Soleil
Well-Known Member
Has anyone tried these before? They're basically regular headphones, except instead of speakers putting sound into your ears, they have pads that send the sound directly into your head bones (and thence on to the ear bones, and thence to your brain) using vibrations. Maybe some people don't like things in their ears, or literally can't put anything in there (like me), or maybe you don't like things covering your ears for whatever reason. If that's the case, these may work better than traditional headphones, since they don't cover the ears at all.
They're fairly recent (though my old hearing aids that I got back in 1989 worked exactly the same way) so I was wondering if anyone else had tried them yet.
I recently bought some $25 bone conduction headphones to wear at work, and they work alright. A little quiet, but apparently some models have volume amplifiers. And wearing them for too long can give me a little bit of a headache because of how they squeeze my head (my old hearing aids had the same problem).
The main problem- and I don't know whether this is typical, or just because of my relatively cheap model- is the bass, and low-pitch sounds. They really vibrate, so when some of the guys at work speak, I can really feel them. And it was awful with music; not only can I hear the music, but now I can feel the bass and the drums, and it was just too much sensory input, I guess.
Maybe the more expensive models can mitigate that part, I don't know.
They're fairly recent (though my old hearing aids that I got back in 1989 worked exactly the same way) so I was wondering if anyone else had tried them yet.
I recently bought some $25 bone conduction headphones to wear at work, and they work alright. A little quiet, but apparently some models have volume amplifiers. And wearing them for too long can give me a little bit of a headache because of how they squeeze my head (my old hearing aids had the same problem).
The main problem- and I don't know whether this is typical, or just because of my relatively cheap model- is the bass, and low-pitch sounds. They really vibrate, so when some of the guys at work speak, I can really feel them. And it was awful with music; not only can I hear the music, but now I can feel the bass and the drums, and it was just too much sensory input, I guess.
Maybe the more expensive models can mitigate that part, I don't know.