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cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top"> <td class="section w99"> <div class="moduletable"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <div class="padding"> <h1 align="center">Bluetake i-PHONO Bluetooth Hi-Fi Sports Headphone Kit (cont)</h1> <p align="left"><strong>Performance:</strong></p> <p>To be honest, before testing, I assumed the sound quality would be bland. This is mainly because I assumed that Bluetake spent most of their attention towards the Bluetooth part of the i-PHONO and probabily use some inferior speakers. To my surprise, the sound quality was very good. As good as any Panasonic or Sony street style headphones. Overall sound was very clear with strong, but not overwhelming, bass. </p> <p>The soft rubber ear hooks help keep the headphones in place. Wearing the headphones is really comfortable for short periods of time. </p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/iphono/17.jpg"><img src="atruereview/iphono/17th.jpg" width="250" height="200" border="0" alt="Bluetake i-PHONO Bluetooth Hi-Fi Sports Headphone Kit"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>When the audio dongle is stationary, the sound signal stayed clean for about 7 to 9 feet indoors. I say when the dongle is stationary because when I took the i-PHONO and attached to an mp3 player, which I then set in my pocket and went out for a walk, the signal cut and drifted quite often. At most, the dongle is 3 feet from the headphones. This result is quite disappointing since Bluetake calls the i-PHONO a sports headphone kit. I found that while outside, if I set the mp3 player with the dongle down, the signal stayed consistently clean. I addressed the poor signal issue with Bluetake and they are working to improve it. </p> <p>If the headphone is paired with a Bluetooth enabled cellphone, the pair button can be used to answer and end calls. When listening to music, if there is a call, the i-PHONO has an "auto-switching" feature. This means when you push the pair button on the headphone to answer the call, the headphone will stop playing music. When the pair button is pressed again to end the call, music will resume.</p> <p>The headphones can be paired with the computer through a Bluetooth adapter. For listening to music I do not recommend it. When connected to the computer in this manner, the headphones use the Headset Profile (HSP) which has AM radio quality audio. Although, I found that I can be about 25 feet away from the adapter until the sound quality got worse. One of the main reasons that the audio through the audio dongle is so good is because it uses a new Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP).</p> <p align="center"> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="274" height="204"> <param name="movie" value="colors.swf"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <embed src="colors.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="274" height="204"></embed> </object> </p> <p>Both the audio dongle and headphones took about 4.5 hours to charge from empty to full. When charging, the LED next to the power jack on the headphones and the dongle’s LED will glow red. When the batteries are full, the LEDs turn green. With a full charge, each lasted about 6 hours.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong></p> <p>In the ideal future all portable audio players will have built-in Bluetooth transmitters so that any Bluetooth headphone can be used with any audio player, just like wired headphones. Until then, the i–PHONO Bluetooth Headphone Kit is a great way to sample a bit of the future. </p> <p>With the BT430 audio dongle, the BT420 headphone can be used with any audio sources. In addition, the headphone can be used with almost any Bluetooth enabled cellphones and anything else that is Bluetooth enabled. Though there are some kinks that need to be addressed, the i-PHONO Bluetooth Hi-Fi Sports Headphone Kit is a still a great product and a prime example Bluetooth's capabilities if you can afford the price.</p> <p><strong>Pros:</strong></p> <ul> <li> Very good sound quality</li> <li> Changeable color plates</li> <li> Foldable headphone</li> <li> Works with Bluetooth cellphones</li> </ul> <p><strong>Cons:</strong></p> <ul> <li> Signal cuts and drifts when audio dongle is in constant motion</li> </ul> <p><strong>Ratings:</strong></p> <table width="195" border="0"> <tr> <td width="101">Overall:</td> <td width="168"> Good</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Esthetics: </td> <td>Very Good</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Performance: </td> <td> Good</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Compatibility: </td> <td>Excellent</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Price: </td> <td>Fair</td> </tr> </table> <p>(Ratings Possible Terrible, Very Bad, Bad, Fair, Good, Very Good, Excellent)</p> <table width="75%" border="1" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#0066FF"> <td><div align="center"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF">More Information</font></strong></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><div align="center"><a href="http://www.atruereview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2294#2294">Discuss in our forums</a></div> <div align="center"></div> <div align="center"></div> </td> </tr> </table> <p><strong>Note:</strong></p> <p> Though most new Bluetooth enabled cellphones will most likely be compatible with the BT420 headphone, Bluetake has a <a href="http://www.bluetake.com/products/BT420EX/BT420EX_subC.htm">list of tested compatible phones</a>.<br> Bluetake also has a new Hi-PHONO BT460 <a href="http://www.bluetake.com/products/BT460EX.htm">Bluetooth Hi-Fi Audio Station</a>, which uses the new Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP). 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