Gimmick or godsend?

Best BC phones

Anyone tried them?

Emma Chisit?

roughbarked said:

Gimmick or godsend?

Best BC phones

Anyone tried them?

Emma Chisit?

I need something to stop the trizilliion screaming crickets first.

roughbarked said:

Gimmick or godsend?

Best BC phones

Anyone tried them?

Emma Chisit?

Can’t assist, sorry. I have nfi.

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Gimmick or godsend?

Best BC phones

Anyone tried them?

Emma Chisit?

Can’t assist, sorry. I have nfi.

Seems a reasonable pair costs around $250 dorrar.

I got a pair for my last birthday. They do exactly what they promise.

They’re not as loud, and the sound quality is never going to be best in the field, they wont work with all glasses or ear muffs, but they’re well worth $120.

Aftershokz Titanium Wireless Headphones

There was a bone conduction microphone featured on Gadget Man last night, it came with an integrated camera and sat on the top of the skull.

Sound quality was not great.

Rule 303 said:

I got a pair for my last birthday. They do exactly what they promise.

They’re not as loud, and the sound quality is never going to be best in the field, they wont work with all glasses or ear muffs, but they’re well worth $120.

Aftershokz Titanium Wireless Headphones

Ta.

OK, so these things have crap sound quality, and are uncomfortable, and are not cheap.

So what’s the point of them?

probably just need better bones

The Rev Dodgson said:

OK, so these things have crap sound quality, and are uncomfortable, and are not cheap.

So what’s the point of them?

They don’t go inside the ears, which means you can still hear the world around you, and you don’t get ear infections.

I dispute the uncomfortable and not cheap bit. I find them perfectly comfortable and $120 is about a third of what really good ear buds cost.

Rule 303 said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

OK, so these things have crap sound quality, and are uncomfortable, and are not cheap.

So what’s the point of them?

They don’t go inside the ears, which means you can still hear the world around you, and you don’t get ear infections.

I dispute the uncomfortable and not cheap bit. I find them perfectly comfortable and $120 is about a third of what really good ear buds cost.

Yeah, but you can get headphones with excellent sound quality for about $30 (or could the last time I looked).

The Rev Dodgson said:

Rule 303 said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

OK, so these things have crap sound quality, and are uncomfortable, and are not cheap.

So what’s the point of them?

They don’t go inside the ears, which means you can still hear the world around you, and you don’t get ear infections.

I dispute the uncomfortable and not cheap bit. I find them perfectly comfortable and $120 is about a third of what really good ear buds cost.

Yeah, but you can get headphones with excellent sound quality for about $30 (or could the last time I looked).

I would have agreed with you, up until a couple of years ago when I scored a good set. There’s differences in comfort, noise reduction, battery life, water and dust proofing, and so on, as you would expect, but the main difference is the quality of the reproduction of the sound.

If you can imagine listening to music you’re very familiar with, material you’ve been listening to for years, say, and hearing instruments you’ve never heard before, or find yourself astonished by the depth and clarity of the sound, or able to understand words that never made sense before, then you’ll have a sense of the difference.

Yeah, you could buy $30 ear buds, like you can buy a $30 home stereo, or a $30 car stereo, and you might be perfectly happy with that.

Rule 303 said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Rule 303 said:

They don’t go inside the ears, which means you can still hear the world around you, and you don’t get ear infections.

I dispute the uncomfortable and not cheap bit. I find them perfectly comfortable and $120 is about a third of what really good ear buds cost.

Yeah, but you can get headphones with excellent sound quality for about $30 (or could the last time I looked).

I would have agreed with you, up until a couple of years ago when I scored a good set. There’s differences in comfort, noise reduction, battery life, water and dust proofing, and so on, as you would expect, but the main difference is the quality of the reproduction of the sound.

If you can imagine listening to music you’re very familiar with, material you’ve been listening to for years, say, and hearing instruments you’ve never heard before, or find yourself astonished by the depth and clarity of the sound, or able to understand words that never made sense before, then you’ll have a sense of the difference.

Yeah, you could buy $30 ear buds, like you can buy a $30 home stereo, or a $30 car stereo, and you might be perfectly happy with that.

better be using oxygen free copper leads and solid gold plugs, or it’s all for nothing

subject $30 home stereo, that’s going to be high-end equipment, in’t

The Rev Dodgson said:

OK, so these things have crap sound quality, and are uncomfortable, and are not cheap.

So what’s the point of them?

I’m beginning to wonder.

Rule 303 said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

OK, so these things have crap sound quality, and are uncomfortable, and are not cheap.

So what’s the point of them?

They don’t go inside the ears, which means you can still hear the world around you, and you don’t get ear infections.

I dispute the uncomfortable and not cheap bit. I find them perfectly comfortable and $120 is about a third of what really good ear buds cost.

The link was sent to me by yet another who doesn’t realise that I’m not really deaf in one ear. I’m just half brain dead as regards the inner ear.
I’ve been training my brain to fix the broken link for 56 years. Already do use the bones in my head.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Rule 303 said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

OK, so these things have crap sound quality, and are uncomfortable, and are not cheap.

So what’s the point of them?

They don’t go inside the ears, which means you can still hear the world around you, and you don’t get ear infections.

I dispute the uncomfortable and not cheap bit. I find them perfectly comfortable and $120 is about a third of what really good ear buds cost.

Yeah, but you can get headphones with excellent sound quality for about $30 (or could the last time I looked).

I doubt that headphones would be practical on a bike in traffic and wearing a helmet.

roughbarked said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Rule 303 said:

They don’t go inside the ears, which means you can still hear the world around you, and you don’t get ear infections.

I dispute the uncomfortable and not cheap bit. I find them perfectly comfortable and $120 is about a third of what really good ear buds cost.

Yeah, but you can get headphones with excellent sound quality for about $30 (or could the last time I looked).

I doubt that headphones would be practical on a bike in traffic and wearing a helmet.

OK, but I wouldn’t want to listen to recordings while riding a bike in traffic and wearing a helmet.

The Rev Dodgson said:

roughbarked said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Yeah, but you can get headphones with excellent sound quality for about $30 (or could the last time I looked).

I doubt that headphones would be practical on a bike in traffic and wearing a helmet.

OK, but I wouldn’t want to listen to recordings while riding a bike in traffic and wearing a helmet.

Neither would I.

one thing I notice about better quality earphones (and headphones, and sound outdoors from sound systems) is the low end frequency response, I mean including real low frequencies, even including what a person generally can’t hear, my opinion is they contribute to the experience of the sound somehow, it could be the physical coupling through other parts of the body, but I think there’s something else

if you filter them, roll the low end off, say below but not including 40HZ, roll it off fairly steeply around 30HZ, below, it somehow effects maybe octaves immediately above, experience of, not sure. It could be the difficulties of reproducing frequencies at those frequencies, a flat frequency response, which extends back to the original recording, controlling them, with modern digital you can go all the way down to ~1HZ, I see it in some recordings, which is quite useless really

I can’t directly hear 25HZ and below, well, it’s ambiguous, but those frequencies (having them) seems to positively contribute to the roundness (if you will) of frequencies above, so for most recordings played I pump them up, starting at 30HZ I slope it up, occasionally I get one that’s moving the cone so far at lower frequencies again it needs filtering off at the very lowest end, otherwise it’s pushing the cone to full distance on the suspension