Looking for European earbud producer with open-ear design

I'm currently looking to replace my in-ears (which are slowly dying) and I have settled on the open-ear form factor. Unfortunately open-ears are not very common, so I've had trouble finding many European options. I'd settle for a European company, because produced in Europe is even more difficult to find.

What I found so far:

  • Nothing Open Ear (UK, produced in China)
  • Suunto Aqua/Wing/Sonic (Finland, probably produced in China apparently completely Chinese now
  • Teufel Airy Open TWS (Germany, probably produced in China)
  • Beyerdynamic Veerio 200 (Germany, 85% of all Beyerdynamic products produced in Germany)

Please do not confuse open-back (full-size over-ear) and open-ear (small form factor).

European brands I have checked which do not have open-ears:

  • Steelseries
  • Bang & Olufsen
  • Austrian Audio
  • Sennheiser
  • Meze
  • Fairphone
  • Valco
  • Fresh 'n Rebel
  • Jabra

Brands with open-ears but not European:

  • Shokz
  • Bose
  • JBL
  • Suunto (used to be Finnish, now 100% Chinese)
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Zoldyck@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro are amazing open ear headphones. Quality to price ratio is outstanding.

trolske@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Those are unfortunately open-back and not open-ear.

Zoldyck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Sorry. Didn't read correctly

feddinand@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y

I don’t know if it’s open ear, but this is a European company that I stumbled upon a while ago (funnily enough, this is the second time I post about them in this community) :

https://repeat.audio/en/

alphahowler@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Hi,

I don’t know where Teufel produces )likely China though), but the brand is high quality and these should match more or less.

https://teufel.de/airy-open-tws-107001994

starlinguk@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I won a pair of Teufel earbuds and their noise cancelling is abysmal. Good sound, shame about the ANC.

trolske@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y

Thanks, added to my list!

Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
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Scheisser@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Suunto is a Chinese company these days. They got bought a few years ago.

trolske@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y

Thanks, I fixed it

ladicius@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Jabra is a danish company producing mostly professionally used headsets (I know them for their business stuff which is widely used in telecommunication). As I'm not sure what suits you as open ear I suggest you look up their portfolio.

trolske@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y

I see only in-ear or over/on-ear on their website