If you just plan to listen to music and videos on the way to work occasionally, you can buy earphones, which can be immersively listen to music and dramas anytime and anywhere; if you want to wear them for a long time or use them during intense exercise (you also want to wear them while swimming), you must also take into account ear protection, waterproofing, sound effects, wearing comfort and firmness, etc. It is recommended to choose bone conduction headphones .
Before, I didn’t pay much attention to the functions of the headphones. I just thought that the headphones could listen to the sound when worn, the sound quality was better, and the basic operation was simpler.
But my husband's illness experience completely changed my view on headphones.
Sensory neurodeafness ...so scary!
At the beginning of this year, he went to the ENT department for treatment due to ear inflammation. I thought it was just acute otitis media caused by a cold, and it would be cured just by taking some medicine. Unexpectedly, when the doctor asked him to do a hearing test, his left ear hearing result showed a sharp decline.
"You don't pay attention to protecting your ears' hearing, and you won't rule out the possibility of deafness in the future!" After reading the examination report, the doctor gave such a warning.
"I often wear headphones to listen to music, and the volume is turned on relatively loudly. Does this affect your listening skills?"
After listening to the doctor's words, my husband was very nervous and quickly confessed his bad ear-using habits in life.
"This will definitely have an impact. According to your current situation, it is recommended to wear headphones (in-ear) to listen to music, and it is best to listen to it empty-handedly. If you must put it in your ears, the volume should be as light as possible."
My husband used to use in-ear headphones, but now he dares not use
Because of his experience of becoming deaf this time, my husband later did not dare to wear in-ear headphones on the way to and from get off work and changed his habit of listening to music to reading novels.
Later, my friend told me that bone conduction headphones are more friendly to hearing protection than in-ear headphones, and are comfortable and stable to wear. Even if you do large movements or vigorous exercise, it will not fall off easily. You can buy one for your husband to try.
But I haven't known about bone conduction headphones before, so I specifically checked the difference between traditional headphones and bone conduction headphones:
Traditional headphones: use air as the conduction medium to transmit sound
- Sound waves pass through the air to reach the eardrum, and the sound waves vibrate the eardrum, which then transmits the sound to the inner ear.
bone conduction earphones: pass sound to the inner ear by vibrating the temporal bone
- Sound waves are directly transmitted to the inner ear through bone vibration, and do not need to pass through tympanic membrane .
bone conduction headphones have many advantages over traditional headphones:
- sound-transmitting medium is the temporal bone, not eardrum . Even if worn for a long time, it will not cause harm to the eardrum and can better protect hearing;
- earphones will not block the ear canal. While listening to music and making phone calls, you can also hear external sounds in real time and keep alert to the surrounding environment;
- earphones do not need to be stuffed into your ears, and it is not easy to experience ear swelling, inflammation, etc.;
- earphones are highly waterproof and can be worn even if you sweat and go into the water to swim.
- learned about the various benefits of bone conduction headphones, and consulted some friends around me who had experience in buying bone conduction headphones. Taking advantage of the Double Eleven promotion, I also got into a set of bone conduction headphones: NANK Runner Pro4.
- As the first bone conduction headphone equipped with Bluetooth 5.3 chip, it is more stable than bone conduction headphones using Bluetooth 5.2 chip, and has a longer battery life. You can use it continuously for 10 hours of listening to music.
- Nanka high-performance vibrator can effectively increase the vibration area of the vibrator by 45%, improve sound quality, optimize the sound transmission direction, and make the music sound more spatial and three-dimensional.
- uses South Carolina's exclusive OT closed leak-reduction technology 3.0, which not only effectively solves the vibration of the shell, but also outputs reverse sound waves, offsetting the leak-reducing sound, greatly avoiding the possibility of sound output.
- waterproof level reaches IPX8 waterproof, and also comes with 16G memory, which can store more than 3,000 songs. You can enjoy music even if your phone is not around. The body of
- is all wrapped in silicone, which is soft and skin-friendly. The headphone shape can seamlessly fit the curves around the ears, making it very comfortable to wear and no burden.
Double Eleven Promotion, I took the opportunity to buy Nanka Runner Pro4
It is said that Nanka is the earliest brand in China to conduct bone conduction headphone research. Its spontaneous research on Nanka technology is currently the leading technology in the bone conduction industry. Compared with miscellaneous brands, big brands are of more guaranteed quality and after-sales service.
Real shot: The overall shape looks particularly smooth
Runner Pro4 is their latest model, so there are many optimizations in terms of functions, sound effects, and comfort:
Unexpectedly, my sister-in-law also said that she had boneless conduction headphones
Nanka Runner Pro4 on the first day of arrival, my sister-in-law came to our house to play and talked about the fact that her ears were accidentally invasive when she was swimming frequently recently, and she was a little inflamed. She was preparing to buy a swimming headphone, which was specially worn when she was in the water.
So, the bone conduction headphones that were originally prepared for my husband were intercepted by my sister-in-law halfway: "I originally thought it would be ugly to wear bone conduction headphones, but I didn't expect it to be OK, much better than I thought!"
OK, I can only place an order again and buy another pair of bone conduction headphones for my husband...
Reference:
- , "Listen to Music without Ears", Mo Yingyu.
