Thomas Gerlach wrote:
Rideon77 wrote:
AfterShokz hands down
I see a couple of people recommending AfterShokz but nobody recommending them is really say why, just recommending. What are the defining features of AfterShokz that make them such a killer recommendation. My only personal experience has been negative. For one your ear canal is still open so you get a bunch of wind noise in there. More of an issue cycling. The wind noise IMHO drowns out other more important features and sounds, ie having your ears canals open provides a false sense of security. Then there is the fact that the sound is terrible (without ear plugs) and I would suspect that because of all the external noise that people crank AfterShokz to hear their muffled music which may also lead to faster rate of damaged hearing.
To me AfterShokz wearers always seem to have the same irrational fear of people that avoid the ocean... Sharks! or Airplane fears, even though it is proven safer than driving. In the case of AfterShokz, the ability to "hear" our external environment could potentially lead, I would like to see this studied, to increased hearing damage down the road, leading to social isolation, and higher levels of depression.
My Why:
I run in pretty quiet areas so there aren't a lot of noises that I want to get rid of.
I use the headphones for a distraction to the fact that I don't have that many running routes so I don't need to have great quality
that said I find listening to music just fine and the volume is pretty low.
I, for some reason, sweat a lot in my ears (and everywhere else) and so the non-supported headphones don't stay very well.
I don't get wind noise like my over the ear headphones give me. (MPow Flame, Treblab XR100, etc)
For me the in the ear canal buds hurt after awhile, I've tried multiple buds and different adapters.
I don't agree that all of us are afraid that we won't hear a truck hit us, for me it's a much more enjoyable experience and surprisingly overrides my tinnitus noise. Probably because the sound is taking a different path.
They could be less bulky, I'll give you that.
Disclaimer: I'm old and my hearing isn't the best. I have some well defined notches in my audio frequency response due to being stupid when I was younger. I don't listen to anything loud anymore and I'm happy with the quality of the bone conduction system.