Parrot Zik App Download These Presets

Users can then download these Presets and listen to their music in the same way as their favorite artist.

You just need to move your finger the musical style most suited to your taste.

Several options are available in the app to ensure that you enjoy a comfortable listening experience like no other.

Note: The NFC compatibility of the Zik headphones enables an instantaneous pairing with a Nokia Lumia 920 or 1020 Smartphone.

Depending on your smartphone, it is possible that you wont be asked to enter a code.

However: There is never any distortion at top volumes, even on deep bass tracks, and you can fine-tune the EQ so much as to almost completely eliminate the harshness of the sound signature.

Headband is slightly uncomfortable.

Expensive. Significant sound leakage.

Integrated NFC and touch sensitive controls that auto-pause your music when you remove the headphones Of course.

However, one reason its useful is that its the only way to balance out the Ziks highly-sculpted frequency response.

With so many bells and whistles, the Zik, designed by Philippe Starck, risks being a jack-of-all-trades, master of none.

Its not the best-sounding, nor best noise canceling pair out there, but at 399.95 (list), its priced like it is.

So many products would be a jumbled mess with such an array of features, however, and the Zik manages its arsenal gracefully.

Above all else, its a beautifully, thoughtfully designed headphone pair.

The ear pads are very plush, and for the first thirty seconds, theyre the most comfortable headphones youve ever worn.

Eventually, the underside of the headband, which can be precision adjusted and then locked in place, gets a little uncomfortable, putting some less-than-cushiony pressure on the scalp, regardless of adjustments.

The awesome ear pads more than cancel out the headbands less-than-comfortable design, however.

Once youve paired your device via Bluetootha process that can be done swiftly via NFC on compatible devices, and fairly quickly using the standard pairing method, as wellyou can control volume by swiping your finger up or down the right ears outer panel.

The aforementioned app lets you set the Zik up so the active noise cancellation switches on the moment the sensor detects theyre ona process that takes a split second.

Your music also auto-pauses every time you remove the headphones, and starts up when you put them back on.

Simply put, these are very impressive design functionsthe kind that, at first, wow you a little bit with their simplicity and originality.

If you rest your headphones around your neck or place your fingers in the wrong spot while holding them, you might hear your music start up unexpectedly.

Its easy to fix, howeverjust move the ear pads away from your skin.

You can override playback by using the controls on your source device.

You can also fine tune volume settings and navigate playback on the source device, without issue, for those who dont want to use the blind controls on the right ears surface.

A USB cable is included for charging and updates, though you can also wirelessly receive updates (via Bluetooth) to the headphones firmware via the App.

The outside panel of the left ear cup pops off easily, in goes the included rechargeable battery, and a light magnetic force snaps it consistently back into place.

Id guess I could remove and replace the lid without much effort in less than two seconds on every try.

Parrot rates the battery life at roughly 6 hours when you are using all the features, 18 hours when you use just the noise cancellation (it can be turned off in the app), and 24 hours of standby.

To be blunt, without the EQ, the Zik does not sound very good, to me at least.

It is far too bass heavy, with weird spikes around the hi-mid region that have an unpleasant effect on vocals and the attack of stringed instruments and some percussion.

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