Suunto Race S general discussion
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@far-blue I haven’t had much luck with the dedicated players.
I’m on my third standalone mp3 player. The quality control is abysmal on amazon and sweat eventually breaks them. The market for tiny waterproof mp3 players is almost non existent - I’ve checked. I think it’s because smartwatches and sport watches with music storage and actual ingress protection and IP rating have all but dominated the market.
Your best bet is the bone conducting players like you mentioned because they offer ambient awareness but at the cost penalty of losing mids and lows. After you’ve been spoiled by some nice in ear drivers, bone conduction just pales in comparison no matter how good they are.
The deficit is just built into their construction and designThis time I’m going with the Sony Walkman WS410 series. It’s designed to be swam with even in saltwater. The sound quality is B-. At higher volumes some of my tracks may as well just be noise. I know it’s playing aac at 98 Kbps(~995 tracks on 4GB) but this is a driver limitation that I’m forced to live with because I need the other feature set it offers. It’s also just plain uncomfortable to wear but I’m hoping it gets better as the rubber gels and contorts to my head
The mighty play 3 looked promising right until the IPX4 rating, if you intend to keep it for a long time you need IP65/IP68. Sweat is salty and I’ve found no matter how much dry cleaning you do, eventually one day it’ll just die. the sweat will erode the glue and get into the circuitry
If Suunto could give us mp3 player functionality then I can pick up a JBL Endurance Peak 3 or a Jabra Elite Active IP57 and up rated earbuds and I can be golden. Both buds have better drivers and the Jabra has multi point so I can connect to my watch and another device at the same time. Not to mention I wouldn’t have to worry about the standalone player, it’s already built into the Suunto on my wrist
I’ll admit, it’s a niche need but a need nonetheless
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@Niclas-Brundell I have had a Race and Vertical. Now I am using a Garmin Epix. It has the same problem during intense wind–massive amounts of elevation gain.
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@raceaddict should be official now, and announced on the European store too.
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@zebulon Have you considered putting the music player in a plastic bag? Low tech, sure, but it would help against sweat.
Regarding the music quality I’m personally not sure I notice when running. I mean, I often don’t realise the track has changed…
Do remember, however, that bluetooth is incapable of carrying high quality audio (even when using the so-called high-quality codecs) so wired headphones are the only option if you really want CD quality or higher. Or you buy headphones with built-in music storage (whether bone conducting or not). So, if you want high quality music you wouldn’t get it from a watch no matter the brand because of the core limits of bluetooth.
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The single biggest question for me is … which strap to choose!
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@far-blue said in Suunto Race S general discussion:
The single biggest question for me is … which strap to choose!
This one is for my daughter, I have an extra blue strap for her.
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@Brad_Olwin Can you share an image of the white Race S with the blue strap? That‘s one of the color combos I am thinking about to buy.
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@wmichi Of course but I have to wait for her to open it. Later today.
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@wmichi said in Suunto Race S general discussion:
@Brad_Olwin Can you share an image of the white Race S with the blue strap? That‘s one of the color combos I am thinking about to buy.
Vector/T6c/Ambit 3 Peak/S5 Copper/S3/S7 Ti/S9 baro Ti/S9P Ti/S9PP Ti/Vertical Ti/Race Ti/RaceS/Ocean/Wing
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@Brad_Olwin Lovely
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@Brad_Olwin Looks great, thank you!
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@Brad_Olwin Could you measure the full length of the strap please? I’m pretty sure my wrist is around 22cm, much more than 175mm as indicated on the website.
My shortest strap on a regular watch is 250mm, so I don’t see how I can wear it without buying a separate strap for it. -
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I would also like to know, if there are two straps s+m inside the box, wouldn‘t be nice if there‘s just the s-size strap inside… -
@damuko I think the idea of both straps is in winter you can wear the watch over a jacket. I have found this very useful.
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How are vibrations on Race S? For me S9PP an Vertical did not feel decent for my personal feeling (too noisy, too strong, …).
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@zebulon Hi! I totally agree, please, please make it possible to play mp3s directly from the watch through bluetooth headphones.
I know the reviewers are asking themselves “who even listenes to mp3s in 2024” but I know quite a few people who actually still do.
I understand it is not a priority to work on but please do not totally discard mp3 playback feature as not important at all.
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@raceaddict it says that against the black on online now.
Any thoughts on if the other colours will be available at the same time? I really want the pink!
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@suuntastic said in Suunto Race S general discussion:
How are vibrations on Race S? For me S9PP an Vertical did not feel decent for my personal feeling (too noisy, too strong, …).
you should be pleased with it.
not noisy like some S9PP. To me it seems to be just right
