These open-ear buds actually have decent noise reduction

I was amazed that these… enactment beauteous dang well.

My biggest gripe astir open-ear buds is that they're rotten for large metropolis commutes. Cue a pedantic audiophile pointing retired that the full premise of open-ear buds is to not artifact retired sound. Yes, yes. But the unfortunate information is that often means if you privation open-ear buds for 1 situation, you'll have to bargain a 2nd brace for erstwhile the bid is screeching on the subway tracks portion the section mariachi set starts busking successful your car.

So I was intrigued erstwhile Shokz reached retired to accidental astatine CES 2026, its caller $249.95 OpenFit Pro buds would person "noise cancellation."

Technically, the close word is sound reduction. Active sound cancellation req …

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