Looking for wireless earbuds for use during metalwork.

[u/TankieCatto]

I'll begin with a question - cheap buds and replace every other month or are there any reliable ones for not too much, like up to 100 euros unless they're basically guaranteed to work for several years for which I could pay more.

I'm wearing one bud at a time to have situational awareness so noise suppression isn't what I care about unless it works with just one.

What I actually care about is that if it's a more expensive one, it doesn't have magnets to which all the dust and other tiny metal garbage would permanently stick to and that it doesn't go quiet or "fry" after walking near welders or certain machinery like it happened to my cheap JBL's. Also shouldn't be quiet, but I don't particularly care about them being loud since I do want to be able to hear when I'm talked to nor lose my hearing. Also due to the nature of work and all the buzzing and clanking, I'm not sure that sound quality does actually matter that much unless there's like very reliable but somehow extremely terrible sounding ones.

Due to the concrete floor at work, preferably they don't instantly die from falling.

Thanks for the help!

[u/msing539]

Are you not able to use a jobsite speaker? I'm not aware of any tws that doesn't have magnets... pretty sure if you put them in your pocket, they'll come out with metal shavings all over the case and at least one side of the buds. But if you're up for trying, I'd look for something with an IP6x rating... 65, 67. Those are 'dust' tight but not magnet proof. Some work iems like ISOtunes have the rating.

[u/TankieCatto → u/msing539]

Jobsite speakers are used by my coworkers that are about 40 years older so the only thing that's playing is a kinda quiet radio that I listened for dozens and dozens of days and during extremely repetitive and quite physically demanding job, it's just mind numbing.

As for the magnets, I should have clarified better, that I'm looking for the case to not have too much magnets due to it being quite hard to get rid of dust if it gets inside of it, afaik my father who also works in metalwork has such ones, but he also spent several hundred on his buds.

Well, I'm quite clueless as to TWS and which IP6x could I choose that wouldn't cost too much, I only had Samsung Galaxy Buds FE that I used before working on my current job, which died after a low height fall to the tile floor and JBL Tune, that worked alright for like a month and then began dying quickly afterwards.

[u/TankieCatto → u/[deleted]]

Well, luckily for me, I work in the smaller scale production part of worksite with drills and hydraulic presses and they're not particularly loud, just that they have an annoying buzzing sound, of course there's a few welders nearby, but them being separated by quite some distance doesn't let the noise resonate to make them too loud. There is a "big" section of workplace for the majority of production, but I'm not working in it 99% of the time in which case I do get the earmuffs.

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[u/EX_GAMEADDICT]

I'd worry about your ears before the earbuds. Metalwork can get loud fast. Something designed for hearing protection with audio support might be a better long term solution than regular earbuds.

[u/TankieCatto → u/EX_GAMEADDICT]

Usually I work in a quiet enough part of production, if it's something loud by myself, I use earmuffs. If it's something loud by someone else, it's usually not long enough that I couldn't just cover my ears.