Bone conduction headphones?

January 13, 2017 at 02:24 PM · I tried those when I was in Tokyo. The concept is good, but the output is rather low. I tried few different position and didn't improve much, you have to crank the volume way up and probably not quite enough. And by the time you turn up the volume so much, people around can actually hear the sound from the headphone.

I wanted to buy this for live performance monitoring and possibly for recording studio use too. It's far from what I was expecting.

On the other hand there seems to be some in ear earphone with some kind of bone conduction tech, which I never try before but that doesn't seems to differ much from a regular in ear earphone.

January 13, 2017 at 03:44 PM · I don't understand this earphone claim, as we all hear by bone conduction, via tiny bones in the middle ear. With or without earphones.

January 13, 2017 at 05:20 PM · Eric,

people with conductive hearing loss do not hear because transmission over 3 little bones in the middle ear is diminished or lost.

We also use mastoid bones (behind our ears) with its air pockets in our everyday hearing.

That is why people claim that their violin sounds better when no ST used - sound travels through your collar bone all the way to our inner ear!

Beethoven allegedly used a device between his teeth to connect with piano, thus utilizing bone hearing instead of air transmission.

R

January 13, 2017 at 06:37 PM · Thank you for the info. If you are not hearing impaired, bone conduction earphones will only give you lousy frequency response (compared to conventional phones) plus discomfort due to the pressure they place on the mastoid bone.