When kayaking and snowboarding I have always had a love/hate relationship with music. Kayaking always posed a problem because, well, water. The second problem is that even with waterproof headphones, you want to be alert and wires were always inconvenient. Snowboarding you’d always have to choose to either be tuned in to the music or your friends. That’s after you fumbled trying to get your music to pause or play.
After 10 years of kayaking and snowboarding in search of an ideal solution, H2O Audio delivered.
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Initial Thoughts
These headphones are like have a bluetooth speaker clipped to your backpack but without annoying the rest of the world. You are totally aware of your surroundings and acts as background music to whatever you are doing.
The controls are pretty intuitive though you will not be able to wear any kind of gloves. I sort of need to use my finger nail to push in the buttons. Perhaps a future model with use haptic controls but price will probably also go up.
Awesome for whitewater kayaking! Things can get turbulent when upside down and I have historically lost all my tunes and the earbuds will get 'clogged' and sound muffled like you have water in your ear. Wit
Updated Notes
- Wearing beanies is a bit odd. I find it best to fiddle around and ‘tuck’ them to the inside if the beanie.
- Gym, I’ll stick with my normal headphones. H2O’s get pushed off ears when laying on back. Good if going with a friend.
- Great for running errands, can have background music while shopping but still be able to have conversation at the checkout or just people in general.
