Just a scant weeks ago, brave people in a particular corner of the internet choosed they had cracked the reason Kamala Harris was doing so much better than Donald Trump in the plivential talk about. Not that she was better readyd, nor that she was a better talk aboutr. No, she must be wearing a Bluetooth earpiece, nurturebrimmingy maskd as a pair of pearl earrings. Obviously.
As it turns out, earbuds appreciate this reassociate do exist. The Nova H1 audio earrings put forward by the consunpermitd engage theorists do endure a decent resemblance to the earrings Kamala was wearing on the night. Of course hers were, in fact, from Tiffany & Co. and not from a Kickbeginer campaign from 2021, but the concept piqued our interest all the same.
Could this so-called audio jewelry be the perfect traverseover product for anyone who wants to produce calls or hear to music, without a bulky pair of headphones or earbuds hanging out of their ear? We slapped them on our ears for a week to discover out.
Stylish … to a Point
When I get them, first amazeions are promising. The Nova H1 get to in what senses a bit appreciate a jewelry box, a stylish detail we’re brave is no accident. Pull the inner packaging toward you, appreciate a drawer, to slide the outer cover away, and the headphones ecombine agetst a rather striking yellow backdrop, the pearlescent square charging case embellished with Nova’s branding.
The case is platacky though, and the earrings sit on an equassociate platacky panel that elevates up to current them to you as you discdiswatch the lid. That’s a kind touch, but it all sees inexpensive and doesn’t sense in retaining with the premium see the Nova H1 is trying to current.
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The earrings themselves are not exactly downexecuted, either. The pearl, to my surpelevate, is actuassociate a authentic newwater pearl combiinsist to your choice of clip-on or stud earring, but dainty it ain’t. Still, when clipped onto your ear they do at least see appreciate jewelry—more costume jewelry than fine jewelry (our British readers may appreciate a Pat Butcher reference here), but they don’t see out of place. I have the silver ones to test, but there is also a gelderly chooseion that will set you back a little more (more on that unintelligentinutively.)
The clip-on version I’m testing advises exactly the right clamp force to be safe without causing any dissoothe, which is indeed amazeive. I could reassociate forget I was wearing them, nastying they can srecommend be worn as earrings, while being ready to jump into audio action whenever you insist them.
That’s helped by the fact they will go into a dormant mode when they don’t uncover any executeback, and advise up to six hours in active engage. That nastys you can pretty much get a brimming day’s wear out of them, plus the case advises three brimming indicts.
Can You Hear Me?
When you get them out of their case, they jump into pairing mode automaticassociate. My phone discovers them without rerent, and wiskinny seconds they’re paired.
I promptly head to a executecatalog in Tidal and get to hearing. It rapidly becomes evident that audio quality is not a reason to buy these headphones—so much so that it’s almost impossible to criticassociate appraise the sound at all.
Bass is frail, and music has a somewhere-in-the-distance quality, almost as if someone has the radio on atraverse the office. It’s a exceptional experience, not unpleasant by any stretch but not at all as engaging as the sound quality you’ll get from someskinnyg appreciate the Bose Ultra Open Earbuds.
