Quick Motorola DJ Headphones S805 Review
Categories: ReviewsHeadphone News reader Bunny_Man has fired a quick (and not very complimentary) review of Motorola’s S805 Bluetooth headphones in the comments section of an earlier review on this site. It’s worth reading if you’re thinking of buying these ‘phones so here it is again in case you missed it:
These are pure over priced crap. I’ve waited for these to go on sale at my local CompUSA, This week only for $80 after rebate (list at $150).
I used a JustCom USB Blutooth Class2+EDR adaptor, I had to figure out how to get the MS Media player to work with them. (Hint: After you’ve loaded your Bluetooth device drivers & rebooted, Click on the WMP sound device property & change it to your headphones)
The headphones were fully charged and linked up fine. They linked fine to my Moto KRZR, but Verizon neuterd the A2DP, so no go on the BT music player. BUT OH MY GOD!, they sounded like POOP! Don’t-even try to bump up the bass, as it will just kill the sound stream. So much so that I wonder if I need the Class-1 higher power version adapter to keep the sound from falling apart. I know it’s a digital link, but the way they sound just turns to crap at higher volumes or even with higher bass at low volumes, it just feels like something can’t pull the load.
Don’t buy them unless you plan to evaluate your setup and then return them like I will. These stink big time. I just don’t want to wear wires to my phone or use the Mini USB earplugs that I bought for the KRZR. What to do? Keep looking and hope for better.
Think I’ll stay away from this pair of headphones!
If anyone else wants to review a pair of headphones for the site, send me an email.
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April 24th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Weird, I got the same Headset, and the sound seems just great to me.
I mostly listen to music through the bluetooth from my laptop using the latest toshiba bluetooth stack.
could easily turn these up to painfully high volume levels without distortion, hell, you could hear the musid quite clearly details over 10 feet away.
Maybe something’s wrong with your a2dp, and you have it on headset profile instead which will have music sound like, well phone quality.
Switching for calls was no problem. their is a slight “problem” with the noise cancellation of the microphone, if you whisper, your voice will start being filtered away, and sound robotlike. there is no problem at all when you talk normally though. nice and clear.
A2DP coming from pairing it with a samsung d900 phone seemed to sound a tad worse, but didn’t do enough testing, could be a phone thing.
the headphones themselves were pretty tight at first, but after a few hours of wearing, they fit really well, and I can keep them on for several hours straight at a time. so while comfort at first was so-so, just keep them on, and moving them around a bit will make them fit comfortably. actually, if you’re the type of person that feels hot really easily, you might be better off picking headphones with velvet instead of soft leather.
using jog dials instead of buttons for volume control is awesome. you dont need to turn the dials all the way round or anything.
play and pause button, and track skip dial on the right, take call button, and volume dial on the left. very intuitive controls, that even the most clumsy of people will have no problems with.
when the battery dies, you can still listen using the 2.5mm to 3.5mm cable that comes with the package and listen analog style (which sounds even better depending on the sound source, most people wouldn’t hear a difference I think) while charging.
If plan to use these only as wireless headphones at home, thesennheiser rs130 and rs140 sound somewhat better but are slightly more expensive. those have transmitters that you really cant pocket though.
if you plan to only use them for music from your ipod, and don’t mind or prefer a behind the neck model, the logitech freepulse are ok. that won’t have microphone or play/pause/skip controls, but comes with its owm bluetooth adaptor.
for listening to a2dp music from phone or laptop, these are some great circumaural over the head style headphones.
great wireless allround headphones for commuting and at home.
If you want a Bluetooth headphones that you can skip,play pause tracks with, can take calls with, can use as a wired solution when the battery is dead (17hours music,200 hours standy by the way, I think I did reach those specifications, but I didnt keep track), are over the head and surround your ears, and sound great, then there are no alternatives to the S805 at this price point. The only others with the same functionality (and maybe better sound) would have to be Sony’s new DR-BT50 that are supposed to cost $230 dollars.
May 24th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I had the Motorola HT820 before and it sounded perfect! Believe me my friends’ jaws dropped in envy after hearing the headset for themself. I heard that the S805’s sound quality is even better and I’ve no reason to doubt that.
By the way, the quality of the music is affected by the quality of the music file itself and the bitrate. Get a CD and compress it to 64kb/s aac+ or e-aac++ for the best result, either that or decompress a 192kb/s to 320kb/s mp3 to WAV, then compress it to 64kb/s aac+ or e-aac+. The reason for this is that the quality of music is great on it’s own and it isn’t too hard to stream to the headset as the bitrate is really low. I was able to walk a full 8 to 9 meters away from my mobile before my HT820 started skipping, and until then the sound quality was just perfect and the ability to control your music player was still working!
May 24th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Cheers for the tip lucienium. I generally would never compress my music to that extent but I guess it makes sense considering the limited bandwidth of Bluetooth.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
2 ohi: Hi….are your s805 automatically connecting to your computer when you turn on s805 so you can immediatelly listent to music in high quality? And what is the procedure when you start and end calling with Skype?
thx
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