Bluetooth headphones are experiencing a sort of renaissance, with audio quality that's improved by leaps and bounds in the last few years. Suddenly, a $99 pair like the Jabra Move Wireless can hang with many wired pairs in the same price range. The Move Wireless has a simple, classy design, and the plush earpads remain comfortable over long listening periods. There's an audio cable for optional wired listening, but the best aspect is the audio performance: Bass lovers who want their low frequencies balanced out with crisp highs will be pleased. In this price range, the Move Wireless is an excellent option whether you're listening wirelessly or through a cable, earning it our Editors' Choice.

Design

Available in black, blue, or red, the Move Wireless has a simple, classy look to it. The supra-aural (on-ear) design is comfortable, and the design accents are simple and spare, with a Jabra logo above the earcups and some cool small writing that lets you know the sound design is by Jabra, which is from Copenhagen. It's an interesting design move to keep the earcups basically blank with a matte finish except for tiny writing, which ends up look more like a decorative border than anything else from any appreciable distance.

The earpads and underside of the headband are cushioned enough to stay comfortable over long listening sessions. A linguini-style flat cable connects the earcups to the headband itself, bending inward gracefully when the headband is retracted and straightening out when the headband is extended.

Controls on the left earcup include a Play/Pause/Answer Call/End Call button flanked by two additional buttons that adjust volume or navigate tracks depending on how long you hold them down. The volume controls work together with your mobile device's volume level, not independently of it. A Power/Bluetooth switch on the right earcup allows you to pair the headphones or turn them off. A micro USB port next to the switch works with the included charging cable.

The Move Wireless ships with a detachable 3.5mm audio cable and a micro USB charging cable. There's no carrying pouch or case, but at $100, this is a forgiveable omission.

Jabra rates the battery life of the Move Wireless at roughly 8 hours, with up to 288 hours of standby battery life. Your results on the overall life per charge will depend on how loudly you play your streaming music back. It takes about 1-2 hours to fully charge a dead battery.

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Performance

On tracks with intense sub-bass content, like The Knife's "Silent Shout," the Move Wireless delivers some serious thunder and doesn't distort even at top, unsafe listening levels. At moderate volumes, the deep bass still commands the mix, but leaves enough high-mid and high frequency presence to keep things balanced.

On tracks with less-intense deep bass, like Bill Callahan's "Drover," the Move Wireless still packs a serious bass punch, with his baritone vocals getting plenty of added richness in the low-mids and the drums receiving an extra coat of low-end presence. The result would sound muffled and unnatural if the Move Wireless didn't also bring lots of high-mid and high frequency sculpting to the table. Callahan's vocals get enough treble edge to remain clear and in the forefront of the mix, and the guitar strumming has a bright, clean attack to it. This is a sculpted, but balanced, sound.

On Jay-Z and Kanye West's "No Church in the Wild," the kick drum loop's attack gets just the right amount of high-mid presence to sound sharp and slice through the dense layers of this mix, while the sub-bass synth hits get plenty of attention in both the high-mids and the deep lows, providing plenty of extra thump while retaining the raspy top notes. The bass presence here is strong, but it doesn't overwhelm the balance of the mix, and leaves plenty of room for the vocals to float clearly over everything.

Bass lovers will enjoy what the added presence does for orchestral and jazz music. Classical tracks, like the opening scene in John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary, get a noticeable boost in the bass department, raising the presence of lower register instrumentation from subtle to powerful. It isn't quite overpowering, since the vocals and higher register strings and brass still get plenty of sculpted high-mid and high frequency presence to remain the focus of the mix, but purists will find this sound a bit bass-heavy. 

The $100 price range is not exactly filled with excellent Bluetooth on-ear or over-ear headphone options, though we have several models we like for far less or lots more. The Harman Kardon BT and the JBL Synchros S400BT ($99.99 at Amazon) both offer sculpted, but balanced, responses, but are much more expensive, while the Outdoor Technology DJ Slims ( at Amazon) offers listenable, clean audio for a lower price. At $100, however, the Jabra Move Wireless has no notable direct competition in the Bluetooth realm. It combines a subtle, classy design with a powerful audio performance, earning it our Editors' Choice.

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