are the airpods Pro 2 really worth extra money over the third generation airpods
well I've been using these new ones for over a week and these ones for about a
year so I'm gonna let you guys know what my experience has been based on Apple's
prices there is a 70 difference but the airpods 3 have been on sale multiple
times for as low as a hundred and thirty nine dollars and I'll leave a link down
in the video description when these pop down on sale low and that makes it kind
of tough to pay so much extra money as far as battery life they seem similar
with six for the earbuds themselves and 30 with a case but if you take a closer
look the airpods pro 2s actually do better now Apple also gave the airpod
pros to the ability to charge with an Apple Watch charger now at first when
they announced it I thought that was just a gimmick but having that ability
to be more flexible so if you have an Apple Watch charger somewhere maybe in
your truck in your car or if you have one of the two in the ones that has the
Apple watch and iPhone it is nice to have that extra flexibility ability now
another thing that is interesting that most people don't talk about is the fact
that the airpods pro 2's case is also ipx4 water resistant not just the
earbuds which the airpods three do have now my first gen airpods Pro the first
pair I got these actually died because they went into the wash and the case got
messed up so it's nice to have that extra little bit of protection now they
also added this lanyard feature personally I don't care about that I
feel like if you have a lanyard on there it's wobbling around it's you know tied
up to something these can fall out but you have that now I switched over to the
airpods 3 because of the sound quality and I'll talk about that in just a bit
but I want to mention Comfort the airpods Pro 2 have that little rubber
ear tip that seals them into your ear but they're still quite comfortable and
the vent has been improved so it is better than most others but I would say
that the airpods 3 are more comfortable for my ears if I'm using them for more
than two to three hours at a time overall I think it really depends on
your ear shape and Some people prefer these While others would like the ear
tips especially with that new extra small size now another reason why people
like the airpods 3 is the fact that you still hear outside sounds because it
doesn't seal it in but the airpods pro have the transparency mode which is now
adaptive and the microphones have been really improved so you hear everything
just as good as these ones right here sometimes even better and apple showed
off in loud situations that they could actually lower that outside sound to
make sure it doesn't damage your hearing I've only had that happen one time in
real use when my kids dropped something and I was shocked that it didn't sound
very loud so basically the airpods Pro 2 can be used as hearing protection even
if you hear outside sounds now with that we have the active noise cancellation
which is insanely good the third gen airpods let all the sound in so if
you're mowing your lawn for example you still hear all of that noise and it's
hard to hear your music and it's bad for your ears these ones will block that out
they do an insanely good job I've never heard of earbuds that sound anywhere
close to this good and with that I was in my truck I started up my truck as a
V8 it has to warm up and I thought that my truck didn't start even though the
dials moved up because it blocked out all of that sound they do a crazy good
job but it's so convenient having that feature now I haven't flown to the
airpods Pro 2 just yet typically I will take my airpods Max but I did some side
by side comparisons and I was shocked by how close they were early this morning
it was raining like crazy and I compare them to the airpods max and I was
shocked that the high noises of the raindrops falling were actually quieter
with the airpods Pro 2 than the airpods max so if you're somebody that has
dedicated over ears when you fly I think that the airpod pros 2 will do a good
enough job not to need those at all another thing I liked about the airpods
3 was the microphone quality it was an improvement over the original airpods
but now we have these so let's go ahead and take a look at at three different
scenarios and compare how the microphones do this is the microphone
quality of Apple's airpods 3 in a room with some background HVAC noise and this
is a micron quality of Apple's airpods 2 in a regular room with some background
HVAC noise and this is the micro quality of Apple's airpods 3 with some
background ambient noise like if you're in a restaurant or a busy Cafe and this
isn't my phone quality of Apple's airpods Pro 2. if you're in a busy room
or a noisy environment and this is a micro quality of the airpods 3 if you're
in a windy environment and you have to be talking on the phone and this is the
microphone quality of Apple's airpods Pro 2. if you are in a windy environment
and you need to talk on the phone there you guys go you let me know your
thoughts down in the comments section below I think overall the airpods pro
did great other than that windy situation where at the end they cut out
for a little bit uh but before that they sounded wonderful I think it might be
because of the microphones along with the new Bluetooth that's included so
with that we have the new H2 chip that is what does all the processing we also
have Bluetooth 5.3 which has better range it uses less power and I think
that also helps it out but another thing that it helps with is the ability of the
case to tell your phone the battery level without having to have the earbuds
in there to make that transmission over Bluetooth now the airpods 2 also have
the U1 Ultra wide band chip and that gives you Precision finding so not only
will tell you if you're somewhat close but it will guide you to your lost
airpods and if it's in a dark room that led will Flash and with that you have
the speaker that will make a chime so that is actually at least a 29 value
because you're practically have an air tag built in but with a little bit more
features if you lose a third gen airpods it's going to be much much harder to
find them thanks to those new Chips I also found that switching devices is
much quicker and sometimes when you try to period airpods you'll notice that it
doesn't switch over you have to tap it now it just works so much faster with my
new iPhone 14 pro it is really nice as far as controls the airpods Pro 2 also
give you that swiping feature now to be honest in the last week I've only used
it one time and that is when I did not have my Apple watch on me so I couldn't
just Spin My Crown to adjust my volume but for a lot of people that don't have
an Apple Watch if you're used to asking Siri to do it that is definitely nice to
have and now we have to talk about music quality and that is the reason why I
ditched all the extra features of the previous pros and went with the threes
because they sounded so much better well this time around the pros sound
incredible I was a bit bummed when they didn't show off that it doesn't have
dual drivers like Samsung's but when I heard them for myself it is shocking how
good it is the airpods Pro 2 play as low as 20 Hertz and they play it Loud the
airpods Pro 3 can play it but much much quieter and these can actually play 15
Hertz like in this test track here where you actually hear that and you feel that
and with the airpods 3 you don't hear any of those low notes now with that
even though these are sealed The Sound Stage is quite a bit better spatial
audio works better especially once you optimize it and pretty much every track
that I listen to is better in every single way it also plays louder without
Distortion and the separation between instruments especially in heavy songs we
have a lot of tracks like rock music is definitely better as well so if you have
these because you like the sound quality I mean the airpods Pro 2 are on a whole
nother level so with all of that said If you're trying to decide which one to buy
I would say that if you can afford to spend 250 bucks or if they're discounted
I'll have a link down below you guys could check the current price I would
pay the extra money compared to getting a discounted pair of these is even for
the fact that you can find them if you lose them and all those other benefits
it is just an amazing pair of earbuds you guys let me know your thoughts down
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