Good Thursday Morning Cris et al; Please pardon me for my reply coming somewhat late on this thread. I haven’t read any of the numerous previous responses so if the gist of this message is repetitive please pardon me.
I do have a serious hearing issue in my right ear; when I was 16 years old I had to have the right basically “gutted” because of a chronic ear infection. The doctor removed those three little bones, the ear drum and a bit of other tissue that was infected. As a result the hearing in that ear is very compromised, but it did not affect the nerves making bone conduction very effective in giving me very close to normal hearing with bone conduction devices. I do have several such devices including a Bluetooth bone conduction headset with a microphone and another bone conduction headset deploying a 3/8 MM jack connection. Both of them afford me excellent stereophonic hearing; in fact the first time I used the Bluetooth headset I was amazed to be able to hear music in full stereo so well. I will caution you though, if you opt for the Bluetooth type of headset the microphone has been fairly distorted so using it with my iPhone for telephone calls is somewhat “iffy.” Now, of course, the Bluetooth headphones are about 3 years old so possibly this issue has been corrected and perhaps another brand would have been better to begin with. However, the hardwired headset is excellent (in my opinion) for listening and conversing. And it is very useful to be able to walk around with the iPhone streamed through the “out of ear” headsets so a blind person (as I am) can continue to use hearing for awareness of environment. HTH **************** - Bill from Ino, Wisconsin - "To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter." - Françoise Sagan, French Novelist, screen Writer & Dramatist, 1935-2004B On Mar 21, 2018, at 7:47 PM, Cris Ali <[email protected]> wrote: Hello folks, I wonder if any of you have used bone conduction headsets. Are they worth buying? I like to know how clear the sound is and how comfortable are they to wear. I do not have any hearing problems, but since I use headsets while I am using my computer, my iPad, my iPhone, and even my android tablet, I thought protecting my ear drums against potential damage is a good idea. I am also thinking that keeping my ear open to know my surrounding while walking in the streets and using navigation, a bone conducting headset is theoretically the most appropriate. I am just not sure if it is worth to throw away over 100 bucks to try. For this I hope to get a feedback from those among you who have used them. Regards, Cris -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone <https://groups.google.com/group/viphone>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
