I prefer these type of headphones over earbuds. I just wish I could get the same quality as my Bose headphones with the light weight of these! Without spending a bazillion dollars!
@goldnectar yeah the manufacturer uses the term conduction to make you think of bone conduction. It’s not a protected term so whatever goes. I got burned by a similar product that ended up just being speakers basically.
@goldnectar true bone conduction headsets are made by shockz, cost between $150 and $200 depending if you want a best-in-class active noise canceling microphone, not headphone. The actual headphones don’t even sit on the ear. They sit below the ear and you can swim in them and still hear music. But the quality is plenty loud but maybe good for audio books. This headset sits right on the ear. And has a whole 6 or 8 battery life. You would have to practically plan out what day you want to use them and then charge them up. I have a similar pair of that sits off the ear with 4 little holes pointing at your ear. There are super light and you could wear them for hours and forget that there are around your neck, and then around the top of your ear no more than sunglasses and then a ratcheting extension that actually sits on your face yeah in front of your ear and shoots the sound into your ear. For music, horrible. For audio books while you go outside or clean the house, etc., they can’t be beat.
@DrunkCat@mehvid1 Quotes because what is widely referred to as AI isn’t AI at all, which is a fair point. But I still don’t get why meh product discussion is the place to complain about it.
@brennyn Thanks for being reasonable and helpful, as most of us here are.
I also generally agree with the inebriated feline in that Meh’s use of the tech is annoying, but…. Picturing a cat shaking its paw at the sky, meowing loudly at the clouds….
@uscpsycho Is there a particular Bose model you’re referring to? Their wireless NC headphones usually rate very well, their only real competition being Sony’s latest and possible Apple.
@arlene_wechsler@uscpsycho I have to agree the NC (700 I think) are a very good in-between type. Not buds, but not the huge pie-sized cups that cover half your head. The Noise Canceling is actually very good, much better than some old Sony ones I had. And you can still use a 3.5mm cord to connect to stuff (Like planes) without a device or Bluetooth.
Buds of any kind never stay in for me unless I pay 2 people on either side of me to keep pressing on each one.
@Trinityscrew Now that you mention it, that connector is really similar to the one on my Pebble Time watch. Doesn’t quite look identical unfortunately.
Fancy term for mundane feature? Check. Proprietary charging cable? Check. “Peaked in high school” marketing? Check. It’s almost admirable how consistently mediocre Monster has been as a brand over the decades.
Since these are essentially bluetooth speakers, it’s nearly the perfect product to sell on Meh, especially at this price point. Bravo!
I expect wearing these to watch TV in bed would elicit loads of spousal complaints about that annoying tinny buzzing sound, thus making them useless (the air-conduction tiny tinny speakers).
@Ghostpilot I was considering buying them for my autistic daughter since she won’t accept earbuds and all the decent Bluetooth headphones are expensive, but she will lose that charger faster than you can get me the set
Case in point, we just bought her a semi smart flip phone (it does have Android, but only a 2" screen) and she found it, opened it, and managed to lose the battery somehow while nearly destroying the battery door within hours of it arriving at the house
@Num1Zero i bought an off brand bome conduction headphones (x14) from the sister woot site not expecting very much at $30. They’re not bad and are now on Amazon for < $20. Because they are open ear style you hear your surroundings and there isn’t the fidelity of “read” earbuds, however if you use any type of earplugs to lower the surrounding noise, the sound is much richer. I guess this is by design. There’s no reason for a noise reduction, open ear style headphone. Lol.
Beacuse they are not on/in my ears, i dont get tired wearing them all day at work. I have them paired with my work computer at the same time since they are Bluetooth 5.3. Uses a standard usb-c cable to charge too. They might not last the full advertised 8h but they do last about 6h on a charge and the rage is only about a little over a room in the house. https://a.co/d/bItvk7i
@Num1Zero I’ve owned a handful of Shokz models over the last decade or so (in the hopes that each one will be amazingly better than the last, but they’re all about the same, IME) and they’re great.
My current ones are Open Run Pro or something like that and I use them on walks, when out shopping (and I might need to phone home to get guidance), when doing chores, etc. and – for my podcast-listening use case – they’re terrific.
Every so often, the previous version will go on sale, so if you’re not in a hurry, you may be able to scoop up a pair for (relatively) cheap.
Has anybody tried these before? Do they have the kind of shitty bluetooth connection where the connection drops a couple of times every minute and then it takes a couple of seconds for the volume to ramp back up to normal every time it happens?
TechMoan reviewed bone conduction earphones in the past (probably not this model). The basic gist is that fidelity is not comparable to standard headphones or IEMs.
@arlene_wechsler These aren’t bone conduction, they’re “air conduction” which is goofy marketing speak for “tiny speakers that sit outside your ear.” They don’t sound as good as good “real” headphones, but that doesn’t mean they’re bad. I have a different brand, and they’re 95% as good as my good headphones for spoken word stuff. For music, it’s more like 65% (okay clarity but thin-sounding and no bass).
I still use them constantly, because not feeling “sealed off” from the world is extremely nice. It’s kinda like having a pretty decent Bluetooth speaker floating conveniently alongside me.
Specs
Product: Monster Clarity Fit Open Air Conduction Wireless Headphones
Model: 2MNTW2161BOL2
Condition: New
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$49.99 (for Aria Model) at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Tuesday, Jun 17 - Friday, Jun 20
Wow, the doge cutbacks really took a toll on the meh servers this week!
@clonetek Well, Elon kept all the 14-year-old programmers for himself.
/buy
@uvassassin It worked! Your order number is: real-rickety-soap
/showme real rickety soap
@mediocrebot looks crumbly and expensive. Just like some stuff sold here.
I would get these but they’re not tactical headphones. That’s a super important feature.
@DavidChurchRN just spray paint the back with some camo stylings. Boom. Tactical. /s
I prefer these type of headphones over earbuds. I just wish I could get the same quality as my Bose headphones with the light weight of these! Without spending a bazillion dollars!
Looks like the website issues ate my comment. I got and HTTP 499 error. I had to looks that up.
Isn’t “ear conduction” just speakers? Why am I missing here?
@goldnectar yeah the manufacturer uses the term conduction to make you think of bone conduction. It’s not a protected term so whatever goes. I got burned by a similar product that ended up just being speakers basically.
@goldnectar true bone conduction headsets are made by shockz, cost between $150 and $200 depending if you want a best-in-class active noise canceling microphone, not headphone. The actual headphones don’t even sit on the ear. They sit below the ear and you can swim in them and still hear music. But the quality is plenty loud but maybe good for audio books. This headset sits right on the ear. And has a whole 6 or 8 battery life. You would have to practically plan out what day you want to use them and then charge them up. I have a similar pair of that sits off the ear with 4 little holes pointing at your ear. There are super light and you could wear them for hours and forget that there are around your neck, and then around the top of your ear no more than sunglasses and then a ratcheting extension that actually sits on your face yeah in front of your ear and shoots the sound into your ear. For music, horrible. For audio books while you go outside or clean the house, etc., they can’t be beat.
The only clarity monsters can have is realizing just how dog shit “AI” is.
@DrunkCat But they are monsters so they don’t care. Just like you do not seem to care about putting in real effort to win them back.
@DrunkCat maybe Meh doesn’t know what you’re saying because you insist on putting it in quotes for some weird reason….
@yakkoTDI k
@mehvid1 They know. Anyone who uses “AI” knows. T9 was a more advanced auto-complete than any modern LLM or GAN.
@DrunkCat “ ‘ey, I ” don’t care.
@mehvid1 cared enough to reply
@DrunkCat annoyed ≠ cared
@mehvid1 cared enough to reply twice even dang
@DrunkCat you’re drunk and can still count to two. Glad you’re not driving anyway.
That’s three, in case you need more help.
@mehvid1 maybe we can go for four!
@DrunkCat @mehvid1 Quotes because what is widely referred to as AI isn’t AI at all, which is a fair point. But I still don’t get why meh product discussion is the place to complain about it.
@brennyn @mehvid1 meh uses it so why not
@brennyn Thanks for being reasonable and helpful, as most of us here are.
I also generally agree with the inebriated feline in that Meh’s use of the tech is annoying, but…. Picturing a cat shaking its paw at the sky, meowing loudly at the clouds….
@DrunkCat Honestly asking: where? I hate AI slop as much as the next person but I don’t know what you mean.
@brennyn sales page, background images, topic images, “ai” commands, and who else knows where given the prolific use
@DrunkCat I hadn’t seen those before but I opened meh with my extensions turned off and now I agree that’s pretty egregious.
Just yesterday, I was saying that Beats, Monster and Bose are not worth owning. Maybe tomorrow Meh will sell Bose and complete the trifecta.
@uscpsycho Is there a particular Bose model you’re referring to? Their wireless NC headphones usually rate very well, their only real competition being Sony’s latest and possible Apple.
Of course, their speakers are shite.
@arlene_wechsler @uscpsycho I have to agree the NC (700 I think) are a very good in-between type. Not buds, but not the huge pie-sized cups that cover half your head. The Noise Canceling is actually very good, much better than some old Sony ones I had. And you can still use a 3.5mm cord to connect to stuff (Like planes) without a device or Bluetooth.
Buds of any kind never stay in for me unless I pay 2 people on either side of me to keep pressing on each one.
@arlene_wechsler @pmarin I actually said exactly that, their noise cancelling headphones are the exception.
These look like they would actually stay in place & less likely to get misplaced.
/buy
@Joedetroit It worked! Your order number is: dear-flabby-orange
/showme dear flabby orange
@mediocrebot Oh hay! It’s the president!
Love that weird, proprietary charging connection!
@Trinityscrew Now that you mention it, that connector is really similar to the one on my Pebble Time watch. Doesn’t quite look identical unfortunately.
Fancy term for mundane feature? Check. Proprietary charging cable? Check. “Peaked in high school” marketing? Check. It’s almost admirable how consistently mediocre Monster has been as a brand over the decades.
Since these are essentially bluetooth speakers, it’s nearly the perfect product to sell on Meh, especially at this price point. Bravo!
@Zendriver
I expect wearing these to watch TV in bed would elicit loads of spousal complaints about that annoying tinny buzzing sound, thus making them useless (the air-conduction tiny tinny speakers).
@JohnQ118 You need to stop watching shows about metallic flying insects.
I was on board with this until I saw the proprietary charger. That’s a deal breaker for me.
@Ghostpilot based
@Ghostpilot I was considering buying them for my autistic daughter since she won’t accept earbuds and all the decent Bluetooth headphones are expensive, but she will lose that charger faster than you can get me the set
Case in point, we just bought her a semi smart flip phone (it does have Android, but only a 2" screen) and she found it, opened it, and managed to lose the battery somehow while nearly destroying the battery door within hours of it arriving at the house
@Ghostpilot @guyfromhawthorn impressive short-term destruction. Solution: buy 3 sets so you have extra cords in reserve.
@Ghostpilot precisely my thoughts! They were too cheap to build a case that was fed by a USB micro or c!
Earbuds - the new speaker dock.
@Pufferfishy your head is the dock.
@jouest @Pufferfishy I’ve been called a dockhead before. Or something close to that.
I am actually curious about trying bone conduction. But air conduction is just small speakers near your ear. Meh.
@Num1Zero i bought an off brand bome conduction headphones (x14) from the sister woot site not expecting very much at $30. They’re not bad and are now on Amazon for < $20. Because they are open ear style you hear your surroundings and there isn’t the fidelity of “read” earbuds, however if you use any type of earplugs to lower the surrounding noise, the sound is much richer. I guess this is by design. There’s no reason for a noise reduction, open ear style headphone. Lol.
Beacuse they are not on/in my ears, i dont get tired wearing them all day at work. I have them paired with my work computer at the same time since they are Bluetooth 5.3. Uses a standard usb-c cable to charge too. They might not last the full advertised 8h but they do last about 6h on a charge and the rage is only about a little over a room in the house. https://a.co/d/bItvk7i
@Num1Zero I’ve owned a handful of Shokz models over the last decade or so (in the hopes that each one will be amazingly better than the last, but they’re all about the same, IME) and they’re great.
My current ones are Open Run Pro or something like that and I use them on walks, when out shopping (and I might need to phone home to get guidance), when doing chores, etc. and – for my podcast-listening use case – they’re terrific.
Every so often, the previous version will go on sale, so if you’re not in a hurry, you may be able to scoop up a pair for (relatively) cheap.
Has anybody tried these before? Do they have the kind of shitty bluetooth connection where the connection drops a couple of times every minute and then it takes a couple of seconds for the volume to ramp back up to normal every time it happens?
TechMoan reviewed bone conduction earphones in the past (probably not this model). The basic gist is that fidelity is not comparable to standard headphones or IEMs.
@arlene_wechsler These aren’t bone conduction, they’re “air conduction” which is goofy marketing speak for “tiny speakers that sit outside your ear.” They don’t sound as good as good “real” headphones, but that doesn’t mean they’re bad. I have a different brand, and they’re 95% as good as my good headphones for spoken word stuff. For music, it’s more like 65% (okay clarity but thin-sounding and no bass).
I still use them constantly, because not feeling “sealed off” from the world is extremely nice. It’s kinda like having a pretty decent Bluetooth speaker floating conveniently alongside me.
weird the “discuss my rad purchase” button goes to some Cheerson quadcopters instead of here
@walarney Thanks for the note, I’m getting odd links from that button as well and I’m checking into this now.
@dave @walarney Is @mediocrebot drunk again?
@walarney All fixed, I believe. Thanks again for the heads up.
Isn’t “air conduction” how sound normally works?
@arielleslie I read this comment after it traveled by air from my screen to my eyeballs.
@arielleslie @jouest
/image in space no one cam hear you scream
@arielleslie @jouest @pmarin Which means they can’t hear me fart either. BRING ON THE BEANS!!!
/buy
@tcaruth It worked! Your order number is: dysfunctional-critical-roof
/showme dysfunctional critical roof