Cleer Enduro 100 headphones: Great sound, fantastic battery life, and all the right features

Bluetooth 5.0 with aptX HD, Google Fast Pair, Siri invocation, and USB-C connectivity put these headphones comfortably into state-of-the-art category.

- JON L. JACOBI

I liked the Cleer Enduro 100 headphones the moment they emerged from their slightly complicated, but classy packaging. The styling and colors are unique and attractive, and more importantly, they sound very, very good. The feature set is also state of the art.

My one caveat is that one tester—the one with the big head, aka me—found them somewhat uncomfortable to wear for very long listening sessions.

DESIGN AND SPECS

The Cleer Enduro 100 are packed with the latest tech features, including Bluetooth 5 with its longer range, greater bandwidth, and native handling of Apple’s AAC codec; aptX HD codec support for high-resolution and low-latency audio playback; and Google Fast Pair 2.0 for quick connections with Android devices. You can also invoke Siri on iOS devices with the push of a button.

Throw in a Type-C USB port and NFC pairing, and I can’t think of anything—apart from active noise cancellation, which would put these cans in a different category—that the company missed. I’m sure I’ll hear from you if there is.

Style is in keeping with the best of the times as well. Cleer opted for two unusual but elegantly attractive color schemes: slate and putty, and putty and tan. The headphones are decently light at around 10 ounces, a 10-minute charge via the USB-C port promises 13 hours of playback, and a three-hour charge will supposedly see you though 100 hours. I can tell you they got darn close to that just sitting around switched on without me listening to them; in fact, after two weeks under light use, they were still running on the charge they had right out of the box.