The OpenRun Pro 2 take what Shokz has done well — open-ear headphones for active types of folks — and made them sound much better.
Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 MSRP $179.00 Score Details “What I recommend when I recommend headphones for runners and cyclists.” Pros Cons I’m a big fan of not reinventing the wheel. If a product is truly good, it’ll see iterative updates, improving on what’s there instead of admitting that something wasn’t right.
In that sense, the term “headphones” doesn’t quite work. They’re not headphones in the sense that they sit atop your ear or into your ear like earbuds. They sit just outside your ear, and instead of using vibrations to move air to create sound, the vibrations go through your skull. Shokz said it did some work on the firmness of the wire loop, too. I can’t speak to the difference since I don’t wear the older models every day, but it’s been comfortable enough in my use, whether I was just wearing them throughout the day, or actually bouncing around and being active. Shokz says the OpenRun Pro 2 use 16% less “clamping force” than their predecessors.
The flip side is that is that you now have to flip up a little flap to get to the USB-C port on the OpenRun Pro 2. It’s not a huge deal, though you do have to make sure to seat it properly when you’re closing things back up. It also means that the OpenRun Pro 2 are IP55 certified instead of IP67. In layman’s terms, that means they should survive being sprayed with water, but not necessarily if immersed in water.
You still need to properly set your expectations, though. These aren’t the best-sounding things in the world. They’re not supposed to be, and they’re not going to be. And that’s not a strike against them. I measure the OpenFit Pro 2 against what came before. And in that sense, they’re definitely a marked improvement. They’re maybe not quite as good as the OpenFit and OpenFit Air , but the OpenRun Pro 2 have definitely improved the sound for this kind of open-ear headphone.
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