Throw on a track like Billy Idol’s Rita Hayworth and the Reflect Flow Pro will deliver a high-octane sonic assault that’s guaranteed to get you moving. The Reflect Flow Pro won’t disappoint: They sound great right out of the box, with plenty of low-end boom and decently clear mid and high frequencies. Punchy and powerful bass can be enjoyable regardless of what you choose to do while listening to music, but it’s a huge asset for folks who need workout motivation. Sound that moves you Simon Cohen / Digital Trends Besides, the Reflect Flow Pro’s charging case supports Qi wireless charging, something that, so far, no Beats products can do. Normally I’d ding JBL for this omission, but when you can offer people up to 10 hours per charge, the need for fast charging is considerably reduced. The only thing missing here is a fast-charge option. That’s better than both the Beats Fit Pro and the Beats Powerbeats Pro.
But even when you use these features, you’ll still get up to eight hours per charge. The Reflect Flow Pro double these numbers when you’ve got ANC and transparency turned off.
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One of the things that the original JBL Reflect Flow got right was their impressive power capacity: 10 hours per charge and two full charges in the case’s battery. Hours of power Simon Cohen / Digital Trends And that’s before we even get into things like sound quality, call quality, and handy extras (but don’t worry, we’ll discuss these too).
It’s as though JBL is defying us to find something missing and frankly, it’s hard to find any faults at all. Wireless charging, wear sensors, a choice of voice assistants, active noise cancellation (ANC), transparency mode, custom controls, and EQ. The Reflect Flow Pro don’t just improve on the Reflect Flow’s design, they’re also chock-full of features. The built-in lanyard loop is just big enough that you can feed the case through the loop, letting you attach it to a bag strap or even a belt loop on your pants. The charging case is not water- or dust-proof, but it’s well built and quite rugged. Still, as long as they stay put, they’ll have no problem handling all that water - with an IP68 rating for dust and water resistance, they’re just about the toughest earbuds you can buy. Yes, they fit very securely, but no, I would not risk finding out the hard way that they’re no match for a head-first wipeout. JBL says the fit is secure enough that you could go surfing with the Reflect Flow Pro. That stands in stark contrast to the Beats Fit Pro which have a single, permanently installed set of wingtips.
The Reflect Flow Pro come with three sizes of silicone ear tips and four sizes of wingtips (“powerfins” in JBL’s vernacular) that range from large to barely-there, which means more people are likely to find a combo that fits. The Reflect Flow Pro are smaller and lighter, and they address virtually every flaw we found on the original Reflect Flow. Their physical buttons were a bit hard to press, their sound quality was uneven, and their transparency (ambient) mode was only so-so.īut one look at the design of the Reflect Flow Pro and it’s clear that, despite their name, they are actually the Pro model of the Reflect Mini NC, not the Reflect Flow. They were huge - sticking out of your ears a lot, giving what I think of as a Frankenstein’s monster look. The Reflect Flow Pro are, in theory, the successors to the company’s Reflect Flow model, a comfy and waterproof set of sport earbuds that unfortunately had a few drawbacks. Great fit without the Frankenstein Simon Cohen / Digital Trends Just how good are the Reflect Flow Pro? Let’s check em out. But lately, it’s been more hits than misses, and that’s certainly true of JBL’s latest active lifestyle true wireless earbuds, the $180 JBL Reflect Flow Pro, a product that competes with the $200 Beats Fit Pro, the $180 Jabra Elite 7 Active, and JBL’s own $150 Reflect Mini NC. Other times, it comes up short, as I felt was the case with its flagship Club One cans. Sometimes, as with its Tour Pro+ earbuds and Tour One ANC headphones, it absolutely nails it. JBL isn’t always the most consistent company when it comes to personal audio.
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