New review time! Today I'm sweating for the art, literally, as I test out the Shokz OpenRun Pro headphones. Text and video review, take your pick. May contain traces of me running. You have been warned.
"They don't support active noise cancellation!" the reviewer shouts, gesticulating wildly.
No, because there is no seal with your ear canal, rendering such a feature pointless. This is physics, not a poor product choice.
"Okay, but they don't sound as good as my favourite thing that I have to screw deep into my lugholes."
That's just physics again.
"Okay, but these are expensive, so I should recommend an alternative. How about... some other thing that you'll have to dig into your scull."
No.
Some people (myself included) don't like their hearing being completely blocked off, reliance on a transparency mode that is probably terrible, the physical discomfort of something penetrating in towards their eardrum, having to try several sets of first-and-third-party tips, and the endless fiddling to get a good fit. Stop trying to sell #AirPods Pro to those people. However rare a more open design might be, it is a legitimate product category in its own right. Comparing it to something it isn't aiming to be, every single time, is not helpful.
Related: I just bought the #Shokz#OpenFit, on my endless quest to find #headphones that sit nicely about my person without requiring invasive surgery or flattened hair. I'll possibly hate them, as I've hated every set of such headphones that isn't the non-Pro #AirPods.
Ich glaub, die Diskussion gab es schon mal hier in der @fedibikes#Fahrradbubble , aber könnt ihr mir noch mal helfen:
Empfehlungen zu #Knochenschall#Kopfhörer , welche sich gut unter dem Helm tragen lassen?
@jakob_thoboell@fedibikes Die #shokz openrunpro gehen halt nicht, wenn du eine Haube oder Muff trägst wegen dem Bügel. War da auch sonst eher enttäuscht davon. Mich interessieren momentan mehr so Open-Ear Hörer wie die #OpenFit . Scheue aber noch die Investition.