Do bone conduction headphones actually sound good?

Reviewer consensus is that they sound 'good enough' for podcasts and motivating music on a run, but bass and max volume lag well behind traditional earbuds. Newer hybrid designs that pair bone conduction with small air-conduction drivers (like the OpenRun Pro 2) close some of that gap, though specialist-subreddit threads include vocal dissenters who feel the hybrid approach dilutes the original bone-conduction appeal.