So I've had the AirPods Pro for a couple hours now and let me
tell you they are quite surprisingly good in terms of
noise cancellation. Now, truth be told I have two pair of
noise canceling headphones today. I have a pair
of passive noise cancelling headphones concellating? noise
cancelling headphones which are the Samsung Galaxy buds and I
have active noise cancellation which is gonna be the Studio3s
from beats. Today I get my car I go to Starbucks and it's
really cold here in Chicago. By the way nitro cold brew
incase you don't know. I go to Starbucks to get coffee and
these are in.
Actually, I'm listening to a podcast and then the guy the
window was talking me and I can't hear I'm obviously I
have these in. I pull out the left earbud and all of a sudden
I hear the noise floor just kind of dramatically increase
because I didn't realize that the fans were on in the car and
they were running so high because the car was cold when I
got into it and it's cold here in Chicago. I was like whoa!
what's going on there. It was really surprising to me.
After I put that back in how the noise floor dropped and
just how significant these were canceling out the background
noise it almost sounded.
It went from a high fan noise you know what your car sounds
like when you turn the fans are really high whether it's hot or
cold to almost a low whisper. I was like that's so cool.
Yeah I was very impressed by that. I thought it was
very neat.
All right let's go through the unboxing process.
Typical Apple fashion, this box is super sealed that you really
need two hands to open it. F irst things first, we have the
documentation from Apple , a Quick Start Guide and we have a
lot of other documentation no stickers kind of surprisingly
there are no stickers inside the box.
Now we have the AirPods. Let's go and put those aside
inside the box we have the ear tips. Now here, the small
in the large your tips meaning that the medium of your tips
are going to be onsite or on the AIrPods themselves. We have
a lightening to USB-C cable. We're almost there folks.
Almost there USB-C all the way
We have this nice easy to open pull tab. This is really hard
to open. OK so get rid of this. Now here are the
AirPods themselves. The case is a feels. I mean it's obviously
wider than a normal airport case. If you were to
flip it on its side, you see that it's almost the same size
a little bit longer it's a little bit thicker and maybe
just a tad bit heavier. Let's get those closer.
I really don't know how I feel about this what this kind of
squatting case a little thick boy for sure. I don't think
that a tell so we can fit my pocket obviously is not really
you know remarkably different.
Now let's open it up. See the light here shows that it's on
and on the phone itself. We see that the AirPods are in
pairing mode. So let's go and just click connect
And here we're getting some instructions how the
AirPods work, how noise control works. And how to use
the setup inside of the menu and control center.
And we are connected. Let's swipe down the
control center. Here we see that it's on Let's turn let's
turn off the noise canceling
difference in transparency mode.
Turn it back on let's go into the Bluetooth menu
So here we have some options. Now, let's do the ear test.
It's playing some tone now is actually kind of cool.
It's measuring the amount of noise it's getting in through
the tips and with the medium tips. I have a good fit.
Automatic ear detection. lets change with each of the
stems do so you could cycle through each of the different
profiles so you give noise cancellation on, you give
off or you could have in transparency mode and you can
actually even just turn it off for Siri and there's no other
options here.
Let's go back
Now that we're these on, turn off noise cancellation
Go to transparency.
It's kind of weird how much you how much background noise you
can hear when it's on transparency. It's actually
very neat. What
What is going on everyone it is Mike and this is a test with
the AirPods Pro as the, test of
the AirPods 2nd Generation using the Filmic app to record
the rear camera.
These are, at $249 I would say I am compelled by the AirPods 2
if these are not getting a good fit right. If these don't give
me a good fit I would say let me go to
the PowerBeats Pro a
t $199. So you've got $169 for the AirPods 2, you have $199
for the PowerBeats Pro and then you have $249 for the
AirPods Pro.
So when you put transparency mode on you can actually hear
yourself talk and not so you don't sound like the volumes
and turn down significantly when you have noise canceling
running your voice is very subdued and you almost end up
kind of and shouting or kind of raising your voice
please shout. Maybe that's just me though when you talk
to someone.
So it's actually it's kinda cool and it is nice that
you can go ahead and adjust it while either on your watch on
the phone in control center or in the Bluetooth menu I thought
that's very intuitive and in my initial two hours of use,
I really found that you know two hours I took a conference
call for one hour which is most of my day and that's how I
spend my majority My time is on conference calls during the day
which is sucks but for the you know the hour conference call
that I had they sounded good I had noise cancelling our noise
canceling on and I would say it largely worked well what I can
say is when I was listening to music and the song from boys
noise which is a great look trying to you if you don't know
that and there was a little bit more low end I would say
there's a little bit wider of frequency response range on the
AirPods Pro than there is on the AirPods.
So that about wraps it up for me folks let me know in the
comments below what questions you have about whether it's the
AirPods Pro as it relates to the PowerBeats Pro,
maybe even the right of the AirPods 2 or even if you
have questions kind of in comparison to the Echo buds
which I just got here and let me know and I'll go ahead and
answer that for either in comments below or in
the next video.
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