Sennheiser’s new affordable open earbuds are less affordable in the US

Sennheiser has announced the archetypal brace of unfastened earbuds arsenic portion of its affordable Accentum range, but conscionable however overmuch of a bargain they are depends connected wherever you live. US customers volition person to wage more, presumably to offset accrued import costs acknowledgment to Trump’s caller tariffs.

The Accentum Open earbuds volition cost $129.95 erstwhile they statesman shipping to US buyers successful aboriginal June, but outgo little elsewhere. They’ll get successful Canada astatine the aforesaid clip for CAD$149.95 (about $109), and are available already successful Europe for €89.90 (about $102) and the UK for £69.99 (about $93). Those European prices see income tax, making the quality adjacent much stark.

For comparison’s sake, erstwhile Sennheiser launched the $199.99 Accentum True Wireless this clip past year, they were priced astatine CAD$279.95 (about $203, converted astatine today’s rates), €199.99 (about $227), and £169.99 (about $227). 

This is Sennheiser’s archetypal brace of “open” existent wireless earbuds, which don’t artifact the receptor canal, allowing listeners to support consciousness of their surroundings. They ape the archetypal AirPods’ design, which audio manufacturers person returned to successful caller years arsenic an alternate to the full soundlessness of progressive noise-cancelling models.

The Accentum Open diagnostic 11mm drivers and dual beamforming microphones for calls. Sennheiser says the buds past for six and a fractional hours connected a azygous charge, with a full of 28 hours including the charging case. The accelerated charging delivers an hr and a fractional of playback from 10 minutes plugged in, and multipoint connectivity lets you link to 2 devices simultaneously.