Philips TAA7607

Verdict

The Philips TAA7607 are bone conduction headphones with a design that’s match for train, however sadly doesn’t do sufficient outdoors of that rugged exterior to face out of the sporty bone conduction crowd.

Introduction

The Philips TAA7607 are a pair of bone conduction headphones aimed toward runners and fitness center goers, delivering audio and dealing with your calls in an open-ear design that retains you conscious of the world round you as you sweat.

Following Philips’ spectacular A6606, the TAA7607 guarantees a equally workout-proof look, sturdy battery life and nice audio for music and calls. 

There’s no scarcity of sporty bone conduction headphones proper now, so has Philips constructed on its earlier efforts to make the TAA7607 a standout pair when it’s time to hit the fitness center?

The Philips TAA7607 is available for purchase now from Amazon UK for £157.95, placing it in and across the worth vary of the Shokz OpenRun Professional, that are top-of-the-line bone conduction headphones to purchase for runners and exercises.

Design

• IP66 water and mud resistant design
• Onboard bodily controls
• LED security lights

Philips doesn’t break from the bone conduction headphone norm so far as design is anxious. It’s a neckband-style look that weighs 38g and consists of bodily buttons to regulate quantity and skip tracks, flip the headphones on and off and in addition has a multi perform button to deal with calls as effectively and launch your cellphone’s good assistant.

That does imply there’s microphones right here too, with an AI and bone mics included. The AI one is designed to take away background noise whereas the bone conduction one tackles the wind to ensure calls outdoors come out good and clear.

It’s definitely not the slimmest set of bone conduction headphones you should purchase – the likes of the Shokz OpenRun and Haylou PurFree BC01 are extra slimline, but it surely’s not a heavy set to put on and through exercises and runs they’ve stayed in place and don’t bounce round both.

To offer it extra early morning or night-time operating enchantment, Philips has included a skinny LED gentle strip that fills the rear of the neckband and might gentle up crimson with fixed and strobe modes accessible and managed through the on/off button or the Philips Headphones companion cellphone app. It’s not an excellent brilliant LED gentle, however does provide you with one other supply of sunshine to maintain you seen.

The bodily controls are effectively positioned on the suitable aspect of the headphones and do make it good and simple to succeed in for even if you’re on the transfer. Whether or not that’s urgent to skip a observe or turning the quantity up or down, the controls are carried out properly right here.

It’s at all times good to see a great degree of sturdiness for one thing that’s designed for train  and Phillips has an IP66 water and mud resistant rated design right here, which suggests they’re good to resist some rain however aren’t appropriate for submerging in water.

In terms of charging, you’ll want to make use of a magnetic proprietary charging cable, which is within the field alongside a material carry bag and a few earplugs.

Options

• Good mics for calls
• Shorter than promised battery life

From a connection standpoint, it’s been superb on the entire. I’ve paired the TAA7607 to an iPhone, a Pixel cellphone, a MacBook and an Apple Watch Extremely with out situation. There’s scope to pair to 2 units concurrently as effectively for many who like the concept of multipoint Bluetooth help as effectively.

Phillips does embrace entry to its Headphone companion cellphone app, which has felt way more steady than my earlier encounters with it. From right here you may allow an earplug sound mode to supply some sound enchancment and allow the bone microphone to enhance name high quality in windier circumstances. It’s additionally a helpful spot to see the headphone battery life however utilizing the app isn’t integral to the general expertise.

On paper, the battery sounds fairly good right here. Philips states as much as 9 hours from the onboard 160maH capability battery. It’ll take two hours to get from 0-100% and does have a quick cost characteristic to offer an hour’s play from a 15-minute cost when plugging it into its proprietary charger. That’s an identical battery efficiency promised on the A6606 and greater than what you’ll get on a pair of Shokz headphones on paper a minimum of.

That’s probably not factoring in utilizing these built-in operating lights or based mostly on listening at close to to most quantity based mostly on my testing. An hour of operating or an hour of fitness center use noticed the battery drop by 20%. That’s extra like 5 hours versus 9 hours. You would possibly get 9 hours, however I feel you’d need to be listening at fairly low volumes to get something near that.

It’s nice you do have a quick cost characteristic a minimum of, and also you’ll probably have to make use of it in case you’re planning to make use of them frequently throughout every week, as an example.

Sound High quality

• Makes use of bone conduction expertise 
• No Bass mode

With Philips’ earlier sporty bone conduction headphones they managed to supply one thing I hadn’t seen on comparable headphones beforehand. It added a bass mode to ship an uncharacteristic punch of energy and heat. That mode doesn’t make the reduce right here, so what you’re left with right here is an general sound that simply feels okay.

It’s a sound profile that doesn’t really feel all that dissimilar to a bunch of different bone conduction headphones I’ve examined and I’m not satisfied it’s higher than Philips’ earlier efforts or what you’ll get from a pair of Shokz, Naenka or Haylou headphones.

Utilizing a mixture of my very own common exercise playlists and the helpful Songs to check your headphones playlist on Spotify, I first used them in my flat with little or no surrounding sound for that open ear design to battle towards it. What I obtained was audio that was unsurprisingly bass-lacking but additionally a bit boxy, harsh and grainy within the treble division and doesn’t really feel like essentially the most balanced sounding bone conduction headphones I’ve used.

I moved to the fitness center subsequent to see how it will deal with arising towards the fitness center’s personal sound system and fellow fitness center goers and in equity it did an okay job and wasn’t fully drowned out by these exterior sounds. But, that fairly reserved, center of the street bone conduction sound remained.

On runs, I needed to cope with visitors and wind. Once more, it wasn’t fully swamped by the encompassing sound and it affords a great steadiness between listening to your individual audio and sound round you, however you do need to crank the quantity up fairly excessive and that max quantity isn’t tremendous loud. There’s some fairly evident sound leakage to cope with as effectively.

I’d say these headphones do their finest work if you’re listening to audiobooks, podcasts and utilizing them to take calls. Whereas these onboard microphones don’t fully block out the wind and outdoors sounds, the decision readability typically is excellent each indoors and outside if you wish to take calls with them on the transfer.

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