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 Chinaapparently 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)
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) :
Suunto is a Chinese company these days. They got bought a few years ago.
Thanks, I fixed it
Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro are amazing open ear headphones. Quality to price ratio is outstanding.
Those are unfortunately open-back and not open-ear.
Sorry. Didn’t read correctly
Hi,
I don’t know where Teufel produces )likely China though), but the brand is high quality and these should match more or less.
I won a pair of Teufel earbuds and their noise cancelling is abysmal. Good sound, shame about the ANC.
Thanks, added to my list!
Just got the Sony linkbuds open. Not really European, but from the Asian Germany 😁 Buds are great, very innovative and the app is nice. Sound is very good considering it’s open and got a hole in the driver
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.
I see only in-ear or over/on-ear on their website
@trolske Sennheiser?
No open-ears as far as I can see
@trolske They have different ones. For example
https://www.sennheiser-hearing.com/en-BE/p/hd-550/
https://www.sennheiser-hearing.com/en-BE/p/hd-560sAnd more.
Those are open-back, not open-ear.
