Customer Ratings & Reviews

Bought them for the gym, they are slightly better than the beats fit pro in my opinion, but the beats fit pro is a little louder

Im reviewing these earbuds as is. I didn't end up keeping them but I really wanted to. Everything about them is excellent. They look great and feel great. Very durable. The microwave was good. I just felt like another pair of earbuds that I kept actually sounded better. These sounds good! They aren't bad. If you aren't comparing to any other experience you'll definitely keep them and they probably sound better than most. Because sound was the main criteria for me. I opted for what I thought sounded best but these are built much better

Great sound. I had the Elite 75t model and these have many additional features. It's too bad Jabra is getting out of the consumer earbud market.

Amazing sound quality. Quick paring and good features.

These are great,got as a gift. Great sound and noise canceling as well as also allowing outside sound if needed.

Overall the earbuds work well and fit well. But can get loose if you start sweating a lot.

Love these. I'm using them more than my AirPods Pros. Sad that they'll be the last. Jabra makes great products!

Good sound quality and good noise cancelling at a solid price point. Fit is fine for me.

Absolutely love these. Im in the military and when i say they are durable, they are. They stay in well too

I crossfit. I run bicycle and when in office use rowing machine and take phone ans video calls. These do it all ans sound waukity is excellent along with microphones for dictation. Just fit and position took a little figurei g out but after that zero issues. Sound quality and app are excellent. It actally has buttons. None of that touch and miss stuff

Sounds good, good software features, not a fan of battery life though

Definitely better then the previous gen, better bass response and sound better, now a good upgrade to the active 7,

Great fit and battery life. Love the smart case for air travel.

Great sound. Fit is alittle small for me but fit my son well.

I had the Elite 7 Active prior to these, and they are an enormous improvement! The call audio is significantly better on these, and the hear-through mode is much better as well. It lets you hear cars and stuff around you without blasting your ears with every little sound. Having some issues with it restarting every so often, but hopefully it just an issue with this pair.

Work great in a busy office! No more complaints about background noise!

Love my new Elite 8 Gen 2. So far, everything about these exceed my 65T version. Much longer battery life than my others.

I’ve been a fan of Jabra’s in-ear buds for many years. When I read that they plan to exit the consumer market next year I figured I’d give their “swan song” earbuds a shot as my luck with previous Jabras had been great. These buds, however, despite their “military grade” specs seem to have been designed with inferior sound-blocking/sound-filtering technology. In the gym, the “noise” that would come through (no matter how loud I played the music) just made them absolutely unenjoyable to wear. And yes, I made sure the fit was snug and that both buds were properly “sealing” in my ear canals. Design wise these are a winner. They seem well constructed. The case is nicely designed. I’m not sure about that Bluetooth passthrough feature the case has because I didn’t get the chance to use it. In stark contrast, my Bose in-ear buds immediately squash the outside noises so I can enjoy the full rich sound that these in-ear buds are meant to deliver. I reluctantly returned the Jabras.

The earbuds are very light and don’t feel heavy in my ears. The outside material feels slightly grippy like rubber, but also soft and smooth. It feels comfortable on skin. They protrude a tiny bit that if you lay your ears against a hard flat surface, the earbuds will make contact with it, which could result in erroneous inputs, since the outside end has a physical button underneath its waterproof seal. But it’s small enough to be worn while sleeping on a firm pillow comfortably with my ears. They never fell out while I’m rubbing my ear against the pillow as a side sleeper. While running on the treadmill all sweaty, I’ve never felt in danger of them falling out. I can’t shake them out of my ears when I violently shake my head downwards from either side. The earbuds appear durable, but only time will tell if they actually are. My concern is if the outside layer could tear over time, especially with repeated presses of the physical buttons or if they were dropped on a rough and tough surface like concrete, which we have plenty of here in NYC. They have an IP68 rating and are waterproof. I was able to shower with them on after using them while I was at the gym with music playing and had no issues. Funnily enough, the time I did encounter an issue was when I washed the earbuds underneath running water. If you get water in the earbuds, it will mess with noise cancelling and produce a high-pitched squealing sound. I had to shake out with water droplets to fix that issue. While they’ll survive underwater activities like swimming or snorkeling (Jabra says they’re safe with salt water), because of the way Bluetooth works, you won’t get a stable connection, much in the way of a listening to Bluetooth audio with a steel door in between the device and earbuds. The battery life is the star of the show for me, personally. With ANC on, I was able to get up to 9 hours at most, and 8 hours on average at 75% volume. That’s the kind of battery life I’ve come to expect with ANC off. Unlike its older models, the Elite 8 Active can play audio from each earbud independently. So you can listen to either earbud while the other is charging in its case or dead. I always struggle with describing sound quality but they sound great to me. It leans slightly on the warmer side of neutral. Which I think is great for working out with. It doesn’t muddy classical music, but you do lose some detail with highs. Lows are great but the bass is clean and not exaggerated out of the box. Using the equalizer or one of the Bass boost preset, it can achieve that exaggerated thumping bass. There’s no high-resolution audio codec so if you have or subscribe to streaming services with high resolution lossless audio, you’ll lose detail. Multipoint connections have worked seamlessly for me. It can connect to up to 2 devices at a time. When you play audio from one device while the other is currently playing audio, it will pause the previous device. It will also show a notification button (on smart devices like a smartphone or tablet) to switch back the audio, in case you didn’t intend it to hijack the connection. My main gripe is that you have no way of knowing what the other device is you’re connected to. It doesn’t tell you on the app, nor via audio notification. All it well tell you is “2 devices connected.” The ANC (active noise cancellation) is pretty good and does well to block out noise while you’re playing music. Without music, it dulls the loudness of sound effectively. But it doesn’t block high pitch sounds well, like talking. The Hearthrough sounds great and clear – very natural, except for when you talk. Your own voice sounds muffled or nasally when you speak. That itself makes it uncomfortable for me to use in a real-world scenario when talking to others because it gives me the false sensation that others have a hard time hearing me because I have a hard time hearing myself. But when I’m not talking, it’s excellent, with natural sounding outside noise. Spatial Audio is a complete joke. There is BARELY any difference with it enabled. I’ve frustratingly toggled it on and off for what felt like hours trying to recognize a real difference but it’s so subtle to be meaningful or impactful. It’s supposed to widen the sound stage but it barely does. The Dolby Atmos function on my phone is noticeable, whereas the Elite 8 Active sounds like no change. Which brings me to another thing. The app has Dolby Atmos branding on it. Yet Jabra markets Dolby Atmos as a feature reserved for its Elite 10. It’s designed to confuse the consumer, and in the end, a moot point, because on the Elite 8 Active it sounds like there is no spatial audio with it enabled. On top of that, there is no head tracking. The Jabra Elite 8 Active has built-in Google Assistant, which allows you to use Google Assistant without interrupting anything you’re doing on your device. It will also read your notifications to you. But this segues into something that annoys me the most about these earbuds. The controls. The physical buttons on the earbuds are underneath the outer seal. This is what makes them waterproof. Since they’re physical buttons, you’ll hear the clicks each time you press them. But since they’re physical, you won’t accidentally trigger functions while you’re adjusting the earbuds. But the control customization, while they exist on the app, leaves much to be desired. The volume is controlled by holding the left button for volume down, and holding the right button for volume up. But the volume controls only exist if you turn Google Assistant off. If you turn Google Assistant on, you lose volume controls with the earbuds. They don’t give you the option to remap the Google Assistant function to something else like a double-press or triple press. Google Assistant is locked to holding the right button. To me, that’s absolutely ridiculous that I’m forced to choose between 2 highly convenient functions. If you use Spotify, the earbuds support Spotify Tap, which you can enable from the app. Once again, Jabra locks this function to the “double press left button” gesture. It can’t be remapped elsewhere. The charging case is rated IP54 so it’s only splash and dust resistant. They’re not waterproof like the earbuds, but they’ll withstand a drizzle or light rain. The earbuds take about 50 minutes to charge in the case from 0% to 100% and can hold up to 5 full charges. The case can charge wirelessly, with the LED conveniently facing up so it’s easy to see, or via USB-C. The highlight feature of the Gen 2 that makes it clearly distinctive from the original Gen 1 is the fact that the case can stream to any analog audio device using LE Audio with the low latency LC3 codec. You’ll need the USB-C to 3.5mm audio cable that comes with it though because that appears to be the only thing that will get the case to recognize the analog device. I tried using a different third-party USB-C to 3.5mm cable I already owned and it didn’t work. If you need to length the included cable, you can do so with extension cables from either the USB-C side or 3.5mm side. Stereo analog adapters for the 3.5mm side to accommodate other sizes will also work. It’s the cable itself that’s important. Its functionality was flawless. It’s the best kind of Bluetooth transmitter because you don’t have to pair it with your earbuds- they’re permanently paired. To activate the transmitter, you simply press the button on the case while it’s connected to the analog device. It’s a solid connection; no drops from my experience. Best of all is there’s no dip in sound quality either like some Bluetooth transmitters, where the volume becomes quieter. The ideal use Jabra has in mind is with workout equipment, and I agree. You’ll now be free to move around without worrying about cables in your way or tethering you. But you can now use your wireless earbuds on legacy devices as well, like older handheld game consoles, and portable radios and Walkmans. ANC and Hearthrough still work no matter if it’s connected via USB-C audio or 3.5mm analog. Just don’t lose the cable. The microphone sounds clear when I record memos on a voice recording app, but with phone calls the sound quality takes a dip. You can still hear others clearly and others can hear you, but the sound itself sounds more processed. It’s possibly due to the ANC at work, which does do a good job at blocking out background noise. Jabra did a great job with what’s said to be their final entry in the consumer market with these earbuds. Where they dropped the ball was with the control customizations. Volume control, Google Assistant, and Spotify Tap are completely locked to specific buttons and cannot be customized. Secondly, its spatial audio is the worst implementation I’ve heard across any device, whether it be phone, tablet, full sized headphones, or earbuds. If you already own the Gen 1, I’m not entirely convinced the ANC improvements are worth the upgrade because even if it one ups Gen 1, I’ve heard better from other brands. Supposedly Jabra’s own Elite 10 Gen 2 is better at ANC, and it has the LE Audio smart case. If everything you listen to is through Bluetooth, which is the case for many these days, it may also not be worth the upgrade to Gen 2. Otherwise, everything else about it is great. The battery life with ANC enabled is worth the price of admission for me. Pros: -Excellent 8-9 hour battery with ANC on -Comfortable -IP68 rating making it safe to shower with or wear in heavy rain -Excellent LE Audio transmitter with case works with any analog audio source (adapter-friendly to accommodate different plugs or length) Cons: -Button customization limited to playback controls and ANC/Hearthrough -Spatial audio barely noticeable

Excellant noise cancellation and sound quality. Very happy with them