Description
- JBL Pure Bass Sound: Smartly designed 10mm drivers enhanced by the Dot form factor deliver JBL’s Pure Bass Sound so you’ll feel every pulsing beat.
- Product Note: If the size of the earbud tips does not match the size of your ear canals or the headset is not worn properly in your ears, you may not obtain the correct sound qualities or call performance. Choose tips that fit more snugly in your ears.
- Active Noise Cancelling with Smart Ambient: Active Noise Cancelling lets you tune out sounds while Ambient Aware lets you listen to your surroundings any time. Or turn on TalkThru so you can have a quick chat without having to remove your headphones.
- 4 mics for perfect voice calls: Enjoy hassle-free, hands-free calls in stereo. The Tune 230NC TWS are equipped with 4 microphones, so you’ll always be heard with perfect clarity. Never hesitate to take or make a call again.
- Up to 40 hours of battery life: Never miss a beat with 40 (10 plus30) hours of battery life or 8 hours, plus 24 hours in the case when noise cancelling is engaged. Need a boost. Speed Charge for just ten minutes to get 2 hours of playtime.
- Water resistant & sweatproof: Don’t be deterred by bad weather. Thanks to IPX4 water resistance and sweatproofing, there isn’t a workout or downpour the Tune 230NC TWS can’t handle.
Dru Ha –
I have one pair for work and one for home/going out. I wouldn’t have spent $100 on each pair but at $50 per pair they’re a good deal.
The ANC is pretty impressive for little earbuds. Makes the background sounds in an IHOP at 9:30 on a Sunday nearly disappear. They also eliminate the sound of snoring dogs and humans.
Took a recent trip on an airplane and opted to bring these instead of my Sennheiser Momentum 3’s. I’m an audiophile on a budget. They can’t compete with the over-ear Momentum for sound reproduction. But for earbuds they’re a great product at the sale price.
There is a JBL app you can download to your smartphone but the controls are reasonably intuitive. I have big fingers so I probably miss the sweet-spot for function control more than the average person. I’ve found the bass to be a little lacking but I think that’s due to the EQ setting I’ve selected. You do have some EQ presets to choose between in the app.
They come with three sets of the rubber earplugs for various sizes of ear-canals. Medium worked for me. I can use them to sleep, travel, shut out the loud noises in restaurants, and for Zoom calls.
Consider the color you want to stand out against your bedding when they fall out if falling asleep with them in.
I like them enough that I bought a second, dedicated pair for work.
The ANC has three settings but so far I haven’t found one that totally mutes audio output from your device in the “ambient-aware” or “talk through” modes. That’s a feature I like on my Momentum. It can be accomplished by the extra step of just pausing playback with a tap on the right, then tap the left to toggle through the three ANC modes.
They work great with an iPhone as well as Windows 10/11 computers.
Much greater clarity the the JLAB go, which don’t seem to have any functional ANC. I should have spent the extra money at the get-go.
Buy them when on sale. They’ll probably be fine for you.
If ANC and a variety of EQ options are the most important features for you, spring for the current $300 – $400 Sony over-ears. I have a pair of those in the house-too. Their ANC is better but for the music I listen to the Sennheisers are #1. However I would recommend the Sonys for over-ear for the average listener and these for travel, etc. it’s a lot harder to lose a big set of cans than earbuds so I don’t want to invest too much in these little guys.
JBL has always served me pretty well for the price in the pro-audio and live sound amplification area so I had some confidence in the name when I bought these.
Antonio –
La mera verdad. Son super chidos. Me encanta el sonido que tienen. Se escucha super bien los bajos. Se escuchan impresionantes. La batería le dura muy bien. Se cargan muy rápido. Son excelentes. Los recomiendo 10/10
Jahaziel –
Tiene un sonido y calidad excelente, pero ya llevo casi el año con ellos, y ya he empezado a tener problemas, como la carga pero con una limpiada quedan, y el audio siento que ya no está igual, sin embargo siguen estando super bien
Brently –
The container is nicely finished and obviously fits the ear buds very well. I’m also very happy with the way they stay in my ears. Best Bluetooth set I’ve owned.
Emmanuel Espinoza –
Tienen un sonido muy bueno, bastante cómodos, no esperar un sonido tan premium por el precio, sin embargo lo recomiendo por la resistencia al sudor.
Alexander Rappoport –
I have been looking for some wireless headphones for a while now. Tried a few options under $100 but all of them were bad. Low audio quality, low voice quality or couldn’t be heard in anything other than a quiet room, poor battery, poor connectivity, you name it.
I was already set on increasing my budget to $150-$200 until I saw these JBL on sale for $70 (I think the original price was around $150) and knowing that JBL produce great sounding speakers figured I had nothing to lose by ordering them.
They really hit the mark! for the money I paid I get very nice actual noise cancellation (I commute on subway to work and listen to podcasts) and great audio for music, podcasts, and conversations. Who ever I asked about the sound quality of my speech always replied I was crystal clear, no matter the surroundings (I’ll admit that when standing next to a loud bus the quality diminishes, but that’s just an outlier and no one, not even the $300 set, will be able to tune out that noise). They fit very snuggly in my ear and don’t fall out even as I am pushed out the subway or working out.
Pros:
+ great value for money
+ awesome audio
+ very good noise cancellation for the price
cons:
– haven’t had any for now
Overall, I highly recommend getting these if they’re on sale! I don’t know if I’d pay full price for them as they have competition once you go to the $150-$200 price range.
Will come back in a few months and update if something’s not right.
Zach –
These are my go-to earbuds for work, exercising, relaxing, and taking calls. The active noise cancelling is amazing and it’s very noticeable how much of a difference it makes when I don’t use it. The earbuds fit great, have a long battery (I can go a week without charging the case using the earbuds for 4-6 hours a day). I enjoy these so much I keep a pair at work and a pair at home.
Alessar –
Really nice pair of earbuds. I put them in without music playing and turned on the noise canceling feature while I was in a crowded restaurant and it really blocked a huge amount of noise. The sound quality is good, there’s no distortion. An app is available to help monitor the battery level from your phone and toggle from noise canceling to pass through to microphone amplifying modes. The fit is decent. I personally need an extra large tip for one year, and this one comes with small medium and large choices. But that’s a me problem not a product problem. The color is really attractive and I like having earbuds that aren’t the same black everybody else does. The range is good, the battery is good. Totally a winner.
N8 –
I have only used wired headphones for years. This is the first time I’ve ever purchased Bluetooth wireless ear buds – so, know going forwards that I don’t have anything to compare these to.
That being said, I do have a few pairs of Bluetooth wireless headphones, and I’m making some assumptions, based upon these.
So, the first thing I’ll say is that the Noise Canceling feature in these is downright amazing. I mean, for something so small to be able to block out so much noise is just quite unbelievable.
In addition, the Ambient Aware mode is quite amazing as well, as you can literally hear everything around you, while still hearing the music quite clearly – you can tell that a lot of R & D went into these.
The Talk Through mode is also good – although I think it makes the music so low that you really can’t even hear it – but it is handy in case you need to have a conversation. I’ve had a conversation with Ambient Aware mode turned on, and I can hear the other person just fine.
Okay, here is where I’ll start making some assumptions. I don’t have another pair of BT earbuds to compare to, so I’m assuming that other companies would create apps similar to the ones for their BT headphones when making apps for their ear buds.
The JBL app is my favorite one. It’s very easy to get into, has some settings you can change (like what each ear bud does when you touch it certain ways), as well as allows you to change the audio mode that you’ve enabled.
Now, I have a pair of Anker BT headphones, and they are really comfy, but the app is nowhere near as feature-rich as the JBL app is.
I guess if there is anything that I don’t like about these it would be the inability to turn them off without using the app. You can set them to time out after a set amount of time, so they would turn themselves off at some point, but I think that is a waste of the battery, so I use the app to turn them off.
Another thing I don’t like is the case – the ear buds fit into it in a very awkward way – I’m always having to twist my wrists to get them in correctly. I think this was a major design flaw, but it’s minor compared to all the other benefits of these.
One thing I absolutely love on these is the battery. I’ve used these for about an hour, turned them off (via the app), kept them outside of the case, and come back to them a month later, and they are still at the same battery percentage as a month ago – unbelievable.
I should also mention that the battery lasts a fair amount of time when actually listening to them. I use these when working out, and they last plenty of time for me to run and lift weights.
I’ve never actually tried to figure out exactly how long they last on one charge, but if I’d have to guess, it’s probably upwards of 5 hrs at least.
To save battery power, I usually put mine in a ziplock bag, along with the case – so that the battery gets to run-down without being recharged all the time. I only put them back into the case when the battery is actually low.
The case also charges very quickly (as do the ear buds as well).
So, overall, I’d highly recommend these ear buds. They have some minor issues that I’ve discussed, but in my opinion, the pro’s far outweigh the con’s for these.
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