Our runs will never be the same again 🏃
Bone conduction headphones aren’t exactly a new phenomenon, but I’m a very late adopter. The Shokz OpenRun Pro, a great set of bone conduction headphones, have topped our
However, the Soundcores, after four years of hard wearing, have begun to fritz on me, dropping the connection to my phone on occasion. Perhaps it’s one too many heavy road-running sessions in the rain that’s doing it, or perhaps they’ve bounced on a concrete floor one too many times. Either way, the time is coming when I'll need to retire my trusty but ancient earbuds.
Pounding the streets of London in safety demands that you remain aware of your surroundings. I was dimly aware of the Ankers partially blocking my ear canals to ambient sound, even though they weren’t noise-cancelling buds, so I decided to try something new to keep me running safely. don’t transmit sound waves into your eardrums; instead, they hook over the ears, with a transducer resting against the ear, rather than inside or over the ear canal.
But once I turned away from the busy main road towards my local park, the quieter streets allowed me to get used to the Shokz’s way of transmitting sound, and I really liked the change. I could hear birds tweeting. I had more sensory awareness of other pedestrians around me. I could even hear the obnoxious readouts from the speaker of the watch I was testing at the time, which hadn’t been set up to pipe those notifications into my ears .
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