In case you wish to take your exercises outdoors, open-ear earbuds are useful for staying conscious of environment, however that further peace of thoughts usually comes on the expense of bass. The Shokz OpenFit Air Earbuds really attempt to deal with that drawback, although, and so they’re at the moment $79.95 ($40 off) at Amazon, Target, and instantly from Shokz — which is their greatest worth to this point.
In contrast to lots of Shokz’ different fashions, the OpenFit Air makes use of conventional air conduction — just like a pair of wi-fi earbuds — as an alternative of bone conduction tech, which ends up in noticeably respectable bass efficiency. Granted, they nonetheless can’t match conventional in-ear wi-fi earbuds, however they at the least sound much less muddy than a whole lot of bone conduction options. Ear hooks additionally maintain the OpenFit Air in place, and for essentially the most half they’re snug (although they’ll really feel much less steady if you’re donning glasses, as our wearables reviewer found out in her testing).
They’ve additionally obtained respectable battery life that lasts six hours on a single cost which is okay for many exercises. Plus, they carry an IP55 ranking for sweat and water resistance, to allow them to face up to sweaty exercises and lightweight rain.
