expiredjkrnair posted Apr 09, 2023 01:37 PM
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expiredjkrnair posted Apr 09, 2023 01:37 PM
Shokz OpenRun Pro Premium Bone Conduction Open-Ear Sport Headphones (Steel Blue)
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However, if you are in a place where you need to be aware of your surroundings, or want to have music/podcasts as background entertainment while in quiet or low-noise environments, they are absolute gold. I own two pair - an older Air version which is paired / dedicated to my SteamDeck and a Pro for the office. The Air dig into the back of my ears and are uncomfortable to wear for more than an hour or two, but the Pro is comfortable most of the day.
Note that the Pro version here is not as water resistant as the non-Pro OpenRun, and I can't tell a difference in audio quality between the two (my wife, daughter, and parents all have the non-Pro). The microphone in the Pro is substantially better than the other models and, imho, as good as or better than the boom-mic version on the OpenComm (which I owned previously and sold).
If you get tired of having buds in your ears, or hate the muffled (or tinny passthrough) sound when you have buds in, these are much more comfortable. If you need to be able to hear your surroundings, they're awesome. If you're looking for soundstage, presence, deep base, or crystal clear sibilance then...no. I will say that it's easy to tell directionality of audio - using them for the SteamDeck I can clearly identify location of sounds for games that rely on it for cues.
Using them with ear plugs in noisy environments eliminates all the advantages of the headset and makes the audio quality worse (reduces high and mid frequency reproduction, resulting in a muffled, boomy sound). Just get a set of noise-cancelling in-ears for flights/noisy trains.
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However, if you are in a place where you need to be aware of your surroundings, or want to have music/podcasts as background entertainment while in quiet or low-noise environments, they are absolute gold. I own two pair - an older Air version which is paired / dedicated to my SteamDeck and a Pro for the office. The Air dig into the back of my ears and are uncomfortable to wear for more than an hour or two, but the Pro is comfortable most of the day.
Note that the Pro version here is not as water resistant as the non-Pro OpenRun, and I can't tell a difference in audio quality between the two (my wife, daughter, and parents all have the non-Pro). The microphone in the Pro is substantially better than the other models and, imho, as good as or better than the boom-mic version on the OpenComm (which I owned previously and sold).
If you get tired of having buds in your ears, or hate the muffled (or tinny passthrough) sound when you have buds in, these are much more comfortable. If you need to be able to hear your surroundings, they're awesome. If you're looking for soundstage, presence, deep base, or crystal clear sibilance then...no. I will say that it's easy to tell directionality of audio - using them for the SteamDeck I can clearly identify location of sounds for games that rely on it for cues.
Using them with ear plugs in noisy environments eliminates all the advantages of the headset and makes the audio quality worse (reduces high and mid frequency reproduction, resulting in a muffled, boomy sound). Just get a set of noise-cancelling in-ears for flights/noisy trains.
Thanks for answer my question before I asked.
Thanks for answer my question before I asked.
There are a couple of swimming-specific bone conduction headphones out now. I've had a pair of SwimP3 - two, actually - spanning at least a decade. These OpenRuns are far better audio quality (SwimP3 is around a 1.5/10, maybe lower) but I wouldn't swim with them.
How do these actually stay on in water? They all look really loose an like it's random who's head each model barely fits. Water resistance is strong as hell. I assume the first time I would go from standing to swimming underwater these head band ones would just get yanked off by the current?
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