Customer Reviews for Shokz - 2' USB-A to 2-Pin Magnetic OpenRun Pro/OpenRun Charging Cable - Black
Customer Rating
5
My Favorite Headphones
on May 18, 2022
Posted by: Stephen L.
Excellent quality. Great sound. Mic is really good and people can hear me well on calls. Light weight, I forget I’m wearing them. Comfortable, no ear fatigue. I love them.
Like many people, I enjoy listening to things while exercising. In my case it is usually a podcast but also music. For years, I've been wearing conventional headphones while riding for this purpose. Always a challenge to find a setup that could be heard but not blocking the outside world TOO much. The Shokz simply solve that problem. I can hear just fine while hearing 95% of everything around me (there is still mental distraction and the fact that one is listening to something). It is so transparent that one can even hold a conversation without pausing. This does bring up a downside: Since they are so open, you HEAR the noises around. So that insanely loud truck, or the endless roar of high speed traffic will assault your ears. No worse than no headphones obviously but it can seem so because you're trying to listen to something.
As to sound quality, they have been a great surprise. IMO, not audiophile territory (although my audiophile son was impressed). But more than adequate for purpose and sounds good. Fantastic for spoken word content (like podcasts)
After having these several months and getting a new phone, still having same problem, so took a star off. This is my 3rd pair of Shokz. I love them except this set doesn’t get the alert sounds from my phone through the headset and when I wear them in the car with maps on my phone, it cuts off the first 3-4 words of directions Frustrating. So I don’t hear the “in 1.8 miles” just “turn Left onto……..”. So then I have to keep looking at my phone to see how far. For music they’re great!
We purchased a 2nd charger to keep in our RV. These headphones are awesome to pair with our Garmin Varia when riding our bicycles on the road. Let’s us hear all outside noises and alerts from our Garmin.
Your headphones are incredible but going with the proprietary cable is bad form. If you do want to go the proprietary charger rout you should should do what other companies are doing and offer a USB to male USB C cable, and female USB C to Proprietary charger adapter head.
These headphones are even better than i expected. I got them for biking and walks, but use them throughout the day for work as well. The battery holds up for a full work day which is so convenient if you have a lot of zoom meetings.
Charging is super simple. And connecting to multiple devices is the easiest I've experienced.
They aren't noise cancelling. I specifically got them for awareness, be sure that's what you want.
I originally bought the large and they were too big. So I returned them and got the mini. Still too big. In other words, they stick out too far from the back of my head and hit my coat collar or hood, forcing them forward on my head. I just wish you made an "extra-mini" for people with small heads.