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Has anyone got any experience of these? I need a pair so that I can listen to music during a couple of running events I have lined up this year that don't allow in-ear headphones due to being run on roads open to traffic.
I do not plan on using these as my normal headphones, and as such I am wondering how cheap I can get away with going. It looks like I can get a wired pair from as little as say £20 from ebay/amazon, but then there are Bluetooth ones for over £100 on there. Will the £20 quid ones be good enough? Any recommendations on a pair?
Yep. I use them for running, got a set of the aftershokz ones and they work well.
Music will never be a good as with normal headphones but you can hear everything that's going on easily.
Mine are wired which can be a pain sometimes
I have had the wired and Bluetooth aftershocks. I have found them great but noise leakage is a problem so reallly only suited for running (and possibly riding). The Bluetooth ones have rigid arms and in the end the small plastic bridge between the "ear" piece and the arms broke - splinted them with some plastic supports glued on whic worked for a bit but ended up binning them. The wired ones are much more robust but more of a faff.
Wired Aftershokz it is then, thanks
I had some cheap (£40ish) bluetooth ones off amazon that were decent but broke after riding to work in an almighty downpour.
Good though, would have another set, but not really any better that a single earbud in the left ear. If that's against the rules though I'd definitely go for bone conduction ones.
The bluetooth aftershokz ones I have have metal rather than plastic to connect the ear bits. I got then as ex-demo stock from Evans so they were cheaper than the wired ones.
I'd say go Bluetooth, I was forever catching the cable when running with wired headphones.