After in-depth experience with Shaoyin OpenRun Pro, my prejudice against bone conduction headphones is gone.

Bone conduction headphones have always been regarded as a special product in the headphone market. Compared with traditional headphones, it has obvious differences in appearance, sound generation principle and sound quality performance. At first, many consumers regarded it as an "IQ tax" product. In fact, bone conduction headphones are designed for special scenarios. They allow users to enjoy music safely and comfortably while exercising or outdoors without affecting the user's perception of environmental sounds.

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in 2021 , I once bought a Shaoyin AS800 bone conduction headset. This wonderful sound production method and good wearing feeling really left a deep impression on me. Unfortunately, it was lost somewhere during a trip, and I gradually forgot about this category. Recently, the OpenRun Pro produced by Shaoyin has rekindled my interest in bone conduction headphones.

Appearance: simple and easy to use, low threshold for use

Shaoyin OpenRun Pro continues Shaoyin’s consistent extreme Simple design, the whole machine is an integrated design, the only operable keys are pause and volume up and down keys (the power button and volume up key are integrated), and the layout of the keys is also very intuitive for operation. For users with smaller head circumference, Shaoyin has also launched a dedicated mini model.

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There may be no Some readers may worry that OpenRun Pro will be easily broken when they see its "slim" design. In fact, there is no need to worry at all. It uses a titanium alloy frame that combines flexibility and solidity. As long as you don't overdo it. It is a "challenge" to bend, and it will not show any deformation during normal use.

Although the whole machine is made of titanium alloy material, the weight of the whole machine is only 28g. With its unique ergonomic design, it will not hang on the ears for a long time. There is a feeling of foreign body falling.

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As a Sports headphones with anti-sweat and waterproof properties, the outer layer of Shaoyin OpenRun Pro uses double nano-hydrophobic coating, and the speaker part also adopts a double-layer mesh structure (IP55 waterproof), which can be used when sweating, swimming or encountering daily sports. Even if it rains, you don’t have to worry about water getting in.

Shaoyin OpenRun Pro uses a magnetic charging interface. When the charging cable connector is close to the headphone interface, it will be firmly and automatically attracted together. The metal contacts of the charging port are rhodium-plated (and support liquid detection function). When the headset detects residual liquid in the charging port, it will alert the user through sound and LED status indicators.

Let’s talk about the wearing experience of Shaoyin OpenRun Pro. Four colleagues, including me, gave very high evaluations. In addition to the fact that when you first put it on, you will feel a slight pressure on your head from the earphones, but over time, it is easy to forget that you are wearing earphones on your head. This is also the biggest problem. The charm of titanium alloy is that it has excellent elasticity, so you won't feel restricted or worry about slipping. A colleague of mine who often runs outdoors said that Shaoyin OpenRun Pro is very suitable for sports wear.

In this case, I was very "generous" and gave this product to my colleague who often exercised for a few days. When I asked him again three days later, he said My feeling is: "When I first started wearing it, I was really not used to it. I always felt like something was disturbing me. But once I started exercising, I would forget about its existence. Firstly, it was because it was really light and comfortable to wear. It is effortless to put on; secondly, it fits the head very well and will not slide or shift, especially when sprinting in the last kilometer, even if the person is so tired that he wants to throw away the sports watch and running waist bag. The burden has been reduced, and I don’t feel that OpenRun Pro has increased the burden at all.”

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App: The function is very simple, and the switching function is "silky"

Although the operating experience of OpenRun Pro is very simple and easy to use, But Shaoyin still equipped it with an exclusive APP, but the functions of this APP are really a bit too "crude". In addition to being able to display the remaining power, play audio, switch sound mode and dual-connect devices, there are no interactive options. If you can customize each frequency band like Bose does, the performance in sound effects may be easier to consume. who accept.

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The dual-device switching function on the App deserves praise, although it is not new function, but it is one of the few products with a "silky" experience. After I connect the headphones to my laptop and mobile phone at the same time, the device that plays music first will get the "right to use" the headphones. After pausing, If you use another device to play music, the second device will obtain the "right to use" the headphones. The usage logic is very reasonable, making it easy to switch and play music between different devices.

Shaoyin's headphones also provide a standard mode and a vocal mode. The latter can increase the presence of the human voice and weaken the high and low frequencies in the music, making the voice more attractive. It sounds clearer, but I recommend turning it on when listening to some novels or podcasts. If you turn this function on while listening to music, the background sound will be cut too seriously, which will seriously affect the listening experience.

In terms of humanized wearing experience, Shaoyin has almost achieved full marks. It’s no wonder that it has always been the bone conduction headphone brand with the highest sales and reviews on the e-commerce platform.

Bone conduction headphones can actually "roll" good sound quality

Due to the high starting point of bone conduction technology, The bone conduction headphones currently on the market are of mixed quality, and it is not easy to buy a bone conduction headset with high sound quality and good experience.

As a headset, what everyone is most concerned about is its sound quality performance. After all, bone conduction headsets are different from traditional TWS headsets in that they use bone conduction technology. The sound waves vibrate the temporal bones of the head and are directly transmitted into the ears, so I don't really have high expectations for the sound quality. I can just listen to it and that's it.

And Shaoyin also understands the inherent flaws of bone conduction headphones. When the hardware design will cause damage to the transmission sound quality, we make improvements in acoustic technology and constantly update and iterate. Later, a new technology was introduced - Shokz TurboPitch acoustic technology, which can effectively reduce the loss of sound quality due to the sound unit being exposed to the air, and also added two additional sound-generating mesh openings in two directions, so that the sound generated by the vibration of the sound unit is Sound can be transmitted directly to the ear canal, making the sound clearer.

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Oh, almost Forgot, Shaoyin OpenRun Pro has a new CoreCushion low-frequency enhancement unit. As the name suggests, it can optimize the output of mid-low frequency sounds and make the low-frequency performance even better.

Take the R&B songs that I have listened to more recently as an example. I can still hear the layers and rhythm of the background instruments, although the details and texture of the vocals are restored. There are some shortcomings, but the overall sound quality is exactly what I expected. When I change the song played to more rock in the low-frequency band, I can clearly feel the impact of Shaoyin OpenRun Pro, which has a pretty good sense of rhythm.

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Although OpenRun Pro There is no noise reduction function, but it still helps you filter out some environmental noise as much as possible, making the music sound purer.

If you have been exposed to some bone conduction headphones before, then wearing OpenRun Pro you will definitely have a new perspective on the sound quality of bone conduction headphones.

However, after actually listening to it, the sound quality of Shaoyin OpenRun Pro gave me the impression that it was "much better than expected, but there is a big gap between it and mainstream TWS." There is nothing that can be done about this. The sound generation method of bone conduction determines its upper limit. However, it can solve the shortcomings of "no loud noise and no muffled sound", and it is already considered a leader among bone conduction headphones.

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And Shaoyin It seems to have "prescribed the right medicine to the case". When listening to some calm or vocal-based music types, OpenRun Pro's sound quality performance is not good, but once it switches to a music type with a strong sense of rhythm and dense background drum beats, the sound quality of OpenRun Pro is not good. You can feel the impact it brings. Perhaps Shaoyin himself knows that consumers prefer to listen to songs with a stronger rhythm when exercising, and he knows the preferences of users quite well.

The sound leakage is not serious, and the call performance is relatively average

As for the sound leakage issue that everyone is more concerned about, We did a wave of actual measurements. When playing songs with the headphone volume set at 50%, the person next to me must be at least 15cm away from me to hear the music. At about 20cm, I can only hear some subtle sounds. At 25cm, I can only hear the music. There was no sound at all.

However, it is a bone conduction headset after all. The call performance of Shaoyin OpenRun Pro is a little average. Although the official said it is equipped with dual silicon microphones to improve the call pickup effect, many problems will still be found after actual testing. For example, when encountering some cross winds, both parties may not be able to hear each other clearly. After all, its microphones and speakers are basically exposed, and it is difficult to rely on technical upgrades to reduce interference.

Battery life exceeded expectations, fast charging is a bonus

I almost forgot, battery life is very important for Bone conduction headphones are also very important. Unlike traditional TWS headphones, which can be automatically charged after being placed back into the charging compartment, they need to be connected to a magnetic data cable to "replenish energy." Therefore, consumers definitely want the charging frequency to be as low as possible. . According to official data, the theoretical battery life of Shaoyin OpenRun Pro is 10 hours. After playing music continuously for four hours, I found that the battery power dropped from 90% to 40% (the battery life performance is related to the volume). Overall, I am very satisfied.

And it is one of the few products on the market that brings fast charging technology to the bone conduction headphone market. The official data is that it takes 5 minutes to charge, and the maximum 90 minutes, which can solve many problems in some emergency or special scenarios. It only takes 60 minutes to fully charge the battery, which may be far from the efficiency of current mobile phone products, which can easily be fully charged in 20 minutes, but we can see that , Shaoyin hopes to make its products and even the entire category more usable and more convenient.

A good sports partner, just do a little bit is enough

Advantages:

1. It is comfortable to wear and has almost no foreign body sensation;

2. The sound quality is acceptable, somewhat beyond expectations;

3. The operation is simple;

Disadvantages:

1. It is relatively dull when playing pop music or vocals;

2. The APP is a little crude.

In Xiao Lei’s (ID: leitech) view, bone conduction headphones have evolved from “usable” to “practical” after many iterations. Compared with traditional headphones, they still have shortcomings such as storage trouble and poor sound quality, but this cannot be blamed on the manufacturer. The different positioning of the product means that you cannot look at it from the perspective of traditional headphones. In the bone conduction headphone market, Shaoyin OpenRun Pro is undoubtedly a successful enough product. It has the most important features of wearing feel, sound leakage and In terms of waterproofing, they have achieved the industry's first-class standards, and they have also put a lot of effort into sound quality, which other manufacturers do not pay much attention to.

Although I haven’t used bone conduction headphones for a long time before this, in just a few days, I can still feel the The charm of bone conduction headphones is that it focuses on the needs of sports scenes, provides a better experience in subdivided scenes, and provides users with one more choice. Although bone conduction headphones are still considered a niche product at present, I believe that more and more manufacturers will enter the market in the future and bring more good products with high quality and low price.

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