This is the review of the comparison between the Jaybird Vista and the Jaybird Run. Both of them are of the same brand. So, there will be more confusion about which to buy. To take your correct decision you must be clear about for which purpose you need headphones and you must know the features of both the products. To know about them go to the detailed review.

Jaybird Vista	Jaybird Run
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PROS	PROS
Fit securely. Sound quite good. Fully waterproof. Fun, bass-heavy sound with right seal. Earbuds can be used independently. Compact case with lanyard and soft touch finish. Standard USB-C port for charging case. Easy to clean. 6 hours of battery life with 10 additional hours from the case.	Fits comfortably and inconspicuously. Sound-quality is on-par with other truly wireless earbuds. Water and sweat resistant.
CONS	CONS
Expensive. Plasticky exterior. Lag while watching videos. No auto-pause or “hear-through” feature. No extra fin/tips in the package. You need a Spotify Premium subscription to use a lot of the app’s special features.	Buttons are tough to press while you’re wearing them. More expensive than some of the competition at $180. Battery case could be more secure. Single-button design limits control options.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Expert Reviews of Jaybird Vista:

By PCWorld New Zealand
The Jaybird Vista isn’t just the best set of truly wireless earbuds that the brand has brought to the market to date, they’re genuinely one of the best options on the market. They’re comfortable to wear, they sound great, offer plenty of battery life…

By Pocket-lint
The Jaybird Vista is a great pair of running earphones, offering that value-for-money appeal that’s synonymous with the brand. These buds stay in your ears, deliver good sound, and will get you through your sweatiest workouts while delivering a punchy…

By What Hi-Fi?
While you can get a sliver more detail and hi-fi sounding performance from the Melomania 1s, that’s not to say the Vistas are poor as a result. A pair of sports headphones must ensure a perfect fit alongside an energetic and punchy sound to even approach…

By Engadget
With the Vista, Jaybird has made a huge leap forward in the world of wireless earbud. They’re comfortable, sound great, and can withstand the abuse of most workouts. They’re more than just good exercise headphones, they’re some of the best wireless buds around.

By Trusted Reviews
Verdict The Jaybird Vista is an excellent true wireless earbud that is an ideal fit for any avid runner or gym-goer. They offer one of the best seals you’ll find on a true wireless set, excellent build quality, and one of the stablest connections you’ll…

Expert Reviews of Jaybird Run:

By PC Mag
JayBird’s Run XT true wireless earbuds sound excellent and feature a super-secure, waterproof…

By Android Guys
Jaybird is killing the game, as it has been for quite some time. With the release of the Jaybird Run, the company is finally moving out of the wired era, and into the wireless age. Despite being the company’s first such iteration, you can definitely tell…

By Phone Arena
In addition to sporting some Earth Day-themed colors, this special edition also comes with an eco-friendly packaging as well. Now, if we’re to factor in how the only tangible difference here is the new paint job of the Jaybird Run, we were certainly…

By TheStreamingBlog
The Jaybird Run Wireless Headphones is something that you’d expect from a great company that has been providing quality wireless headphones for years. It doesn’t only come in a cool and stylish Drift Silver shade, but it’s also comfortable and great for…

By TopNewReview
The concept of running ‘naked’ – by ditching gadgetry such as headphones, phone, or GPS watch – appeals to a certain minimalist training enthusiast. But for most runners, music is a must-have, which means dealing with cables. Even the lightest Bluetooth…

Detail Review:

INTRODUCTION:

Jaybird Vista

These are a set of truly wireless buds. The Jaybird Vista is not new they’ve been around for a while but they are still some of the best true wireless running buds that you can buy. There are some shortcomings and some of the feature sets have moved on with newer buds. These are retailing for $179.

Jaybird Run

The Jaybird Runs are retailing for around $109. They’re designed really well, they have decent battery life and the fact that you can customize the audio in the companion app that’s awesome. They are pretty good at their price.

DESIGN:

Jaybird Vista

They’re six grams per bud which are very slightly heavier than the Jabra Elite or the Apple Airpods Pro which are around five or five-and-a-half grams but they are still really minimal in the ears. There are four colors available in this. It’s super compact like a pretty standard car key which is something you might have to carry on a run, it comes in the size of that. It’s really lightweight, it’s 33 grams. So, that’s nice and lightweight.

You can actually run with it, pop it in a belt had no problem. The Airpods don’t have this, some other cases the Jabra Elite Active 75t’s don’t have this either which is a little hook there and a cord. That is really handy because if you run with something like this, it is super nice in the pocket it sits really flat because it’s quite a thin case and isn’t big and round. It’s grippy so it actually stays in place.

I really like that touch it’s a very simple design touch. The other thing that I like is that this has a magnetic clip, the Run XT didn’t. It’s magnetic and it stays shut in your bag and also you’ve got magnetic clips for the buds so they go in and they don’t fall out either.

Jaybird Run

I actually like the way they’re designed, they were very minimal, very small, and compact. When you put them in your ear they fit just perfectly fine. They do have a little silver trim around the edges of the part that shows outside to other people. I do wish that was all black so that they can just blend in better and I just prefer that but that’s a personal preference. I think they fit well and they look pretty good to me.

COMFORT:

Jaybird Vista

They fit really nicely and they disappear almost as a sort of comfortable fit. So, that’s all good. The old pair Jaybirds fixed one big problem with that, that’s the Jaybird Run used to have a separate wingtip and a separate gel. Now it is all in one piece and sits on the bud. What that has done is fixed one of the biggest problems that I found with the Run and the Run XT, which was the wingtip would move and slide around over time it became a little bit flimsy and a little bit fragile and it didn’t hold in the ear.

But this with a slightly more solid silicon on the wingtip and that one piece doesn’t do that and actually what these have got over something like the Jabra Elite is that the wing tip hooks into your ear and keeps these very secure indeed. There are some people that I’ve seen who have reported that these don’t stay in and it’s possible there are other people out there who have had difficulty with these. But you do get three different sizes of these one-piece gels and tips small, medium, and large, so you can hopefully find a fit that works for you.

Jaybird Run

The one thing that I really liked about them is that they don’t give you ear fatigue and they’re really comfortable in your ears well. At least for my ears and that’s why I went with these ones because I used to own a Jaybird X3 and those fit in my ears perfectly. So, if you’ve ever used any Jaybirds out there and they fit well for you then these will definitely fit well for you. I didn’t get any ear fatigue or annoyance in my ear while listening to them and I was able to listen for about an hour and a half without having any issues.

The thing I don’t like that they have is the little bond on the side of the ear where you tap it to go to the next track and that was really uncomfortable. They’re already deep in your ear and they’re just perfect sealed and then when you go to push the button, you end up pushing it and messing up the way it fits in your ear because the button is very stiff here. When you basically push it deeper into your ear, it causes ear fatigue. I didn’t really like that so I ended up not using that feature, I just use my phone to change the track or pause and play whenever I wanted to do anything like that. I don’t think the button on this earbud is very easy to use.

FEATURES:

Jaybird Vista

You’ve got micro USB-C charging here. You’ve got a really smart design that I think puts it up there with any of the others. They call it earth proof and they are IPX7 rated, what that means that they are water, sweat, crush, and shockproof, so it’s pretty much everything. They can handle immersion in 1 meter of water up to 30 minutes. I’ve run hundreds of miles I’ve had absolutely no problems. These things are still working fine for me, they all look the same, they sound still as good even after went through rain, sweaty, drenched during runs. So, I think on the durability point I personally haven’t had any issues.

The connectivity for me on the Vista was fine. The connectivity on the run between buds sometimes in the true wireless buds in the past you’ll get dropout. If the buds fail to sort of speak to each other or they drop out from the phone, it’s been a problem quite hard for the manufacturers to sort out. But I’ve never had any problems with these they’ve been really reliable. Overall I think these perform solidly on the sound front and but if you like it really big and loud then and maybe you’re going to have to look elsewhere.

The things that you don’t get with the Jaybird Vista is noise cancellation, You also don’t get hear through mode or the transparency mode that we’ve seen come on the Airpods Pro and they are also on the Jabra Active and the Elite 75t. But if you want these then you can use it by the way of using single earbud to hear your surroundings as they are independent.

When it comes to controls on the Jaybird Vista I think they’re really nice and simple, both in the way that they feel and you interact them with your hands but also in the way that the controls are set up. One thing that’s changed from the Run XT is we’ve got like a little concave button rather than one that protruded a bit. It’s just easy to find with the finger and it feels nice and tactile also.

When you press the button, it’s a nice light press rather than a push. So, it doesn’t feel like you’re digging the headphones into your ears if you’ve got quite a sort of a tight fit there and also they won’t shake loose when you press. There’s also a limited number of controls that you can have and you can control them with both headphones as well.

Obviously, because they work independently you need to be able to have the same controls on each bud, so you’ve got that capability and you can configure the controls in the app. If you’ve got some things that you much prefer, you can actually go into the app and whatever that might be, there are things that you can control. You can assign play-pause, next track, volume and you can launch Siri and your voice assistance and all that kind of stuff. I think controls are really good.

Jaybird Run

When you open up the Jaybird run box right on the top you’ll see the earbuds and they’re in the little carrying case. The case looks like a capsule to me. Then under that, there is a little section, if you open it up you get a little bag that carries your charging cable and has a bunch of different little ear tips and ear hooks and that’s basically all you get with this packaging.

The thing that I really like is just how easy it is for you to connect these. When you open them up right away, they go into pairing mode, you go into your phone and turn on the Bluetooth and then go into the settings for the Bluetooth and you can just see them pop up right there and connect them. Once you connect them then you’re done, you’re all set you don’t have to connect them again every single time. Whenever you close the case with the earbuds in there then it disconnects and starts charging but then whenever you open it, within three seconds your phone is connected to the earbud so that was really easy and I like that.

There’s a lag when you’re watching videos on mobile. I have a pixel excel and I also have an iPhone X and I used these with both of those and when I’m watching video on YouTube then there’s huge lag. I just felt like the mouth is moving when the audio is not coming in.

I tried to reset the Jaybirds and tried a different couple of times and it still wasn’t sinking in. I don’t know what that’s really all about maybe it’s just a mobile thing because when I tried them on my Macbook Pro they worked flawlessly. I was watching YouTube for hours with my MacBook Pro and there was no sync error, there was no lag and I could listen to watch videos all that I wanted without any issues.  

If you are going to be consuming media on your mobile phone especially on YouTube then these are not good. But if you’re listening to music whether you’re at the gym or you’re just going for a run or just a podcast where you’re not looking at the screen and watching something, then these are great. They’re comfortable and they last a really long time and you can carry them in your bag or in your pocket with a little tap.

BATTERY AND ITS LIFE:

Jaybird Vista

The buds on their own have six hours charge in each bud, the case comes with ten, so you’ve got a total of sixteen hours run time. If you carry the case and you can recharge on the way. There are some of the other brands in which case plus buds combos will go up to sort of twenty-four and beyond that. A single charge from dead to full takes two hours, you also get a rapid charge where you’ll get an hour’s runtime from five minutes charged on the plug which is pretty solid. It’s good enough. It’s not the best and but they are pretty solid in terms of battery life.

You can use one of them at a time, so you can use the buds independently if you want to extend the runtime that you’ve got so that you’ll go up to thirty-two hours. If you use them one at a time with the case and the bud sort of power combo and what they’ll do as well, they cleverly combined the audio into the one bud so you don’t lose too much in terms of the sound.

The other thing to say is that they have Auto power-down when they’re idle for a period of time. So, if you take them out when you finish the run left on the table after a time, they’ll know you’re not using them and they’ll power off. 

Jaybird Run

The battery life on these is rated for four hours and then if you put them in the case and charge it that’ll be to another eight hours. Honestly, you’ll never really need to do that unless you are a sports person because I don’t think there’s somebody that listens to music or just stream something for more than four hours straight. So with the case in the earbuds, you’ll be able to get through a whole day. Just charge them overnight, then you can even go a couple of days if your sessions are shorter than an hour.

SOUND:

Jaybird Vista

They kick out good quality sound. They’re stuffing good quality sound, six mm drivers. There’s custom EQ control so you can go in and change sound profiles to meet your needs and actually you can set a bunch of those that you prefer.

If there’s a way that you want your audio to sound in the gym versus out when you’re running on the trails you can do that, you can up the bass, you can fiddle with the treble, all of those things to get the perfect sound that you really like. So, when it comes to the sound we do have one sort of big criticism and that is that they don’t go as loud as some headphones.

That’s probably brilliant for your ears and the health of your hearing but when your legs are burning and your lungs are burning, you’re deep into a run you need something to give you that big kick in the pants. What you get from these in terms of the volume is the one thing that sort of sets them apart and in a negative way from some of the other buds that we’ve tried on.

Jaybird Run

I like the way the sound comes out of these earbuds. They fit securing your ears, they block out the outside noise, so that you get a nice rich vibrant sound coming in when you’re listening to music. What makes it better is the fact that there’s a companion app that comes with it.

In this app, it lets you customize your audio like you can mess around with the mids, the highs, and the lows to fine-tune it to the way that you like it. So, that’s awesome because I can tune it to the way that I like it. That just caters to every single person.

If you don’t really want to mess around with these settings, then there are presets out there that Jaybird created, and then there are presets that other people created, so you can just try out different presets and find the one you like. You’re good to go and then you can change it later on in the future if you ever decide to change it. So, I really like the sound quality and that companion app that comes with it.

WHICH TO BUY?

In my opinion, if you are looking for headphones that have long battery life and that are more comfortable so that you can use it for a long time during your sports activities, then you should go for the Vista. But if you are looking for headphones just only for your music purpose or just to watch any videos for a few hours then you can go for the Run because they don’t have much battery life and they are also not much comfort for a long time.