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every other headphone with active noise cancellation at least that I can

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remember using has made some effort to passively isolate the user from outside

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noise whether that's through Big over-the-ear Ear cups or through the ear

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canals themselves and that is where the airpods 4S break the mold in a big way

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they're available in two flavors one without ANC that looks a lot more like

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traditional airpods and one with active noise cancellation in spite of the fact

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that it doesn't use silicone ear tips like the airpods pros and my daily

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driver airpods Pro 2s there's no reason that active noise cancellation can't

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work in an open environment in fact years ago noctua demonstrated a concept

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for a cooler that would actively generate sound waves that canel out the

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waves from the spinning of the fan it's just that doing it is really hard hence

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the reason that cooler never came to light let's have a look at what's included ah yes the bare minimum

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documentation no stickers no charging cables nothing wow Apple minimalism it

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really is your bag baby oh this is a pretty minimalistic feeling case though

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I am liking that good gravy is this ever

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small that is already a huge factor for

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me in my decision to go with airpods Pro Twos for my daily driver but look at

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this it's so much smaller it's even 10% smaller than the older airpods 3 case

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and they've got some new features the stem has been updated with the same

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pressure sensor that we used to find only on the Pro Models although not

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missing is the touch sensor so while you can squeeze to play and pause or summon

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Siri or whatever else it is that you want to do you can't swipe up and down

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for volume control a feature that I personally use a lot they've added ip54

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water resistance though that's a maor factor if you're a sweaty boy like me or

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you live in a rainy environment like the Pacific Northwest and that's not just

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the airpods themselves but also the charging case which is super cool it's

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really light too and they've apparently adjusted the fit so they should be more

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comfortable for more people now personally I'm always going to feel like

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something that doesn't have a silicone tip is just going to go flying out of my

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ears but with these that doesn't seem like a rational fear things are about to

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get a little wild Andy you ready let's see if I can still do a handstand come

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on make some noise all right let's

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go

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okay airpods Force still in now you be

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looking at the new case and thinking wow that's cool and all but I bet they had

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to remove a lot of features to make it that small and you'd be right but only

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sort of if I compare to the top-of-the-line airpods Pro 2s you don't

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have the wrist strap you don't have the speaker for find my you don't have

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wireless charging which is sort of a downer in fact it doesn't even have a

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convenient pairing button for those of us who uh don't use an iPhone and

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therefore can't rely on just flipping open the lid nearby and hoping that it

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will pair but that is only true of the

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nonc model thec model not only has

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active noise cancellation for another 50 bucks you also get the find my speaker

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and you get wireless charging which seems like a pretty compelling value to

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me though it's worth noting that the wireless charging isn't quite the same

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as what we've come to expect allow me to demonstrate just like the airpods pro

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twos it'll work on an Apple Watch charger

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or on a CH compatible spot especially

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one with mag safe but unlike the airpods pro tws it doesn't actually stay in

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place on that mag safe charger so it'll

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charge but it won't hold say if you wanted to charge it

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vertically right I don't think that this was a malicious thing on Apple's part it

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just seems to be down to the fact that the magnet array is so big that it just

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wouldn't fit in this teeny tiny case so realistically that's the only major

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thing that we gave up here that is unless you like having a pairing button or you like hanging little Jewels or

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figurines off of your airpods case let's listen to them shall we oh but not until

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after we thank our sponsor dbrand who oh

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here it is sent over their new airpods

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for grip case let's put one on just like

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with their existing cases the application process is super easy you

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just take off the adhesive cover throw this boy on a little something like

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that last part's not necessary it's just fun and it's protected you can check out

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their airpods for grip cases as well as they wide range of other products

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including phone skins and cases console skins and cases and occasionally really

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like random stuff they did a Rubik Cube ones who can even keep up with these

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guys time to listen to these things conveniently I'm in the middle of my

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daily drive and iPhone challenge it's going great by the way so pairing this

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should be as simple as hey look at that

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airpods not connected to this phone not yet they're not double tap it from the

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charging case oh that's kind of cool who needs a pairing button now I canest the

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noise cancellation the HVAC just kicked on as expected the nonc model has no

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active noise cancellation and as I've come to expect from airpods very poor

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passive noise isolation I can hear the HVAC in here as plain as I can hear the

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sound of my own voice let's go ahead and

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change gears a little bit yeah let's just temporarily share audio that is

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super convenient

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ha I was about to say

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and it's trash and then it got a little bit better and then it got a lot better

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and then I moved my head a little bit and it got way worse it takes a long

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time to kick in compared to the airpods pro 2s yeah it's got the same H2 chip

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but boy is it ever doing work when you don't have a good seal are my airpods

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dead yeah I'm going to charge these I'll I'll BRB oh we're back recording again

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and even something percussive like

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that it gives it a weird Echo didn't do

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nearly as much as the airpods pro 2s which Apple now says can be used as

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hearing protection let's try switching them out now that these are

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charged it's not as good but it's very

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impressive something percussive right is going to penetrate these much more

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easily because noise cancellation can't respond that quickly at least nothing

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modern can but in terms of background drone these deal with it shockingly well

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of course h fact is not the most challenging scenario

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so to push them to the Limit a bit more

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I've brought over some other devices oh god let's try a vacuum airpods Pro

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twos mhm mhm mhm airpods

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4C yeah looks like louder noises they're

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going to struggle a fair bit more and another drug back is I get a bit more of

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that pressure inside the skull feeling compared to the airpods pro 2s of course

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having something is almost certainly better than nothing so let's throw

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regular airpods in and uh yeah that's

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horrible that's a vacuum sounds like a vacuum sounds of

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course all of this is without me even playing any media so let's change that

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up now I chose this because I wanted something with actual quiet Parts where

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a background drone might bother me one of the nicest things about active noise

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cancelling for me is that I don't have to turn up my media nearly as loud to

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enjoy it at a moderate listening volume comfortable listening volume I have no

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perception whatsoever of the background hum with the airpods pro 2s Oh weird the

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transparency mode kicked in for my own speech for a second there and it was

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amplifying my voice in my ears that was a little trippy with anything else going

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on I wouldn't notice the difference the pro twos sound better but that's not bad

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I'm a little surprised at how tight the base is for something that doesn't seal

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it shouldn't surprise me that much given how good the speakers are on the latest

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MacBooks and iPhones but could the airpods 4C be the Best of Both Worlds

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you get the advantages of being able to hear the world around you but but

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naturally not through the microphone and your headphones and then Amplified into

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your ears and you get ANC that I would describe as good enough these do not

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sound as good and I would say for the $50 difference unless you're the kind of

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person who knows you're going to lose them all the time find my speaker is

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probably going to pay for the Delta because if you're the kind of person who

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loses things you don't want to spend as much maybe you should just get the one

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that's less likely to be lost and these may be the very same drivers but without

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thec you're not getting the same perceived Clarity out of them I thought

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I was going to hate these they're not as comfortable for me they're fine and they

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don't fall out obviously but it's the sound quality that I was expecting to

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just not be up to par but Apple has done an outstanding job here not at making

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the best possible you know almost $200

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headphones certainly not but this is a great feature set and this is so small

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like it's so packable you know like boom even in my hands looks

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tiny there's a fair bit more to talk about here you get 5 hours on a single

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Charge 4 hours withc and up to 30 hours

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on a charge through the case according to Apple's claims and thanks to the H2

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chip the airpods 4S are full of Apple's computational audio features like their

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personalized spatial audio which personally I don't like but you might be

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into it it really does give like a very wide Sound Stage I just find it feels

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very processed so your mileage may vary as well as their adaptive EQ and voice

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isolation so that your calls will be extremely clear hey speaking of which

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Andy um I guess I should jump on a call with you call David yeah I can call

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David sure on a call the inferiority of

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the ANC is definitely more noticeable because there's no background music

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there's there's no nothing it's just blank and also a little bit of static

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because call Quality is not perfect so it kind of accentuates anything around

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you uh oh uh how would you say the quality of my voice is right now I would

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say the quality of your voice sounds pretty okay pretty okay how about now if

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I was drilling something in the background uh how give me a rating out

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of 10 6.5 out of 10 that's pretty darn

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impressive but for our next trick I'm going to be switching over to my my

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airpods Pro 2os to be clear I would expect both of these to be the same they

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shouldn't have any difference in terms of their ability to pick up your own

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voice oo unless they do I wonder if they have the same Hardware the same exterior

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mic but they just have it turned off that would be such an apple thing to do

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anyway here's the pros how's my audio quality right now it sounds a little

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worse worse yeah so I've actually

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noticed a thing my original airpods Pro 2os this is my second pair the quality

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started out great for my mic and then over time people complained to me about

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it more and more and more and I eventually replaced them for an unrelated reason I lost them and then

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these ones started out great and I've started to get some complaints about

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them so I don't know what if anything could degrade about them like am I

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getting Shmo in the mics or something I I have no idea but it does seem like

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they have gotten a little worse over time so the answer is Apple's pretty

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good at handling background noise regardless of

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which microphone you happen to be using at least in this Limited Test obviously

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your mileage may vary the airpods fors have conversational awareness

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theoretically allowing you to switch between active noise cancellation and

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transparency mode so you can conduct a conversation the only issue I see is

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that the airpods pro 2s having been around for a while a just got a really

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cool firmware update that makes that additional $70 sound pretty compelling

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since they can also be used as hearing protection and even a hearing aid and

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number two they're often on sale when

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you factor in the promotional pricing that you can find for airpods Pro 2

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sometimes the difference between these two is not that much so instead of

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looking like this if you compare them on in MSRP it ends up looking more like

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this and that makes these a lot less compelling I would still take the

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airpods pro 2s personally especially if it's only another 15 to

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$35 but but at MSRP I think these are

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the most compelling out of the three hope you guys enjoyed this video make sure you subscribe to ShortCircuit