The Sennheiser Momentum Sport squeezed a thermometer in the earbuds. The real question is whether you actually need that sort of stat in your daily workout.
Sennheiser Momentum Sport MSRP $329.00 Score Details “Quality earbuds that may let you leave all other fitness trackers at home.” Pros Cons How badly do you want to know your body’s temperature while you’re exercising?
They also still play music and podcasts and stuff. The question, then, is, do you really need all this in a single package, for a rather hefty $329 or so? Earbuds as earbuds We’ll get to the sensors in a minute. But if the Momentum Sport don’t work well as actual earbuds, then everything else is moot.
But there’s a little rubber flap that covers the USB-C port for wired charging that doesn’t quite seem to fit, until it does. Mine was sort of half-in, half-out, but eventually would fall into place. And most wireless earbud cases that I’ve ever used have some sort of spring to the case lid that helps keep them open or closed. Sennheiser has a magnet here that’ll keep things shut, but otherwise, the lid just sort of flops around and makes the case feel a little cheap.
As these were my first Sennheiser buds, I needed to install the Sennheiser Smart Control app, too. You can, thankfully, use it without registering for a Sennheiser account. But if you want the ability to set location-based profiles — Sennheiser calls them “Sound Zones” — you’ll need an account. Nope. That’s a thing. Tap “near the earbud” instead of actually tapping the earbud. Why would you want to poke yourself in the cheek instead of tapping the earbud? It feels strange. I’m going to just tap the earbud like a normal person. But even then, as often as not, I would trigger a pause with two taps instead of the intended cycling through Active Noise Cancellation , Anti Wind mode, and Transparency.
The app has a decent five-band EQ that’s worth playing with. It comes with eight presets, or you can save your own. There’s a Bass Boost toggle that I didn’t prefer at all — increasing things in the EQ sounded better to me — and a Podcast toggle that thins out voices a bit. I’ll be leaving it off, too.
That Sennheiser is able to do this at all is a pretty incredible feat, given the size of the hardware. By the way, the weight is manageable at just under a quarter ounce per bud. That’s a little heavier than my AirPods Pro, and it was noticeable by the end of my regular 90-minute workout. Not bad, just noticeable.
Here’s the important thing you need to know: As things stand today, you’ll need to use the Polar Flow app to track your workouts if you want to take advantage of the sensors in the earbuds. And I had to manually pair them before the app would see them. There are a plethora of workouts in the app, though curiously, it’s missing a basic one like an elliptical machine. Do your thing, and then that data will sync back to Apple Health or wherever.
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