It depends. I have earbuds that will rest on the bottom of my ear.... flap... thing, and it stays in unless I pull them up and out. In-ear usually have some rubber thing that sticks into your ear canal, as well, though that's not good for your ears because it can impact ear wax.
There are designs that have a hook that goes around the top of your ear, sorta like a hearing aid too.
also, on aircraft, I have to wear Earplanes to avoid severe ear pain and possibly eardrum damage. I have great difficulty equalizing my ears with pressure changes as it is; to have the direct pressure changes of an aircraft on me would be unbearable
as the airplane takes off and descends (moreso the descent than the takeoff), it changes pressure at a rate that can cause the eustachean tube to become sealed shut and pushed shut by the pressure -- which causes the insides of your ears and sinuses to start building up pressure, much like a submarine underwater. if this gets too bad, your eardrum bursts.
the Earplanes have a ceramic porous filter that allows pressure changes, but drags it out over a longer period of time
by constantly trying to equalize the Eustachean tubes during descent with the Earplanes, I can "keep up" with the reduced pressure change gradient.
Yeah, open-box is basically a returned item. They mark it down.
I actually bought my type cover 2 for my Surface pro 2 as open-box. Cost of the touch cover, basically. Though it does glitch occasionally and I have to reattach it, though I'm not sure if that's firmware or not. Hard to determine.
> Traditionally when sound is compressed on a phone or music player, sent through the air by Bluetooth connection, and decompressed by the Bluetooth headphones, there is a substantial amount of packet loss. It means your music comes through lacking some soul, lacking some punch, and with a certain amount of static-like white noise.
Through perfecting a custom implementation of the native Bluetooth SBC codec, which we call Shift™, we deliver a level of purity and sound that rivals and challenges the very best in wired headphones.
1. packet loss would come in the form of dropouts, but they're talking about quality, which is an entirely different thing
2. even their "improved" SBC is very likely far worse than AAC or apt-X, as is available on actually good cans
(in particular, AAC is indistinguishable from 256k-ish MP3)
@snipe I probably could fix this but I'm at work. 1) You're on a standard/administrator account in W7, not Guest? 2) You don't have any group policies (i.e. workplace/school) that could restrict use of Windows? 3) I suspect if 1 & 2 are true, you may have a corrupted registry where the preferences are stored (can happen if a windows update or program installation/uninstallation screws up). 3a) I'd recommend seeing if there's a Microsoft Knowledge Base article and a Fixit tool to fix it for you there.
Can't spend more time on it than that though, sorry.
Our software deployment program wasn't running on this computer I'm working on, so I initiated a restart... as soon as Explorer closed the deployment software popped up and started doing it's thing. -_-
If I had more rep, I would comment. I guess I'll just change my answer. What OS are you using?
