this is a review and how to use the finis duo underwater mp3 player
swimming is like any other cardio exercise it gets boring as hell so we all know that having some
music playing in our ears keeps us motivated keeps our brains going keeps us active and we get less
bored and we do more cardio and although i find swimming a whole lot more enjoyable than running
or a bike without an engine i still like to have my music on while i'm doing it it just makes the
whole experience that much more enjoyable now i've tried other underwater devices before i had a sony
one that went around and it actually plugged in the ears the unique thing about the finis
is that it uses bone conduction so it vibrates on your cheekbones it doesn't actually go in the
ears so you could use separate ear plugs here and then you can have these and they'll still
hear the music the other thing that's kind of cool about them is they're actually tuned
to work underwater best for acoustics so if you're just walking around your house and you
have them on it'll sound a little bit tinny but when you're actually under water and you have
the acoustics of the water volume it sounds great so it's it's kind of takes some getting used to
you might be wondering why i'm in the studio with this instead of at the pool
the reason is it's electronic so we have to get it charged and we have to load the
music to it before we can use it so first let's unbox it and see what's in the package
what you see when you open it is the two ear pieces with the cord between them
and then the charging cord you can see that spot there plugs onto that just by magnetic contact
and that's how it charges and how it relays the music from the computer to your mp3 player this
then just plugs into the usb port of your computer now we have the charging cord plugged into the
computer's usb port and we take the power side of the headset and you can hear it snap into place
and now you see the green light so you know that it's charging and connected
so we're going to leave that lay here and while that charges we'll go back to the desktop
here we see the finished duo drive showed up and it's empty which makes sense the fitness duo can
hold up to four gigabytes of music and that's a lot but it's not quite as much as what modern
phones hold so you might have to trim down your phone music list before you put them on there
i've had other underwater music devices before so i have a file already with the music that i
want to move over to this one so i'll start with that and basically i just control all ctrl c
and go over here and paste and it'll take a little while all right now we have all the
music on the device let's go ahead and pull it off the charger and let's look at use and installation
here's the quick setup guide on it one side has all the buttons not the other side so we'll use
that one it's all pretty straightforward you hold the button in for power and then you do it one
at a time for play and pause this shuffle one down here you press it once for random
and then you press and hold it for 25 seconds to reset the whole device
this button over here you press it once to replay the song you're on
you press it twice to replay the song before it and then this is the part that doesn't
make as much sense to me as an engineer is you press and hold this to make the volume go up
and so this side over here is just the opposite of those controls you press it once to go to the next
song and then you press and hold it for the volume to go down now every other device i've ever seen
the track down would be associated with the volume down and the track plus would be associated with
the volume plus this one is backwards from that so that's to me the one kind of confusing
aspect of this device now you'll notice this isn't going to stick to my ear by magic right
so let's talk about installation and actual use now if you're swimming in the pool and you
got bleach you probably don't want it in your eyes and you're probably using goggles already
but for the finis duo you will have to have a pair of goggles
i like the speedo ones i've used other brands and i always go back to the speedo they just seem to
fit the most comfortably and keep sealed the best for me but you'll need some kind of goggles to
work with these before you put your fitness on the goggles you need to get the adjustment of
the band right first so you just keep pulling them in through there and then tightening them out here
and get them where it's comfortable on your head but they stay on and they're not going
to leak so do that first and make sure the two sides are even when you do this that way it'll
allow the same position of the ear pieces when you put those on once you have the band adjusted on
your goggles now you want to put the duo on them what you want to do is put the one with the power
button and the other buttons on the left hand side of your goggles that way it orients the power cord
to the rear so the power cord is hanging back on your neck and not in your face
okay i've installed the ear pieces on the goggles the way that works is you've got a split
cavity right there so what you do is you take the band and you slide it in and up around and what i
do for my best fit is i like to have the buckle part sort of in that center piece trapped there
and that way it not only keeps the earpiece on the band it keeps it from sliding back and forth
so i did that on this side as well as this side and again you can see i just slid it in
underneath there and up to the top so it's all stable now you may have to play around
a little bit with the tightness of the band and the position of the ear pieces on there
but that's basically how to use it now all you do is you know go in there hold the power on
until you see the green light and then it should start playing there you hear it so it's going
and again
restarted the song
went to the song before
went back to the next song
getting quieter
and getting louder you can see the plus and the minus sign on those little arrows
but remember those are for the volume it's opposite for the track selection when you're
done don't forget to hold it down and then it does that and it's off and that's really important
because if you just leave it keep going in your gym bag it's going to have a dead battery the next
time you try to do it i don't know exactly how many hours of battery life are on these things
but i can charge it up and you know it'll last me several weeks before i have to charge it when
it does need to be charged it'll let you know by the green light turning into a red light when you
power on and off the finis duo is just a really easy product to use besides the little up and down
volume and track thing i don't really like but i use them every time i go to the pool and swim this
is probably the third set of fitness duo i've had over many years they haven't really evolved
a whole lot i had this set for i don't know at least three years as well and they worked until
just recently i think the contacts just corroded on the part where they charge but overall very
good product makes the swim so much more enjoyable to have some good music while you're doing laps
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