Nokia BH-604 Bluetooth Headphones

Question

I recently took delivery of these beauties and thought I'd share some of my impressions.
The sound quality is excellent, but you do need to set up an equaliser preset as they are FAR too boomy by default. Just knock off HALF the lowest slider and add a little at the top and you should be close to right. It's sad that Nokia feel they need to produce a rubbish sound by default. I guess it's a sop to the tin-eared morons of the younger generation, but I feel it's a mistake, as anyone with any decent auditory perception will think they are 2nd rate should they hear only the default. In fact they are really quite good, with a balanced range showing reasonable detail throughout, but ONLY if you jigger the settings. They are not up there with the true audiophile jobs but they do give an experience superior to anything you can get with earbuds.
The dynamic range is much greater than achievable with wired phones from my mobile and most importantly: they give considerably greater fine control. My 5630 gives only 3 VERY coarse steps for the volume range that I like to use, just not good enough! These phones solve that problem. The volume selection on the phones is cummulative with that on the phone which seems rather strange to me. I would have thought they would sync. Not that this is an issue, just keep the volume on the phone up fairly high so as to transmit the most audio resolution and adjust it down on the phones if you need to.
Pairing with my 5630 was a doddle and I got quality stereo audio straight off, HOWEVER: it was easy to confuse the audio side of Bluetooth pairing and if there is any interuption the audio side will cease to work, even though the Bluetooth manager says they are happily paired. The ONLY CURE for this is to reboot my phone. Pretty poor really, but I have come to understand that Nokia's phone software is 2nd rate and not to be relied upon. Perhaps other phone models don't have this problem, let's hope so.
I found that running certain background apps caused the player to jump occasionally, not badly, not enough to irritate a little. Offenders include Google Search and Google Maps. Closing these solved the problem.
That's all I want to say for the nonce. Go ahead and add any impressions you wish to share.

Answer 1

base on your impressions, you surely enjoy using it.. good for you