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when I started here at Linus Media Group Linus made sure that I was given a pair

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of airpods pro they are admittedly the

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first pair of airpods I have ever used and after hearing all the hype over the

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years it was exciting to be able to try them myself the pairing is great the connection to

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my M1 Max not so great the transparency for me at

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least essential and the sound

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is fine I still don't feel like they helped me I fully appreciate the hype

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but I like using them now though there's a second generation of airpods pro and

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they appear to offer some sizable improvements over the ones I've been using for the past two years so are they

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worthy of the upgrade for 250 dollars

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foreign

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at first glance there's little difference between the new and old

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airpods Pro they have the same basic tips shape and case but look closer the

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case now has four holes and a lanyard

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strap Loop and on the buds themselves the placement of the grilles is

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completely different even the tips yes the Gen 1 tips will fit but look at how

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loose that mesh is why settle there are

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also brand new extra small tips available which is a Big Boon for people

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like Nicole who were previously having trouble getting a comfortable seal if

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these extra small ones fit that's a game changer that changes everything that's

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pretty amazing and there's a new vent system for pressure Equalization to help

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active noise canceling comfort

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most important with headphones is the sound and under the mesh is a new

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speaker driver and H2 chip altogether these should make everything sound

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better no matter what's going on around you

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and they do sound better I'm no sound

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expert by a long shot but I can definitely tell the difference between these and my old first generation pair a

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little bit more bass a lot Fuller now to verify my credibility we headed to

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headphones.com to test the airpods pro in their lab and yep it appears that the

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second gen airpods Pro do in fact have more bass what's more despite not

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advertising the feature are tests confirm that Apple added a

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volume-dependent EQ to the new buds this

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adjusts the level of certain frequencies at different volumes it's great for when

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you want to still hear some bass with the volume down

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so if you're an audio obsessed airpods Pro user you will definitely notice and

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appreciate the differences and if you're a normal airpods Pro user just listening

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to music off the phone well you can probably still wait for your pair to die

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because while the standard improvements are amazing it's not worth the upgrade

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alone they still sound really good

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I tried these against a bunch of similarly priced Bluetooth headphones

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and I have to say they all kind of sound

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so similar to each other it's Bluetooth compression in small earbud drivers I

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mean if I got any of these I'd probably be perfectly happy with the sound

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foreign if in this silent year that is 2022 you

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s when you consider the Adaptive noise canceling and transparency modes the

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differences do reveal themselves as I mentioned before I'm one of those people

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who doesn't like living in and see for

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instance when I tried the pixel buds Pro in ANC I found them to be almost too

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effective I could barely hear myself breathe it was exhausting and felt

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suffocating you however might like that on the other hand the Sennheiser true

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Wireless 3 offers a bit more flexibility allowing you to dial in your

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transparency in ANC on a slider as opposed to trusting Apple's automated

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systems but I do trust Apple these new

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airpods Pro sounded better and were more

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comfortable than any of the other headphones I tried and even though the

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previous airpods Pro already had great ANC and transparency these are

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noticeably better if you're a frequent flyer or you take lots of walks in a

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loud City then you'll definitely appreciate the improvements the

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usability has improved a lot too for instance you can now adjust the volume

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of these airpods on the buds themselves just by swiping up or down it's not fast

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by any means but it works well every time I use it not all wireless

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headphones have onboard volume control and most split the controls between the

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headphones in these sennheisers for instance long pressing the right but

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raises the volume and the left lowers it

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having it all on one bud is much simpler

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I love the new case

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where is it if you misplace it it's much

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easier to find thanks to the addition of the U1 chip and when you're trying to

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figure out what couch cushion it's under there's now a speaker that can get

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pretty loud it also plays fun sound effects when you

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charge which you can now do with an Apple Watch charger and the U1 chip also

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makes it clearer when you need to charge if you want to know how much battery

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your case has with the older airpods you had to put at least one butt in the case

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and then open it near your phone to get the reading now though the case's

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connection to the phone is direct so the battery level is always there it's

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really nice oh yeah and then there's the better call Quality they've improved the

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microphone placement on top of the fact that like the third generpods FaceTime

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calls use the AAC code so your calls

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should sound better like this

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Apple's really committed to spatial audio using crazy audio processing

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spatial audio can simulate sounds floating around you it's very weird

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using spatial audio head tracked with noise cancellation on at the beach

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because it's like oh I'm in a different place it's neat technology that as of

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last year I discovered I'm not that into especially for music and with the latest

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iOS update Apple added personalized

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spatial audio which is actually available to all airpods introduced

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after 2019. using the face ID camera system your

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iPhone can make a map of your ear to tailor the spatial audio to your ear

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shape your brain is tuned to a particular ear shape which affects house

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sound bounces into the canal from the space around you it's part of how you

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can tell where sound is coming from using the ear map personalized spatial

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audio should make surround sound and Dolby Atmos content come to life for you

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it's so much boomier and I don't know I mean to my ears

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I don't think I'll use it Sam our headphones guy here at LMG describes

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increasing The Trebles and the bass in audio as hyping and sure enough when I

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did the here ID hearing tests with the

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soundcore Liberty 3 Pros hyped was the

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result and that hyped kind of sound is what I hear when personalized spatial

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audio is on the difference is very apparent when you turn it off I don't

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know I think I prefer it unpersonalized

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and I'm only really going to use spatial audio anyway when I'm listening to video

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content mixed for surround with music

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plain old stereo is much better to me oh

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wait turning it back on requires doing the whole scan again

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foreign oh and another annoying glitch is that

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the audio still cuts out if I have too many Bluetooth devices connected to my

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M1 iMac I thought this was fixed it's cutting out

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it's cutting out spatial audio support is strange on the

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Mac too it really depends on the app say if I'm watching a video on Firefox

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there's no option to turn it on or off until I open an app that does support it

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like music I've even had head tracking anchored to an iPad on my desk and not

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the iMac that the audio is coming from also the menu bar icon doesn't show a

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set of airpods but the old ones do I

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missed that when it comes to upgrading if I had

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bought a pair of airpods Pro in the last year I'd be annoyed about all the great

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features I'm missing with this new model for the uninflated 250 dollar price tag

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it's hard to do better especially because of this case I believe in the

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magic now the second generation airpods Pro are a super easy way to get great

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sound out of your Apple devices as for

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me I still have the first generation airpods Pro that work well I want to see

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how long they last and I want to keep them at the landfill so I'm going to

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keep using them but I know what I'm missing out on and it hurts a little bit

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but what if I didn't own any airpods

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what would I spend my own money on well not these I still can't get over the

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isolation of silicone tips that are so penetrative and uncomfortable and so I

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remain ever so drawn to the third generation airpods which are the ones

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I'd get thanks for making this Mac Address easier to find which you can do

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by liking and subscribing I'm curious in the comments below if you're the type of

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person who for sound quality improvements alone would actually

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upgrade a perfectly good set of bluetooth headphones like who would do

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that you wouldn't do that I I would you would yeah yep yep