JBL E55BT Bluetooth Headset

The detachable audio cable has an inline single-button remote control and mic situated just below chin level. The cable’s mic offers excellent intelligibility, much better than the mic in the headphones themselves. Using the Voice Memos app on an iPhone 6s, the cable’s mic recordings were clear and every word was discernible, while the wireless, built-in mic sounded slightly distorted

On tracks with intense sub-bass content, like The Knife’s “Silent Shout,” the headphones deliver a powerful thump that doesn’t distort even at top, unwise volume levels. At more moderate volume levels, the drivers still deliver a laudable deep bass response, but it’s all balanced out with very crisp, well-defined high-mids and highs.

The drums on this track get some added bass presence, giving them far more depth than they typically have, but the boosting never sounds unnatural. Callahan’s baritone vocals get a solid low-mid richness, but is matched by plenty of presence in the high-mids and highs, bringing out the treble edge of the vocals and allowing the acoustic guitar’s attack to have a little extra high frequency contour. In other words, there’s plenty of bass boosting, but not an obscene level, and the sculpted highs