[nfbcs] Good earbuds for a good tablet!

[vincentfmartin2020 at gmail.com]

Bone conduction is probably the safest way you could ever listen to anything
using your ears!
There will never be too much pressure put on the eardrums to injure them.
You will miss a lot of the mid-range, but the newer Aftershockz bone phones
have improved significantly over the Blues 2 and sound pretty good.
Bone conduction actually vibrates the bone in your skull/jaw or wherever the
transducer sits.  It really feels like the sound is coming from inside your
head.
An alumni of the lab that I graduated from in the Georgia tech sonification
lab is the one that proved how to make it stereo.  

I have been wearing a pair of bone conduction headphones for many years,
even before Aftershockz started to make them.  
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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Good earbuds for a good tablet!


I use a bone-conduction headset, specifically, Aftershokz Bluez2. I am not
sure what the science is with respect to different types of headphones. I
believe there is proof that ear buds damage your hearing. 
But I doubt there is scientific evidence that a bone-conduction headset does
not. So I will admit I am not being entirely scientific here. But I try to
stay away from anything that goes in or even over my ears.


You get good sound quality from speech with a bone-conduction headset. 
So they are good for listening to a screen reader, talking books, and
podcasts. They are not great for music. If you are a real music geek you
might find the sound quality unacceptable.



On 5/23/19 2:05 AM, Jim Portillo via nfbcs wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
>   
>
> I'd like your expert recommendations.
>
>   
>
> I have a Microsoft Surface Go, which I really like.  I have the power 
> of a laptop in the body of a tablet.  I tend to take it with me everywhere
now.
>
> Since I got it a few months ago, I've been using some wired earbuds 
> with it, which are fine.  However, I'd like to see about maybe getting 
> some wireless or Bluetooth earbuds that I can use instead.  I have the 
> Apple airpods for my phone and iPod, and if there are some similar to 
> them for this PC tablet that I can use, I'd love it.
>
> I also like the ability to use either one in one ear or both for 
> stereo sound.
>
> Any thoughts or recommendations, and if it's something you really 
> like, tell me why.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Jim
>
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