JBL Everest 110 Review - Review 2022

JBL's Everest 110 Bluetooth earphones are collar-style in-ears that, different most of the pairs we exam in this price range, aren't intended for exercise. The selling indicate here is ostensibly the audio performance, a comfortable fit, and an echo-canceling mic. For $99.95, the audio performance is solid, but in that location'due south no shortage of similarly priced competition offering comparable sound quality and more compelling feature sets.

Blueprint

The earphones are available in blueish, grayness, or white models. A sparse, rounded cablevision houses an inline remote closest to the right earpiece. The earpieces are rather large, but lightweight—earfins are used for added fit stability. A congenital-in cable cinch allows you to manage slack on the cord behind the neck. The fit is secure and comfortable, and with three pairs of eartips in diverse sizes and three pairs of earfins for extra stability, too in three sizes, it's easy to dial in your exact platonic fit. Internally, each earpiece houses a 5.8mm driver delivering 10Hz-22kHz audio.

JBL Everest 110 inline The inline remote has a covered side panel for the micro USB charging cable connection, ii dedicated volume buttons, and a central multifunction push button that controls playback, phone call management, and with multiple taps, track forward or backward. What the central button doesn't do is more than telling—most wireless in-ears we test assign the function of summoning Siri or Google Assistant when the central push button is held down for a couple seconds. On the Everest 110, that move will simply ability down the earphones. The side button on the remote command allows for pairing with multiple devices. If you buy the Everest 110 GA model, available for the same price, that push summons Google Assistant. It's an odd selection to go with the Google branding, since so many competing models can summon both Siri and Google Assistant without outcome.

The inline echo-canceling mic offers mediocre intelligibility. Using the Voice Memos app on an iPhone 6s, we could empathize every give-and-take we recorded, but the sound artifact levels were high and sound was fairly distorted. The mic did offer solid levels—it doesn't sound far away from the oral fissure.

Aside from the eartips and fins, the only accessory the earphones send with is a micro USB charging cable of generous length. At that place's no carrying pouch, which is disappointing because there'south also no advertised h2o or particle resistance.

JBL estimates battery life to exist roughly eight hours, but your results will vary with your volume levels.

Operation

On tracks with intense sub-bass content, like The Knife's "Silent Shout," the earphones deliver solid thump and don't misconstrue at height volumes. If yous take the eartips in very securely, you'll notice a huge bass presence, but information technology'southward besides possible to wear them deeply, just less tightly sealed into the culvert, and this dials the bass back notably. So if you're looking for a booming depression end sound here and not hearing it, yous probably need to dabble with the eartips more than to get the proper seal. The big bass here is balanced out past solid-enough loftier-mid and high-frequency clarity.

Nib Callahan's "Drover," a track with far less deep bass in the mix, gives us a better sense of the Everest 110's general audio signature. The drums on this track receive some solid extra bass, giving them a full, round presence, but things don't veer into overly thunderous territory. Callahan'south baritone vocals receive a dainty low-mid richness, and things are balanced with the high-mids and highs, so that the vocals and the acoustic guitar strums are well articulated. There could be a little crisper treble presence hither for sure, merely things never sound muffled.

On Jay-Z and Kanye W'due south "No Church building in the Wild," the kick drum loop receives enough high-mid presence to retain its punchy assail, though a petty more than high-mid would add more definition to the track. We hear the highs pushed forward a tad in the mix, bringing the background vinyl crackle and hiss forward a fleck, and the sub-bass synth hits that punctuate the beat out are delivered with gusto.

Orchestral tracks, like the opening scene from John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary, sound a bit more bass-forward than purists will want, but plenty of listeners will enjoy the subtle added bass depth. The higher register instrumentation never loses its dominant presence, but once more, things could sound a bit more than crisp.

Conclusions

The problem with the $100 Everest 110 is hard to pinpoint—there's nothing wrong, really. But much of the similarly (or lower-priced) contest is sweat resistant or actually waterproof. The audio performance here is solid, but it's not audiophile-level—very picayune in this price range is. And and then it'south hard for the Everest 110 to stand out from the crowd. The Jaybird Tarah, the JLab Ballsy Sport Wireless, the Jaybird X4, and the JBL Reflect Mini 2 are all solid, practise-friendly options with similar audio functioning and relatively similar prices. Each one offers yous a bit more for the money than the Everest 110.

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