Last month when I received SHOKZ Bluetooth headphones for my birthday from someone who knows me very well, my first thought was "Why did you bother?"
He knows I'm a card-carrying Apple fanboi since forever: why waste money on something I won't use?
After two weeks looking at them all charged up and ready to go, I decided to take them out for a run before consigning them to my cabinet of non-Apple stuff, which is packed to the top with things that simply didn't make the cut.
Surprise!
Not only did the SHOKZ perform beautifully and without a glitch, they surpassed AirPods Pro 3, my longtime running companion, in several areas:
1. They stay put — unlike AirPods which, once they get wet with sweat, fall out my ears, silencing the music and forcing me to stop running when I'm hot and exhausted and miserable and semi-delirious from sweat pouring into my eyes to reinsert them and restart the music.
2. The stereo separation is better than the AirPods: I can clearly hear the two distinct channels. And the overall sound quality is fine.
3. They continue to play music no matter how much noise I make singing along or grunting or whatever, with no pauses from loud ambient traffic sound, fire engines, sirens, etc., not the case with AirPods which go silent when loud noises occur and then take 10-20 seconds to gradually return to the max volume I keep them at.
4. No more need to have that annoying dangling connecting cable behind my neck that prevents one of my AirPods from falling to the ground: I've lost two (2) AirPods Pro devices that way over the years, after spending hours looking for them and employing Apple's Find My function to no avail.
SHOKZ come in Orange, Silver, Rose Gold, Blue, or Black.
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