Shokz has a heart for moving people. The Chinese specialist for lightweight headphones always has a clientele in mind who likes to jog, cycle or swim. So far, the manufacturer considered music transmission via bone conduction to be a tried and tested concept. It works like this: Small, encapsulated sound transducers sit just in front of the auricles, i.e. where the temporal bone meets the cheekbone. The cranial bone absorbs the sound waves and transmits them to the inner ear. And because the ears remain completely free, ambient noise can also be heard appropriately. Musical brilliance, however, is not one of the core competencies of this type of converter. Because the volume decreases more and more towards the high tones.
But now Shokz has an alternative ready, a Bluetooth headset called Openfit. As the name suggests, it should also keep its ears free, while its music transmission takes a more conventional route. The sound converters here resemble tiny loudspeakers that nestle in the auricles and radiate the sound from there in a tightly bundled manner in the direction of the eardrum. This is where they differ from all in-ear headphones, which also address the eardrum, but seal the auditory canal airtight.
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