hey guys it's vadim with maxtec and welcome to our airpods buyer's guide for
2022 where i'm gonna give you guys all of my experience with each different set
of earpods including the airpods second gen the third gen the airpods pro and
the airpods max i'm going to talk about the pros and cons of each one including
the different prices because they're all on sale almost all of them are on sale
right now for basically the best deals that we've ever seen for each set for
example the second genera pods are only 99
right now the third gen are 169 so 10 off not that good of a deal but the
airpods pro they are 74 off only 175 instead of 250 which is an absolutely
crazy good deal and then of course we have the airpods max over ear headphones
a hundred dollars off on those so in this video i'm going to share my
thoughts and experience with each one and basically by the end of this video
you are going to know which set of airpods to buy because i'm going to talk
about the battery life the different features the convenience the controls
the sound quality everything else so let's jump right into it now the first
ones i want to start off with is of course the airpods second gen these are
by far the oldest ones that are still up for sale right now and they're by far
the cheapest as well now one of the biggest downsides that i want to point
out is that these airpods for 100 unfortunately come with the regular
wired charging case and not the wireless model because that one is no longer for
sale so you've got to deal with that lightning cable compared to the airpods
3 and the earpods pro which both have wireless charging cases and not only
that they both support max save so if you have mac safe for your iphone you
can use the same mac save charger to magnetically connect your air pods and
charge them up which is really convenient but i'd say that the biggest
downside by far for these airpods is first of all you have that old design
and a lot of people made fun of it and it definitely does not look as clean as
the newer airpods 3 in pro design which has a shorter stem which i think looks a
lot better but
sound quality is where these ones really are lacking because the airpods 3 and
the airpods pro are on a whole another level especially in terms of the base so
you've got to be sacrificing that base for the regular airpods i'd say really
the only people that should be buying these regular airpods are those who are
really just on a budget they want to get some airpods for the least amount of
money possible and that's where you can win with these airpods second gen now in
terms of my personal experience i used these for a while and they were very
very good the issue was of course the sound quality not being that great but
the battery life was actually pretty good but the biggest downside that i
remember from using these was the annoying double tap controls which were
not that reliable and they were just basically annoying and nowhere near as
good as the controls on the other airpods so basically if you're trying to
get some super cheap air pods these are still a good option because i think
later on this year these are going to be completely discontinued now moving on to
the airpods 3 these are by far the newest ones that just came out a few
months ago however there are a couple of cons to these as well first of all the
price you're not getting as good of a sale so it's only 10 bucks off and in
reality you can just pay six bucks more for the airpods pro which i'm gonna talk
about in just a minute but in terms of my experience with the airpods 3 first
of all the sound quality is great the bass is super impressive considering
that they're not a sealed design they're actually kind of open ear where they
just hang in there they're not sealed at all and because of that some people can
have issues with their ear canals not fitting the airpods 3 and that's one
reason why people would go for the airpods pro but one of the biggest
issues with not having a sealed design is sound
leakage these ones by far leak the most amount of sound because they're quite a
bit louder than the airpods too so if you're going on the bus a lot or out in
public be aware that if you're blasting music people can probably hear that
around you so if that's a no-no for you then you might want to avoid the airpods
3. but in general these ones have by far the best battery life out of the airpods
2 and the airpods pro so it's very very impressive you're getting about six
hours of battery life compared to five for the second gen in 4.5
for the airpods pro because they have the noise cancellation which i'm going
to talk about in just a minute and that's actually one of the biggest
downsides that you're paying 170 and you're not getting any noise
cancellation however the controls on these are excellent because all you do
is pinch the stem and it switches the song pauses does whatever and it's just
super convenient and these also have the adaptive eq which is very nice and of
course the newer design but in my personal opinion because the sale is not
that good on these right now i think you should probably skip out on
these and just go for the airpods pro as long as they're on sale for this crazy
good price 175 dollars and there are a few reasons
why first of all these airpods pro have by far
the best in-ear sealed design out of any in-ear earphones on the market i'm not
kidding because these feature an exclusive unique vent which basically as
soon as you put them into your ears it allows some of the air pressure out of
your inner ear canal to release now on top of that these have by far the
cleanest and tightest base because of the sealed design compared to the
airpods 3. now another feature that you can get with the airpods pro the airpods
3 and the airpods max is of course spatial audio and i think that effect
does such a good job at making it feel like you're in like an open room with
the sound kind of around you like in a bigger wider sound stage but by far the
best feature of the airpods pro is the noise cancellation feature and also the
transparency mode which basically allows you to listen to music but also hear
your environment and they also do not leak sound like the other airpods do now
in terms of the actual noise cancellation performance they do a
really good job and for the average person you're going to love it because
it blocks out the extra noise and just allows you to focus and be calm and
peaceful and do your studying work whatever you want to do without having
to blast your music to drown out that external noise however the noise
canceling isn't the best because if you want the best you've got to go with the
air pods max now these are completely different they're over ear headphones so
they're obviously a lot bulkier i'd say the airpods max are for those who just
really really want to relax and enjoy like the best quality music the best
quality speakers being able to hear all those little instruments that you can't
hear with the other airpods and in terms of the noise cancellation these are top
notch you can literally put them on and bring up your music and you won't hear
anything around you literally you won't hear anything and in terms of the actual
build quality these are by far the best built headphones that i have ever seen
or experienced it's all metal and the fabric on the headband is just so soft
and it doesn't put pressure on the top of your head i love the little digital
crown for adjusting the volume then you also have the side button for switching
between noise cancellation and transparency mode which by the way works
excellent on these as well and i know that spending 450 dollars with the sale
price is a little bit hard to swallow but if you have the extra cash these are
worth it because you get a totally different sound quality experience and
these are just such high quality in terms of the build quality however we do
actually have some leaks and rumors in terms of which airpods are going to be
updated next now there are a lot of leaks that later on in 2022 sometime in
the fall we are going to be getting airpods pro 2 and the biggest feature
that a lot of people are expecting including myself
is lossless audio support coming to wireless airpods which right now is not
possible because airpods are using bluetooth so i think apple is going to
use some kind of different codec potentially an ultra wide u1 ship so i
think that's coming later on this year and they might potentially have a
stemless design as well so that's going to be convenient now in terms of the
airpods max mark german believes that apple is going to be releasing some new
colors maybe a different case or something like that and i think they
might be coming at the end of this year or apple might delay them just so they
don't clash with the airpods pro so maybe next year we might get new airpods
max and if we do they are for sure also going to be getting lossless support
which is by far the biggest drawback right now to the regular airpods max
because they don't support lossless over wireless which is
unfortunate so with that said hopefully this video helped you make a decision on
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