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.

These buds 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. However, their in-ear fit creates a plunger-like feeling that can bother some people, and the buds stick out from your ears.

These buds have great controls. The buttons on each bud are very clicky and responsive. You can access many different functions and hear feedback when a command is registered. There's also a voice guide when the earbuds enter pairing mode. You can use either earbud independently, but you lose access to some controls. An 'Auto-Pause' feature also 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, the controls aren't intuitive, 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 the mic while on a call.
• Double-press: Ends or rejects a call.

Like most in-ears, the Jabra Elite 7 Pro are small, lightweight, and easy to take with you. They also come with a small carrying case to help protect the buds.

The carrying case is good. 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. However, the lid opens a little too easily.

These buds have a 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, their buttons feel a bit cheap compared to other Jabra earbuds.

These buds have a similarly stable fit as their sporty counterpart, the Jabra Elite 7 Active True Wireless. Three different sizes of ear tips are included to help you get a good seal. While they lack stability fins, they'll 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's also a graphic EQ and presets in the companion app that you can customize if you prefer a different sound.

These buds have remarkable frequency response consistency. Like most in-ear headphones, once you achieve a good fit with the included tips, you'll receive the same sound each time you wear them.

The bass accuracy is fantastic. Mixes have rumble, punch, and sound full-bodied. The high bass range has a touch of overemphasis, so your audio has some extra warmth.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro have superb mid-accuracy. Instruments and lead vocals are clear and intense. However, a small dip in the mid-mid nudges them toward the back of the mix. The brass and percussion are full-bodied and present in songs like Live and Let Die by Wings, but the vocals are a bit hollow throughout the track.

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.

These in-ears have fantastic peaks and dips performance. There aren't too many peaks and dips, and most are fairly minor, which means the headphones can control their sound profile well. A dip in the low-bass slightly reduces thump and rumble, while a dip in the mid-mid nudges vocals and instruments toward the back of the mix.

Jabra tends to have good quality control and imaging. This helps ensure that their products' drivers are well-matched and that objects like instruments are accurately placed in the stereo image. Imaging varies across units, though. Our unit's L/R drivers are well-matched when it comes to group delay as well as amplitude, frequency, and phase response. Even though there's a small peak in the phase response's mid-mid, it's not an issue with real-life content.

These buds 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.

These buds 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 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, and 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 difficulty reducing bass-range noise. If ANC is a priority, the Jabra Elite 10 True Wireless offer a better noise isolation performance.

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're also looking into the peak in the noise isolation response between 95-180Hz. 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 leakage performance is superb. They leak very little audio, so you can listen to your music at high volumes without bothering people around you.

The big selling point of these headphones is their MultiSensor Voice technology, which the manufacturer advertises to improve call quality. However, there have been user reports of poor call quality. We measure mic performance using our test PC, but we've also provided phone recordings to show the mic's performance on a different device. While we didn't encounter the issues described by users, if you've experienced problems with the mic, please let us know in the forums.

The mic has good recording quality. Your voice is easy to understand and quite bright-sounding but also 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 discussions.

The mic has a disappointing noise handling performance. If you use them for a call in a moderately noisy place, your voice is understandable, but background noise is also loud and audible. Louder noise, like a passing train, can also completely drown out your voice. However, the manufacturer also advertises these headphones as having 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, our testing equipment doesn't record these vibrations, so 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 reflect the mic's performance and match our subjective experience when we wore the headphones and tested the mic facing the speaker.

The Jabra Elite 7 Pro's battery performance is good. The manufacturer advertises them to last up to eight hours continuously, and we measured a little over that. However, battery performance varies depending on use. Luckily, their carrying case holds three additional charges, and you can get an hour of playback from your buds with five minutes of charge time. There's also an auto-off timer that you can customize via the companion app. By default, the buds enter 'Sleep Mode' after 30 minutes of inactivity or 15 minutes when not paired with a device.

The Jabra Sound+ app is great. 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 and adjust the ANC feature with a slider 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 a 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 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.

These buds have excellent Bluetooth connectivity. Like most other Jabra earbuds we've tested, like the Jabra Elite Active 75t Truly Wireless and the Jabra Elite 85t Truly Wireless, they support multi-device pairing so that you can pair the headphones with up to two devices at a time. Their latency with PCs is high, though, so you'll notice a delay if you use them to watch videos on your computer. However, you won't notice audio lag 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.

These in-ears are fully compatible with Βluetooth-enabled PCs but can't connect any other way.

These buds come with a case that holds about three extra charges. It has a USB-C port for the charging cable and supports wireless charging.