Looking for European earbud producer with open-ear design (feddit.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by trolske@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

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I'm currently looking to replace my in-ears (which are slowly dying) and I have settled on the open-ear form factor. Unfortunately open-ears are not very common, so I've had trouble finding many European options. I'd settle for a European company, because produced in Europe is even more difficult to find.

What I found so far:

Nothing Open Ear (UK, produced in China)
~~Suunto Aqua/Wing/Sonic (Finland, probably produced in China~~ apparently completely Chinese now
Teufel Airy Open TWS (Germany, probably produced in China)
Beyerdynamic Veerio 200 (Germany, 85% of all Beyerdynamic products produced in Germany)

Please do not confuse open-back (full-size over-ear) and open-ear (small form factor).

European brands I have checked which do not have open-ears:

Steelseries
Bang & Olufsen
Austrian Audio
Sennheiser
Meze
Fairphone
Valco
Fresh 'n Rebel
Jabra

Brands with open-ears but not European:

Shokz
Bose
JBL
Suunto (used to be Finnish, now 100% Chinese)

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[-] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro are amazing open ear headphones. Quality to price ratio is outstanding.

[-] trolske@feddit.org 5 points 1 year ago

Those are unfortunately open-back and not open-ear.

[-] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Sorry. Didn't read correctly

[-] feddinand@feddit.org 4 points 1 year ago

I don’t know if it’s open ear, but this is a European company that I stumbled upon a while ago (funnily enough, this is the second time I post about them in this community) :

https://repeat.audio/en/

[-] alphahowler@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Hi,

I don’t know where Teufel produces )likely China though), but the brand is high quality and these should match more or less.

https://teufel.de/airy-open-tws-107001994

[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I won a pair of Teufel earbuds and their noise cancelling is abysmal. Good sound, shame about the ANC.

[-] trolske@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, added to my list!

[-] Scheisser@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Suunto is a Chinese company these days. They got bought a few years ago.

[-] trolske@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I fixed it

[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Jabra is a danish company producing mostly professionally used headsets (I know them for their business stuff which is widely used in telecommunication). As I'm not sure what suits you as open ear I suggest you look up their portfolio.