Overview Plantronics BackBeat 100 - available-headset necklace with excellent sound

In Russia the company Plantronics is not very well known, but those who at least once used its products, rarely go to another manufacturer. This is what happened with me. Two and a half years ago the editors of readers are advised to book Plantronics BackBeat GO 2And began ...

Six months later I came to charts Plantronics BackBeat FitAnd since this is my sole and undisputed headset for all occasions. Why? Because she's not afraid to use that word, it is ideal in terms of ergonomics and absolutely neubivaemaya. Judge for yourself: 700 days of use at home, on the street and in the office, more than 250 cycles of operation in aggressive environment of sweaty men trenazhorki. Several times I was advancing on her, and she's as good as new. Only slightly degraded and the battery holds a charge for an hour or two less.

Cheap and fashionable

Arrived at this time Plantronics BackBeat 100 - a Bluetooth-headset from a different category, and in another embodiment. She is not positioned as a sports and costs just 3 900-4 000 depending on the store. Let's look at this thing carefully.

Currently fashionable form factor of the "necklace" is perhaps one of the most controversial decisions to which could think of gloomy engineering genius. Too controversial it all looks. On the one hand, such a design is ergonomic and anatomically correct. Objectively, it has several important advantages:

• Most of the weight of the device is concentrated in the headband and earphones and wires virtually weightless.
• The headband is made of soft, flexible rubber and lies on the neck so that it does not feel.
• on the neck placement allows without sacrificing comfort make the design more and more difficult, and it is to cram into it capacious battery for extending the operating time and the vibration motor to definitely not miss an incoming call or message.

Confusion is exactly this headband. How to make friends this very structure, for example, with a scarf? The control buttons are located on the inner side on the right side of the necklace. Just so I get to them, being in street clothes, will not work.

Not for sport

With fizuhoy things ambiguous. While you sit or quietly you go, it's okay. Gravity does its job, and the design is kept steadily on her neck. And that when you go to run? If the neck is wide, the headband to her a bit pressed and continues to sit on the ground, and if not - starts jumping up and down. I do not care that it weighs necklace without headphones themselves a little more than 20 grams. All the same, it bultyhanie felt, and this causes some discomfort.

Now imagine that you are in trenazhorke and do the exercises lying down, for example bench press from the chest. What happens with a headband? That's right, it will try to slip off the neck, because the rubber in it is very soft.

In short, Plantronics BackBeat 100 - this is not a sports headset. Claimed no protection against water, complete cover for smartphone - as well.

Conveniently

The device apparently was not created for extreme sports and honed for maximum comfort everywhere wear.

The total mass of Plantronics BackBeat 100 is 29.3 grams. A few minutes later wearing BackBeat 100 is really no longer be felt, you even forget that it is on you.

Design the most discreet and minimalistic. The manufacturer obviously did not want to make this headband conspicuous. By the way, consider it in black or dark clothes really hard, and this is a big plus.

If you remove the headphones from your ears and leave freely hanging on his chest, they immediately "stick together" due to located within them magnets.

Very smart solution that really makes the interaction with the headset nicer.

The street is already established warm weather, so check the wiring on the cold resistance and a tendency to "odubleniyu" failed. It should be noted that although the cables and thin, their connection with the headband further thickened reinforced rubber tubes, preventing kinks.

call management, music and volume by three buttons on the inside of the headband. The buttons are quite large and easily detected blindly. With this no problems.

Vibration motor, certainly helps not to miss calls and messages when the headphones are not in the ears.

The kit Plantronics BackBeat 100 includes three pairs of plugs of different sizes and a short USB-cable for charging the device.

Headphones according to the manufacturer fairly fulfill 8 hours in a music mode, with a 100% and up to complete discharge of the battery. Check the ability to sleep was not possible for obvious reasons mode two months to live, but it is not as important parameter to sharpen the focus on it.

Plantronics BackBeat 100 is able to pair with two devices at the same time, and it is very convenient. For example, you are watching a video on a laptop or tablet, when he receives a call on a smartphone. The headset will automatically switch to the mobile and allow to answer the call immediately.

Sound

Co-channel design with proper selection of gags size ensures a sufficient level of insulation, to enjoy music, cut off from the permanent noise of the big city. Often only look around, especially when close to transport.

For its size emitters BackBeat 100 give great bass. In general, the dynamics of this headset works at the level of any other good in-ear monitor and, last but not least, fine tuned "out of the box", ie do not require twisting the equalizer, of course, if you have no particular preference for sound.

With Noise Canceling all excellent. The headset cut party noises and allows the other party to hear speech clearly, even if you're on the street next to a busy road.

conclusion

Plantronics BackBeat 100 - this is definitely one of the best set-necklaces in its price category. How to behave in the device in the future? Long or she will live? Only time will tell. Layfhaker sure to write about it in the next test Plantronics product. However, based on previous experience, I am inclined to trust this manufacturer.

In the end, it did Plantronics headset for astronautsWhere in 1969, man first set foot on the lunar surface. The fact is, of course, has nothing to do with today's products, but the company, 56 years dedicated to the design and creation of audio, simply has no right to make mistakes. It's true?

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