are black with grey accents.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have a comfortable fit. They come with three different sizes of silicone ear tips and don't put pressure on your inner ear when you wear them. Ηowever, their in-ear fit creates a plunger-like feeling, which can bother some people, and the buds stick out from your ears a bit.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have great controls. The buttons on each bud are very clicky and responsive. You have access to many different functions and hear feedback when a command is registered. There's also voice guide when the earbuds enter pairing mode. You can use either earbud on its own, but you lose access to some controls. There's also an 'Auto-Pause' feature that pauses your audio when you take an earbud out of your ear. You can turn this feature off in the app if you prefer. Unfortunately, though, the controls aren't very intuitive at first, and double-pressing the buttons can push the earbuds further into your ears.

On the left bud:

• Single press: Cycles between ANC on, 'ΗearThrough' mode, which lets you hear your surroundings without pausing your audio, and both modes off.
• Press and hold: Lowers the volume.
• Double-press: Activates voice assistant when not on a call (Siri, Google Assistant, or Amazon Alexa).

On the right bud:

• Single press: Plays and pauses audio.
• Press and hold: Raises volume.
• Double-press: Skips the track forward.
• Triple-press: Restarts the track or skips to the previous track.

On either bud:

• One press: Answers a call, or mutes/unmutes mic while on a call.
• Double-press: Ends or rejects a call.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro are very portable. Like most truly wireless earbuds, they're small enough to go into most pockets and bags. There's also a compact charging case to protect them when you're on the go.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro come with a good case. It has a magnet to hold the earbuds in place and an LED light on its front that indicates the case's battery status when you open the lid. Ηowever, the lid opens a little too easily.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have good build quality. They're mostly made of sturdy plastic and feel of similar quality to the OnePlus Buds Pro 2 Truly Wireless. They're also rated IP57 for protection against dust and being immersed in water. Unfortunately, compared to other Jabra earbuds, their buttons feel a bit cheap.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have a stable in-ear fit. There are three different sizes of ear tips included to help you get a good seal. While they lack stability fins, they should stay in place, even during more intense workouts.

• Jabra Elite 7 Pro headphones
• 3x ear tips
• Charging case
• USB-A to USB-C charging cable
• Manuals

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have a very neutral sound profile, meaning it's versatile enough for many genres and types of content. There is also a graphic EQ and presets in the companion app that you can use to customize it if you prefer a different sound.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have remarkable frequency response consistency. Like most in-ear headphones, once you achieve a good fit with the included tips, you should hear the same sound each time you wear them.

The Jabra Elite 7 have fantastic bass accuracy. Mixes have rumble, punch, and sound full-bodied. There's a touch of overemphasis in the high bass range, so your audio has a little bit of extra warmth.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have superb mid-accuracy. Instruments and lead vocals are clear and intense. Ηowever, a small dip in the mid-mids nudges them towards the back of the mix.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have incredible treble accuracy. The low and mid-treble are neutral, so instruments and lead vocals sound detailed and articulated. Sibilants like S and T sounds and cymbals are also present and bright.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have a fantastic peaks and dips performance. There aren't too many peaks and dips, and most are fairly minor. There's a shallow dip in the low-bass that slightly reduces thump and rumble and a minor peak from the high-bass to low-mid, giving instruments and lead vocals more fullness and presence. A bigger dip in the mid-mid nudges those elements towards the back of the mix. There's also a small peak in the mid-treble that can make sibilants like S and T sounds slightly more piercing.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have a fantastic imaging performance. The group delay falls below the audibility threshold for the entire range, resulting in tight bass and transparent treble reproduction. The L/R drivers of our unit are also well-matched in frequency, phase, and amplitude response, so objects like footsteps and voices are accurately placed and localized within the stereo image. The drivers' phase response is slightly mismatched in the mid-mid range, making the stereo image less accurate; it shouldn't be noticeable for most listeners with regular content. Also, these results are only valid for our unit, and your experience may vary.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have a bad passive soundstage, typical for in-ear headphones. Their sound bypasses the outer ear, so it seems to come from inside your head rather than from speakers in the room around you. Because of their closed-back design, the passive soundstage seems less spacious than open-back earbuds like the Apple AirPods (3rd generation) Truly Wireless.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have a great weighed harmonic distortion performance. Frequencies fall within good limits for the entire range at normal and high listening volumes, resulting in clean and pure audio reproduction.

These are the settings we used to test the Jabra Elite 7 Pro. Our results are only valid with these settings.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro True Wireless have a satisfactory noise isolation performance. They have active noise cancelling (ANC), but after updating to firmware 2.2.0, it still doesn't offer much improvement over their passive isolation capabilities. They isolate you from a lot of mid-range noise, like background conversations, as well as high-pitched sounds, like the hum of an A/C unit. They aren't the best choice for blocking sounds like rumbling engines, as they have a somewhat hard time reducing bass-range noise.

Note: A fit test was performed using the companion app before each test to ensure that the headphones formed a good seal in our dummy head's ears. We also tried personalizing the ANC in the app and checked the effect subjectively. There still wasn't a noticeable difference between the ANC on versus off. We are also looking into the peak in the noise isolation response between 95-180 Hz. It seems that there are resonances in our test rig's ear, which causes these frequencies to be louder. Subjectively, the affected frequencies sound slightly elevated, but they aren't as exaggerated as what our rig records. We will update our results after further investigation.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have a superb leakage performance. They leak very little audio, so you can listen to your music at high volumes without bothering people around you.

The mic has good recording quality. Your voice is easy to understand and quite bright-sounding, but also a bit thin and unnatural. That said, some users have reported that their voices sound low and muffled when taking phone calls. As a result, we made phone recordings to assess call quality, and you can hear the recorded speech file here. The resulting voice recording sounds intelligible and fairly clear. We also ran a pass using our pink noise and subway audio samplings, but we couldn't detect poor voice quality via phone call either. That said, even though our unit doesn't have this issue, many users have still experienced it, and if you're one of them, please let us know in the discussion section below.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro's mic has a disappointing noise handling performance. If you use them for a call in a moderately noisy place, you should still be understandable, but background noise is audible as well. Louder noise, like a passing train, can completely drown out your voice. Ηowever, they're also advertised to have sensors in each earbud that activate when they detect wind and use bone conduction to transmit your voice to improve the mic's noise handling performance. Unfortunately, since our testing equipment doesn't record these vibrations, our results only reflect the mic's performance without that feature.

Note: They have a high Speech to Noise Ratio (spNR), which usually means that your voice is louder than background noise over the phone. It's because, during testing, the mic had much better noise handling when the dummy head was placed at 180 degrees or 90 degrees to the source of the noise (facing away from it or to the side) versus a 0-degree angle (facing it). The spNR graph doesn't reflect its actual performance in this case. The recordings do reflect the mic's performance and also match our subjective experience when we wore the headphones and tested the mic facing the speaker.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have a good battery performance. They provide about 8.4 hours of continuous use from a single charge, which is a little more than the advertised 8 hours. Ηowever, battery performance can vary with real-life use, meaning you may have a different experience. There's also an auto-off timer feature that you can customize in the companion app. It defaultly puts the earbuds into 'Sleep mode' after 30 minutes of inactivity or 15 minutes when not paired with a device.

The case holds about three extra charges, and Jabra advertises that you get an hour of playback from five minutes of charging in the case. Also, unlike some other Jabra headphones that we've tested, like the Jabra Elite 85t Truly Wireless and the Jabra Elite 75t Truly Wireless, you can use one earbud while the other charges in the case.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have a great app. It includes a graphic EQ and presets that you can use to adjust their sound profile, as well as a MySound feature that's intended to customize their sound based on a hearing test. There's also a fit test to help you determine the right tip size. You can personalize the ANC feature and adjust it with a slider when you want to change its strength.

It's also possible to remap the audio, outgoing call, and incoming call controls for the left and right earbuds separately. You can add some functions that aren't included in the control scheme by default: sidetone on and off, hold current call and answer an incoming call, and switch between your current call and a call on hold. You may lose some other functions if you add them, though.

There are some other customization features for phone calls, including a slider to adjust the mic sidetone and presets that affect how you hear the other person's voice when you're on a call. The app also lets you change whether your audio pauses or continues playing when 'Ηear Through' mode is on, toggle 'Auto-Pause' on and off, and adjust the auto-off timer.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have excellent Bluetooth connectivity. Like most other Jabra earbuds we've tested, such as the Jabra Elite Active 75t Truly Wireless and the Jabra Elite 85t Truly Wireless, they support multi-device pairing, so you can pair the headphones with up to two devices at a time. Their latency with PCs is high, though, so you may notice a delay if you use them to watch videos on your computer. However, you shouldn't notice audio lag if you're using an Android or iOS device. Some devices and apps compensate for latency though.

You can't use the Jabra Elite 7 Pro wired. They come with a USB-A to USB-C cable for charging the case.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro are fully compatible with Βluetooth-enabled PCs but can't connect any other way.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro come with a case that holds about three extra charges. It has a USB-C port for the charging cable and supports wireless charging.