The OpenRun is a good headest that is slightly better the the OpenMove in a couple of ways, but they sound pretty much exactly the same, and the comfort level is basically the same, so I do not think that the OpenRun justifies it’s higher price.
The only difference that I consider possibly significant is that the fit of the OpenRun allows it to function better when laying down. The OpenMove loses contact with the sides of my face when laying down so it basically does not function while the OpenRun works laying down it is just a bit uncomfortable.
The sound between the OpenRun and the OpenMove is incredibly similar, so similar that I expect that they used the exact same drivers in both
The OpenRun has a magnetic charging cable, which is nice, but the OpenMove uses USB C so it does not have to have a special cable and can be charged with anything so I consider that a wash.
The OpenRun has faster charging I think, but they both charge pretty quick and I do not really care as I just charge them at night anyway, they both last all day so charging speed does not really matter.
The OpenRun has better water resistance, probably mostly due to the magnetic charging, but I do not really care about that.
The OpenRun fits differently then the OpenMove but I find the comfort level to be basically the same on both, it is kind of nice to have 2 different ones, so that if I one starts to irritate a spot on my ears I can switch to the other.
The OpenRun fits slightly closer to the head and looks a bit nicer the the OpenMove perhaps? But I do not really care about that
The Bluetooth connection range and quality seems exactly the same, about 20 feet on both in a house with a couple of walls in between when connected to my Laptop with a Intel Bluetooth chip. They both do a bit better with my Pixel 5 about 30 feet.
Strangely every time a new source of audio starts playing the OpenRun kind of does a little blep of the sound then cuts out and back in, the OpenMove does not do this. This is not a big deal but I prefer the way the OpenMove handles this better, note that my OpenMoves are from over 2 years ago, so it is possible that the newer OpenMove s also have this issue.
Battery life is hard to compare as my OpenMoves have been hard used for 2 years so the battery has degraded some, I have not really timed them, but the new OpenRun is better. One thing I will say is that I am really impressed with the quality of the batteries that Shokz uses. My 6 year old? Aftershokz Titanium headphones will still run for 6+ hours even after what must have been at least 2-3 thousand cycles by now. I have been using my OpenMoves for 8-12 hours a day, charging them every day for over 2 years now and they will still run for 10+ hours, so the batteries in these things seem really solid, better then what they put in most smartphones.
I have been using aftershokz headphones several years now now, my first one was a Aftershokz Titanium, then I got the OpenMove a couple of years ago and it was a massive improvement over the Titanium in basically every way. a few weeks ago when they where on sale for $100 I bought a OpenRun hoping that it would be an improvement over the OpenMove, but apparently they have not advanced at all in the last couple of years even when moving up a tier, the sound and the comfort is the same. I kept the OpenRuns because it was nice to have a second one to swap out when the battery runs dead on one, but I consider them both basically interchangeable. I really cannot tell which one I am wearing most of the time. So although the OpenRun is good the OpenMove is basically the same but cheaper making it a much better value.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.