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Difficult trying to decide to award 4-stars or 5-stars.
PLUS's: These are an excellent product, super-comfortable, stay on, have a LONG battery life, and work very well. With the phone app (pretty necessary) and the included USB cable, it's pretty intuitive to load MP3s from computer into the headphones. Bluetooth also works very well between iphone and headphones. These bone-conduction headphones are optimized for swimming and they seem to be well thought out, very well made, comfortable, durable, and include everything you need including a perfect case of some kind of soft rubbery material that feels good in the hands and is just the right size. Sound quality when both ears are mostly submerged (backstroke) is just perfectly amazing - very full and accurately pleasing sound. But...
MINUS's: The sound quality when the ears are NOT fully underwater is somewhat tinny and disappointing - even when not in 'swim mode'. In 'swim mode' while swimming, each time one side of the head raises out of water (breaststroke, fly, crawl) that ear's volume and quality decreases markedly. That really does reduce the pleasure of listening to music and audiobooks while swimming laps. The controls are minimalist and clever and you'll need to learn how to find the right button and clicks to increase or decrease the volume, change from MP3 to Bluetooth mode, pause, skip forward and back, etc.
So, they're kinda expensive and I'm happy with them and use them all the time but I'm not totally thrilled with the sound when I'm listening out of the water, swimming freestyle, etc.
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