Performance -
With audio gear it is hard to be objective. After all different people like different music and even people that like the same music might like to listen to it in different ways. To make sure that I cover the audio products that we get here at DecryptedTech I like to have more than one opinion. Usually I gather 5 other people to listen to different audio types (gaming, movies, MP3 and CD-Audio). I then ask for a rating of one to five with one being the worst and 5 being the best for each category. As an added item I also ask for a single word to describe the audio quality. I then follow up with my personal feelings and observations. The HOM Redemption Song headphones are meant more for music reproduction. We also wanted to try them out in our other environments so we will cover them hear, but will focus on their performance with music and in particular digital music.

Music (MP3 and CD-Audio) -
For Music I have a few favorite tracks that I like to use. These are not always other people’s favorites but they serve as a baseline and have some impressive audio features to them that can distinguish between good audio and bad. One of them is Stevie Ray Vaughn’s rendition of Jimi Hendrix’s Little Wing. It is an amazing track. Others are A Day in the Life by the Beetles, Are you Experienced by Jimi Hendrix, and Cage the Elephant’s Ain’t no Rest for the Wicked. To this listing we added some jazz, funk, and of course Reggae (Bob Marley’s Stir it Up of course).The numbers for this along with their corresponding one word comments are below.

For our music testing we had a couple if different ways we had to run the Jabra Sport Pulse. We had to get a baseline using normal music (default player), then we played the same songs using the Jabra Sound app and finally with the Extended Dolby audio profiles. What we found was something rather interesting, when running the Jabra Sound app without the Dolby enhancements the audio was thin and reedy; it was not very enjoyable and had no real life. By contrast with the Dolby enhancements on the audio was heavy on the base, but still had life behind it. When played the audio using either one of the default options for music on our Note 4 we found that the audio was vibrant and crisp, it was not muddy or too brassy. This was a little unusual, but not a bad thing at all. It means that you can run just about any audio you want and still get a lot out of the Jabra Sport Pulse headphones. For the audio we selected the Jabra Sport Pulse did very well.

Gaming -
So for this test we did something a little different. As we have mentioned (and you can see from the box) these are meant for portable personal media players like the iPhone, iPad iPod and even other tablets. We decided that in addition to our normal gaming tests with a few choice PC games we would also throw in a couple of games on our Note 4 just to see how good the audio reproduction is there.

For gamin we did not have the option of running the Jabra Sound app so our time was just with the raw headphones and the games in question. We found them to be more than adequate for most games. You are not going to get the same type of sound that you will from a larger set of gamers’ headphones, but they will do.

Movies/Video -
Movies was an easy one also, I have several Blu-ray titles that are great for this including Pirates of the Caribbean. So I loaded up this title and then dropped in a couple of other movies that have good surround effects.  The numbers and words are shown below.  

Movies were pretty much the same as we saw with gaming. You get solid experience, but the Jabra Sport Pulse are not going to win any awards. Here things are clean and crisp, but there was a little lacking in some of the lower end audio.

Comfort -
The Jabra Sport Pulse are comfortable to a point. Thanks to the multiple EarWings and Gels you can find a combination that works for you, the problem is that the pressure from the EarWing and Gel can become uncomfortable after about 2 hours. At least this is what we found after a few sessions. You can get through a movie and more than a work out without any problems which is a good thing.