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Product Features

* This five-eyelit cap toe balmoral has full leather linings, regular welt and single oak leather sole with custom heel.

Product Description

Update your business attire with the sophisticated Soho oxford, from Allen Edmonds. Handsomely crafted in premium calf leather, this modern balmoral offers a five-eyelet entry, stitch and seam detailing, and a stylish cap toe. All leather linings, cushioned footbeds, and a durable leather sole with rubber traction heel pad ensure long-lasting comfort and great looks.

Costumer Review

If you’re reading this, you probably already know all you need to about Allen Edmonds: great shoes. They’re well made, high end footwear that with any sort of care will last 20 years. While more initially more expensive, over the course of time they may end up cheaper as they can periodically be sent back to the factory to be recrafted for $95 - uppers redyed, polished, and sole replaced with your choice of anything from their available lineup, meaning you can swap leather for rubber or vice versa if you’d like - when they’ve worn down after a few years. AE periodically puts the recrafting process on sale too.

The biggest non-stylistic difference between AEs and other luxury models like Alden is that while both nominally run at very steep list prices, AEs can periodically be found at substantial discounts to them. As of this review, at least temporarily, the Soho appears to have hit that level. Props to Amazon for offering first quality shoes at closeout prices.

The Soho proper is a gorgeous shoe, and currently the only oxford cap toe in their line besides the best selling Park Avenue (PA). The Soho is slightly different from the PA in two respects. First, it’s on the new 0 last (called the double-zero by AE salespeople) which is one of the larger, wider lasts AE currently offers. The old 5 last that the PA has been on for 70 years is the narrowest and longest of all AE shoes, and as a result some will find the PA just doesn’t fit them in any size. For those, the Soho may prove a better alternative.

It’s probably not a bad idea to get fitted not just in AEs but in the actual last of the shoe you’re looking to buy if you can before ordering as it makes a big difference. In general, most will probably take a 1/2 to full size down from what they wear in sneakers on the Soho, but keep in mind one AE salesperson told me something like 70% of the grown men who walk in her store are wearing shoes that don’t fit (let alone knowing what size they wear!), so if you’ve not bought a set recently, probably a good idea to get measured. AE is the best shoe manufacturer out there, bar none, in producing models that fit non standard sized (extra wide or extra narrow) feet, so there’s probably a size and last that fits…but it may take some time to find it. It’s hard to pass up prices during a sale like this, though. If you’re not near an AE or Nordstrom store to try them on in person, worse case, just buy 2 in different sizes and spend $15 for return shipping to Amazon if neither fits.

Second, the only downside is that the cap toe is a little longer than on most shoes. As such, it comes across as slightly more stylish than traditional stodgy cap toes, but there’s a catch - you have to be very, very careful breaking in the shoes to make sure you don’t crease the cap toe proper, which ruins the look and is why this is only 4 stars instead of 5. AE should have reinforced the cap toe to limit creasing, but in this case style and probably weight won out. One suggestion is to use a bunch of AE Conditioner Cleaner, unfortunately not carried by Amazon but it’s less than $10 from AE directly, before even trying the shoe on as it helps limit creasing somewhat overall. Conditioner is good in any case before wearing any shoe for the first time as dried out leather is bad in general - one example: if the leather is really dried out, shoe polish can literally create dark spots on the shoe!

Still, a very comfortable, very formal dress shoe that will last for years if you treat it right. Recommended, especially at this price.

Price: $317.90 - $350.00

Product Description

Suunto’s top-of-the-line wristop computer has everything a demanding diver could want. The Stinger has three separate diving modes with its own profile memory: regular air dive, enriched-air nitrox dive, and freediving/depth gauge with timer mode. In addition to having information available to you at all times, the Suunto Stinger records and stores data for later analysis. You can view, compare, and analyze your diving performance through a specially designed PC interface.

The Stinger comes in three different versions: this one with a titanium housing, one with a metallic band, and one with an elastic strap.

Suunto Stinger implements a Suunto-specific ceiling and floor feature. The decompression floor is the deepest point at which the ascent time will not increase. The decompression ceiling is the shallowest depth to which you should ascend. These depths provide the range where the diver utilizes the decompression stop most efficiently. Suunto Stinger uses the Suunto Reduced Gradient Bubble Model (RGBM) for decompression calculations.

You can adjust the Suunto Stinger for diving at altitudes up to 3,000 meters (10,000 feet), and a personal level of conservatism can be added if desired. It enables you to set dive time and maximum depth alarms before your dive. The clear electro-luminescent backlight is activated automatically when dive alarms are given, making the dive parameters clearly visible and legible. The system is highly energy-efficient with only minimal power consumption. The built-in dive planning function helps you plan your next dive by showing you the no-decompression time data for different depths.

In the Nitrox mode, you can program Suunto Stinger for nitrox mixtures of 21 to 50-percent oxygen in 1-percent increments. You can also adjust it for oxygen partial pressure from 1.2 bar to 1.6 bar in 0.1-unit increments. Suunto Stinger gives both visual and audible alarms when the limit for oxygen partial pressure, CNS or OTU values are exceeded.

For freediving enthusiasts, Suunto Stinger introduces a 1-second precision timer with selectable 2, 4, 10, 20, 30 or 60-second profile memory-sampling rates. After 5 minutes of continuous diving in the Free mode, it automatically switches to Gauge mode. In both the Free and Gauge mode you can use a run-time timer. This makes Suunto Stinger also ideal for technical and military diving.

The triple o-ring pushbuttons and its monocase design without a separate rear cover make Suunto Stinger virtually leakproof. The case has a pressure rating of 20 ATM (660 feet), so you can rely on the Stinger to work at the deepest depths.

The Suunto Dive Manager (SDM) software that enables deeper understanding and better graphical representation of the data recorded and stored with Suunto Stinger. With SDM you can upload your dives to a PC and create a more detailed dive logbook. Here you can analyze and plan your sports activities and keep a training diary.

Costumer review

I’ve owned one for almost two years and the best feature I can think of is that its very simple to use. It takes care of all the administive details for you. Depth, dynamically keeps recalculating how much time you have left at your current depth, safety stop timer, when you’re topside it keeps track of your surface intervals and refactors for your next dive. No flying warnings appear as appropriate.

It made me a more aware diver. When I started using it, I noticed it kept beeping at me telling me I was ascending too fast or descending too fast - ie breaking rules. It was annoying at first but the sad fact was that I was breaking rules and didn’t even know it and I was putting myself in a higher risk category. I paid attention to the warnings and I think I’m safer for it. Now my Suunto doesn’t beep much when I dive.

The algorithm it uses is very conservative so I’m comfortable.

It is not air integrated so you still have to look at your pressure guages. But if you rent your equipment or you’re a new diver, this is the first thing to buy (literally buy it with your mask, fins, snorkle, and wetsuit) before you start going out for regulators or BCDs and stuff like that. It just takes makes diving more enjoyable. Its especially useful for multiday dive trips where you’re renting gear every day…it keeps track of your no fly times which on long dive trips can extend more than 12 hours so the computer tells you when not to fly.

Titanium is very light. I use the plastic strap mostly because its easier to put on and off with a dive suit. The Titanium strap looks cool though. I generally don’t wear it as a watch…its huge and you can tell its a dive computer - if you’re 6′5″ maybe you can use it as a watch. I do wear it on diving vacations though as my primary.

It has a bunch of features too nitrox mixes, dive planning, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

An interesting thing is that if you break too many rules or do something that puts you in a higher risk of microbubbles and things like that, it will give you warnings telling you not to dive. I received one of those infractions once. Consider it your diving police officer. It is pretty merciless though.

When I get home I download the data to my computer and it tells me exactly what I was doing.

Price: $699.00 and this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.