Jabra Elite 45e review: Low on bass, high on call quality & great for exercising

Jabra has been slowly making a name for itself in India with its line of affordable wireless earphones. To make a name for itself, Jabra has been pricing its products aggressively. The under Rs 10,000 market is getting more and more competitive and audio quality is improving day-by-day. To that effect, Jabra unleashed its latest range of earphones.

I’ve been using the Jabra Elite 45e for over a month now. At a price of Rs 7,499 on Amazon India, these may be a tad bit overpriced but are definitely worth your hard earned money. Once I got a comfortable fit, I was able to go running with them without the fear of them falling out. I was also able to easily go between answering calls and listening to music.

Jabra has had to compete with the likes of Sony and Bose in recent times but in the budget segment, they have been constantly at the top of their game.

The Elite 45e headphones provide a quality experience at an affordable price with the added incentive of them being voice assistant enabled. That holds true unless you’re a hardcore bass fan. These headphones wrap around the front or back of one's neck and creates a secure fit, unlike some of the competitors’ products.

These aren’t noise-cancelling headphones, but they do have ambient noise reduction. This means that all those distracting sounds will be kept at a bare minimum so that you can have uninterrupted phone calls or listen to all that music with pristine clarity.

The Elite 45e headphones are an example of that quality at an affordable price. These headphones have a cord that wraps around the front or back of the neck to create a secure fit. One other benefit is that the two ends of the band have a magnetic strip, that when attached to each other, turns off the headphones. You can also use these strips to answer/end calls.

Furthermore, there is a companion Jabra+ app. This allows one to adjust the audio to suit their listening preferences. As mentioned above, these headphones are also compatible with voice-enabled assistants Alexa, Siri & Google Assistant.

The battery is listed as eight hours on a single charge. While I never hit the eight-hour mark, I constantly ot around seven hours of battery life out of the Elite 45e headphones, and for me, that was good enough for a day full of office and more.

All of the above that I have mentioned surely is positive, but if audio quality isn’t up to the mark, then why bother with the product at all.