when I started here at Linus Media Group Linus made sure that I was given a pair
of airpods pro they are admittedly the
first pair of airpods I have ever used and after hearing all the hype over the
years it was exciting to be able to try them myself the pairing is great the connection to
my M1 Max not so great the transparency for me at
least essential and the sound
is fine I still don't feel like they helped me I fully appreciate the hype
but I like using them now though there's a second generation of airpods pro and
they appear to offer some sizable improvements over the ones I've been using for the past two years so are they
worthy of the upgrade for 250 dollars
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at first glance there's little difference between the new and old
airpods Pro they have the same basic tips shape and case but look closer the
case now has four holes and a lanyard
strap Loop and on the buds themselves the placement of the grilles is
completely different even the tips yes the Gen 1 tips will fit but look at how
loose that mesh is why settle there are
also brand new extra small tips available which is a Big Boon for people
like Nicole who were previously having trouble getting a comfortable seal if
these extra small ones fit that's a game changer that changes everything that's
pretty amazing and there's a new vent system for pressure Equalization to help
active noise canceling comfort
most important with headphones is the sound and under the mesh is a new
speaker driver and H2 chip altogether these should make everything sound
better no matter what's going on around you
and they do sound better I'm no sound
expert by a long shot but I can definitely tell the difference between these and my old first generation pair a
little bit more bass a lot Fuller now to verify my credibility we headed to
headphones.com to test the airpods pro in their lab and yep it appears that the
second gen airpods Pro do in fact have more bass what's more despite not
advertising the feature are tests confirm that Apple added a
volume-dependent EQ to the new buds this
adjusts the level of certain frequencies at different volumes it's great for when
you want to still hear some bass with the volume down
so if you're an audio obsessed airpods Pro user you will definitely notice and
appreciate the differences and if you're a normal airpods Pro user just listening
to music off the phone well you can probably still wait for your pair to die
because while the standard improvements are amazing it's not worth the upgrade
alone they still sound really good
I tried these against a bunch of similarly priced Bluetooth headphones
and I have to say they all kind of sound
so similar to each other it's Bluetooth compression in small earbud drivers I
mean if I got any of these I'd probably be perfectly happy with the sound
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s when you consider the Adaptive noise canceling and transparency modes the
differences do reveal themselves as I mentioned before I'm one of those people
who doesn't like living in and see for
instance when I tried the pixel buds Pro in ANC I found them to be almost too
effective I could barely hear myself breathe it was exhausting and felt
suffocating you however might like that on the other hand the Sennheiser true
Wireless 3 offers a bit more flexibility allowing you to dial in your
transparency in ANC on a slider as opposed to trusting Apple's automated
systems but I do trust Apple these new
airpods Pro sounded better and were more
comfortable than any of the other headphones I tried and even though the
previous airpods Pro already had great ANC and transparency these are
noticeably better if you're a frequent flyer or you take lots of walks in a
loud City then you'll definitely appreciate the improvements the
usability has improved a lot too for instance you can now adjust the volume
of these airpods on the buds themselves just by swiping up or down it's not fast
by any means but it works well every time I use it not all wireless
headphones have onboard volume control and most split the controls between the
headphones in these sennheisers for instance long pressing the right but
raises the volume and the left lowers it
having it all on one bud is much simpler
I love the new case
where is it if you misplace it it's much
easier to find thanks to the addition of the U1 chip and when you're trying to
figure out what couch cushion it's under there's now a speaker that can get
pretty loud it also plays fun sound effects when you
charge which you can now do with an Apple Watch charger and the U1 chip also
makes it clearer when you need to charge if you want to know how much battery
your case has with the older airpods you had to put at least one butt in the case
and then open it near your phone to get the reading now though the case's
connection to the phone is direct so the battery level is always there it's
really nice oh yeah and then there's the better call Quality they've improved the
microphone placement on top of the fact that like the third generpods FaceTime
calls use the AAC code so your calls
should sound better like this
Apple's really committed to spatial audio using crazy audio processing
spatial audio can simulate sounds floating around you it's very weird
using spatial audio head tracked with noise cancellation on at the beach
because it's like oh I'm in a different place it's neat technology that as of
last year I discovered I'm not that into especially for music and with the latest
iOS update Apple added personalized
spatial audio which is actually available to all airpods introduced
after 2019. using the face ID camera system your
iPhone can make a map of your ear to tailor the spatial audio to your ear
shape your brain is tuned to a particular ear shape which affects house
sound bounces into the canal from the space around you it's part of how you
can tell where sound is coming from using the ear map personalized spatial
audio should make surround sound and Dolby Atmos content come to life for you
it's so much boomier and I don't know I mean to my ears
I don't think I'll use it Sam our headphones guy here at LMG describes
increasing The Trebles and the bass in audio as hyping and sure enough when I
did the here ID hearing tests with the
soundcore Liberty 3 Pros hyped was the
result and that hyped kind of sound is what I hear when personalized spatial
audio is on the difference is very apparent when you turn it off I don't
know I think I prefer it unpersonalized
and I'm only really going to use spatial audio anyway when I'm listening to video
content mixed for surround with music
plain old stereo is much better to me oh
wait turning it back on requires doing the whole scan again
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the audio still cuts out if I have too many Bluetooth devices connected to my
M1 iMac I thought this was fixed it's cutting out
it's cutting out spatial audio support is strange on the
Mac too it really depends on the app say if I'm watching a video on Firefox
there's no option to turn it on or off until I open an app that does support it
like music I've even had head tracking anchored to an iPad on my desk and not
the iMac that the audio is coming from also the menu bar icon doesn't show a
set of airpods but the old ones do I
missed that when it comes to upgrading if I had
bought a pair of airpods Pro in the last year I'd be annoyed about all the great
features I'm missing with this new model for the uninflated 250 dollar price tag
it's hard to do better especially because of this case I believe in the
magic now the second generation airpods Pro are a super easy way to get great
sound out of your Apple devices as for
me I still have the first generation airpods Pro that work well I want to see
how long they last and I want to keep them at the landfill so I'm going to
keep using them but I know what I'm missing out on and it hurts a little bit
but what if I didn't own any airpods
what would I spend my own money on well not these I still can't get over the
isolation of silicone tips that are so penetrative and uncomfortable and so I
remain ever so drawn to the third generation airpods which are the ones
I'd get thanks for making this Mac Address easier to find which you can do
by liking and subscribing I'm curious in the comments below if you're the type of
person who for sound quality improvements alone would actually
upgrade a perfectly good set of bluetooth headphones like who would do
that you wouldn't do that I I would you would yeah yep yep