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Plantronics didn't go through any aloft redesigns for the BackBeat Pro+. It looks absolutely like the aboriginal model, except it's now gray instead of black. That's not a bad thing, though, as its chastened architecture is a nice another to the deluge of added blatant Wireless Bluetooth earphones on the market. If you're searching to accomplish a appearance statement, these apparently aren't the headphones for you.
The BackBeat Pro+ is mostly fabricated of plastic, with metal accoutrements abutting the headband. You can aberration the cans to accomplish it lay flat, but clashing more-portable headsets, you can't collapse it any further. Be able to leave affluence of allowance in your bag, then. The earpads, while a tad thin, are amidst by a adequate band of foam. Calm with the foam-covered headband, I didn't accept any agitation cutting the BackBeat Pro+ for hours at a time.
Unlike with abounding earphones these days, Plantronics hasn't put calm any appropriate accompaniment app. But that's altogether fine, aback you can do aggregate you allegation appropriate on the cans. On the larboard cup, there's a ample play/pause button, a about-face for activating babble abandoning and a punch for jumping astern and advanced through tracks. You can aswell brace NFC-equipped Android phones with the BackBeat Pro+ by captivation them up to the larboard cup while in bond mode. There's a accepted headphone jack on the basal of the cup (a cable is included in the box), as able-bodied as a micro-USB anchorage for charging.
On the appropriate side, there's a ample Call button for accepting calls (which you aswell authority down to actuate Bluetooth bond mode), a aggregate punch and the ability switch. There's aswell an OpenMic button on the basal of the appropriate cup, which pipes in alien audio from the absolute apple while blurred the aggregate on your music ascribe (for if it's artlessly too harder to yield off your headphones).
But aback to that USB dongle: It's just that, a tiny Bluetooth adapter (the Plantronics BT600) that instantly connects Windows PCs and Macs to the BackBeat Pro+. It comes pre-paired from the factory, so all you allegation to do is bung it in and about-face on the headphones to accomplish a wireless connection. While a lot of laptops and desktops these canicule already cover Bluetooth support, Plantronics says its dongle ensures a higher-quality acquaintance (it helps to accept an alien Bluetooth antenna, for example). A software amend will eventually acquiesce the dongle to abutment even bigger wireless audio application the aptX codec, which is a footfall aloft archetypal Bluetooth streaming.
I noticed hardly added detail and dash in songs with the Plantronics dongle on my MacBook Air afterwards switching aback and alternating amid it and congenital Bluetooth. "Like a Dog Chasing Cars" from the Dark Knight soundtrack had added bass action and active detail with the BT600 adapter, admitting the bass seemed boomier and beneath authentic with congenital Bluetooth. I noticed the aforementioned affair with "Bim Bam Smash" from the Bourne Supremacy soundtrack, as able-bodied as with songs from Bowie, Bjork and Arcade Fire. It's not that the BackBeat Pro+ sounds bad with accustomed Bluetooth -- it's a part of the best wireless headphones I've heard -- but the company's dongle just adds a bit added detail.
Beyond Plantronics' Bluetooth adapter, the BackBeat Pro+ works absolutely like the antecedent model. Flipping on the noise-cancellation approach while on the alms finer bargain alfresco babble a bit, admitting not as abundant as if I approved added headphones that action the feature. The headphones aswell lasted over 22 hours on a allegation with wireless alert from computers, smartphones and the new Apple TV. (Plantronics claims 24 hours of array life.) You can beck higher-quality Bluetooth audio with accessories that natively abutment aptX (plenty of high-end Android phones and Macs action it but no iOS devices). It's arguable how abundant aptX makes a difference, though. I can apprehend a slight improvement, but the aberration ability not amount abundant to some listeners.
As advantageous as Plantronics' Bluetooth adapter is, the college $300 amount for the BackBeat Pro+ makes it a tougher advertise in the bluetooth wireless headset earphone market. Samsung's wireless Level Over headphones, which aswell cover noise-canceling technology, currently retail amid $200 and $325, depending on area you look. Those are one of The Wirecutter's adopted noise-canceling headphones, and, based on my testing, they complete appealing abuse great.
An even stronger adversary is Plantronics' aboriginal BackBeat Pro headphones, which now retail for about $166 on Amazon. That's a steal, because they originally retailed at $250. You could aswell breeze up the BT600 adapter for $60 alone and still end up paying far beneath than the BackBeat Pro+. (There are cheaper Bluetooth USB adapters with aptX out there, but I haven't had a adventitious to analysis them.)
At its accepted price, it's harder to acclaim the BackBeat Pro+. Sure, it's a solid aerialist for wireless music listening, and the included adapter makes it easier to affix to PCs over Bluetooth. But it artlessly can't attempt adjoin an identical set of headphones affairs for about bisected the price.
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