The OpenRun Pro from Shokz is their premium, wireless, open-ear sport headphone, designed for the ultimate athlete. OpenRun Pro is engineered with 9th generation patented bone conduction technology to deliver superior PremiumPitch 2.0+ audio through your cheekbone, leaving your ears open to environmental surroundings and providing all-day comfort. OpenRun Pro are powered by Shokz TurboPitch Technology, which adds two bass enhancers into the transducers, allowing you to experience every note, beat and chorus of your favorite tunes. With a refined design and compact size, OpenRun Pro sports a lightweight and flexible titanium frame, ensuring a secure fit that will stay in place during any workout, run, or competition.
This collaborative space allows users to contribute additional information, tips, and insights to enhance the original deal post. Feel free to share your knowledge and help fellow shoppers make informed decisions.
The OpenRun Pro from Shokz is their premium, wireless, open-ear sport headphone, designed for the ultimate athlete. OpenRun Pro is engineered with 9th generation patented bone conduction technology to deliver superior PremiumPitch 2.0+ audio through your cheekbone, leaving your ears open to environmental surroundings and providing all-day comfort. OpenRun Pro are powered by Shokz TurboPitch Technology, which adds two bass enhancers into the transducers, allowing you to experience every note, beat and chorus of your favorite tunes. With a refined design and compact size, OpenRun Pro sports a lightweight and flexible titanium frame, ensuring a secure fit that will stay in place during any workout, run, or competition.
Model: Shokz - OpenRun Pro Premium Bone Conduction Open-Ear Sport Headphones - Steel Blue
Deal History
Deal History includes data from multiple reputable stores, such as Best Buy, Target, and Walmart. The lowest price among stores for a given day is selected as the "Sale Price".
Sale Price does not include sale prices at Amazon unless a deal was posted by a community member.
Objectively terrible. 3/10 at best. You'll get better audio quality from a $8 set of gas station buds. These are not for quality listening.
However, if you are in a place where you need to be aware of your surroundings, or want to have music/podcasts as background entertainment while in quiet or low-noise environments, they are absolute gold. I own two pair - an older Air version which is paired / dedicated to my SteamDeck and a Pro for the office. The Air dig into the back of my ears and are uncomfortable to wear for more than an hour or two, but the Pro is comfortable most of the day.
Note that the Pro version here is not as water resistant as the non-Pro OpenRun, and I can't tell a difference in audio quality between the two (my wife, daughter, and parents all have the non-Pro). The microphone in the Pro is substantially better than the other models and, imho, as good as or better than the boom-mic version on the OpenComm (which I owned previously and sold).
If you get tired of having buds in your ears, or hate the muffled (or tinny passthrough) sound when you have buds in, these are much more comfortable. If you need to be able to hear your surroundings, they're awesome. If you're looking for soundstage, presence, deep base, or crystal clear sibilance then...no. I will say that it's easy to tell directionality of audio - using them for the SteamDeck I can clearly identify location of sounds for games that rely on it for cues.
Using them with ear plugs in noisy environments eliminates all the advantages of the headset and makes the audio quality worse (reduces high and mid frequency reproduction, resulting in a muffled, boomy sound). Just get a set of noise-cancelling in-ears for flights/noisy trains.
For music and especially bass, they are inferior to a quality headphone or earbud. However they are perfect for listening to podcasts and audiobooks while still letting you be aware of your surroundings.
Totally right. I have mine on all day. Only negative is they aren't good for flying. The ambient plane noise is too great. But if you add simple ear plugs you're good.
I've been keeping an eye on these waiting for a decent deal and this is it. This feels like the kinda deal where they're about to come out with a new model especially since the sale is at best buy. Fwiw from what I've read these have better sound (bass) than the non pro, but the water resistance is not as great (IP 55 vs IP 67). Still think about your use case and if you really need that level of water resistance.
Howz the audio quality on these compared to a regular headphones. I know there is no noise cancellation at all with the way they work
For music and especially bass, they are inferior to a quality headphone or earbud. However they are perfect for listening to podcasts and audiobooks while still letting you be aware of your surroundings.
Howz the audio quality on these compared to a regular headphones. I know there is no noise cancellation at all with the way they work
Not much in terms of bass/fullness of sound. I use them for listening to podcasts and audiobooks for running. They also fit well under a helmet for skiing.
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank overzeetop
Quote
from crushna
:
Howz the audio quality on these compared to a regular headphones. I know there is no noise cancellation at all with the way they work
Objectively terrible. 3/10 at best. You'll get better audio quality from a $8 set of gas station buds. These are not for quality listening.
However, if you are in a place where you need to be aware of your surroundings, or want to have music/podcasts as background entertainment while in quiet or low-noise environments, they are absolute gold. I own two pair - an older Air version which is paired / dedicated to my SteamDeck and a Pro for the office. The Air dig into the back of my ears and are uncomfortable to wear for more than an hour or two, but the Pro is comfortable most of the day.
Note that the Pro version here is not as water resistant as the non-Pro OpenRun, and I can't tell a difference in audio quality between the two (my wife, daughter, and parents all have the non-Pro). The microphone in the Pro is substantially better than the other models and, imho, as good as or better than the boom-mic version on the OpenComm (which I owned previously and sold).
If you get tired of having buds in your ears, or hate the muffled (or tinny passthrough) sound when you have buds in, these are much more comfortable. If you need to be able to hear your surroundings, they're awesome. If you're looking for soundstage, presence, deep base, or crystal clear sibilance then...no. I will say that it's easy to tell directionality of audio - using them for the SteamDeck I can clearly identify location of sounds for games that rely on it for cues.
Using them with ear plugs in noisy environments eliminates all the advantages of the headset and makes the audio quality worse (reduces high and mid frequency reproduction, resulting in a muffled, boomy sound). Just get a set of noise-cancelling in-ears for flights/noisy trains.
They are great for running and being aware of surroundings ... if you are running alongside busy streets there might be a bit too much background noise. I live in New Orleans where my old earbuds would sweat out of my ears during the summer and that is no longer a problem.
I've been keeping an eye on these waiting for a decent deal and this is it. This feels like the kinda deal where they're about to come out with a new model especially since the sale is at best buy. Fwiw from what I've read these have better sound (bass) than the non pro, but the water resistance is not as great (IP 55 vs IP 67). Still think about your use case and if you really need that level of water resistance.
It's only the steel blue that's in the deal and their website doesn't seem to have that color. So this seems more like them just discontinuing a color rather than replacing with a new model.
I've been keeping an eye on these waiting for a decent deal and this is it. This feels like the kinda deal where they're about to come out with a new model especially since the sale is at best buy. Fwiw from what I've read these have better sound (bass) than the non pro, but the water resistance is not as great (IP 55 vs IP 67). Still think about your use case and if you really need that level of water resistance.
Oddly the entire point to this downgrade in sound an dB is to wear when swimming. No headphones survives immersion underwater (I spend good money testing other earbuds) so these are supposed to be the only option.
Oddly the entire point to this downgrade in sound an dB is to wear when swimming. No headphones survives immersion underwater (I spend good money testing other earbuds) so these are supposed to be the only option.
Thanks for answer my question before I asked.
There are a couple of swimming-specific bone conduction headphones out now. I've had a pair of SwimP3 - two, actually - spanning at least a decade. These OpenRuns are far better audio quality (SwimP3 is around a 1.5/10, maybe lower) but I wouldn't swim with them.
There are a couple of swimming-specific bone conduction headphones out now. I've had a pair of SwimP3 - two, actually - spanning at least a decade. These OpenRuns are far better audio quality (SwimP3 is around a 1.5/10, maybe lower) but I wouldn't swim with them.
I haven't tried them yet because I tried hard to find a pair that stays in as secure as eark hook buds.
How do these actually stay on in water? They all look really loose an like it's random who's head each model barely fits. Water resistance is strong as hell. I assume the first time I would go from standing to swimming underwater these head band ones would just get yanked off by the current?
Like
Helpful
Funny
Not helpful
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Top Comments
However, if you are in a place where you need to be aware of your surroundings, or want to have music/podcasts as background entertainment while in quiet or low-noise environments, they are absolute gold. I own two pair - an older Air version which is paired / dedicated to my SteamDeck and a Pro for the office. The Air dig into the back of my ears and are uncomfortable to wear for more than an hour or two, but the Pro is comfortable most of the day.
Note that the Pro version here is not as water resistant as the non-Pro OpenRun, and I can't tell a difference in audio quality between the two (my wife, daughter, and parents all have the non-Pro). The microphone in the Pro is substantially better than the other models and, imho, as good as or better than the boom-mic version on the OpenComm (which I owned previously and sold).
If you get tired of having buds in your ears, or hate the muffled (or tinny passthrough) sound when you have buds in, these are much more comfortable. If you need to be able to hear your surroundings, they're awesome. If you're looking for soundstage, presence, deep base, or crystal clear sibilance then...no. I will say that it's easy to tell directionality of audio - using them for the SteamDeck I can clearly identify location of sounds for games that rely on it for cues.
Using them with ear plugs in noisy environments eliminates all the advantages of the headset and makes the audio quality worse (reduces high and mid frequency reproduction, resulting in a muffled, boomy sound). Just get a set of noise-cancelling in-ears for flights/noisy trains.
Join The Conversation
Share your experience with the Slickdeals community
Share information with the community. Please follow our Community Guidelines and be kind!
81 Comments
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank overzeetop
However, if you are in a place where you need to be aware of your surroundings, or want to have music/podcasts as background entertainment while in quiet or low-noise environments, they are absolute gold. I own two pair - an older Air version which is paired / dedicated to my SteamDeck and a Pro for the office. The Air dig into the back of my ears and are uncomfortable to wear for more than an hour or two, but the Pro is comfortable most of the day.
Note that the Pro version here is not as water resistant as the non-Pro OpenRun, and I can't tell a difference in audio quality between the two (my wife, daughter, and parents all have the non-Pro). The microphone in the Pro is substantially better than the other models and, imho, as good as or better than the boom-mic version on the OpenComm (which I owned previously and sold).
If you get tired of having buds in your ears, or hate the muffled (or tinny passthrough) sound when you have buds in, these are much more comfortable. If you need to be able to hear your surroundings, they're awesome. If you're looking for soundstage, presence, deep base, or crystal clear sibilance then...no. I will say that it's easy to tell directionality of audio - using them for the SteamDeck I can clearly identify location of sounds for games that rely on it for cues.
Using them with ear plugs in noisy environments eliminates all the advantages of the headset and makes the audio quality worse (reduces high and mid frequency reproduction, resulting in a muffled, boomy sound). Just get a set of noise-cancelling in-ears for flights/noisy trains.
Thanks for answer my question before I asked.
Thanks for answer my question before I asked.
There are a couple of swimming-specific bone conduction headphones out now. I've had a pair of SwimP3 - two, actually - spanning at least a decade. These OpenRuns are far better audio quality (SwimP3 is around a 1.5/10, maybe lower) but I wouldn't swim with them.
How do these actually stay on in water? They all look really loose an like it's random who's head each model barely fits. Water resistance is strong as hell. I assume the first time I would go from standing to swimming underwater these head band ones would just get yanked off by the current?
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Join The Conversation
Share your experience with the Slickdeals community
Share information with the community. Please follow our Community Guidelines and be kind!