Listen to Music While Riding & Still Hear Cars Coming With The Posse AMK Sound Balancer

Yurbuds are a much cheaper and infinitely less costly alternative.

I would snap the input plug off of that as soon as I stuffed it in my pocket or bag. It might be a good idea, but there are more elegant solutions to the problem; the simplest one being headphones that don’t block out ambient noises. At the very least, use a cable for the input rather than a rigid plug.

My thoughts as well. Put the one ear bud in the ear not facing the road. Simple

Man every now and then someone comes up withone of those ideas where you are like “why didn’t I think of that? “. This seems like one those ideas; it pretty much takes care of any issue with listening to music out on the road. I always ride with a mirror but even so I stick to podcasts or audio books unless the road I’d nice and straight, wide and relatively low traffic. This would make music safe in really and condition as long as you are using it right. The only way I could see improving on the concept would be to build it into the audiob player itself, maybe with dying DSP processing. Alternatively you could probably accomplish the same thing with a phone app.

No, this is incredibly stupid.

The problem isn’t that the sounds can’t be balanced, it’s that users don’t want them to be. You don’t need an extra device to do what can be done inherently. It also adds bulk and the hassle of an extra battery, in this case a coin battery which has never proven successful in this application. It’s an 11 on the fail scale.

Ironically, people DO pay money for devices that work in the same manner but accomplish the exact opposite effect. Should tell you something. Noise isolation is something engineers try to accomplish, failing to do that doesn’t require an amplifier, battery, and seed money from stupid people.

The solution is to turn down the volume. Those that won’t do that won’t buy this device or even use it if given to them for free.

Kickstarter really does the industry a disservice. VC’s, as ignorant and greedy as they can be, would never fund something this dumb. Poorly educated angel investors, the targets of Kickstarter, often will.

im fine with a right earphone only…but cool concept

I got cheap earbuds and cut one off. I also used lightweight earphones, the ones that are about 1″ across and clamped them to my helmet so they are about !.5″ away from both ears. I get stereo and still hear the road noise.

This is like using an Etch-a-Sketch for secret messages when a Magic Slate will do.

Duh – beacuse if you turn down the volume, you either don’t hear the music very well, or you may still don’t hear the surroundings well, depends on your specific earbud. From what’s described here, This gadget seems to mix ambient sounds and music and balance them, so you’ll be able to hear everything at once at a reasonable level. I’ll probably stay with my aftershokz III (unless they develop a reliability problem), but the idea seems logical enough.

I have very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand it’s a very clever solution, on the other hand I think riding with headphones on is still a bad idea and no amount of technology changes that.