The SHOKZ OpenFit 2 Open-Ear Earhook Bluetooth Earbuds are designed to hang over your ears and rest just outside the ear canal. That means traffic, a training partner, and a barista will still be heard, even while your music plays. To address the typical thin sound open-ear style earbuds have been criticized for, dual drivers let you place a woofer and a tweeter in each bud. Battery life lasts 11 hours per charge and 48 hours in total with the case, and an IP55 rating covers both sweat and rain.
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Open-ear earbuds that hook over your ears and leave the canal clear
The main advantage of choosing an open-ear style earbud is that since nothing goes into the ear canal, you can still hear what’s going on around you at normal levels while your music plays. For example, running down a busy street, riding a bike in heavy traffic, or being in an office environment that may require you to attend to someone periodically. Instead of removing a bud every minute or so to answer someone, you can keep listening.
DualBoost helps address the most common criticism of open-ear earbuds: their lack of bass response. Each bud contains a dedicated woofer for handling lower-frequency sounds and a separate tweeter for higher-frequency sounds. By dividing sound reproduction among multiple drivers, overall sound quality improves compared to a single driver trying to reproduce the entire sonic range. Prior generations of open-ear earbuds sounded tinny, but this newer design does not suffer from that same issue.
Each ear hook consists of a flexible metal wire covered in silicone. They adapt to different head shapes, and most people will find them comfortable. Each bud weighs about 9.4 grams, so they’re light enough that you’ll likely forget they are there after a mile or two.
Eleven hours of battery life is enough for long workdays and hikes, and the included case brings the total to 48 hours before you need a wall outlet. With a five-minute charge, you’ll get about two hours of listening when you’re getting ready to leave and realize you’re almost out of power.
Instead of touch-sensitive controls, SHOKZ chose physical buttons for playback and volume. Since you’ll often be using these earbuds with sweaty hands or gloves on, touch controls tend to misread a wet fingertip as input. A button either gets pressed or it doesn’t. Four built-in microphones, along with AI-powered noise reduction, also help keep conversations on windy sidewalks intelligible to whoever is on the other end, and multipoint keeps a phone and a laptop connected at the same time.
