"the headphones went to sleep, not the narrator" that one cracked me up! :)

No one else went over these. These are very important information. Thank you!

Thank you for sparing me the aggravation of using these! Excellent review!

Extremely valuable review! Thank you!

good review, i think that's unacceptable for the price they are asking. I'm not a fan of the design aesthetic anyway but I was mildly interested in the features, overall i think it's a hard pass for me, thankyou for saving us a lot of money!

I had many of the similar problems with my Jabra Evolve2 85 until I downloaded the desktop software and updated the firmware on the headphones. Now they work great.

Thanks for showing the other side of Jabra Evolve2 85 headphones. Before watching/running your video I had almost made up my mind to buy it for my use. As I have the same situation as your's where I have three devices (my phone, my work computer, and my personal computer) so I was looking for similar headphones that can be used when I am in need but after watching your video my mind is clear and you have saved a lot of my money. Thanks for posting this and helping people like us to save huge money for such a premium expensive headphone flagship.

Nice review, man :) I am also thinking of choosing this for the boom mic between this one and the Bose 700 UC

I was just about to pull the trigger on this thing. Thanks for the warning.

I have the 85h and they have broken so was considering Jabra again but I think you just saved me a ton of time, money, and pain with this video.

Great review. I have the previous evolve version and have the same connection/restart issues. Very annoying. Everything else including battery and call quality has been great for past 2 years but the connectivity issues are unbearable.

Would love to have the usability of the Bose 700, the sound quality of the Sony XM4s, and that cool boom mic from the Evolve2 85 in one headset. It's sad that all headsets on the market (even these "premium" ones) have such fatal flaws. I had the Bose 700s for about year, then I switched over to the XM4s as I mostly use them to listen to music, and it's not all wonders like the reviews say. The mic quality on the Sony is terrible, as you said, if "the floor boards creak while on a call" then it's a big problem on this headset too. Also, loud audio prompts like "BLUETOOTH CONNECTED / DISCONNECTED" cannot be disabled and often interrupt my calls. This was never an issue on the Bose, as it only plays a subtle audio cue when one of the paired devices gets disconnected. At least Sony's ANC handles popping sounds much better than the Bose 700s. Turning on the coffee grinder while wearing the Bose 700s was always an awful experience.

You are absolutely right with everything. I felt lucky that the company I work at was supporting to procure one of these for me. The pause/play issue is still present in the way that it fades out and back in, but I barely notice loss in the clip voice, I have a feeling that it is now buffered, but the fade time is drastically faster. The earbud mic is a joke. At first I didn't know you have to twist the boom arm to get it closer to your mouth. Without doing that, it's a joke again: noisy and distant voice. If you get it closer by twisting, it is inconvenient to change between mute and unmute. I really hoped that I could survive without moving the boom arm to get an acceptable voice, but it's a must. Also, that gimmick mute button on the arm?! That's what you have to find and touch the mic while trying it and others have to listen to your swoosh sounds. What a "great" design. I would have preferred programmable buttons on the body, so I could use e.g. the side button on the earbud that is to indicate others whether you are in a call or not. If you are in home office, this is practically useless as a feature, but I tell you, it was never used by me on a Jabra Evolve 80 either in the office. BTW, that headset I loved and I only wish they'd have made the same, just wireless. Also, you are right, you need a management SW for selecting the source bluetooth device... Ah, just a disappointment.

I am trying out the headphones right now and I can't reproduce the issue with this very same youtube video, for example. Unpausing the video after waiting for several seconds starts the sound immediately.

You saved me a lot of trouble. I was about to buy these. Many thanks.

Yeah, I have a pair of Evolve2 65 headphones that I am returning, but for different reasons. 1st is that the voice assistant (the voice that tells me what a button does when I press it) is pretty loud, and the volume is not adjustable! 2nd is that the short microphone that doesn't go all the way to my mouth brushes against my face, making a very annoying loud sound (the boom is not adjustable, ie I can't bend it so that it doesn't rub). 3rd is that the headset simply just doesn't reliably connect to devices. I was *VERY* disappointed!!!!

Thanks for posting. I almost bought these today.

I have the same experience with the headphones that they just crash and must be powered of. Had an support ticket with Jabra support. Did factory reset, firmware upgrades etc Nothing helped. Went to a point where I requested a RMA and got a new pair. Same issue with them. Also tried another pair I borrowed with same result. So I have just returned them and got my money back.

Really good review 👍

Seems a very fair and just review. Has this been resolved now?

well gues i keep my eye on peltor. I had some hope in these, but my music or pod etc. may stop due random coworker calls and so on. The tilt factor seem to be still a thing. peltro xp or xpi just won't ignite me on by looks. Still it should be weather resistance just realy bulkier. Also i walk a lot i mean a lot in my work hours. I just don't know what is the conectivity in pc/mac space with it.

I have those headphones and did the test with your video and did not notice the issue you presented, maybe firmware was corrected

Thanks for the review my wife and I am in looking at this is one of the possibilities and after hearing what you’re saying we will definitely make a hard pass on it as well thanks so much

Thanks for sharing, it is quite a lot of cash they ask for their average product.

I’m sure glad I found your review. Was going to buy the 75. But I’ll assume it has the same dysfunction. Jabra is off my list

There are two headsets with kinda similar boom mic solution - Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 2 and Steelseries Arctis Wireless pro.

I also have these headphones, and I love what they are MEANT to be when they work. But, sadly, despite only having two devices, I have to unplug the dongle and/or switch off phone BT to prevent device-hopping madness. I’m still persevering with them because… dat boom mic.

Thank You Man !!! You save my many 👍👍👍

What should I buy instead? I need a boom mic for calls and I'd like a headset that is still decent for music and maybe (but not necessarily) gaming.

i also own these and they suddenly crash and needs a manuel restart. if you turn them off and on again you hear a tick after few seconds and the headset restarts. its quite annoying

Thank you!, i bought Bose qc II 35 gaming after this video :D

i love the structure of this headsets just bought them and microphone feature great headphones but yes it appears they are to pricey for not being a perfected headset overall ill continue to use them .

The thing with 2 active connections and being paired up to 8 devices simultaneously is standard bluetooth functionslity is it not? Which ones are better in this regard?

Great video! Almost nobody points the audio delay issue when reviewing the evolve 2 series. It is indeed expected behavior, I was also able to see a note in Jabra's official windows app that says that there is a delay. Unbelievable, pricey headset, almost unusable...

I have theese, the teams version. I don't have this issue, is yours better after updates? I don't lose any audio on KZfaq

What are the other options on the market to have the same power for the boom mic? I am working from home and have a bit of noise arround me

thank you for this, bro!!!!

Actually I can not say i have the same issues at all, having been using them since December 2020, except for the fact that i have to power cycle them from time to time. Also not having any microphone issues during zoom or teams calls which is my main use case for them.

I was thinking of buying these but now looking for different brand.

This is still an ongoing problem in their new devices. I'm unable to find a fix for this on the Evovle2 Buds. SUPER annoying when using Discord with friends... if someone simply says "hey" or something short after a couple seconds of silence, you literally will not hear anything because of this delay.

I am using the older Jabra Evolve 75 and I also face the same creaky noises. May I know what headphones are you using now, after returning the Evolve2 85?

Thank you for saving me 300+ dollar on this Evolve2 85 . I just returned Jabra Evolve2 75 and i was going to buy the 85 because after trying Evolve2 75 my rear had so much pain that i couldn't complete phone. I thought Jabra made decent headphones as i previously owned one of the wired once and they worked fine for making calls on MS team. I'm kind of hesitant about buying Bluetooth headphones. My main concern about Bluetooth is essentially what you described in this video. Sleeping issue, or taking too long to wake up. Although wires can be annoying but a good 3.5.USB wired noise cancelling headset are the best

dude you are awesome , i was thinking to wear them in the train and sleep to avoid noise , if it switches off then no go for me.

Epos adapt 660 doesnt have thr fade issue or making noise when turning the head and doesnt ho to sleep in tve middle of playing back audio but i dont think the mic is as good as with jabra

Thank you for the review, have a jabra evolve2 75 that is nothing but problems and the worst of all is with it changing audio sources between a bluetooth connection and the usb receiver in a pc and causing the volume to auto adjust up to max volume on the pc and blowing out your ear drums. Spent many hours of support with no luck, engineers/QA must be non existent in their company.

Is these issue happen only in Windows system and with (or without) using dongle? I really need the boom mic feature since I need to use it in a quite place and cannot speak in loud. Anyone have tried Macbook or iPhone/iPad system and have similar issues happen?

Hi, thanks for the video. I agree, but i bought mine for 70 bucks so for that price they are great.

Isnt there a function for turning off that fade thing?

Same thing happen with the 75 or just the 85?

I have this jabra 75 and I use them on my wok laptop, it's provided by company. For personal use I use Bose 700 and both of them rocks, when i have to take call from phone Bose 700 is choice. When I am working from home those boom 🎤 are super savior specially you have kids around. Mute on/off is super useful.

Not sure if someone has suggested this already but you could try the Epos adapt series perhaps The 560 or the 660. I’ve not tried either myself but they get good reviews. I have a set of 560 coming this week. You could also try the focus 2 from Polly. I have to say though the Mike on the 75 and 85 is definitely the best I’ve ever heard

Have you found the better alternative ? I am looking for a headset for very noisy office environment (a lot of talking around me, when I am on teleconferences).

What about comfort? I had the evolve2 65 and after an ahour and a half my ears would start hurting badly, but those are "on ear", did you experience any overheating in the ears or any pain (discomfort)?

Excellent find. In fact poly 4320 has exactly same issues!! It's really surprising that flagship models are sold with crap signal processing and power management.

well I mean, if your watching someone play a horror game I guess at least the fade in might save your ears from loud noises? I guess. also I don't have those headphones I have the Jabra elite 85h, the version before the evolved, I also face the fade in and fade out, and even sometimes static sounds or crashes, it is kinda annoying. Also I always have an issue when connecting more than 1 device. but Jabra is still a good brand overall, they just need to make a few tweaks to a few things.

Thank you for the great video. I am sorry that you had to endure such a bad experience with these. I am going to get the Evolve2 75 before the year ends and hopefully the problem is corrected with those as posted by several users in these comments by using the Jabra app to cancel the sleep function

I also had a disappointing Jabra purchase. The microphone did not work out of the box and the bluetooth solution was so unstable it was unusable.

Hey I plan to buy Evolve 2 75 for both zoom calls and listening music with good audio quality , is it a good choice ?

Thanks for saving me allot of money!

I bought a pair of these for testing, since we use Jabra headsets at work and thought an over-the-ear option would be nice in additional to the on-the-ear Jabra Evolve2 75. These would immediately cause complaints from people missing general content and especially pings in Teams. Not being able to disable the battery saver is entirely unacceptable. Sometimes they randomly drop audio in the middle of meetings. They are comfortable and I like the microphone design. I can use them knowing the quirks but it is an annoyance.

I have taken Steelseries Nova pro wireless. Excellent comfortable. An the surprise: excellent microphone quality (feedback from colleagues) in MS Teams! I use them daily. Best buy for my home office work.

i'm totally agreed with all what you told about this headset, i received it yesterday and now i'm thinking to send it back to supplier. I also have a two computers and during my work i have to use both of them time to time. And on one of them i have to be conneted to the hotline app to receive calls from bussines customer. So its a big drama for me, cause evolve lost connection sometimes during the call, they do not connect their micro and customers didnt hear anything. And i have no idea why headset created to the bussines and accept two devices can't do same things as cheaper one's.

This is a serious flaw with the firmwmare wow. Do you know if this issue has been resolved now via firmware update? does it also has this fade-in effect on the Evolve2 75 bluetooth model? please confirm asap so i can cancel my amazon order. Thank you and have a blessed day (subbed).

He comprado estos headset (Jabra Evolve2 85 ) en kit con el dongle jabra link 380, y este pedazo de auricular tiene un gran problema que se queda en mono, por ejemplo jugando counter, que es donde me he dado cuenta porque los pasos no se escuchaban del lado correcto, he realizado pruebas online y efectivamente queda en mono, con el dongle en led verde, he reclamado a Jabra Support y dicen que no es un bug, pero un headset de este valor yo creo que lo debería tener solucionado, he solicitado la escalación del issue

I bought the headset, works great for me. I don't have any of the issues your having using Bluetooth. Did you try it with multiple devices?

I can confirm that the Jabra's go to sleep AND lose Bluetooth connection to the dongle, as I have experienced the same thing with my Jabra Evolve 75. Sometimes I have to cycle on/off to get it to connect to the dongle again. Very annoying. I'm looking at the Bose 700 UC or the Sony WX1000 MB5.

You can trie to use the Bose QuietComfort 45, it's a realy good headphone but you nead to put the price !

Well done.

Does the AirPods Max sounds better ?

Based on reviews from @Headset Advisor, I have recently purchased Jabra evolve2 75 and these are the most expensive headsets I have ever bought. The main reason of getting these headphones is because of the Microsoft teams integration I wanted. Friday morning check-in meeting with my colleagues was the first time I used these headsets and unlike what I was expecting my colleagues complained that they were unable to hear me properly and my voice was breaking up. That made me really sad and I couldn't tell them when they asked me the price I paid for these headphones. This made me feel really embarrassed and now I am going to return this headset. I would say this with this buggy microphone even paying 150 aussie dollars is a big amount and they are being sold here for around 600 dollars which is insane.

I'm hoping the new Evolve2 75 doesn't suffer from the same issues, I will definitely return them if they do.

The audio delay issue is very annoying, but on linux it can be easily solved with the command, that generates inaudible noise: speaker-test -t sine -f 20 -S 1 > /dev/null. I have an easy-to-use alias for this command.

I agree with Pablo. Complete product fail. After a month of use, these things are agressively worse than useless. They actually cripple my productivity. First, connections. All sorts of automatic stuff that turns things on or off without warning and without apparent control. You can start up a meeting and it's 50/50 or worse that the headphones will actually work. In the middle of a meeting, you will lose connection, seemingly at random. If you have a phone hooked up as well as your PC, a call to your phone automatically grabs pairing - you have no control whether to accept the call. In a meeting? Jabra says "Your client meeting probably isn't as important as the incomeing spam call". So you are talking with your most important client and a spam call comes in and you lose connection with the client. And you have NO control over this. Except to not use the headset for multiple connects, which is kind of a feature. What is galling is that the older Evolve 75 did not have these annoying features. There is a very big lack of consumer support for Linux users as well. If you use Linux, I'd say this a a completely inoperable product. (Jabra does claim to support call centers and such, but if you are a direct user and run linux, I believe that you are SOL). I disagree with Pablo about the boom mic. Yes, it's geometrically ok, even innovative. But it does not allow for reliable muting! In the older evolve 75, pushing the mic up always muted the headset and you always got an audible "muted" message" With this mic, muting is not reliable, and the headset DOES mute at random times. And sometimes it tells me I'm muted, and sometimes not. If you are listening to music with the boom up, you get an annoying "thump" mute warning every 20 seconds. And there appears to be a lot of static that is the headsets fault. And Pablo's point about the charger is also relevant. A fixed cable? Really? Why would you do this? The Product manager should be fired without a trial. Like now. So you have to choose USB A or USB C WHEN YOU BUY THE PRODUCT AND CANNOT CHANGE IT! In addition, it's hard to get the headset into the charger. I really can't say enough negative things about this product. The sound is not bad and the NC is reasonably good. But they added a layer of automation that's ... Well, let's just say if I were a competitor, this is the software that I'd design for Jabra to deploy. The design thinking is as arrogantly bad as anything I've recenly owned. A horrible, horrible product. And for only $500! I've missed parts of meetings, delayed calls, and had to put up with a thump every 20 seconds. Obnoxiously, arrogantly horrible. Ummm. Other than being a frustratingly bad product that cripples your productivity and won't allow you to even enjoy listening to music, not bad. 😠😠😠😠😠

How does nobody mention this? Has it been fixed now that it's been a year or is this a permanent flaw?

I'm watching this video with my Jabra evolve2 85 and I don't see this effect you are describing. Is it possible that they updated the firmware or this is a setting you can change with the app? I really really love this headset. I use it since 3 years every day at work and also at home. (Now my ear cushion starts to fall apart and I was searching for a video that describes how to exchange it as this is not straight forward.)

Which do you recommend to buy for someone like me who was thinking of buying this one? I am all day long in call conferences. Thanks for the review!

For me the boom mic was terrible, my beard kept on making scratching noise. Did you not notice the issue with the sidelines implementation? That's the main reason I returned mine

Thanks for the warning. Can this really not be fixed in a firmware update?

I found your post on reddit by accident, where you complained about the issue with the fading. I think it would be fair for you to add that other users in the thread did not mention such problems. I'm gonna get my own in a week or so. I'll share if I have experienced this issue or not.

Thanks a lot

In addition - there is awful audio protection feature which you can't disable. You will never enjoy music in these, so is there a point to buy headphones only for talking for that price? Nice review.

Did you get replacement? What did you get to replace these?

What is firmware release version number your headset has?

I had many of the same complaints with the Evolve2 75. And in addition I had extremely troublesome microphone issues. Sidetone was unusable and people couldn't hear me half the time, cutting in and out. Unbelievable. Watching all these other reviews you'd think these things were gods gift to ears. And in some ways they are phenomenal! But for this price you'd expect near perfection.

I manage to workaround losing content issue - Open KZfaq and keep playing white noise sound on the lowest volume level while simultaneously listening to your desired content. White noise in the background is barely noticeable on that volume level while it prevents your Jabra headphones from disconnecting or going to the sleep mode. The workaround is annoying too but at least I can do my language lessons/tests, which otherwise would be impossible with Evolve2 85. The issue is not reproducible on mobile phone, where the headphones are connected using BT not by Jabra Link dongle.

I just bought these, and they don't have that fade issue.

So far Evolve 65 Flex seem to be the best device Jabra made. No lags, amazing mic quality, great battery life and fast charging. Oh, and the comfort.

"the recommendation was to not have two computers" 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Have you tired on another divece? Maybe your notebook is weak for it…

I got these from work. I fucking hate them with a passion. Sometimes I actually play a video on youtube with static, and turn the volume down on it, just to avoid the ramp up in sound. its horrible.

Why complain. Just enjoy The amazing good sound

I've returned these headphones 3 times... completely disappointed :(

DON't buy the Evolve2 85. The headset cannot connect to either Sound+ app (on iPhone) nor Jabra Direct (on Mac), and the headset always turns off "ANC"/"Passthrough" after awhile and reverts to "of" (so you hear muffled sound but not either modes). Buy either the Logitech Zone wireless or Plantronics headsets. If you buy Jabra, the only support you receive is an automated message from Jabra that they apologies for it not working.

THey are only Bluetooh 5, not 5.2.

Although everything in this video review is accurate. The pros still significantly outweigh the cons by such a drastic amount. It's only problematic if what flaws it does has ia considered complete irritating beyond measures that ruins the user's experience that lables the device completely unusable. With all of that we're talking a 10 to maybe 15 percent make up of subjective flaws compared to 85 or 90 percent excellent performance. Take a car that has 200,000 miles on it. It's not going to be 100% perfect for everyone but as the owner the conditional terms are well acceptable compared to fair competitor sporting deal breaking flaws. I've had my headset 3 years and I'm a very active gas hauler in the trucking business and my headset has definitely taken a beating over the years. So while every review aspect of this review is very accurate, no other headset neither for me has neither outperformed or lasted as long as these. I also pc game with them and the surround sounds (spatial of what its called) is spectacular for headset that is mainly designed for office use. Plus at 37 hours usage significantly l with an extremely short charge time and a really far bluetooth connectivity range of over 100 feet. All the flaws mentioned are extremely minor compared to all the positives.12 minutes on flaws but easily 45 minutes on the positives if demonstrated in a comparison fashion to other devices Mine has hit the ground probably 10+ times and the speaker audio is still exactly like day 1. They hold up extremely well.

Thanks you saved me 459,99€

This is terrible and thanks for the review. I am looking for recommendations as well (a headset with good microphone noise cancelling)

This sleeping problem makes the Jabra Evolve2 85 ABSOLUTELY CRAP FOR VIDEO EDITING on Windows 10. I regret this purchase.

Adding an edit. Another reason to hate this product. If you use the Jabra app, pressing any button on the app mutes the headset for 3 or 4 seconds! You can't even set or adjust things with the app while you are listening. Also, the app has a notification on the android badge. But it's impossible to find what the notification actually referrs to, or to clear it! Good heavens this software is awful.

Fading is really annoying... And response of Jabra support is unacceptable...