Open Ear Club

Open Ear Club covers audio gear built for training: open-ear earbuds and clip-on designs, bone-conduction headsets, sweat-proof and waterproof buds, and the cases, ear hooks and accessories that keep them in place. The buying questions are specific to how people train. Can I hear traffic while running with these? Do they stay put under a cycling helmet or a beanie? How much sound leaks in a quiet gym? How long does the battery last at the volume you actually use outdoors?

Recommendations follow the standards on this hub. Fit and sound leakage cannot be judged from a listing, so where a pair has been worn through workouts by me the page says how and for how long. Where a pick is researched, built from published battery figures, water-resistance ratings, driver type and owner reports, the page says that instead. The site is plain about what open-ear designs give up in bass and isolation. Commissions on links are disclosed on every page.

Open Ear Club is part of the Fitness & Training group alongside Pace & Pavement, Bag & Bell, Rope & Rep and Ring & Rest, and it overlaps with Shade & Signal for audio sunglasses. It is launching soon; this profile describes planned coverage. When live it will link back to this hub.

Open Ear Club is owned and operated by Iron Mako Media. It follows the same editorial standards as every site in the network and carries the network-wide affiliate disclosure: like every Iron Mako Media site, Open Ear Club earns commissions on purchases made through its links, and this hub carries none.