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I don't know. It doesn't matter because

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me, I'm going to buy them anyway. I mean, that's the Apple way, in it. It's

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time for Linus sequester tips. I have intentionally learned absolutely nothing

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about the AirPods Pro Gen 2s. Because if you guys been following for a long time,

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you probably already know I am a daily driver of the original AirPods Pros, in

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spite of the fact that Apple insists on treating me like a secondass citizen

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because I have the audacity to daily drive an Android phone with them. And

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that's right. I can't adjust product settings, can't monitor my battery life

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without clunky third party apps, and cannot even update my firmware because,

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and this is why I didn't buy enough Apple products. But damn it, nobody does

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it quite as well as Apple does. And the

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original AirPods Pros have this magical

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combination of an extremely sleek and

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easily pocketable case, decent battery life, outstanding active noise

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cancellation, good enough sound quality,

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and the best comfort that I have personally ever experienced in an in-ear

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headphone. This is a big deal for me because I have a bit of a unique use

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case. I actually sleep with my earphones in and it's a habit that I picked up

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back when we had a young child and it was my wife's job to take care of the

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baby and my job to go to work the next morning. I needed to be able to sleep

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and now it's a crutch that I just rely

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on quite frankly. I'm going to open things up in a totally uncharacteristic

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manner by criticizing Apple. Apple, why

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the are these things still white? We're not talking like something that goes in

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your pocket or that goes in a case and that is never going to see the the dirt

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and grime of the real world. Look at my

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AirPods. Look at that. Even ignoring the like ear goo that's actually inside it.

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It's just yellow now. It's gross. You

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can really tell when you hold it up to the new ones. This speaker on the case,

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that is an awesome feature. Whether I'll

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actually be able to use it or not because I don't daily drive an iPhone.

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Well, that's a completely separate conversation, isn't it? But at least for

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people who do use iPhones, you can use the Find My app and beep the case, which

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would be pretty great for me because this is actually my fourth set of first

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generation AirPods. I had one break. It

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developed kind of a rattle in one of the earphones. Then I lost that set. Then I

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lost another set. Now I'm on my fourth.

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Yeah. Everything stains it. Look at the

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color of my case compared to this case. Why? Because I wear blue jeans. How dare

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you wear blue jeans? I want black AirPods.

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Dbrand. They're probably the sponsor today, aren't they? Now seems like as

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good a time as any to talk about Dbrand's Grip Case. It's super grippy.

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What? No way. Grip case is grippy? Wow. It's wild. Also, it stays on with the

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adhesive for the top part. And then a nice snug fit for the bottom. You can

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still access your pairing button right back here. You still got holes for your

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speaker and all that. Down here on the bottom, you can see your indicator light here on the front. And it basically just

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makes them more impact resistant, which who could say no to that, right? They

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may be chaotic, but you can't say they have bad taste. I really like this. This

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is their new, what is this called? Pallets collection. Always coming up

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with new ways to get us to buy the same sticker. Aren't you smart? You can check

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them out at dbrand whatever bullit they

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put at the end of it. Probably something rude. It's in the video description.

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First, let's crack open the dock and talk about the differences between

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second generation AirPods Pros and the originals. It feels like they're a

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little bit heavier. If they are, it's not much. They come in at the same

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price, $250. So, these are not flipping cheap. They

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offer 6 hours of listening, 5 and a half with spatial audio and headtracking.

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Compared to the previous gen, which got 4 and 1/2 hours with&c on and five

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with&c off. The case actually includes more recharge than the original case.

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They get you 30 hours versus just 24. They have the same IPX4 sweat and water

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resistance. And blast from the past. Is

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that a spot to hang your little your little jewels and little characters off

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of like like classic cell phones? That's what those little loops are for, right?

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While we're at it, can we bring back the little tiny backpacks that are like this

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big and have the little skinny straps, right? Those never left.

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They never left. You know what else never left? Buying the LT backpack,

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which is a little bigger, but also holds a lot more stuff. Guys, check it out.

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ltstore.com. As you guys can probably imagine, I drop my AirPods fairly

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frequently. I wonder if the magnetic strength of the top latch is a little

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stronger. Maybe magnets, so it shouldn't affect much.

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Nope, that seems basically exactly the same. How often does Apple do this? Same

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price, bigger battery. It's not noticeable, but either way, I mean, I

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consider that a W. I did hear that. Holy

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crap. I heard they're not backwards compatible. Holy snikes was that ever

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harder to get off. Like, that's how hard it is to get my old ones off. Is that a

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larger driver? Very hard to tell. The mesh looks like the same size. But

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either way, let's uh let's go ahead and try and put my old one on here. I'm just

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curious. Looks like if you really wanted to use old ear tips, you could. Oh crap.

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Which one's which now? Okay, here's the yellowed one. Uh to be clear, it's never

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been a problem for me. I thought that they're, you know, proprietary ear tips

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were going to be like a big issue like

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and it's all is pretty anti-consumer one way or another, but I have never lost an

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ear tip on these. And I've lost a lot of ear tips over the years. They've got one

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inward-facing microphone, a skin detection sensor, a motion sensing

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accelerometer, a speech detecting accelerometer, and touch controls. Oh

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god, are they touch controls or is it still squeeze? Please tell me it's still

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squeeze controls. Both. When I lay on a

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on a pillow, sometimes touch controls can start controlling things. So, in

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addition to the squeeze controls, which you can use for Siri or to change your

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noise cancellation profile, you can adjust volume by sliding on the stem.

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Oh, okay. It's in steps, so you kind of

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you kind of pet them. Hello, little ear. Would you like to

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listen to it a little bit softer? Uh, I would not describe that as the best.

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They use Apple's new H2 headphone chip, so theoretically that'll give us like

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better audio performance, better spatial audio, that sort of thing. not super

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into the whole spatial audio thing. I don't really care. And then in the charging case, you've got their U1 chip,

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like ultra wideband or whatever it's called. Basically, it helps you find it. Oh, it's also Mag Safe now. And my

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understanding is you can charge this thing on the Apple Watch charger now,

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which always was like shockingly stupid to me that you couldn't do. Is that

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right? Has anyone confirmed that? Confirmed. Sick. It's time to listen to

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both of them. Oh man, I am super excited

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for the active noise cancellation because Apples was already at or among

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the best. And they say it is two times

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better. Oo, temporarily share audio. Now

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sharing. Oh, sick. Man, the first genes 1's ANC is so good

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that it's just like goodbye world. Can it really be that much better? H. Okay,

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I've got them in transparency mode right now. They definitely sound different. I

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don't know that I would say that they sound more natural. There's always going

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to be a little bit of unnaturalenness when you're trying to pick up your own

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voice in a microphone and then play it back into your own ears. Like, tell me

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about the weekend. Uh, I slept for 12 hours on the weekend.

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No, no, the musician. God, I don't care about your life. No, I'm

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It's just because you were listening to The Weekend on here that I was inspired

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to make a mean joke. Yes, I would like to hear about your weekend. He's crying.

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My weekend was good. Been playing Red Dead Redemption 2. Uh, and it's a pretty

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good game. You get to be a cowboy. Love to be a cowboy.

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My own voice sounds a little unnatural. I got to say, talking to someone else,

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wow, that is very close. That's pretty

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cool. Okay, ANC time. Goodbye, world.

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Hi, Jake. How was your day? Yeah, I'm talking at my normal volume

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that I was talking at before. Now, that's funky. Here's the thing.

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Active noise cancellation is not designed for sudden noises. It's not

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really designed to block out speech from an individual. Drone of speech in the

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background in a cafe, yeah, sure, no problem. But an individual talking, it's

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not really made for that. It's more for like bus engine, things like that. Like

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I'm underwater and you're above the surface, like you're far away and and

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like kind of Charlie Brown, you know?

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B. Okay.

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Hi, Jake. How was your day? Yeah, I'm talking again at the same

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volume I was talking at before to see if I still sound like a Peanuts character.

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I'm an adult now. Oh, yeah. You an adult for sure, huh?

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These are looking like a fairly mighty tool in my arsenal right now. Uh, better

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in detection. I never had issues with the firstg optical sensors, but

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apparently the skin detection sensors are more reliable and help with battery

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life. So, that's cool. Something hip and cool that has lossless and

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holy crap. I can barely hear you. Just a gosh darn second here. Can I adjust

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that? So, noise control or Siri and you

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can toggle between uh noise cancellation, transparency, and off. I

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don't know if you were always able to toggle between all three, but that's that's super cool. Apple now has a a

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much more robust suite of tools at your disposal to make sure that you are going

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to get a good listening experience because it's as important to pick

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headphones that are good for you as it is to pick good headphones. So, they've

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got their personal spatial audio thing where you can use the True Depth front-facing camera to take like a

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picture of your ear and it'll create a custom EQ for you. Personally, I'm not that into that kind of stuff, but this

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is a great tool that helps you select exactly the right ear tips for your ears

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that is enhanced by the inclusion of a new size of extra small ear tips now.

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So, they still ship with the medium, but they come with small, large, and extra

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small, which are going to be an absolute gamecher for you if you are a smallered

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individual cuz it affects everything, noise cancellation, performance, and

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acoustic quality. There does not appear

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to be a noise cancellation intensity

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setting. Apple, I know you're not a fan, but please, just because I'm the one

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saying it doesn't make it a bad idea. Could you please have an intensity

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slider on the noise cancellation? Why is this hard? No, it should. You should be

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able to find the case even if you have the AirPods in your ear. That's the

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whole point of having the speaker separately, I would think. Shut up,

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train. How many billions of dollars a year do you guys spend on R&D again?

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What order is this in? It's not by device type. It's not alphabetical. You

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know what? I wonder if it's because I was not signed into my Apple ID when I

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paired them. That seems like a possibility. Also, did I just click

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Bluetooth settings? What happened to it?

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Black or white? Michael Jackson's vision. You know, I was worried when

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they talked about the enhanced bass that we would end up with a super V-shaped

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curve and they were just going to be like out of control bass heavy, but

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that's not the case at all. They just rumble deeper. One of the most

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unappreciated benefits of active noise cancellation is that I am listening to

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this perfectly comfortable with great

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clarity at like 20% volume. That's

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awesome because I'm not going to be distracted by everything around me that

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I'm trying to drown out by turning up my headphones causing irreparable ear

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damage, right? These sound great. Auto pause and play, super responsive. There

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is no question in my mind whatsoever. But might as well listen to them back to

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back. I always thought my AirPods Pro A&C was so good, but now now that I've

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heard the difference, I'm like, "Oh yeah, I can totally hear the HVAC." Way

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less defined bass. These were, like I said, good enough. These might actually

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sound good. To be clear, there are some

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other products that have gotten really close. Sony's latest offering, what are

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they, the XM4s or whatever, they are

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great, but the earphones, they're pretty bulky. The case is pretty bulky. They

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sound amazing. Their ANC is excellent. LG's FP8s, they absolutely nailed the

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comfort. Uh, they nailed how lightweight they are. My two main issues with these

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is that the case is higher profile which makes it a little tougher to slip in and

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out of the pocket. And they have a bit of a an idle battery drain problem that

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makes it so they're less likely if I don't use them for a few days to have a

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charge compared to Apple's excellent idle battery management. Yeah, I guess

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these are my new daily drivers until someone comes along and completely

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dethrones them, which I'd appreciate by the way. Just hasn't happened quite yet.

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If you guys enjoyed this, you can check out our video on the Sony XM 4s. They're

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a viable alternative, even if ultimately I'm going to keep giving Apple my money.