Ever since I got my young hands on a portable CD player, I’ve preferred to keep my music bumping, at home and elsewhere.
But at some point my earbuds started to hurt my ears — and I started feeling concerned about my music being funneled straight into my ear canal, at my eardrum.
As a longtime user of wired earbuds, I’d try to drape the cords over my ears so I could listen to music at a bit of a distance. This was as ineffective as you’d expect — not because I couldn’t hear the music, but because my haphazard draping system didn’t stay put.
So when a co-worker recommended open earbuds to me, I was intrigued.
They’re designed to attach to the ear cartilage instead of getting jammed into the ear, sealing off the ear canal and pumping music into it.
