Hello!
So, after the last post about how I went to a remote location with a 4K camera and a speakerphone, more than six months have passed. And we even managed to get together in the office and scatter again - the second wave of covid began. By the way, I decided to take a test for Covid - and lo and behold, I have already been ill, apparently in a mild form, antibodies - 3.81.
By the second wave, my gadget fleet was replenished with a very pleasant audio device, which doesn't even take 2 hours to shoot a short review. It's about a headset with a microphone (my first headset in my life) - Jabra Evolve2 40.
Unpacking
The courier brought just such a box:
On the back side:
Autopsy:
Inside, my inner ecologist rejoices - there is no unnecessary waste paper in the form of instructions, tutorials and other junk. Only a lonely world guarantee, apparently due to the requirements of the legislation ...:
Ears in a nice neoprene case, the purpose of which is not clear to me - like not a traveling device ... From whom or what to hide this headset from, I still do not understand, write your thoughts in the comments:
But and all the instructions:
DJs should like it - an honest 180 degree turn: The
microphone tail flips up and down:
USB-A cable, although you could have taken USB-C, but on the working computer there is no such connector:
Cable with activity indicator:
The internal ecologist was delighted not in vain!
General view on the head:
Volume and answer control buttons in the middle, is friendly with poppy!
A separate button for activating and deactivating the microphone:
I opened the ear pads, inside there are huge speakers - I have the same size in the DT 1770:
I decided to go deeper (as I usually like), but I could only make out my left ear - everything is latched:
The same microphone on the base electronic-mechanical technology MEMS:
The sides that rub against each other during transportation are carefully pasted over with tape:
Yes, here they rub:
At the first connection, the ears begin to update to the latest version:
Also, the native software has a bunch of settings:
As a bonus, the ears connect perfectly to the iPhone using the Apple Camera Kit, which I use for a portable amplifier. But (nonsense) they cannot be used as a headset - only as headphones:
Results of two weeks of use
Design 5/5
Say what you like, but Jabra is deservedly a headliner in headsets and other video conferencing hardware.
Everything is very strict, ascetic, but at the same time functional and understandable. To be honest, the first time I pulled them out of the box, I did not notice a single button (I thought they were not there), then I found 3, then two more. Then it turned out that the swivel microphone is also functional.
Sound 5/5
This is why I started the whole review - the sound is just bombic. I don't know how they do it, but passive sound insulation works magically - when there is no sound - you hear everything that happens around, but when a conference is going on (sound is transmitted through the headset) - everything around seems to be muffled (although as such noise reduction is not declared - only passive). The interlocutor hears only me, all other sounds are cut off - magic.
Also, what I noted is an excellent built-in amplifier. I will say one thing for 2 weeks of active use, I never got my bundle for listening to music - FOSTEX RP50 + TOPPING NX4 DSD. I just blissed out the excellent detailed sound through the Deezer FLAC subscription, both from a laptop and from an iPhone. A strong point is detail, intelligibility, especially in the mid and high frequencies. The weak point is that there is mess on the bottom, complex drum parts are not their strong point (God, what am I talking about - this is a headset, not studio monitors!)))
Ergonomics 4/5
Ears sit freely, but sometimes they try to fall back on my head, especially if you often poke the flip-down microphone. Especially often they fly off with active fermentation around the house in conjunction with an iPhone in your pocket. What you immediately notice (more precisely, not immediately) is that the head and ears (physiological) do not get tired at all in them, that's from the word in general - my record is 4.2 hours with one go to the toilet on a Friday video conference with employees. He also noted that in comparison with the same FOSTEX there is one pleasant point - the pressure on the ears at any volume level is almost imperceptible, apparently due to the light design of the ear cushions themselves.
conclusions
The headset is of course for connoisseurs of high-quality and truly professional things
ps Under the noise I thought - it would be nice if the microphone could be unfastened - then there would still be excellent headphones for the aircraft, but that's another story.
Thank you for your attention!