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now apple already refreshed the airpods earlier this year but only with an extra

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hour of talk time and a wireless charging case accessory and in our

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review we asked apple to address some of the other annoyances that we have with

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their original iconic design and believe

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let's start with the biggest change apple makes in-ears now eliminating one

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of the best non-ear canal invading options on the market well i mean

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actually it's not eliminated you can still buy the non-pro air pods on

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apple's website but then you'd be walking around with visibly old air pods

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which pretty much defeats the purpose doesn't it you don't want to look like a

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commoner do you actually no you don't

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because this change in design means that the sound quality of the airpods pro is

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greatly improved now that the earbud can form a proper seal with the ear it's

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unclear whether the better audio is mostly due to that seal or the updated

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speaker design but regardless the new airpods pro has fuller mids and more

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bass all without being overpowering overall i'd say they sound about as good

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as some of the other wireless ear puds that we ear puds this is what happens

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when i can't hear myself talk i put these in overall they sound about as

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good as some of the other wireless ear pads we

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well that clearly wasn't the problem overall they sound about as good as some

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of the other wireless earbuds we had on hand although you can really notice a

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difference when comparing the airpods pros directly with audiophile options

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like the sennheiser momentums interestingly apple's own powerbeats pro

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appear to have less punch in the mids and lows than the new airpods pro which

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could be part of why the powerbeats pros have dropped from 249 to 200 on the

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apple store swapping quickly back and forth between the airpods pros and the

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galaxy buds though thanks to Android 10's awesome new bluetooth output

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switching feature we'd say the audio quality was honestly a bit of a toss-up

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so then why are we so positive about this how does apple justify the airpods pros

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being a hundred and twenty dollars more well part of the answer is that the

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airpods pro have active noise cancellation a new feature that apple

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invented just for this product sorry no that

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that's been a thing for a long time but you wouldn't actually guess it based on

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apple's marketing which calls the airpods pro a new class of headphones

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in case you're not in the loop headphones with anc use outward-facing

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microphones to detect consistent external sounds like background noise

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they then create an equal and opposite audio signal which cancels out the first

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one it usually works great in environments that are noisy in a

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consistent way like the cabin of an aircraft but when it comes to

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unpredictable punctuated sounds like human voices it tends to struggle where

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apple says that they've innovated is by also equipping the airpods pro with

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inward facing microphones to detect sound inside your ear canal to ensure

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that the active noise cancellation is working correctly apparently the airpods

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pros sample audio 200 times per second

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and then adjust the amc so you're only hearing what you're supposed to hear

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now granted to my knowledge there's only one other pair of in-ear wireless

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earbuds on the market with active noise cancellation and that's the sony wf-1000

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mx3s so while the airpods pros may not be

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breaking entirely new ground they're certainly entering a somewhat exclusive

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club and probably introducing this concept to millions of consumers for the

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first time so is it any good well for a first

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effort i will say you know actually you know what forget

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it not just for a first effort the anc on the airpods pros is

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pretty fantastic it activates as soon as you put them in even if you haven't

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paired them to anything yet and hearing the sound of the world just kind

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of get sucked away is always cool it's

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it's like those scenes in movies where the protagonist realizes something

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totally crazy like wait

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this is an apple product that i like

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now of course this feeling is similar to the effect that you'll have heard if

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you've used full-size headphones with anc before but it's also different in a

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way that's kind of hard to describe like there's something special about having

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that anc effect while only feeling a small pressure in your ear canals

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instead of a giant clamp on your head i also found that the

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like the brain pressure sensation that some people describe feeling while using

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noise cancellation was very subtle on these compared to many of the over ears

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that i've used in the past perhaps due to apple's included pressure

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equalization vents another huge plus for the airpods pro is comfort

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many wireless earbuds including apple's own powerbeats pro use hooks braces and

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rubber doohickeys in order to secure themselves in place leaving you feeling

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like there's a a small creature kind of holding onto

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the side of your head for dear life but the airpods pro much like their

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non-in-ear cousins almost seem to just kind of

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rest or float in your ear

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it's hard to say whether it's the extraordinarily lightweight the

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excellent force distribution or even just the shorter stems but the

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experience overall is well it's kind of magical on that subject while many

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wireless earbuds allow users to tap on them or slide on them for controlling

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their music the airpods pro have a new control method you pinch the force

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sensor in the airpod stem once short or

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long twice or three times with the default being a long press for

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transparency mode but that can be reconfigured to summon siri if you're

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not comfortable with being like hey siri to no one when you're walking around in

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public you can also turn anc features off all

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together by long pressing on the volume slider but not on the airpods pros but

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rather in the iOS control center there's no such option on Android i'm afraid and

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there are a handful of other Android pleb inconveniences including no first

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party battery life reporting or support for remapping the four sensors to summon

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google assistant fortunately though for us plebs

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Android is infinitely customizable and there's an app for that

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and honestly we think there's a good reason

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to go through the hassle of tracking down an app the airpods pro give up

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nothing of the everyday usability of the regular airpods though with that said

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anc does cut your per charge listing time down by half an hour and they

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otherwise improve on them in every way

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and while you could say well the case is bigger and that kind of sucks i actually

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disagree i recently started daily driving powerbeats pros when the galaxy fold

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seduced me over to the no headphone jack side and i really liked everything about

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them except that the case was simply not

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pocketable so it was always inconvenient to get them i had to go and grab my

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backpack the airpods pros by contrast yeah

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they're bigger than the airpods but they easily fit not just in your pocket but

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in that small extra pocket that keeps them from bumping or scratching your

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phone or getting scratched by your keys so they're bigger but they're just as

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compact as a rolled up pair of wired earphones anyway and wireless charging

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feels pretty much like chucking my earphones onto my nightstand

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so this size has made the transition a lot

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easier if i had to make a decision based on price though well the galaxy buds are

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similar sounding and just over a hundred bucks if you can live with some audio

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latency issues and the anker sound core liberty 2 pros are a better sounding

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option for a hundred dollars less if you can live without anc

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or social status and that's kind of it in a nutshell i could recommend a dozen

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in my opinion these are hands down the most refined combination of sound

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quality comfort and ease of use and they are absolutely my go-to's at this point

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