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These open fit earphones are designed to be comfortable, offer excellent noise reduction, a lengthy battery life, and quality audio.
"Hello everyone and welcome to another Gamereactor Quick Look.
It's time to look at another Shox product and we've been very favorable in our reviews of Shox for the past couple of years because I tend to believe that even though it's not for everyone to have open construction headsets, I won't call them in-ears, but it's kind of the same basic principle, like open ears on, well, even if it's not for everyone, I do think that Shox managed to push the envelope of what is technically possible, of what they can cram into something like this that is both good for people that enjoy this kind of audio construction and people who work out and enjoy it for that specific reason."
"So this is the OpenFit Pro and it is a more expensive pro version of what we saw I think a year or so ago with the Shox OpenFit Air, which was meant to be a lighter and also cheaper alternative to what Shox was at that point in time already offering.
That means that right now you can get a pair of OpenFit Air, which are a little bit outdated in some respects for $80, $70, even less, and these will probably cost you three times that."
"So just bear that in mind.
So first and foremost, this case is made with sort of a soft touch plastic rubber.
It feels very good.
It'll probably pick up fingerprints, but it feels very good."
"There is Qi wireless charging in here.
There's also a USB Type-C port.
That means that you can just drop this on a Qi wireless charging pad if it's big enough because this case is big and that's because these units are big."
"That's one of the things that we'll get to in just a little while.
It's IP55 certified, meaning that you can take them through the rain if you want.
You can't take them for a swim, but you can take them in the rain.
Bluetooth 6.1 will ensure strong connection even if you get a far away from your phone."
"So that's good.
Inside these, you probably have already seen this.
So this goes around your ear.
I have long hair now, so I'm not going to demonstrate it."
"But the point is that this will go around your ear and this will sit up next to the sort of the entry point to your ear where it will blast in sound through an open construction.
That means technically that people around you would be able to hear what is coming out.
But you know, I find that to be not the case."
"So well, I can basically show you.
So the point is that you would like this is a critical point.
So this would be the way.
So this kind of anchors it to the bottom of your ear."
"It can basically rest behind it.
And then this will be through beamforming technology be right on top and blast sound in.
So why do some people like this?
Well, for one, even though there is adaptive noise cancellation, you are quite definitively more outside, more openly available and aware of your surroundings when you're wearing these."
"Secondly, if you're wearing silicone tipped in ears, chances are that if you move your juggle your head about at some point, your ear canal will press out these silicone tips because either they're in or your head, your ear will gradually move them out.
That's kind of why they're a squeeze fit."
"That's the basic point.
This won't happen.
So people that exercise a lot tend to prefer these because when they're there, they are stuck."
"They won't go anywhere.
And obviously, as I said, if you are the kind of person that don't want to be isolated from the outside world, well, then these will be less so.
Inside we find 11 by 20 millimeter dual diaphragm shock super boost drivers that is Dolby Atmos enabled."
"That basically just means that shocks use a lot of their energy, their time, their R&D budget to make sure that there are drivers in here that compensates for the fact that these are not inside your ear.
They're resting on top."
"I think that they sound fantastic most of the time.
And you'd be amazed how little sound bleed there is in your immediate surroundings.
Really, really cool.
And as I said, they have active noise cancellation, which is crazy for something that isn't in your ear."
"It works.
It's not as well, obviously, as a pair of in-ears, which will passively provide you with noise cancellation, but it is there.
The one thing that I will say is that I love the construction."
"I think that the build and the fit and finish is excellent, even though that they cost a lot of money and the material usage is great.
The one thing that I will say, I don't know if you can see it in the same way.
I'm going to wear them again now, but I think the point is that to me, they're just a little bit too cumbersome."
"This little anchor weight is a little bit too big.
The unit that rests on top of your ear canal is a little bit too big.
I'm not saying they're heavy.
They're not heavy at all."
"There might be a little bit heavier than your basic AirPod, but not by much.
But it's just, it's such a fiddly thing.
And this case is big, so big that it probably won't just easily fit in a jeans pocket or a shirt pocket."
"So it just feels like the shocks could shave off a little bit of this excess weight and dimension to make it a truly portable little open ear construction pack.
I still think that this is a good effort and I like this idea.
I just think that I would probably say that the OpenFit Air, even though they're a few years older, don't have wireless charging and don't have the dual diaphragm super boost drivers, it's probably the better deal."
