For 15 years, H2O has been committed to building waterproof products for athletes, and continues to strive to improve its design through this Audio Sonar IPX8 Bluetooth bone conduction headset. Can be completely immersed in water as deep as 12 feet, whether you swim a few laps in the pool or surf in the waves, you can still listen to your favorite music or podcasts.This article aims to help you analyze“How about this headset?” by collecting some real user reviews.

Product Dimensions：1.38 x 0.79 x 0.79 inches

Item Weight：5.3 ounces

ASIN：B08NCHYNW3

Item model number：BCH-MP8-BT_AMAZ_VC

Batteries：1 Lithium Ion batteries required. (included)

Battery Life：7 hrs

Manufacturer：H2O Audio

Units：1.0 Count

Number Of Items：1

Product name: H20 Audio Sonar  Price: $99.99

Rating: 3.7   Where to buy: Amazon or official website.

User:Shopper Nation:United States

“I love this product. The battery life is long and it is easy to use. Easy process to upload music as an mp3 player. Bone conducting tech works great and I can rock out to whatever volume suits me. It is loud underwater! Just hook it to your goggles, turn on, and enjoy a swim with music. Only bad thing I can say is I had to modify the tightness of putting my arms to my ears for a streamlined flip turn as the product sits in that space on my head. Regardless, I love this product and highly recommend it!”

User:Sgt. O. Nation:United States

“I bought these hoping to enhance my lap swimming experience.

1. The Bluetooth range is horrible, it starts cutting out after about fifty feet from your phone/device, so your music is constantly cutting out or choppy.

2. The Bluetooth connection cuts out ENTIRELY as soon as you go underwater.

3. So I tried loading music onto these headphones to play manually, nope! The USB connection is awful and your computer will rarely detect the device. So if it ever pops up, make sure you get all the music on their you want, because you probably won’t get a second chance! Also, adding or deleting music tends to lock up the program, requiring you to disconnect the headphones or reboot.

All in all, this was a huge mistake. These headphones are NOT worth $100, I think the technology is still developing and someone needs to come up with a better design. When the headphones do work, the sound quality is actually pretty good, but good luck trying to get your music to work on it. You may as well set a Bluetooth speaker by the poolside and swim that way. Waste of money”

User:Sabrina Nation:United States

“They’re pretty good, the battery goes well and last enough. The sound and music it’s good also but if you are pretending on using your music from Bluetooth don’t work properly, you lose the sound when you’re far from the iPhone so it’s not good for swimming, but they allow you to put music insight the headphones and that works awesome”

User:Tate Linden Nation:United States

“The sound quality is quite good, and the unit made swimming much more enjoyable after I hit a wall at 2200 yards.

Unfortunately the unit started having problems about 5 months in. About 50 uses. First, one of the sound-transmitting pads got partially stuck within the housing. (See pic) It still seems to work, but is a lot more buzzy than it used to be. A couple weeks later I noticed that it went from battery life lasting for 3–4 swims to just one. The culprit appears to be that the unit has begun to turn itself on without buttons being pressed. This happens in my swim bag, on the charger, or when it’s on my head after having turned it off. The buttons are now far less responsive than they were when new, so perhaps everything is sticking or corroding inside.

As it stands, it’s borderline usable. Better than nothing, but I’d expected more longevity and durability from something at this price point.

Note: I hand washed them after each use and stored them in their own dry pocket. These should still be pretty darn close to new condition after less than 65 hours of gentle use. They’re pretty close to dead.”

User:AZ Mom Nation:United States

“ These allow you to listen to music while swimming, just as promised. But the download process to get the music on there is unnecessarily difficult. I’ve had to unplug the usb drive after each successful download of an album to get it to respond again. And if any message pops up, the download stalls even after you’ve resolved the message. So while I’m pleased with the way these work in water, I wish getting the music on there was less difficult.”

User:Richard Nation:United States

“Not a bad idea and it worked quite well for a few months before it stopped connecting to the computer. The proprietary cable is very wonky and just stopped connecting at all after a few months. Also the player would freeze and not turn on sometimes.

While it is still under warranty they won’t pay to send it back so I ended up buy the Hamuti swim bone conduction player which is cheaper and works better overall.

Edit: I’m changing this to 4 stars since after I wrote this review they contacted me and offered me a full refund. Still doesn’t work but I’m happy they stood behind it and made it right.”

User:Sylvia Nation:United States

“Wow! What a difference this makes in my long swims in the pool! I finally don‘t worry about counting laps, or listing all the things I have to do correctly to swim efficiently. Instead I get to listen to my favorite music and tone out until the time is up instead of constantly checking my watch. It’s a total game changer for me and I’m happy that I finally found this! Don’t leave to the pool without it!”

User:Michelle Krom Nation:United States

“I started with a pair of headphones that went in your ear. The sound kept cutting in and out when water got in your ears. They were super uncomfortable. I swim for an hour but had to take them off as they were so painful.

These headphones are super comfortable, sound amazing — especially under water, and easy to download music to. I love these!!”

User:Liz Nation:United States

“At first I really liked these until I realized they don’t work under water. The moment my ear submerges in water it’s gone. These were way too expensive to not work under water.”

User:Vanessa B. Agdon Nation:United States

“I am a triathlete vlogger doing reviews on gear tech. I took these out for their test swim today. Sound was amazing! The fit was snug. But after a few laps, music kept changing on its own. The volume seemed to change on its own too. Tried to turn it off but it kept playing. After some minutes of fidgeting with it, it finally turned off. And to my surprise 16 minutes after while doing my laps, I was surprised that it turned on by itself!!!!

Now that Im home, Im going to dry this off and try it again for another swim and see what happens to it. I doubt it though.

How disappointing.”

In a word, we can see that Sonar is a good product through the above-mentioned user reviews, but the disadvantage is that its weight is too heavy and the user experience is not good enough.Among many bone conduction headphones, there are products with equivalent quality and higher cost performance, such as Wissonly Hi Runner. 

Wissonly is one of the few bone conduction headphone brands that have mastered bone conduction vibrator technology, and one of the few brands in the industry that have sustained experience in using bone conduction technology to protect hearing. Wissonly Hi Runner advocate a healthy way to listen. They perfectly combine the principles of healthy hearing and bone conduction sound transmission, to create a non-in-ear and non-ear-damaging bone conduction headphone which can effectively protect hearing.

Due to the particularity of the technical principle, sound quality of bone conduction headphones is more difficult to be improved . To this end, Wissonly Hi Runner subverts the traditional sound quality scheme, makes a breakthrough to use the large-size bone conduction vibrator. Through structural optimization, the effective vibration area of the vibrator is increased by 35%, thereby improving the vibrator sound efficiency, making the sound more powerful.It also optimizing the direction of sound transmission, reducing sound loss during sound transmission, and making the sound more concentrated.

The skin-friendly silicone material of the Wissonly Hi Runner body is a product that can be in contact with the skin for a long time. It is naturally a better choice and feels good to the touch. Because the entire headphone is made of skin-friendly material, it is very comfortable to wear. Even if you wear glasses, you can still hang it firmly on your ears. The headphone frame uses memory titanium, which has the advantage of being stretchable and lightweight. 

Wissonly Hi Runner adopts integrated molding technology, with no holes in the headphones’ body and it is no splicing, which realizes IPX8 waterproof, and can be used for swimming and bathing. Even in the depth of 20 meters, diving is no problem.It also has 32G of built-in memory, which can store 5000 songs. You can use it as amp3 player when you don’t have a mobile phone.

In a word, wissonly hi runner is a product with powerful functions, stable technology and high cost performance.