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5.0 out of 5 starsMusic under water? Yes please!
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024
I like to listen to music when doing things like driving, riding a bicycle, a motorcycle, snowboarding, and now I can add swimming to this list. I’ve use H2O audio before with the first gen iPod nano but the headphones were quite uncomfortable. Now that I’m doing laps in the pool again (queue music) I have returned to the H2O Audio because the overall product was good and this product is completely different.
Comfort
These fit comfortably behind the head resting over the ear, very lightweight, and they are also comfortable under a swim cap and goggles.
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Even though I have several gigs of MP3s, the idea of streaming music from Pandora, Deezer, or Apple Music like creating an old mix tape was a big part of my deciding factor for this model, adding an hour of streamed music was about 137 Mb. Also having an open ear headset that I can use for cycling and snowboarding is definitely a plus.
Play back
The navigation controls with the three buttons are pretty simple. However the volume level keeps resetting when you turn it back on. I would expect the device would remember volume settings when powering up in memory mode, Bluetooth mode would be at the level of the connected device.
Audio quality
Above water music quality is ok but I did not get these for the audio quality, I have other headsets for that. That being said under water is a whole different story. The sound is amazing and it feels like the music is playing through the entire pool. This may be because this is my first pair of underwater bone conductive headphones but I’m still impressed.
Software
It’s convenient to set and load streaming files from the phone, organizing loaded files. Unfortunately it is not possible to determine the size or length of a streamed track from the phone software. I had to open the files in the computer for that.
Phone calls
Works fine on voice calls but just make sure the device is also connected to the phone by Bluetooth if playing from memory.
Pros:
8 Gigs
Record audio streams over Bluetooth
I can move music downloaded from Apple Music over to the device to listen to
Cons:
Does not remember volume level at restart (memory mode)
Unable to see music file information (size and length) from phone app
