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Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by saurik »

RandallBrown wrote: post #127
vowelless wrote: post #4

I started getting severe ear issues with my normal AirPods. Due to a lack of cushioning, my ear canals started getting damaged. It got very painful eventually (swimmers ear levels of pain). I stopped using them and went back to my Bose in ear headphones (that never gave me problems). These new AirPods seem to have cushioning. I might consider them.

The new shape of these makes me not want them. I seem to have the exact same ears as whoever Apple has modeled their earbuds for and they're super comfortable. Every other in-ear headphone I've tried has been super painful and falls out at the slightest bump.

What gives me hope is that they might have used the exact same ear model to build these new ones, so maybe this will be the first pair of rubber earphones I will ever like?

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Post by coolspot »

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.

My index finger hurts because of looong sloow scrolling.

Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by karmelapple »

b1gtuna wrote: post #99
t-writescode wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me introduce you to the best pair of headphones for travel that I own: Bose QuietComfort 20 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones, Apple Devices, Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X9KV0HU They are $250, wired and have a small battery brick that is not replaceable that is charged by micro usb. The newer one by Bose is one of those neck things and is $300.

I've owned the QC20i (two of them actually). The battery was never the issue. The durability was! I take a great care of all my electronics. And no matter how careful I was, the QC20i never lasted more than 2 years without some sort of connection issues.

Just as another anecdotal data point, my QC20i lasted 2 years, and then I tried to clean them, and the little metal grill went away. I thought it would be good to still have them, so I went to a local Bose store, and they were willing to fix it, which was pretty nice. I've had mine since 2015 and they've been around the world with me multiple times.

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Post by reaperducer »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #201
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 found it awful. I'm running on a very beefy development machine in the latest version of Firefox and it was kinda sluggish and very hard to read all of the information (felt like I had to scroll forever just to see a few sentences and pictures). It's also very inaccessible.

I'm running on a very beefy development machine in the latest version of Firefox and it was kinda sluggish

Then your "beefy" development machine is less powerful than an iPhone, since I tested it on that, and it works fine.

When I get to a full computer, I'll try it on that. I wonder if the ones I have are "beefy" enough.

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Post by reaperducer »

colonwqbang wrote: post #202
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 had the exact opposite reaction. I wanted to see how much the headphones cost. It took me what felt like 100 space bar presses to get to the purchase link, almost like the page didn't really want me to order and was stalling for time.

It took me what felt like 100 space bar presses to get to the purchase link

I took me zero spacebar presses. There's a big blue purchase link at the top of the page, and it's anchored there and stays with you as your scroll through the presentation.

Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by reaperducer »

unlinked_dll wrote: post #158
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.

It made it difficult for me to read the content, and lagged/stuttered on my Macbook Pro. Not to mention taking up a whole screen for a single marketing sentence is obnoxious. As someone who buys a lot of "pro" labeled audio gear, the only thing I care about is a bullet point list of specs. I've seen enough snake oil to ignore marketing materials for consumer audio products. But I get why Apple doesn't do that off the…

the only thing I care about is a bullet point list of specs

You are not the target demographic for this web page. Congratulations.

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Post by Apocryphon »

thebouv wrote: post #274
gamblor956 wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've demoed my $25 Anker or mpow earbuds (the Airpod-likes) to many coworkers sporting Airpods and they're universally astounded by the quality of the cheaper buds. I've converted quite a few people who lost their Airpods. The chead buds don't sound quite as good as Airpods, but they're 85% of the way there, fit better, can actually handle the rain and sweat without breaking down, can be used during exercise without…

Any particular model number you can point to?

I was wondering if they were talking about the Anker Soundcore Liberty, but those are still $75.

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Post by johnatwork »

danepowell wrote: post #74

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 have a pair of those cheap ones, they are great except:

- Pairing is a chore / Sometimes loses all info, so you are forced to forget and re-pair which takes time and fiddling on the phone and the device

- Forget pairing to more than one device

- Battery isn't great (down to 2 hours per charge now)

- Mic is unusable. When I get a call, I have to interrupt everything and pull out my phone (often times when I'm using these, I'm usually working and my hands are dirty).

- Connection issues at times for no reason

Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by stinos »

tomp wrote: post #254
stinos wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

even if they have to be replaced every year These are undeniably really nice products for the target audience, but the direction we as a humanity are going with disposable products has been and still is problematic and products like this do not help, on the contrary. Everyone is free to ignore that, but I personally cannot justify it. Especially knowing that just adding a wire buys me a better sounding product which…

I'm sure buying 1 airpods per year (per month even) is less waste than buying plastic-packed groceries every day (i.e. what we need to survive). I too oppose this, but to pretend AirPods are the real issue is just FUD. We need to have laws / taxes against this, but they need to be fair - not people e.g. promoting anti-AirPods policies but supporting /ignoring plastic-wrapped veggies, or promoting anti-meat policies b…

I'm sure buying 1 airpods per year (per month even) is less waste than buying plastic-packed groceries every day

It sure is, but that is besides the point. So yes as you mention, time for mentality change/laws/...

Anyway we're pretty lucky here already and can buy fruits/vegetables/seeds/... i.e. a majority of what we eat daily without packaging.

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Post by bichiliad »

I had airpods and returned them because they fell out of my head, and because I couldn't use them on the subway because of all the external noise. I think these may be the thing for me — everything else about the original airpod experience was actually super nice.
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