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Have we done this? I want something for podcasts, not overly bothered by musical quality as long as it's passable. My watch can play music so they just need to be bluetooth.
bluetooth doesnt work through water.
So how do swimming headphones work then?
It seems that bluetooth does work under water but only for a few cm. Arse.
Aftershox, now Shox do an IP68 bone conducting headphone (MP3 only) so you would have to download the podcasts rather than stream.
The £140 ones? That's a bit steep.
A review I was reading suggests you need to attach the watch to your goggles to manage the limited bluetooth range in water.
Prob better to find some with storage and mp3 player built in.
I'm only going off reviews though, I've no direct experience.
I've got a set of the Finis Duo Underwater Bone Conduction MP3 Player that I used once - dont swim so it was to encourage me. £40 posted to you?
Have been down (and up) this road lane.
Purchased a dedicated Sony Walkman MP3 headset (designed for swimming)and struggled with it (annoyingly low-volume, seemingly impossible to keep a seal in ear)
Very quickly became also annoyed at having to constantly pull over and re-seat the earbuds in my (now watery) lugholes.
Finally (after two sessions) sold them on at a loss and instead embraced the boredom zen sounds of the swim itself.
No experience of ‘bone-conduction’ devices, so maybe missed a trick? Although happily I did (joking aside) learn to use the absence of media for the duration of a swim to work on mindfulness which has since/suprisingly proven to be just what I was looking for.
ymmv
£40 posted to you?
DMed you
You used to be able to get the iPod shuffles waterproofed and would be able to stick them onto your goggle band and then use them with some headphones (cant remember if bone conducting or waterproof ones)
@oikeith that's exactly what I had when I used to swim, worked really well for me. That shuffle has since died, but I'm sure things have moved on now, this was about 12 years ago. Really like my Aftershox bone conducting headphones for running, so if I was looking for a swim solution now I'd probably investigate them
I don't use music for any exercise. I've only ever used headphones when riding on a couple of occasions, when doing 24hr solo races and then I listened to the BBC World Service!
I used to listen to R4 programmes whilst in the gym, and that's probably what I'd do in the pool.
I tried the aftershox in the pool, they are amazing