#open-ear-earbuds

#open-ear-earbuds

One of those products that we nevertheless think holds promise is Anker's AeroFit Pro 2, which are wireless earbuds that can double as open-ear headphones. You pick the mode you want: wedge them into your ears for better sound enhanced by active noise cancellation, or let them pump out sound near your ears so that you can keep stay tuned into your surroundings. By using the code WSTDA3875US at Anker 's site, you can knock $30 off their $179.99 price.

The Soundcore AeroFit 2 Pro features a similar adjustable ear-hook design to Anker's previous and AeroFit, but with one extra level of adjustment to help the earbuds create more of a seal in your ear. That change, plus tweaks to the tips of the Pro, seem to be how Anker is offering ANC on the new earbuds. Anker says the algorithm running on the Pro checks 380,000 times per second to adjust its level of noise cancellation on the fly.

The Soundcore AeroClip by Anker normally goes for $170. During Black Friday, they dropped down 41% to their lowest price ever of and even $100-a $70 discount. They went back up to full price after that weekend, but someone at Anker seems to have turned the knob back down, bringing back the all-time low Black Friday price. No telling how long it'll last, so secure yours now.

Earbuds work best when you forget that they exist, even as they are in your ears or wrapped around your head. In actuality, a good earbud is a conduit for something else, like a good workout with bone conduction headphones or a locked-in eight hours of uninterrupted work at your chatter-filled desk job with noise-canceling earbuds. So when I was sent the earbuds, the latest from one of my favorite design-forward tech companies,

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are still a week away, but you don't have to wait till then to start saving. Almost all big retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart are offering plenty of early deals already, and we're spotting deep discounts on some of the best earbuds out there. Amazon, in particular, is being the most generous right now and has dropped the price of Shokz OpenFit 2 to just $125.

If you find traditional wireless earbuds uncomfortable, or maybe they just won't stay in no matter what you do, there's still hope, thanks to open-ear earbuds like Baseus's Inspire XC1. Open-ear earbuds don't sit directly in your ear, up against your ear canal, which gives them two major advantages over the more common "closed" design (think AirPods Pro with the silicone ear tips): better comfort and situational awareness.