Q. I have a pair of EarFun OpenJump open earphones and they are functionally excellent, but they bug the top of my ear (where they sit) after about an hour. I then got the EarFun Clip open earbuds and I have been using them for almost a year now. They are the most comfortable earbuds I have ever used, and I have been through several! They are so light and comfortable on my ears, and the way they integrate with my workstation and my phone is remarkable. It connects to both of them and manages phone calls when I am watching YouTube TV on my workstation, pausing the video stream. Have you tried the EarFun Clip yet?

—S.E., San Jose, California

A. I have tried both the EarFun OpenJump and the most recent version of your EarFun Clip, the EarFun Clip 2. The OpenJump was one of the more popular earphones I reviewed last year and many readers wrote back to me praising them, especially those who are active. They enjoyed how the OpenJump would clip securely on their ear and provide excellent sound quality for music, media and phone calls whether at the gym, in the park or around the house. The open design allows you to enjoy your audio without being isolated from the outside world, and the sound is competitive with earphones that seal off the ear canal. It's like having your cake and eating it too, and yours was the only response I received in the year since I covered the OpenJump that expressed less than total satisfaction.

That response is serving a purpose today to introduce readers to the Clip series because as good as the OpenJump is, the Clip 2 is even better and I can see why you are so pleased with the original Clip. I wrote about a charger I took to the Universal Orlando Resort last month, and that was not the only product I brought with me. One of the others was the EarFun Clip 2, and I came away as excited by it as you are with your original Clip. My own ears do not always cooperate with in-ear earbuds, and it can take a lot of experimenting to get a good fit. This often has me reaching for over-ear headphones to take to the gym, or to use when writing a column in a restaurant booth somewhere. The Clip 2 changed that. They are supremely comfortable and lightweight, and once placed on your ear they feel like they were meant to be there. The open design allows environmental sounds in while providing hi-fi sound quality that satisfies. They sound good when initially placed, but a little bit of rotating and adjusting provides notable improvements.

If that isn't enough, the Clip 2 can do face-to-face foreign language translation for over 100 languages in conjunction with the EarFun app. When someone speaks to you, it can translate in real time and you hear translated audio. Another way is they can speak, it will translate, and you can speak and it will translate for them. The days of the "Star Trek" universal translator are almost here!

The Clip 2 is quite an amazing product for the money and is racking up great reviews in the tech media as well as with end users, where it currently rates 4.8-4.9/5 everywhere I checked. They sell for $79.99 and the current code CLIP30 at myearfun.com reduces the price to only $49.99, one of the best deals of the year on such a satisfying, high-tech product. I hope this review finds some last-minute shoppers before Father's Day!

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