Woot! has
Yorlu Bone Conduction Headphones (Black) on clearance for
$28.99.
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Product Details:
- Enjoy high-quality sound transmitted through your bones, using bone conduction headphones that bypass the eardrums. The lightweight, open-ear fit ensures comfort without blocking your ears, perfect for long listening sessions.
- With a bendable titanium frame and plush silicone cushions, these 28g open-ear headphones stay comfortably in place
- Bluetooth 5.3
- 8-hour battery
- IP56-rated against sweat and rain (Not suitable for underwater swimming use)
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I've personally sworn off Shockz as a company because they aren't durable at all. I've had to warranty 5 pairs over the years due to various issues and while their customer service has been easy enough to work with, I got tired of it.
That said, I looked specifically for a model that was soft rubber all around rather ones that had a hard plastic ear loop, which these seem to have. I don't want to shill a certain "ABCXYZ" brand, so I won't link, but there's a few options out there on Amazon or AliExpress that are probably worth checking out.
The whole point of bone conduction (or air conduction) is that they don't have sound isolation. Actual bone conduction headphones essentially sit on the bone in front of your ear and vibrate, causing you to be able to hear. You can plug your ears with foam plugs and still hear (and often the sound quality actually goes up if you do that).
The use case is for when you want to be aware of your surroundings. Think running on trails, biking, listening to music while driving when your passengers are sleeping, etc.
Air conduction is just a small speaker that's sitting outside your ear. The big advantage is that the sound is a lot more full than bone conduction, however I've had issues where sweat can clog the speaker grille making it muffled, which isn't an issue on bone conduction headphones.
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I've personally sworn off Shockz as a company because they aren't durable at all. I've had to warranty 5 pairs over the years due to various issues and while their customer service has been easy enough to work with, I got tired of it.
That said, I looked specifically for a model that was soft rubber all around rather ones that had a hard plastic ear loop, which these seem to have. I don't want to shill a certain "ABCXYZ" brand, so I won't link, but there's a few options out there on Amazon or AliExpress that are probably worth checking out.
The use case is for when you want to be aware of your surroundings. Think running on trails, biking, listening to music while driving when your passengers are sleeping, etc.
Air conduction is just a small speaker that's sitting outside your ear. The big advantage is that the sound is a lot more full than bone conduction, however I've had issues where sweat can clog the speaker grille making it muffled, which isn't an issue on bone conduction headphones.
I have been using Shokz for over 3 years, started with regular and now only use mini so I can lean back on the headrest and even sleeping without problem.
I chose it specifically because I don't want sound isolation. I need to listen to my kids crying when they were small and now when they are fighting 😅 and also not to anger my wife with closed ears.
And I can certainly tell they are not just speakers next to the ears. When environment is nosy, the best way to make it sound louder is NOT turning the volume up, instead use ear plugs to isolate the outside sound. So, I always have 2 silicone ear plugs hanging on my Shokz if I need to use them (usually use only one).
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I've personally sworn off Shockz as a company because they aren't durable at all. I've had to warranty 5 pairs over the years due to various issues and while their customer service has been easy enough to work with, I got tired of it.
That said, I looked specifically for a model that was soft rubber all around rather ones that had a hard plastic ear loop, which these seem to have. I don't want to shill a certain "ABCXYZ" brand, so I won't link, but there's a few options out there on Amazon or AliExpress that are probably worth checking out.
The whole point of bone conduction (or air conduction) is that they don't have sound isolation. Actual bone conduction headphones essentially sit on the bone in front of your ear and vibrate, causing you to be able to hear. You can plug your ears with foam plugs and still hear (and often the sound quality actually goes up if you do that).
The use case is for when you want to be aware of your surroundings. Think running on trails, biking, listening to music while driving when your passengers are sleeping, etc.
Air conduction is just a small speaker that's sitting outside your ear. The big advantage is that the sound is a lot more full than bone conduction, however I've had issues where sweat can clog the speaker grille making it muffled, which isn't an issue on bone conduction headphones.
Here is another pair that looks identical and is currently $28
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I'm a marathon/ultra runner who is a heavy sweater.
That's not including the 2 pair I've lost (my fault there, of course). On the flip side, my OpenSwims have been working fine for the 3 years I've had them (though I only swim maybe a dozen or two times/year).
If you Google some of these issues, there's multiple people reporting similar issues across multiple channels. At the same time, there's people who never have issues.
I guess for me personally, I feel like if I'm buying a $120-130 MSRP headphones, I expect it to last the warranty period more times than not. Even if customer service is good and hands out replacements like candy, it's still annoying to deal with.
The only "name brand" competitor I know of is Suunto, which I have read have their own set of issues as well. Otherwise, none of the other main brands have really stepped up. Even the known Amazon resellers like Anker or Tozo only have air conduction (though at least my Tozo air conduction headphones have lasted a full year of heavy use, unlike Shockz).
Strangely enough, my most durable pair of headphones is a set of like $10 M-Pow Flames from like a decade back that after hundreds of sweaty miles on a treadmill have refused to die lol.
I've personally sworn off Shockz as a company because they aren't durable at all. I've had to warranty 5 pairs over the years due to various issues and while their customer service has been easy enough to work with, I got tired of it.
That said, I looked specifically for a model that was soft rubber all around rather ones that had a hard plastic ear loop, which these seem to have. I don't want to shill a certain "ABCXYZ" brand, so I won't link, but there's a few options out there on Amazon or AliExpress that are probably worth checking out.
The whole point of bone conduction (or air conduction) is that they don't have sound isolation. Actual bone conduction headphones essentially sit on the bone in front of your ear and vibrate, causing you to be able to hear. You can plug your ears with foam plugs and still hear (and often the sound quality actually goes up if you do that).
The use case is for when you want to be aware of your surroundings. Think running on trails, biking, listening to music while driving when your passengers are sleeping, etc.
Air conduction is just a small speaker that's sitting outside your ear. The big advantage is that the sound is a lot more full than bone conduction, however I've had issues where sweat can clog the speaker grille making it muffled, which isn't an issue on bone conduction headphones.
This item is really a life saver in many occasions of my life: walking with wife on a trail / mall, waiting in a hockey rink and socializing with other parents, siting in kid's school event where my job is just to take videos, etc, etc.
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And don't get me wrong, when they work, they're great headphones and do offer a more "full" sound than these knock-offs. But as someone who runs probably 40-50 miles/week (or more) with headphones and has given Shokz probably $600+ over the last 7 years, I'm kind of over it when these $20-30 ones work well enough, and if I kill one, I'm not losing sleep over it.