Jabra, best known for its Bluetooth phone accessories, is making its first foray into Bluetooth premium headphones with the $250 Revo Wireless.
While the Revo has the fashionably overstated bass sound, it also has an equalizer app so you can dial the bass down to a more realistic level - or up to a brain punishing thud.
Jabra has used its wireless expertise to good effect. I would have thought the Revo Wireless was connected by cable if I didn't know better. Its sound is nearly indistinguishable from the $100 wired Revos. I didn't experience the dropouts or watery sound that I have noticed in Bluetooth headphones I have tried in the past.
The Revos feel solidly constructed of plastic and aluminum with faux leather earpads. Volume and song advance are controlled by a touch-pad surface on the left earpiece, much like the Parrot Zik.
At a little over a half pound, they are not exactly lightweight, but they are comfortable, if you like an on-ear headset.
It has an NFC connection, so in theory you can tap it to an NFC phone and it should pair. I could not get it to connect with a new Samsung Galaxy S4, however.
The real charm here is in the Jabra Sound app, which is available for Android and Apple. The app has settings for Dolby processing, mobile surround and an equalizer.
The Dolby processing seems to exaggerate your sound settings. In the default mode, I thought the sound was dramatically overamped, as if bass, midrange and treble had been turned to 11.
The mobile surround makes the sound seem as if it is more spread out, giving it more dimension, but it also seemed to boost the fuzziness of the bass. I preferred it off.
The equalizer offers seven bands of frequency adjustment. I was able to dial down the bass, which made the headphones much more to my taste, although they never achieved a really natural sound.
A version of this article appeared in print on 05/09/2013, on page B10 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Jabra's Revo Allows You to Shape Your Sound.