JBL Tour Pro+ TWS True Wireless Headphones Review

The JBL Tour Pro Plus have a plain and non-descript look. They're round with a silver brand logo on each earbud. There's also the word 'Tour' on the side of the bud. They only come in black.

The JBL Tour Pro TWS are comfortable. Like the JBL CLUB PRO+ TWS True Wireless, they don't put pressure on your ear. They also come with five sets of ear tips to help you get the best fit. However, the buds are bulky and stick out.

The JBL Tour Pro Plus have fair controls. To connect them via Bluetooth, you can touch either bud once and hold. There's an audible tone when pairing. With the right bud, you can tap once to play or pause audio, tap twice to skip the track forward, and tap three times to skip to the previous track. The left earbud allows you to turn ANC on, off, or access ambient mode, and there's an audible tone when switching between modes. A double-tap activates talkthough. You can also tap twice to answer or reject a call, hold to mute and unmute your microphone, or hold either bud to activate voice assistant. There's even a Silent Now feature you can access by holding both buds for five seconds that keeps the ANC on but turns off Bluetooth and music.

If you prefer, you can customize the controls using their companion app. However, you lose access to some controls if you're only using one earbud. Ambient Sound controls can also only be adjusted while you're wearing them. There's no audible feedback when you double or triple press either.

The JBL Tour Pro Plus have outstanding breathability. Thanks to their in-ear design, they don't really cover your outer ear. You shouldn't notice a temperature difference when you're wearing them, and you shouldn't sweat more than normal.

These headphones are incredibly portable. Like most truly wireless headphones, they have a small and lightweight design that should easily fit in most pockets or bags. Their carrying case is also fairly small.

The carrying case is good. It's plastic, and there's a magnet to hold the buds in place. There's an LED light near the charging port that lets you know its charging status and two LED lights inside the case for each bud. These two lights turn off a few seconds after opening the case.

Update 08/10/2021: Following reader feedback, information regarding the headphone's IP rating has been added. The score hasn't been changed, but the text has been updated.

The JBL Tour Pro Plus have a great build quality. They're mostly made of plastic but feel sturdy and solid. They come with stability fins and five different pairs of ear tips, but the ear tips seem potentially weaker than other parts of their design. The buds themselves are rated IPX5 for water resistance, but we don't currently test for that.

The JBL Tour Pro Plus have a stable fit. They come with a variety of differently-sized ear tips and have stability fins to stay put in your ears while you're moving.

• JBL Tour Pro Plus headphones
• 5x ear tips
• Stability fins
• Charging case
• USB-A to USB-C charging cable
• Manuals

The JBL Tour Pro Plus have a very neutral sound profile, making them suitable for lots of audio content. That said, if you want to customize their sound, their companion app offers a parametric EQ and presets.

These headphones have outstanding frequency response consistency. Like most in-ears, once you achieve an airtight seal, they should deliver audio very consistently each time you use them.

The JBL Tour Pro Plus have outstanding bass accuracy. They're a little underemphasized in the low-bass range, so your mixes lack a touch of thump and rumble. That said, the rest of the range is very flat and neutral, resulting in a warm bass.

The JBL Tour Pro Plus have great mid accuracy. There's some underemphasis in the low to mid-mid, so vocals and lead instruments are thinned out a bit and pushed to the back of the mix. The high-mid is very neutral, though, which helps their clarity and intensity.

These headphones have excellent treble accuracy. It's very slightly underemphasized, but it shouldn't be too noticeable. Vocals and lead instruments are present but lacking a touch of detail, while sibilants like cymbals are slightly dulled.

The JBL Tour Pro Plus have great peaks and dips performance. The slight peak in the low to mid-bass adds extra thump and rumble to your mixes, while a dip in the mid-mid pushes vocals and lead instruments to the back of the mix. Another peak in the high-mid can harshen vocals and lead instruments a bit. The uneven mid-treble can make sibilants like S and T sounds alternatingly dull and piercing.

The JBL Tour Pro Plus have fantastic imaging. Their weighted group delay falls below the audibility threshold, resulting in tight bass and transparent treble. The L/R drivers of our unit are also well-matched in phase, amplitude, and frequency. It's important for accurately placing and localizing objects like footsteps and instruments in the stereo image. However, these results are only valid for our unit, so your results may vary.

The JBL Tour Pro Plus have a terrible passive soundstage. To create a speaker-like soundstage, the outer ear has to be activated with sound. However, since they have an in-ear design, they bypass the outer ear altogether, resulting in sound being perceived as if it's coming from inside your head. Their closed-back design also means that their soundstage doesn't seem as spacious as headphones with an open-back enclosure.

The weighted harmonic distortion performance is great. The entire frequency range falls within good limits, which results in clean and pure audio reproduction.

These are the settings used to test the JBL Tour Pro Plus, and our results are only valid in this configuration.

The JBL Tour Pro Plus have good noise isolation. They have an active noise cancelling (ANC) system that does a fair job of cutting down the low rumbles of bus or plane engines. However, their passive noise isolation capabilities are slightly better than their ANC when it comes to the mid to treble range. That said, they can still block out office chatter and the high-pitched hum of an AC unit.

The JBL Tour Pro Plus' leakage performance is excellent. Leakage is mostly concentrated in the treble range, which sounds thin. However, if you like to listen to your audio at high volumes, people around you shouldn't be able to hear it.

The integrated mic has a sub-par recording quality. Your voice sounds full but muffled and unnatural.

The microphone has okay noise handling. It struggles to separate your voice from moderate background noise, so you may have some trouble being understood if you're calling from a busy street.

The JBL Tour Pro have an okay battery performance. Although they're advertised to have roughly six hours of continuous battery life, we measured just over four. However, battery performance can vary depending on usage, so your real-life experience may vary. They have roughly three additional charges in their carrying case and have an auto-off timer to help conserve battery life while not in use. You can also use one bud while the other one charges.

The JBL Headphones app is great. It has a parametric EQ and presets so that you can customize their sound to your liking. You can also remap the button layout to set volume controls or to adjust the layout of other controls. You can also set the auto-off timer or turn it off if you prefer, as well as turn on or off auto-play/pause when they're in your ear. The app also has an ear tip fit test to help you get the best possible fit.

The JBL Tour Pro Plus have fair Bluetooth connectivity. Unfortunately, they don't support multi-device or NFC pairing. Their latency is also high on PC, iOS, and Android, which could be disappointing if you like to stream video. However, some apps compensate for latency, so your real-life experience may vary.

These truly wireless headphones can't be used with a wired connection. They come with a USB-A to USB-C cable to charge their carrying case.

These truly wireless headphones can only connect to Bluetooth-enabled PCs.

These headphones come with a portable carrying case that charges via USB-C.