Engineered for the extreme
As an audio innovation partner for some of Red Bull's athlete projects, Jabra has built a microphone engineered to perform in the most extreme environments.
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Synergy makes for super sound
Jabra engineers work somewhere unique. A facility that, under one roof, creates consumer, professional and medical-grade sound solutions – from the world’s most advanced true wireless sports earbuds, to the world’s most secure headsets for the office; from headphones with in-built heart rate monitors, to industry-leading hearing aids.
All of the expertise and know-how gained is at our engineers’ fingertips. And it’s not a new process, either. Jabra is part of a group that has almost 150 years experience in developing innovative communications solutions.
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The Jabra X Mic
We purposely engineer products to elevate not just what you hear, but how you hear it. Our products are engineered to perform brilliantly – whatever situation you’re in.
If at first you don’t succeed…
The Jabra X Mic was engineered and initially tested at the Jabra Audio Lab in Denmark. We spent two years working on it with Red Bull Media House, and then it was taken out into the real world.
In total, we tested over 30 prototypes – putting them through their paces in the toughest, coldest, wettest, dirtiest places we could find. Not all of them made it back, but we learned, adapted, improved and tested again.
Getting up to speed
Jabra technology can handle wind-noise reduction to speeds of around 15kph – perfect for people using headphones for taking calls on the street, or for most of us when out doing sports.
For Max Stöckl Takes on Streif, we needed a microphone capable of picking up true sound when travelling at 120kph. We built a prototype and tested it on people riding motorbikes and electric bikes. This was way beyond the scope needed – but we didn’t have anyone on our team who could ski or ride a bicycle fast enough.
Finding the right fit
We went into our labs and reviewed the materials that would perform best – found, tested and proven by the Jabra innovation team, and then modified the shape of the microphone and tested its optimum position.
For many extreme sports, placing a microphone in the most obvious place (on a helmet) doesn’t give the best results – at high speeds, wind simply whips the sound back and away. For some athletes the chest is a better location.
No wires, no problems.
Finding optimum placement is one thing, making it wireless is another. Red Bull athletes need technology free of troublesome wires that can catch on equipment and prevent a full range of motion.
So we further developed our digital technology and optimized its connection to a Bluetooth recorder – streaming sound directly from the Jabra X Mic. Then we further refined the microphone’s shape, and set about making it smaller and as unobtrusive as possible.
Water resistant
Built in to the Jabra X Mic is the same waterproof technology (Jabra-developed processing and sealing of materials) as found in the Jabra Elite Sport.
This includes ABS plastic, woven materials that provide a soft outer casing, and much, much more. It’s cutting-edge technology that’s stress tested with a grueling methodology at our dedicated facilities.
Audio innovation partner of
Max Stöckl Takes on Streif
in collaboration with Red Bull Media House
The Jabra X Mic puts you on the bike with Max, hurtling downward with bone-rattling bumps and stomach dropping lifts into the air
Meet Max. Blink and you’ll miss the Austrian mountain biker who travels the world on a quest to take two wheels on heart-stopping descents. Max Stöckl is no stranger to speed – he broke the land speed record for a bike when he reached 167.6kph in the Atacama Desert – and here you can see (and hear) him topping 100kph as he tears down the treacherous Streif ski run on Austria’s Hahnenkamm.
With the Jabra X Mic you hear every crunch of his bike’s 15mm spikes in the snow, along with every icy breath and adjustment of man and machine. What you won’t hear is the gusting wind that would normally drown out all other sound.
Catch the sound as it happens
Only the most experienced skiers can hope to make it down the Hahnenkamm slopes – so Max decided to do it on a mountain bike. Jabra heard his call to adventure – and captured every decibel of it.
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Audio innovation partner of the
extreme audio testing at Spielberg Race Track
in collaboration with Red Bull Media House
Seeing is believing but hearing is truly experiencing. Are you ready to see our superior audio quality being put to the test under extreme conditions?
When approached by Red Bull Media House to build a bespoke microphone to capture every decibel during extreme performance, we jumped at the opportunity.
We’re audio experts, with a proud history, so we gladly accepted the challenge of using audio to get people closer to the experience of racing around Red Bull’s Red Bull Ring in Spielberg in a KTM X-BOW.
Rising to the challenge
We purposely engineer products to elevate, not just what you hear, but how you hear it. Our products are engineered to perform brilliantly – wherever you are.
Jabra technology can handle wind-noise reduction up to around 15kph. But Red Bull has athletes hit speeds of up to 120kph. So, we had to step things up a gear. After 2 years development and review in the labs, the mic was ready to be tested in the real world. To the extreme.
On July 11 2018 we headed to the Red Bull Ring race circuit at Spielberg, Austria to test our ‘next-gen mic’ against several other contenders. We placed the mic in a KTM X-BOW driven by Bernhard Auinger, a seasoned racer and Red Bull Ring’s Head of Driving Experience.
At 220km/h, the mic captured the clear distinction of the car gearing up to hit those extreme speeds and helping to bring those moments to life. We’re still working on a way to capture every nuance of sound at such extreme speeds. But this is what makes us audio pioneers.
Engineered for the extreme. Engineered for you.
We made something special with the Jabra X mic, but the technology and engineering behind it are a part of everything we do. Developed by the same engineers who build the rest of our products.
Technically superior sound in the most extreme conditions means superior sound for all users – whether you need amazing audio for music, sports, calls on the go, or collaboration in the busiest (and nosiest) offices.
Wherever life takes you, Jabra makes life sound better. We engineered it to be that way.
Seeing is believing, but hearing is truly experiencing.
That’s why we engineered a wireless microphone designed to block out excessive wind noise – tailor-made for Red Bull athletes. Together with Red Bull Media House, we take you one-step closer to being there with the athletes who push themselves to the very limit.
As an audio innovation partner for some of Red Bull’s incredible athlete projects, like Max Stöckl Takes on Streif, we built a microphone engineered to perform in the most extreme environments. The Jabra X Mic brings superior audio that lets you get as close as possible to the action.
On July 11, 2018, the microphone was again pushed to the very limit. Used in a KTM X-BOW at Spielberg with Bernhard Auinger, Veteran Car Racing Driver and Head of Driving Experience Red Bull Ring, we tested the sound of this “next-gen mic” against several other microphones.
A real world “reality check”, the Jabra X Mic once again had its engineering excellence put to the test.