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Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by TheGRS »

samwhiteUK wrote: post #134
baxtr wrote: post #126

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For me the answer is quite clear: they simply work. Apple like. Did I test all the others you mentioned? No. Probably because I used to have several Bluetooth headset. They hardly ever worked. For me, I had to have high trust in the HW company to ever test a Bluetooth headset again.

FWIW, I've tried to set up one pair of Airpods, and they were broken right out of the box. Wouldn't pair with anything. So that's a 1 in 1 failure rate ;)

Complete opposite experience for me, it almost felt like they paired too easily.

Switching devices is the only situation that I find annoying since I need to open up the bluetooth menu and tell it to connect.

Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by PascLeRasc »

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…

have you considered that "pro" labeling might be snake oil too?

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Post by seba_dos1 »

qubitcoder wrote: post #343
seba_dos1 wrote: post #336

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HiDPI screen alone can completely change performance characteristics of a website.

This is true. But for reference, I'm using a 2018 MacBook Pro with two external HiDPI monitors connected via USB-C (a Dell 4k and an LG 5k2k), and the page still performs flawlessly in Chrome.

Hardly a surprise that on a fresh high-end device with software stack the website authors surely optimized for it's going to perform well :P

Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by Antoninus »

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.

Praising scroll hijack and bloated ui on HN. Bad idea.

Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by mordant »

bluedino wrote: post #209
t-writescode wrote: post #22

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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.

The Sony 1000's are so much better than any of the Bose noise canceling headphones

The Nuraphones are better than the Sonys and the Boses.

Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by Domenic_S »

_wzsf wrote: post #52
webwielder2 wrote: post #38

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Let alone headphones? You could throw away a pair of AirPods every day and it would still constitute a tiny fraction of what (Americans) produce in waste on a yearly basis.

"It doesn't matter how much garbage I produce, everyone else makes way more!"

I think it's an argument somewhat like the "don't water your lawn in a drought" argument - even in aggregate, domestic/consumer impact is miniscule. 2005 numbers say that domestic water use is 8.5% of freshwater use, and of that, irrigation is at most 5.3% (the "other" category). Yet we in California were told to let our lawns die or given money to convert to high-efficiency landscape.

An average shower uses 17 gallons of water. A single pound of almonds uses 1,900 gallons.

Anyway, all this to say that I think the GP's argument is convincing.

Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by dingus »

robotresearcher wrote: post #245
falcolas wrote: post #203

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If you're really concerned about noise reduction, I personally recommend headphones that block noise, not counter it. An example would be the Shure IEM line, which acts like an earplug, and which provide a flat 25db attenuation of sound. So, your 85db environment becomes a 60 db environment, and your music can be 65 db. Boise 2 headphones with ANR, in comparison, reduce about 13db of noise at 85db. http://www.hearing…

I'm interested in this, so looked the Shure line up. The cheapest IEM model is SE425CL at $269. Simple wires, no mic. Anyone have experience with them? https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/earphones/se425cl

I had the equivalent model of these about ten years ago, no complaints. IEMs will have better sound quality than regular headphones. There was more cord noise, from what I remember, probably because they make everything else quieter so it's more noticeable.

On a side note, I didn't like the AirPods at all, and returned them. The sound quality is worse than the default iPhone corded earbuds, and they were frustrating if you wanted to frequently switch pairings between a phone and computer (like getting an incoming call and the bluetooth pairing takes 10-15 seconds to change over).

Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by scarface74 »

andrepd wrote: post #165
mikestew wrote: post #123

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Not OP, but let me try: Have you ever needed to be on a phone call after you took the call on the phone, but would like to switch headset, but because Bluetooth still sucks it doesn't even show the headset in the list, so you have to power down the headset, restart in pairing mode... Yeah, I've done that plenty of times using a Bluetooth headset. You will never do that using an iPhone and AirPods. You'll just push th…

I'm not sure that I follow, but do you mean be listening to music on the earphones, take a phone call on the handset speaker, then end the call and go back to the earphones? If that's the case then there's literally to switch between earphone/handset speaker/loudspeaker, on my phone at least. Also, isn't the point of a bluetooth handset that you can make the call there?

And then there is seamless switching between an iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV.....

Re: AirPods Pro

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Post by mav3rick »

Apocryphon wrote: post #297
thebouv wrote: post #274

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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.

Try Taotronics, the ones that look like AirPods. Those are quite good for around 40.
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