The advantage with these types of headphones is that you can you can put good earplugs and basically totally block yourself from environmental sounds. You wont need to raise the volume, saving your ears more (granting you don’t shove the earplugs down to your eardums). Sure, active noise cancelation can be pretty good, but I doubt they work much when set at low volumes. With bone conduction (granting you are using GOOD earplugs), you can set the volume to less than half of the volume meter of your phone and even if you crank it up I don’t think you’ll damage much of your hearing.

And going with that, I’ve read some people that are hard of hearing (depending on the reason for their deafness) can hear great with those on, since it vibrates the inside of the ears.

The uses aren’t only sports.

But yeah, if we go with sound quality, all the points brought up in the review are valid.

rtings is an incredible website with really in-depth and objective reviews. However, this review repeats the myth that “bone-conduction” headphones work by “sending vibrations from your cheekbones to your inner ear instead of directly playing audio from speakers”. The threshold for stimulating the cochlea (the organ of hearing) via bone conduction is around 60 dB (i.e., 1000x) lower than for sound entering the ear canal, so there actually is no such thing as “bone-conduction headphones”. It is a myth that this wonderful website should not be perpetuating

Mar 12, 2024 01:27 AM By RtingsUser1228388

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rtings is an incredible website with really in-depth and objective reviews. However, this review repeats the myth that “bone-conduction” headphones work by “sending vibrations from your cheekbones to your inner ear instead of directly playing audio from speakers”. The threshold for stimulating the cochlea (the organ of hearing) via bone conduction is around 60 dB (i.e., 1000x) lower than for sound entering the ear canal, so there actually is no such thing as “bone-conduction headphones”. It is a myth that this wonderful website should not be perpetuating

Thanks you for the feedback, we agree that there are in some cases some confusion around the term and this might be in some regards slightly simplistic. Some airwaves/ timpani exciting drivers still mistakenly falls in the category, and there are also some patents now that use cartilage of the Pinnae for conducting too. To the best of our knowledge, this headphone uses the bones. As you mention the threshold is much much lower in the energy it takes to excite the cochlea. That is the reason than when trying to transmit trough air (the regular way), you won’t hear it. Interesting field of digging into tough, we are also open to dig deeper if you still find the terminology inaccurate.