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If you want lightweight, open-ear sport earbuds you can wear for hours without anything pressing on or plugging your ears, choose RICHJOY Open Ear Earbuds; if you need serious active noise cancelling, over-ear comfort and wired backup for long trips, choose Sidpro Headphones Over Ear.
• RICHJOY Open Ear Earbuds — biggest strength: an open-ear hook design at just 7.5 grams per earbud, so your ear canal stays open and the buds stay put through running, gym work and long commutes.
• RICHJOY Open Ear Earbuds — biggest trade-off: it lets the world in by design, so it can't block out engine drone or loud offices the way a sealed headphone can, and it relies on ENC for calls rather than active noise cancelling.
• Sidpro Headphones Over Ear — biggest strength: hybrid active noise cancelling that the spec sheet says silences up to 95% of machine noise, plus a transparent mode and a 3.5 mm wired fallback.
• Sidpro Headphones Over Ear — biggest trade-off: it's a full over-ear headphone, so it's bulkier, warmer on the ears, and its noise cancelling cuts playback time from 40 hours down to about 25.
• Who each is for: pick RICHJOY if you want barely-there buds for sport, calls and all-day awareness; pick Sidpro if you want to switch the world off on a plane, train or noisy open office.
The RICHJOY Open Ear Earbuds are built around one idea: keep your ears open and your music on. Instead of sealing a tip into your ear canal, they hang on soft silicone earhooks and fire sound toward the canal with directional audio tech, which the spec sheet says helps minimise leakage while still delivering deep bass and clear highs. Each earbud weighs only 7.5 grams, so the pressure you normally feel after an hour of in-ear buds just isn't part of the equation. That's the whole appeal here, and it's a genuinely different way to listen.
Battery is the other headline. RICHJOY quotes up to 40 hours of total playtime using the charging case, which is plenty for a week of gym sessions, commutes and calls between charges. The buds run Bluetooth 5.3 and connect to iPhone, Android and PC without fuss, and they're rated IP54, meaning sweat, rain and splashes are fine. For calls, an ENC microphone with AI processing works to reduce wind and background noise, and touch controls handle playback and answering.
So who should buy it? Runners, cyclists, gym-goers and anyone who works from home and wants to hear a delivery at the door while still hearing their podcast. If you hate the plugged-up feeling of in-ear buds, this is the design that fixes it. Who should skip it? If your main goal is blocking out a noisy train carriage or a loud open office, the open-ear concept works against you — there's no active noise cancelling here, only call-side noise reduction. In my opinion, RICHJOY is a sport-and-awareness product, not a silence product.
The Sidpro Headphones Over Ear take the opposite approach: seal the ears, then cancel what's left. They use a hybrid active noise cancelling system that the data sheet describes as reducing ambient noise by up to 20 dB and silencing up to 95% of machine noise, with a multi-layer reduction design behind it. There's also a transparent mode you can flip to with a button press when you need to hear an announcement or a barista — a genuinely useful feature on a headphone this isolating.
Comfort is clearly a priority. The earcups use protein leather over slow-rebound memory foam, and the headband is multi-level adjustable, while the earcups rotate 90° and fold 120° so they pack down small. Bluetooth 5.4 brings multipoint, so you can be connected to a laptop and a phone at the same time and switch between them without re-pairing, and the range is listed at up to 15 metres. Audio comes from 40 mm dynamic drivers with a 20 Hz–20 kHz range and total harmonic distortion under 3%, which points to a balanced, bass-forward tuning rather than a thin one.
Battery life is 40 hours of music playback, dropping to about 25 hours with ANC on — still several days of normal use — and a full charge takes around 2 hours. The included 3.5 mm cable means you can keep listening in wired mode if the battery dies, which is a real safety net on a long flight. Who should buy it? Travellers, commuters, open-office workers and anyone who wants to disappear into music. Who should skip it? If you run, lift or cycle and need to hear traffic, an over-ear sealed design with ANC is the wrong tool — that's exactly RICHJOY's job.
Side-by-Side: Which Should You Choose?
• Best for blocking out noise → Sidpro Headphones Over Ear. Hybrid ANC rated to cut ambient noise by up to 20 dB and up to 95% of machine noise.
• Best for staying aware of your surroundings → RICHJOY Open Ear Earbuds. Open-ear by design, so traffic, colleagues and announcements come through naturally.
• Best for flights, trains and open offices → Sidpro Headphones Over Ear. ANC plus a transparent mode you can toggle when you need to hear something.
• Best for all-day comfort over long sessions → it depends on the shape you prefer. RICHJOY avoids ear-canal pressure entirely; Sidpro avoids in-ear fatigue with memory-foam over-ear cups. Different fixes for the same problem.
• Best for switching between laptop and phone → Sidpro Headphones Over Ear. Bluetooth 5.4 with multipoint lets you hold two devices at once.
• Best for battery with noise cancelling on → Sidpro Headphones Over Ear. Roughly 25 hours with ANC active, versus 40 hours total from RICHJOY's case.
• Best for calls on the move → RICHJOY Open Ear Earbuds. ENC with AI wind and background reduction, and touch controls right on the bud.
• Best for never running out of power mid-trip → Sidpro Headphones Over Ear. The 3.5 mm cable lets you keep going in wired mode.
If I had to pick one for myself, I'd take the Sidpro Headphones Over Ear. I spend most of my listening time at a desk, on trains or on planes, and the combination of hybrid ANC, multipoint Bluetooth 5.4, folding comfort and a wired backup covers more of my day than open-ear buds could. The trade-off — bulk and ANC chewing battery down to about 25 hours — is one I'd happily accept.
That said, I'd recommend the RICHJOY Open Ear Earbuds without hesitation to anyone whose listening happens while moving: runners, cyclists, gym-goers and people who need to stay aware of their surroundings. In my opinion, these two aren't really rivals — they're answers to two different questions. Check the current price on Amazon for whichever one matches your day.
FAQ
The data sheet states the hybrid ANC reduces ambient noise by up to 20 dB and silences up to 95% of machine noise, with a transparent mode for when you want to hear what's around you. That's a meaningful reduction, though no headphone erases every sound completely.
RICHJOY offers up to 40 hours of total playtime via its charging case. Sidpro also lists 40 hours of music playback, but drops to roughly 25 hours with ANC switched on, and takes about 2 hours to charge fully.
RICHJOY leans into calls with an ENC microphone and AI wind and background noise reduction, plus touch controls on the bud. Sidpro also has a high-sensitivity mic with wind resistance and AI clarity, so both are capable — RICHJOY suits calls while moving, Sidpro suits calls in a quiet room or wired.
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