I don’t assume I’ve ever seen a listening to support that appears fairly like Linner’s Mars gadgets. Relying in your standpoint, that’s both a very good or unhealthy factor.
Let’s begin by getting the looks out of the way in which. The Mars listening to aids are in-ear gadgets designed to appear and feel like an earbud, and so they make no effort attempting to be discreet. Every support is brilliant white with a strip of shade throughout the outward-facing aspect—blue for left, orange for proper—and these strips embrace a tiny LED that illuminates when charging and pairing by way of Bluetooth. (The models are additionally accessible in “cosmic blue.”)
Extra instantly noticeable is the rubber hook that sticks up from the highest of every support. This horn-like “ear fin” wedges into your ear and helps maintain the machine in place, following the contour of the concha. Whereas the hook largely disappears when worn, the listening to support itself is bulbous and fairly seen (you may take away the ear fin if it’s bothersome). At 5.52 grams every, they’re the second-heaviest listening to aids I’ve encountered.
Regardless of being a low-cost providing, the Linner Mars listening to aids include help for Linner’s cell app and pull double responsibility as strong media-streaming Bluetooth earbuds. Once more, for a comparatively entry-level product, there’s rather a lot to discover right here, together with unbiased quantity controls for every support, 4 operational modes (dialog, restaurant, commute, and outside), and a “focus mode” that enables the aids to directionally concentrate on sound coming from in entrance of you.
An “superior settings” button offers you entry to an equalizer of kinds, although it’s moderately obtuse and takes a little bit of trial and error to determine what sounds greatest. Every ear might be tuned individually alongside 5 dimensions: total, thickness, fullness, readability, and transparency, with weightings of -3 to +3 for every. What do these settings imply? I haven’t had a lot luck figuring that out. Every modifications the audio expertise however in a method that’s tough to totally clarify, both introducing or eradicating a slight stage of hiss at a unique pitch. Consumer experimentation is clearly so as, however the impression isn’t important sufficient to advantage investing a number of time.
You may really feel a way more highly effective affect by tweaking the three ranges of noise discount, although the upper ranges are likely to mute sounds you most likely need to hear (particularly voices). The upper you go, nonetheless, the decrease the quantity of hiss you’ll expertise. There’s thankfully not a number of hiss to take care of all through the consumer expertise, nevertheless it did are usually current even at low volumes and in all kinds of settings.