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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.
The microphone in Airpods is pretty bad too. One of my colleagues uses them paired to his Mac (maybe that's the issue?) and it sounds like the built in microphone on cheap laptops.
This is a huge improvement. The regular airpods are the same shape as the original iphone earbuds, and my normal ritual with those was to immediately throw them in the trash as soon as I opened any Apple product because they're horribly uncomfortable. Am I the only one who notices this?
No, I'm exactly the same way. I've always hated Apple ear-buds. These new ones will probably be the first I ever own and use.
You've been able to get pretty decent Bluetooth in-ear headphones for $20-40 on Amazon for a few years now, can anyone comment on whether AirPods are really 10x better to justify the price? I just have a hard time believing that's possible, but I've never tried them.
I've never found a "decent" pair of Bluetooth anything. Pairing is almost always an annoyance and never quite just "works". If I'm heading out for a walk or a run, or if I want to answer a call, it needs to pair and work immediately or I may as well throw them in the trash. Airpods were the first headphones where they just worked every single time I put them on.
That being said, hearing from other people I have a suspicion that a lot of it is due to Bluetooth 5.
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The dynamic EQ based on a microphone is an interesting choice. I don't even know if the two are related, not being sound/audio/whatever expert, but I'm continually amazed that I can blast music on a HomePod, speak in a conversational tone or quieter (of course I've tested), and Siri still hears me. Whatever dark wizardry makes that work would come in handy here, yes? Or is your argument more that, dark magic or not,…
Eh not really. The limitation on active noise reduction is mostly latency, and hardware constraints when using adaptive filtering in a small package without a large battery. Whatever "Adaptive EQ" means it may or may not be particularly novel. I've seen worked on things similar for years - changing filter parameters in response to microphone input isn't always easy but it's not untrod ground. Going to have to listen…
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Do you have a recommendation for sleep headphones that don't hurt your ears or fall out? I'm a side sleeper, so I've always found the ear I'm sleeping on to get irritated.
Search "Sleep phones" on Amazon. However, these don't offer active noise cancellation.
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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.
Is there some type of battery technology out there that would be better? The batteries are half the product.
Anyway, in 5 years when bose stops producing the qc35 battery pack no one will be able to replace them whereas people using bose qc25 will just have to get new AAA batteries. Either apple talks the talk and walks the walk or it simply shut up about climate, no one cares about virtue signalling if it's to fuck the user for 3% more margin in the end. I'm surethey could have designed it better and fit at the very least user replaceable batteries.
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…
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…
Whenever switching between my mac, PC, or phone, I have to repair the headphones. Very annoying.
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> Is there some type of battery technology out there that would be better? I think the argument is yes, there is - end user replaceable battery.
And since most of the mass of the AirPod + case is the battery, how is it really helping with the environment if the battery is the most toxic part?
The customizable fit is all I was looking for. I bought the originals but gifted them to my parents, because my ear is messed up from years of high school wrestling without wearing headgear. I know I'm an edge case, but there have been plenty of other great earbuds (wireless and traditional) that use soft flexible tips over the past decade.
2 incremental updates to this product and still only one color, they holding the others back for the post-Christmas lull in the hopes a lot of people will double dip or something?