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Creative Outlier Black Bluetooth Headset Review

Audio/Others by stefan @ 2018-05-20

After wearing the Outlier Black for a while, we were impressed how light it does feel and comfortable, given its choice of materials (mostly plastic). The custom-tuned 40mm Neodymium magnet drivers do sound really nice while playing music of different kinds and did not distort even at medium to high volume levels. The headset does use a SBC audio codec in Bluetooth mode; when you do choose to playback audio content only, you won’t have any quality issues, but as soon as we did enable the headset to take phone calls, the quality has dropped. We would recommend using the Creative Outlier Black with the AUX-in cable for phone calls, because you won’t have any quality drops this way.

A Closer Look Contd.

The outside of the left cup does house a chromed Creative logo:

The right cup does have plenty of hidden buttons to push, in order to control the headset:

-circular middle button for: Bluetooth Pairing mode access, Answer/Reject call, Play/Pause, On/Off, access the Google Now/Siri assistants

-left button for Fast Rewind/Previous Track

-up button for Volume Up

-down button for Volume Down

-right button for Next Track/Fast Forward

The cushions are plush leatherette padded and the fact that they cover all the ear is excellent even for people wearing glasses in terms of comfort:

The headband is also covered by leatherette material and taking into account the low overall weight of the headset, you will barely notice it during longer listening sessions:

Of course, the headband is adjustable in order to fit heads of all shapes and sizes:

On the top area of the headband, we will spot a subtle Creative logo:

Coming back to the right cup, we will be able to notice that it holds most of the interfaces; for this particular headset, Creative has went with an integrated microphone and its hole can be easy spotted in the following photo:

Next, we do have the 3.5mm jack for connecting analog external sources:

Moving on, we do have the USB port used for charging the internal battery:

Lastly, there is the battery charge status/connection status LED indicator:

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