I saw the Shokz OpenFit Pro open-ear headphones earlier this year and couldn't justify the price.
When I started my new job 15 years ago, with my first pay packet I bought myself two tech devices, a Kindle and a pair of Bose headphones. So here we are 15 years later and at the end of last year I got a reward for a completed project which I used to by myself a Kindle Scribe, and this week I got a reward for 15 years service which I've spent on these amazing headphones.

Headphone technology has come a long way in the past 15 years. While noise cancelling was a thing back in 2011 it was still very expensive and the Bose headphones I could afford at the time didn't have the feature. My Bose, which I still have and use, are traditional headphones with a cable, headband and they rest on the ear.

In 2024 I purchased my first bone conduction headphones. While the technology never clamed to give a broad range of sound the comfort of true open ear and the ability to still hear ambient sounds certainly made these headphones ideal for casual listening.

The Shokz OpenFit Pro are not bone conductive. The small driver units sit on your ears, with no cushion and without going deep into your ears. They have the comfort "open-ear" style that the bone conductive headsets give you but with much better sound quality.

The technology now allows noise reduction. Not full on noise cancelling but certainly good enough to reduce the sound of the rain on the window or the fan sat behind me.

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Tags:Shokz, OpenFit Pro, Headphones

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This update was first written by Darren Wall
on Friday 12th June 2026.
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