Hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and with the recent release of airpods 3 many people have been
asking me should they pick up airpods 3 or airpods pro so i wanted to help you decide which would be
best for you now the first thing is the overall price the price of the airpods 3 is 179 in the
united states it can vary depending on where you live but compared with the airpods pro they're
a little bit cheaper where the airpods pro come in at 249 so you'll save a little bit if you go
with the airpods 3. now there's a lot of features that are very similar between both of them so i'm
going to go over all of the similar features then what makes them different we'll go over the design
sound and more now the first thing is the features that are similar are both use bluetooth 5.0
both have adaptive eq both have custom high excursion drivers custom high dynamic range
amplifiers spatial audio with head tracking they both have dual beam forming microphones for calls
also inward facing microphones for adaptive eq motion detecting accelerometers speech detecting
accelerometers force sense as well as ipx4 sweat and water resistance for both of them
so all of those things are identical on both however what makes airpods pro more pro at least
according to apple is that it has active noise cancellation it also has the transparency mode
as well as conversation boost and internally it has a vent system so when it's sealed in your ear
with the air tip to sort of block noise there's a vent that allows for pressure equalization so
that it doesn't feel as though you have your ears plugged you also have dual optical sensors instead
of a skin detect sensor of the airpod 3 where it knows that it's in your ear and can sense when you
remove it and pause and play music so when you remove them from your ear they'll pause music
when you put them back in they'll continue playing now as far as the overall design of them they're
very similar as you can see here in fact they look almost identical if you were to remove the ear tip
from the airpod pro you'll see that they have pretty much the same sort of overall design
and what that means is i find them personally very comfortable in my ears now one of them
does not sit within your ear canal the air pods three don't go into your ear canal but just sit
directly outside of them similar to the first and second gen airpod i actually prefer this when in a
working environment so you can hear people around you ambient noise around you or maybe when you're
in bed and you need to listen to some music to get to sleep they'll sit around your ear and
allow your ear to have some sort of ventilation or so it's just not plugged all the time with the
air pod pro of course you have that pushing into your ear canal and some people prefer that you
can get custom foam tips for these as well if you don't like the general tips that come with it i
actually find that these tend to irritate my ears a little bit so if you wear these a lot they seem
to irritate them but if you wear them for an hour or two at a time they don't seem to bother me of
course the benefit of them sealing in your ears is you can eliminate ambient noise now the way they
fit in your ear like i said is very similar but the airpods pro seem to fit in my ear a little bit
better and seem to be as though they'll stay put more often and that is mostly because of this ear
tip where it just sort of seals in your ear and gives it a little bit more extra gripping force
however the air pods 3 i do find to be a little bit more comfortable because they don't really
feel like they're there so as you can see the way they fit in my ear are a little bit different
again i find them both fairly comfortable but the air pods 3 i find more comfortable because they
don't really feel as though they're even there now as far as controls on them you can see that we
have this little press button here so we have the flat piece here where we press this unlike airpods
one and two airpods three have this button where instead of tapping to sort of go to the next track
now you double squeeze the little flat area and you'll go to the next track triple squeeze you go
back this is very similar to airpods pro however on airpods 3 if you press and hold this area
you'll go into siri on airpods pro that controls noise cancellation transparency or turns it off
altogether and i'll show you that in the software in a little bit but as you can see the overall
design looks very very similar except for some of the venting and where some of the sensors are
placed so again very very similar as far as the overall design the stem is a little bit shorter
on the pro as well airpods 3 and airpods pro have a slight weight difference as well
air pods 3 are 0.15 ounce or 4.28 grams where air pods pro are 0.19 ounce or 5.4 grams so there's
a slight difference there i don't know that you're going to notice that between both of them
now as far as the overall sound like i mentioned earlier they have custom high dynamic range
amplifiers with custom high excursion drivers what that means is they both have similar speakers and
they sound very very similar airpods 3 sound as though you're using airpods pro but without the
noise cancellation feature or them being sealed in your ear they basically sound absolutely identical
in every way in my tests so i'm surprised with the amount of bass you get with airpods 3
in fact you get much more bass than you do with airpods 2 or 1st generation the airpods pro have
a little bit more bass because it seals in your ear but i don't know that most people will be able
to tell the difference when it comes to that so i think the sound is extremely similar similar highs
mids and lows but one is sealing off and giving you noise cancellation and transparency one is not
now i'll show you how to control those features in a moment but as far as overall battery life there
is a difference between both of them airpods 3 lasts up to 6 hours if you don't have the spatial
audio feature turned on and with the case you can get up to 30 hours total so if you have spatial
audio off you can get up to 6 hours but with spatial audio turned on it brings it down to 5
hours so if you're not using spatial audio you'll get the best battery life and you can disable that
and i'll show you that in a moment with airpods pro it's a little bit different because you have
noise cancellation and it's listening to ambient noise and cancelling that if you have active noise
cancellation turned on or transparency mode you'll get up to about 4.5 hours of listening time or 24
hours of charging with the case so it charges the air pods about four times for each one of these
and up to five hours without active noise cancellation turned on so they're still not
as good as airpods three as far as overall battery life they've really given it an extra hour or so
on the airpods 3 if you're not using noise cancellation and you don't compare that however if
you're on a plane of course you're going to want that noise cancellation to seal out those noises
or maybe you're mowing the lawn or something else and that's where the difference is as far
as that goes now as far as controlling these on your iphone let's put one in my ear i'll put the
airpods pro in my ear first to show you those features and then we'll switch over to airpods
3. now if we go into the control center we'll make sure we're connected here we'll go into bluetooth
and make sure we're connected to airpods pro so we'll give it just a moment to connect sometimes
when you have multiple air pods you have a little bit of an issue here so let me go ahead and put
this one away for now now with the air pods pro connected if we go into the control center you'll
see that we have the icon for this and if we press and hold this is where we get our options so we
have our noise control and by pressing and holding on our stem of the airpods pro if i press and hold
you'll see it switches to off if i press and hold again it goes to transparency now i can't use
noise cancellation with just one in my ear it says place both in your ears for noise cancellation and
there is a feature where you can change some of that but if i put both in my ears so i have both
in my ears now now i have noise cancellation again if i press and hold on the stem this will change
and now it's back to transparency it just depends how many you have in your ear
and if you're listening to music and you take them out so if i'm listening to this song and i take
one out of my ear it will pause so it works really well if i put it back in my ear it will play again
this is very similar to what we have on airpods 3. however we get one other feature with airpods
pro that we don't get on airpods 3 and that has to do with conversation boost so maybe you have
an airpod in your ear an airpod pro you go down to the ear here in your control center
and you have the option for conversation boost this allows us to better hear the person
we're talking to we can change the ambient noise reduction also change the tones so maybe we can
hear a little bit by better on the brighter end we can change that so that we can hear what we're
listening to a little bit better if we're trying to talk to someone with airpods 3 like i said you
have some options as well so just like we have the option for spatialized audio or spatialized stereo
with head tracking we have that on airpods 3. so if i put these back in the case the airpods pro
we'll put these in the case like that go back over to the airpods 3 put them in my ear you'll
see it connects automatically both of them have that feature we'll make sure we're connected
again sometimes when you have a bunch of things connected it makes a difference we'll hit play
sometimes that helps it connect better and you can see the airpods three connected here now with them
connected like i said you don't get the option for noise cancellation but you do have spatial
audio so it can use head tracking or a fixed position so when you're listening to music it
sounds as though it's coming from the device this works great when you're watching movies whether
that be on your iphone or ipod or ipad or mac on a mac or even apple tv now you can use this feature
and so it makes it sound as though the audio is coming directly from the device and as you turn
your head away from it it keeps the audio in the direction of the device so if i turn my head to
the right the audio will be coming from the left if i turn my head to the left it will be coming
from the right and so on you can turn this off and it will use less battery however it's a really
nice feature more so when you're watching movies or tv than it is when you're maybe listening to
music so when you're listening to music it can be a little bit annoying in my opinion
but when you're watching movies and tv it's really quite a nice experience that's my personal opinion
also if you're using spatial audio maybe with a spatial audio or adobe atmos track in apple music
it makes a difference otherwise you can turn it off and save a little battery but it's something
that both of these devices have so either one has has these features but you don't get the noise
cancellation now as far as charging the case this has been updated depending on the device you have
so airpods 3 can charge via lightning on the bottom or they can charge via wireless with
magsafe there's magnets to help align it on the case itself now if you have older airpods pro
that haven't been released after the airpods 3 you won't have that option let me show you what that
looks like so if i bring in some magnet paper you'll be able to see the actual magnets on the
back of the device so you can see on the back of the case there are four magnets this is to
help it align with magsafe we don't have that on airpods pro on some of the older devices however
we can still charge with magsafe so if i bring in a magsafe charger place it on here you'll see it
starts to charge if i bring on a airpods 3 case it aligns itself and now it's stuck to the middle
so it's stuck to this where the airpods pro case will just fall off so there's a little
bit of a difference there if you get brand new air pods pro maybe you don't have them already
then you should have those magnets in there but it will say with magsafe on the packaging so that's
something that they just updated and didn't really tell anybody about but it's in the case itself now
as far as which one you should choose well that really depends on your needs if you're someone
that needs active noise cancellation maybe you're on a plane all the time well then you'll probably
want to go with the pros if you're someone that doesn't ever use active noise cancellation but you
want all the benefits of airpods pro but without the noise canceling you'll probably find the
airpods 3 to be a little bit more comfortable and you'll get more battery life as well
so it really depends what you're doing for me personally if i was not going on planes i would
just go with the airpods 3 since you get all of the benefits other than the noise cancellation
however if you're traveling well then you want to go with airpods pro and if you want the very best
noise cancellation you may want to go with airpods max as those are much better at noise cancellation
than airpods pro transparency on airpods pro is great if you're listening to an announcement maybe
on a plane you're trying to hear someone else briefly but it's not something i would leave
on all the time so basically when you're in a work environment i would recommend airpods 3.
when you're traveling a lot and you need quiet environments i would recommend airpods pro
so it just depends which one you value more and of course you'll save a little money with airpods
3 but both are equal when it comes to audio so let me know which one you're going with in the
comments below or did you go with something else i'd love to hear from you there as well
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