open-eared

Listening closely to something; attentive.

Companies should be open-eared to feedback from their customers.

"She is passionate yet level-headed, committed but collaborative, and focused on making important change, while remaining creative and effective," Damodaran wrote in an email to the News. "As a leader, she is extremely communicative and open-eared, which has allowed our group to be most effective in its review of sexual climate at Yale."

Being receptive or open-minded to new styles of music.

Many people tend to listen to what they know, but others are more open-eared.

Which is everywhere—being open-eared is ostensibly a sign of anti-racism (not really) and gender progressivism (also not really) and is at least slightly aligned with the tenets of poptimism.

Synonym of open-back (“partially covering the ear”).

Not sure if Rat shack has any more decent headphones (you might find some old Pro-25's that they might still have in stock if you're lucky) but those are open eared.

While they are small open eared headphones, they have excellent sound quality, are fairly comfortable for wearing for long periods of time, and the bass response on them is absolutely incredible.