Review: Shokz OpenFit Pro Wireless Earbuds

Great sound, call quality, comfort, and battery life. Spatial audio is an effective enhancement of the open-ear design. Noise reduction is an unusual feature, and it works.

Open-ear wireless earbuds are nothing short of a revolution. For many people, the ability to hear their tunes or podcasts and the outside world can be a game changer. The fact that open earbuds also tend to be way more comfortable than their traditional, closed cousins is, depending on your needs, either a bonus or the main reason to buy them.

Unfortunately, open-ears suffer from two major drawbacks: Sound quality takes a serious hit unless you’re in a perfectly quiet environment, and because there’s no way to passively isolate external sounds, you can’t have active noise cancellation (ANC) as a work-around. Or can you?

Shokz’s newest open-ear model, the Shokz OpenFit Pro ($250 in black or ...