I don't even want to spend $250 on a new phone, tablet or computer. The world has lost it's damn mind. I have a $10 corded earphones from Amazon, great sound quality, going to 2 years. I can think of what to do with that extra $240 AFTER TAX MONEY than give it to Apple, and here folks are ready to spend it again on a new version.
AirPods Pro
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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.
Bitrate isn't the problem. Modern codecs like Opus achieve transparency at around 100-120 kbit/s. Even uncompressed CD audio (at 1.411 kbit/s) could be streamed over Bluetooth 5 Low Energy – just (about 1.6 Mbit/s usable).
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
And who gets to decide “the benefits to society”? Could you say the same about everything that uses a battery? We could all just be using payphones.
I'd be glad if we all could use mobile phones where we are able to change the battery. There is no way around, batteries are wearing parts. And I know that most phones (and even laptop computers) use small/weird form factors to use the even the last bit of space available, but I'd be glad to do with a little less battery life, if I just could switch batteries.
That still doesn’t help the environment. The batteries can be changed and they still have to be disposed of. Having less battery capacity doesn’t help. In fact, you would need to change them more often.
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#194Can 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.
It's just a video, but the scrollbar is the tracker for playback. Definitely a novel take on playing a video in a web page, but nothing too technical going on here.
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#195I 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.
I dunno, I felt the same way about the normal Airpods until I relented and bought them and its almost weird to say that its been a huge quality of life improvement for me. Running is far more enjoyable without the cables. Pretty easy to carry them around too. But then again I didn't shop around the other brands at all.
I use behind the neck BT headphones with over-ear cups as I'd be worried about sweat on an expensive piece of equipment I use every day.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I am not in the market for anything like this, since I have the high-end spectrum covered w/ some Sony over the ear noise cancelling cans but if I was I would give these a shot in a new york minute. Like the first-gen AirPods, I think having noise-cancelling in this form factor is a game-changer. All other noise-cancelling headphones, as far as I know, are either bulky on-ears or earbuds with a brick that dangles a…
All active noise cancelling headphones just hurt my ears after extended periods of time.
I have this problem, too. I can't wear my beats noise cancelling headphones for too long or the pressure starts to hurt.
The Apple web site states that the new AirPods have an internally-facing microphone, as well. I wonder if that will help. They're touted as being unnoticeable.
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#197I 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.
I have Apple's PowerBeats Pros. They cost $250, and the batteries cannot be replaced. I expect them to last about two years, based on AirPods usage. And the footprint on those things is so minuscule in comparison to other aspects of my life that I could easily improve, I feel no need to justify my choice whatsoever. EDIT: another comment prompted me to explain better. Money aside, for a bit of trash I get two years o…
Why would AirPods usage be a useful model for estimating the expected lifetime of Powerbeats pros?
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#198People complain the Pro moniker is losing meaning on a MBP - does it mean anything here?
Yeah, it's short for PROfit. ;)
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#199People complain the Pro moniker is losing meaning on a MBP - does it mean anything here?
The pro line is just the high-end line-up from Apple. The 'regular' (non-pro) line is for consumers with average spending, and the pro line is for those who are willing to spend more for a more polished experience.
Maybe except for the upcoming Mac pro, the pro line products don't offer particular features for professional use over the regular line. It's not like you can't do professional work on a non-pro Apple product.
It's just a really well chosen marketing name, which is now being diluted due because every* Apple product now has a pro version.
* except the Watch I believe?
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I am not in the market for anything like this, since I have the high-end spectrum covered w/ some Sony over the ear noise cancelling cans but if I was I would give these a shot in a new york minute. Like the first-gen AirPods, I think having noise-cancelling in this form factor is a game-changer. All other noise-cancelling headphones, as far as I know, are either bulky on-ears or earbuds with a brick that dangles a…
There are a few high-end in-ear headphones in a similar form factor with active noise cancellation. Echo buds: https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Buds/dp/B07F6VM1S3/ Sony WF-1000XM3: https://www.amazon.com/Sony-WF-1000XM3-Industry-Canceling-Wi... There's probably more, but this was my simple amazon search. Lots of manufacturers are calling their earbuds noise canceling with cVc 6.0 or 8.0, but those are only for phone calls…
From what I've heard all other fully-wireless earbuds are a terrible user experience WRT connection quality/disconnects, battery life, etc. Of course noise-cancelling doesn't require connection to a phone, but for this price range I want both parts of the experience to be excellent