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)
Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro are amazing open ear headphones. Quality to price ratio is outstanding.
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) :
Hi,
I don’t know where Teufel produces )likely China though), but the brand is high quality and these should match more or less.
@trolske Sennheiser?
@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-560s
And more.
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
