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My Fairbuds ended up in the washing machine
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Nice, shame they don't do ~~over~~ open ear ones currently as that is what I use. Being able to hear the world around me still when on a bike ride or run is pretty useful. In ear muffles it took much.
They stopped making the Fairbuds XL?
Oh, meant open ear rather than over ear
Same but I wish for on-ear ones (not for bicycle though)
if I got the term correct, at least
The open ear ones I have currently are fitted just around your ear, but instead of going inside your ear the speaker is outside your ear. Fitting is more secure and because it isn't completely covering (hence the name open ear) your ear you can still hear things around you. So it works nicely for running and bike rides.
Mine have touch controls on them too, single touch on either of them will play/pause VLC so I usually pause for the sections I need to ride around busy traffic.
fwiw many noise-cancelling head/earphones also have a "transparency mode", it draws more power but at least on my Nothing CMF buds 2 it's.. eerily good. Like i can literally forget i'm wearing earphones, it's nuts, and those are cheap ones!
https://www.fairphone.com/fairbuds-xl
You should check out bone conduction. Glorious stuff, that.
I don't have any specific recommendations because I haven't bought a pair in a very long time (i just don't use headphones) and there are a lot more options now than there used to be, but even a decent pair works very nicely to keep your surroundings clear to hear.