it's a crisp clear december morning and i've never felt better
look what i got i just paid over 300 for a pair of
airpods wireless earphones from some guy on craigslist without having done any
research whatsoever i don't know what devices they work with
i don't know what kind of battery life to expect and i don't know if they sound
good all i know is they're the newest product from apple and i need them
so let's find out are they air amazing
or pedestrian
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i've got to give apple this the pairing process with iOS devices is pretty
magical just pop the lid open on the airpods charging case hold it near your
phone press the button and you're greeted by a handy dandy battery
indicator for both the airpods themselves and the charging case
as a not really apple person macbook pairing was a little less
straightforward for me the auto pairing through icloud did work
but apple's instructions simply say select airpods in the menu bar and i
didn't realize i had to manually enable the bluetooth icon in the menu bar
before that would work for a non-apple device setup is still
easy but less magical hold the button
select them in your bluetooth menu and wait about a second then you can get on
with your hamilton fix that is unless someone interrupts you
taking out one side mid playback was my first experience with another magical
feature of the airpods they're on board accelerometers that let them start and
stop playback when they're inserted or removed from your ears
as someone who actually does wear earphones all day
this design choice smacks of made by
people who don't do that because i often find myself working with one side in to
increase my awareness of my surroundings the good news is that within the
bluetooth menu apple allows this setting to be changed along with the behavior of
a double tap on the stem which can trigger siri or play pause media
playback the bad news is that unlike the wired
equivalents the airpods rely on clunky
voice control for volume adjustments and
track skipping voice control that doesn't work without
an active internet connection for siri and while these settings are stored on
the airpods themselves and carry over to
other devices there doesn't appear to be any way to configure them in the first
place without using an apple device
of course if they don't offer a compelling balance of portability
convenience value and sound quality i
doubt many Android users will be queuing up to buy them anyway
so how do they fare in this regard the answer is
okay the charging case is small enough to fit in my pocket much smaller and
lighter than braggy's aluminum one and smaller than the case i already carry
for my ie80s and a lightning dongle
it's bigger than jaybird's charging adapter for the freedoms but that
doesn't have its own battery on board so it's not really an apples to apples
comparison with that said you are less likely to
need a charging case with the freedoms since the airpods dropped 50 percent of
their battery after working on this video for a few hours listening to them
only intermittently as for sound quality
they're sure not worth what i had to pay for them but as bluetooth earphones go
the auto switching between the integrated microphones in both earpods
works really well they've got great range even without line of sight to my
phone with a low enough noise floor that i didn't perceive any background hiss
and they've got a pleasing enough sound signature that i think most people will
have no complaints bass is punchy and not overdone mids and
highs are serviceable and as someone who normally uses iems i actually really
enjoyed their more open natural sound
are they as good as audiophile earphones like my daily driver ie80s
no don't be stupid and i like the fact that
they fit in my ears more snugly than normal earpods without the weight of the
wires but i don't think i personally would
trade away in-line controls and a much lower price for that small benefit
not to mention that there are literally thousands of earphones out there that
aren't ear pods then again if you're the type of person
who treats headphones as a fashion statement
i don't think they look nearly as weird as my initial impressions when apple
unveiled them and they aren't priced that outlandishly compared to other
accessories or even other wireless earphones
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which has gotten some firmware updates since i did that but it has not fixed
the bluetooth range i did check that while i was working on this video