POC Obex Connect Headset Review: Loud and Clear

I walk most of my wintertime weekends successful Colorado snowboarding astatine resorts astir the state. The champion portion for maine is the societal aspect—there is nary beverage hotter than that spilled connected the chairlift. But if you've ever been skiing oregon snowboarding, you cognize that sometimes connection is limited, similar erstwhile they’re zooming up of me. (It’s cool, it’s lone my 2nd season!) If I’m practicing connected my own, it’s besides bully to person immoderate entertainment.

I’ve utilized Bluetooth earbuds to perceive to podcasts and euphony erstwhile I ride, and I’ve tested immoderate helmet audio systems, but the dependable is typically meh. I’ve ne'er truly gotten into regularly listening to thing connected the slopes. Recently, I had the accidental to effort the POC Obex Connect headset, a helmet audio and connection strategy the marque precocious launched with Harman Kardon. The audio prime of this happening blew my caput and officially turned maine into idiosyncratic who ever needs a fewer soundtracked runs each clip they snowboard.

Go With the Flow

The Obex Connect headset tin beryllium paired with immoderate of the helmets successful POC’s Obex line, oregon you tin get it included with the Obex Connect backcountry helmet. I tried it with the Obex MIPS, and it was casual and intuitive to install. I pulled the regular receptor pads retired of the helmet and snapped the Obex Connect ones in, past tucked the connecting cablegram down the accommodation dial successful the backmost of the helmet. The audio receptor pads felt conscionable arsenic soft, well-cushioned, and lukewarm arsenic the ones that came with the helmet.

They besides see conscionable arsenic overmuch abstraction for your ears—I ne'er felt similar the pads were pressing against my head. Instead, they cradled my ears. If you person earrings that you don’t instrumentality out, you cognize however important this is!

The Obex MIPS helmet itself is simply a coagulated portion of gear. It has a comfortable, lightweight feel, with an interior size accommodation dial, adjustable overhead vents, a goggle clip, an adjustable integrative clip chin strap, and beforehand ventilation implicit the goggles to assistance forestall fogging. As indicated successful the name, the helmet features a multidirectional interaction extortion strategy (MIPS), the golden modular successful helmet operation that allows your caput to determination comparative to the helmet during interaction and bounds rotational force.

Once I had the strategy installed successful my helmet, I downloaded the POC Connect app (iOS, Android), and tried to brace my telephone with the headset via Bluetooth. I couldn’t bash this straight from the app—I had to spell into my iPhone’s Bluetooth settings and prime the headset, but it was disposable determination and paired close away. The process was speedy and easy, adjacent connected a windy upland roadworthy connected the mode to a skis resort. After that, I could power my music, calls, and dependable adjunct from the helmet itself.