There are much, much cheaper bluetooth headphones out there, though
usually earbud models. From what I have heard of the audio quality, I
see no good reason to by these. If you want to use something like
Soundscape (an ostensibly "free" app that will actually cost as much as
you are willing to pay for headphones) you will need them for the 3D
audio. I have heard decent things about Aftershokz, but I obtained a
pair of Sennheiser headphones for half the price (though admittedly not
bluetooth) so I consider them very much not worth it at this point.
On 3/22/2018 8:07 AM, Bill Gallik wrote:
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 frightfulthan laughter."
- Françoise Sagan, French Novelist, screen Writer & Dramatist, 1935-2004B
On Mar 21, 2018, at 7:47 PM, Cris Ali <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
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