What does open-ear mean?

open-ear

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English

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"The open-ear nature of the 580s is IMO their only disadvantage."
"I have a Dean Bass-in-a-Box. Even with cheap headphones, IMHO it sounds great. Fine for using open-ear headphones and playing along with "music in the room"."
"Some of todays best phones are from Audio Tecknica. I have the ath ad700 an open ear design."
"However, so far, there’s a fairly low ceiling on audio quality for open-ear headphones — so don’t expect audiophile quality regardless."

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