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Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by dsfyu404ed »

Waterluvian wrote: post #46
webwielder2 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why spend $100 on a nice dinner, we'll just have to eat again in 8 hours.

This is such a bad frame of mind if you're someone who owns more than a dorm room of stuff. I used to feel like this about stuff. "Oh it's just $100 and we use it every day, totally okay to replace every few years." But it adds up when you start having to replace 100 different "it's pretty cheap given how often we use it" items in a year. And it's not just the cost. It's also the time you commit to being a consumer.…

Is the cumulative time spent screwing around reading reviews, comparing brands and choosing products more than the time spent replacing broken things? Just buying the cheapest thing that does what you are looking for saves a heck of a lot of time.

Everybody loves to go on about quality but quality doesn't always pan out in terms of time or money cost. There's plenty of cases where some thing you've bought will meet its end in a way unrelated to whether it's high or low quality. If you really want to optimize you have to tailor your purchasing to your specific use case.

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Post by iikoolpp »

rollinDyno wrote: post #107

Can we talk about how smooth and beautiful the website is? I know, it's Apple and their websites are always the same, but there's always a tiny increment. This time it's the woman adjusting the ANC by holding her Airpods. The way she fades in and the scroll controls her every movement and then fades out is just so smooth.

I disagree; this website is awful. If you hijack the scroll event to do something like this, instead of just... letting me scroll, you're very much going to hell.

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Post by [deleted] »

Longhanks wrote: post #129
graeme wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! So it actually destroys the sound and it has no effect? Or does it have an effect on your hearing, but you don’t perceive it?

Based on my knowledge of physics, the wave is eliminated and not in any way perceivable.

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Post by peatmoss »

petra wrote: post #104
whalesalad wrote: post #8

I really struggled to take the plunge on the original AirPods and it has been one of my top 10 purchases ever in my life without a doubt. I stood there holding the little $200 box in my hand and really danced back and forth in my mind about whether or not they would really be necessary. If they broke, I would go buy a new pair immediately. For what they are, the sound is amazing. I can't really do a phone call anymor…

Standard bluetooth has pretty bad quality. But Android has the AptXHD standard, for high quality wireless earphones. That's what we should compare this to.

What’s the max bitrate for recent bluetooth standards? I hate the idea of layering compression on top of compression. I just haven’t found anything that compares to a modest pair of cans with any kind of okay DAC/amplifier.

Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by lm28469 »

bsamuels wrote: post #3

I will personally love to see someone justify spending $250 on wireless earphones whose batteries cannot be replaced. I'm a year and a half into my normal airpods and they already need new batteries.

What's killing me is the doublespeak. "We must be eco friendly ! we must save the world ! climate change bad ! look at our renewable energy data centers ! yay !" and then they ship you products that are either unfixable or you need to replace half the product to change the broken part.

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Post by unlinked_dll »

diffeomorphism wrote: post #113
whalesalad wrote: post #8

I really struggled to take the plunge on the original AirPods and it has been one of my top 10 purchases ever in my life without a doubt. I stood there holding the little $200 box in my hand and really danced back and forth in my mind about whether or not they would really be necessary. If they broke, I would go buy a new pair immediately. For what they are, the sound is amazing. I can't really do a phone call anymor…

You don't really mention why? Why are they better than wireless earbuds by Sennheiser, Amazon, Google etc?

Microphone quality on most of the other offerings is atrocious.

That said I wish these things didn't have a microphone. People tend to shout into them.

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Post by vuln »

jsinai wrote: post #116
fancyfish wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the noise cancelling and sound quality on these is great, I may actually go from the Sony cans to these, mainly due to Bluetooth pairing woes. With the Sony headphones, if I want to switch from iPhone to Macbook I have to do the dance of Bluetooth repairing. Switch off BT on iPhone -> connect headphones to Mac, switch iPhone BT back on. The sound would have to be in the same ballpark though, which is hardly a guar…

FWIW I have the Bose NC 700 and the Bluetooth pairing is seamless. I can be paired to multiple devices at once; if I’m playing music from my laptop but receive a call from my phone then the Bose are smart enough to pause music on my laptop and switch the audio input to my phone.

Came here to say the exact same thing. I love my Bose NC700s... My only complain is that they are a bit heavy...

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Post by ravedave5 »

rollinDyno wrote: post #107

Can we talk about how smooth and beautiful the website is? I know, it's Apple and their websites are always the same, but there's always a tiny increment. This time it's the woman adjusting the ANC by holding her Airpods. The way she fades in and the scroll controls her every movement and then fades out is just so smooth.

I personally exited because I wanted to just read about them rather than watching a movie in web page form.

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Post by mmis1000 »

graeme wrote: post #117
smachiz wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not quite right. What the anti-noise does is generate an inverse wave to cancel out some (as much as possible) of the waveform of the noise. It's not just playing white noise louder than the external noise. The result is that your ear drum receives a smaller waveform to vibrate to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control

Thanks! So it actually destroys the sound and it has no effect? Or does it have an effect on your hearing, but you don’t perceive it?

Someone believes the active cancelling itself does reduce the music quality due to the fact that there is no earphone able to cancel environment noise 100% perfect.

It always leave some here and affect music quality.

Although I think that is fine enough for me that my main purpose is to block the environment noise.

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Post by aloknnikhil »

guptaneil wrote: post #128

This is the first time I’ve seen an AR experience launched from the browser. I expected to be kicked to the App Store to download Apple’s shopping app when I clicked See it in AR, but instead the AirPods instantly showed up on my desk (without prompting for camera access even). When did this capability get added? Edit: looks like this is powered by Apple and Pixar’s USDZ file format for sharing compressed 3D models.…

Sometime in iOS 12, Safari was tooled to use the ARKit. I was using this to visualize the size of the iPad Pro a while ago.
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