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I like mine but they can suffer from wind noise cancelling out the sound quite easily. For prolonged periods combined with glasses they can make my ears a bit sore too. I have the basic ones though so these issues might be less of an issue on the others. Think about where you’ll store them when not in use as well, I fit mine into one of my jersey pockets and it’s fine but they don’t pack up like wired or standard in ear wireless headphones obviously so something to think about.
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I tried someone's bone-conduction headphones the other day and they were surprisingly good (not riding though).
aaaaaand now I've just realised I have no headphones port on my new phone. Fucksake.
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Get a version with magnetic charging.
The first set I bought from Costco had micro usb charging. Presumably sweat caused each if the original purchase and the 2 replacement sets to fail. (Would no longer charge). Struck lucky when Costco had no replacement stock and was given a full refund to credit card. Bought mag charging version direct from Shokz. No problems so far, in hundreds of hours of cycling.
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I've had a few sets of ones from Trekz/Shokz (they changed name). The latest ones (aeropex/openrun) are quite flexible so the irritation from prolonged listening is much lower. The mag charging is also excellent as @mespilus says.
If you want to listen to music I find that you have to bring the level up quite a bit to deal with wind noise as @ric_a5 says, but that's much less an issue with podcasts/spoken word as the brain is good at picking that out.
Amazon has the aeropex model on a good price, it seems the best value right now. There's a quick charge version (OpenRun) and a truly new model (OpenRun Pro) but that sacrifices the IP rating somewhat.
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anybody on here got experience with those Shokz bone conduction headphones?
I usually partner my solo paincave moments with a bluetooth speaker, but im doing a 600 in a few weeks and reckon the bits I'll want music the most are also times where the speaker may be [more] antisocial. I did Frontier300 with wired headphones (handy as phone can charge while listening) but I have a modern phone now so no headphone port.