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If you're anything like me and you need to listen to music or something while

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you're working out, it can be frustrating how many headphones struggle

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with this use case. Ergonomics aside, some overthe-ear and

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even in-ear headphones can isolate you too much from your surroundings, not to

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mention get sweaty and nasty. And bone conduction, it's great for when I'm

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swimming laps, but [snorts] makes compromises on sound quality that I'd

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rather not have to deal with when I'm not under the sea.

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Thankfully, Shock sent over their Open Fit Pro, an open ear headphones with

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active noise cancellation that doesn't rely on physically plugging your ear,

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which is great cuz it means [music] you don't have to worry about that zombie sneaking up on you in the final

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kilometer. I know I worry about that.

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So, how do they work? Well, the principle is the same as other active

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noise cancelling headphones. To oversimplify it a lot, an array of

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microphones listens to the sounds around you. Then the headphones add the inverse

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sound to their output, which cancels out the ambient noise. Because they're open

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ear, however, they don't get the benefit of a physical seal, which helps other

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headphones block out even more noise. But that's a trade-off that Shocks made

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knowing that the seal also comes with its own set of downsides during

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activities like Of

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course, this advantage would be kind of worthless if they didn't actually cancel

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out any noise. So, let's try these out with a pink noise machine, which

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admittedly is a very ideal scenario for active noise cancelling. But, we'll get

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to some other things later, and this should at least give us a baseline for

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how they work. So that you guys can experience what I'm experiencing, we're

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going to be doing something a little unusual. >> I'm going to shove a mic into his ear.

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We can't screen record and play back music at the same time on iPhone. So, I guess we're stuck just holding this up.

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But basically, that's what it sounds like. We can actually give her a little

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bit more.

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Cool, right? You do get a little bit of the pressure sensation that's typical of

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ANC, but if you've ever experienced it before, then you'll know what to expect.

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That's pretty trippy to have your ear just open but still have noise

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cancellation work.

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>> Huh. >> It's weird. It's It's a weird sensation. I've never had anything quite like it.

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>> It really is. Say that again now that I've opened it. >> I've never had anything. It's a weird

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sensation. I've never had anything quite like it. >> Okay. Once more at the exact same volume

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if you can. >> It's a weird sensation. I've never had anything quite like it.

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>> Yeah. Towards the very end there, it kicked in and it's like, whoa. Whoa.

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Okay. Oh, you can find your earbuds by pinging them and stuff.

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Wow. That's That's pretty cool. Here,

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check this out.

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>> Can I take the mic out now? I guess so. >> Okay, cool. Part of why this

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implementation of ANC works without sealing your ear is thanks to what

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Shocks calls their feed forward mics. Mic one is here and is used as the

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primary microphone for monitoring external noise. Mic 2 is here and is a

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secondary microphone that captures the noise to enhance noise reduction. And

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mic 3 [music] is here on the inside to pick up the remaining noise that makes

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it toward your ear canal. It's a pretty trippy sensation to be able to hear the

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sounds around you really clearly while also having the noise floor just drop

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out from under you. But noise cancellation only matters if the sound

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you're getting is any good. First up in the sound quality category, we're going

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to talk about the mic and how it sounds for call quality. Oh, I guess I should

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throw them back on then. Shocks claims that the three mics working together

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with their AI voice recognition will

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reduce 99.4% 4% of background noise.

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It's unclear exactly what that number means, but what we can do is record the

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audio that I'm speaking right now, flip on some background noise, and let you

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guys decide how you like it. Want to hit the white noise machine? So, I'm talking

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right now. We got the white noise going in the background. We'll give you some

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using these and some using my lavalier microphone that's on my chest. And maybe

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hit me with some traffic, David, and crank it. Okay, there's a more obnoxious

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traffic background noise. >> Talking over this, having a cool

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conversation with my YouTube viewer peeps. >> I think we're good on that. But we still

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haven't answered the question of how they sound as, you know, headphones.

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Because this is a sponsored video, and sound enjoyment is pretty subjective.

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Even if we can measure response curves, I don't want to get super deep into my

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personal impressions and preferences. But what I can say is that they are good

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enough to enjoy a wide variety of content without the quality being

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distracting. Whether it's jamming out to familiar favorites, hearing most of the

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details in new beats, or clearly identifying which character is speaking

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in an audiobook, they are solid. Definitely the best shocks that I've

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ever heard. Now, openear headphones have their pros and cons [music] like

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practically eliminating the problem of length modes that we all experience with

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IM as well as having a very low acoustic

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Z or specific acoustic impedance, which means that your individual listening

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experience should be much closer to the person next to you than with sealed

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earbuds. On the con side though, openear

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headphones are usually at a slight disadvantage when it comes to giving you

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full boommy bass. However, Shocks claims

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a 50% improvement in the low-end versus their last gen openear models, and from

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what I've seen, they have made significant progress there. Now, this is

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the part where we get into Shocks' messaging for how they did all of this.

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Their dual diaphragm and highquality dome cap are designed for dynamic and

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distortion-free sound optimized for Dolby Atmos. Now, regular viewers here

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probably know Dolby Atmos as the audio standard that enables better surround

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sound in movies and includes vertical speakers, but this is not that. [music]

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Unlike that Dolby Atmos, this is specifically tailored to enhance the

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listening experience on earbuds. On top of all that, you get five EQ presets and

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a custom EQ in the Shocks app. Always appreciate that. But what about the

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tired elephant in the room? Turns out he's not that tired. Shocks claims that

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at 50% volume, if you have the ANC off,

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these puppies will last 12 hours on a single charge and up to 50 hours with

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the case. Maybe more importantly for us absent-minded folk, though, a 10-minute

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charge will provide 4 hours of play time, and the case includes chi wireless

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charging for your convenience. Now, naturally, ANC does reduce these times,

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but I also found that with the&C Active, I didn't need to push the volume as

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high. As for fit, Shocks designed these to be comfortable for a long run. Now,

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every ear is of course different, [music] but their ultra soft silicone

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2.0 really is ultra soft, which minimizes chafing, um, a common runner

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problem. [panting] And their open ear design keeps your

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ears pressure-free and comfortable. The ear hook design is designed to ensure a

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stable fit under even the most intense workouts. So much so that I've been

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asked to do our patented headshake test.

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Okay, I finally got it. I [laughter]

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also got a headache. And on top of everything we've seen so

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far, little dizzy. They're rated for

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IP55 water and DUST RESISTANCE, WHICH NO, NO, WE don't need to test that.

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Thank you, though. Thank you, David. Since you're here, by the way, you've

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been using the Open Fit Pros for about a week. Any thoughts to share? My first

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thought was finally headphones I can share with people without feeling deep

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immense shame. I think sharing earbuds disgusting. These totally totally

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acceptable. This solves my major earbud problem and allows me to go for runs

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while having a pretty ideal balance of isolation and focus and awareness and

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safety. I was also really impressed with the multi-point pairing. I've had really

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bad experiences with other devices in the past, and this [music] possibly

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thanks to its Bluetooth 6.1 worked really well across my PC, Steam Deck,

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and phone uh without any real issues. What I also really like is that it has a

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physical button for controls as opposed to a capacitive touch sensor. And cuz

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when I wear hoodies in the gym, uh it often gives false positives cuz I'm

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getting so sweaty. Uh and so I get like my music pausing in the middle of an

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intense workout and that really sucks when I'm in the groove. >> Okay, cool. It doesn't have the most

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pocketable case, but it's a lot smaller than some other gym bud cases, so you

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know, your mileage may vary. And the extra size is wide, not thick. So, I

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think most people will probably find a place that they can kind of slip it into. One of the best features, though,

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is that everything we've said is fully compatible with both Android and iPhone

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through the Shocks app. So, nothing is locked into a specific ecosystem. The

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Shocks Open Fit Pros are available right now for $250 in both black and white,

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and you can check them out at the link in the video description. Shocks has a

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whole array of fitness forward audio products for a wide range of uses and prices, so you can check those out, too.

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Thanks again to Shocks for sponsoring this video, and if you guys want to see more headphone content, maybe go check

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out our ShortCircuit channel where we do more unboxings. That's where we

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usually unbox this kind of