The Baseus Inspire XC1 Open Ear Clip-On Earbuds have an open-ear, clip-on design, where both earpieces sit outside your ears rather than entering your ear canals. So when you’re listening to music through these earbuds, you’ll be able to hear what’s happening around you at the same time. Bose tuned these earbuds, and each earpiece has two drivers. One driver is a dynamic woofer for bass reproduction, and the other is a Knowles balanced armature tweeter for high-frequency sound. You get about 8 hours of battery life on a single charge, and the case brings that to 40 hours of total use. The buds are IP66 rated, and the set includes four microphones for calls.
Head over to Amazon to get the Baseus Inspire XC1 Open Ear Clip-On Earbuds for just $99.99, down from their usual price of $129.99. That’s a $30 discount and 23% off.
Open ear clip-on earbuds that seal your ear canal while you enjoy music
Regular earbuds block out ambient noise by sealing your ear canal. These place the speaker just outside your ear canal instead, shooting sound inward. You can hear your music while still hearing everything happening around you, including other people talking and cars passing by. This causes the lower frequencies to be slightly reduced, because some of that bass escapes into the air and doesn’t push directly against your eardrum. It won’t hit as hard as it would on a sealed pair.
Hybrid two-way drivers are common in many headphones, but you rarely find them in earbuds this small. In each earbud, the Knowles balanced armature tweeter handles the highs, while the dynamic woofer handles the bass. A digital crossover ensures the signal goes to the right part: highs to the tweeter and lows to the woofer, so one doesn’t try to do what the other should. Baseus also adds its SuperBass 3.0 and SuperBalance 3.0 tuning over that, as well as Dolby Audio, although you’ll need to enable it within the Baseus app for it to actually do something.
Whether clip-on earbuds are comfortable for you depends entirely on how they sit against your ear. To help with that, Baseus added air cushioning where the clip meets your ear and flexible joint rings tested for durability through 10,000 bends. The material used is soft liquid silicone, whereas most earbuds use hard plastic. Since nothing pushes into your ear canals, you won’t feel a plugged-up sensation when using them for long periods.
Four microphones with AI capture your voice, with wind noise suppression on top. According to Baseus, these mics can continue to reduce wind noise when you’re riding a bike at speeds of approximately 5 meters per second or less. The Bluetooth 6.1 connection uses multipoint, which lets you pair two devices at the same time. LDAC also offers higher-quality audio on Android devices.
That 40-hour battery figure comes from a test at half volume with Bass Boost and Dolby switched off, so you’ll get less if you use either. The Baseus Inspire XC1 Open Ear Clip-On Earbuds are $99.99 right now instead of $129.99, but remember, the IP66 rating covers the earbuds themselves, not the charging case.
