Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “AirPods Pro Unboxing & Impressions!”.
Hey what is up guys mkbhd here, and these are the new airpods pro. Could you tell the difference yeah right good, because i i wouldn’t want you thinking i had like the old airpods or something all right, so apple’s quietly dropped the new airpods on their site. Yesterday and i’ve been using them for about a day now from when this video is going live, so these are some first impressions and they’re honestly pretty nice. Now these cost 250 dollars, like that’s pretty high-end. So at this point they can’t sound like crap anymore they’re. Actually competing with some other really nice headphones at this price, or even nice earbuds at this price. So, what’s so pro about these new airpods pro well i’ll, tell you everything, that’s new, first of all, the new design, so you can see them here, they’re a little bit smaller and they have a shorter stem and they kind of look like that. One pokemon, or maybe a hair, dryer or maybe even pingu man. The internet is fast to meme these new apple products, but i honestly don’t think they look that bad they’re a little less toothbrushy more reasonable. Looking more compact, we’ve seen how weird these types of headphones can get with stuff like the microsoft surface buds, i think this is an improvement i actually wish they came in more colors, and that actually was one of the rumors that there might be a black pair And as hard as they would be to find if you lost them, i still would have liked to have seen that, but you still have glossy white now again for your in-ear headphones, but they are now officially ipx4 rated for water resistance. So that’s good, for you know it’s sweat, resistant, basically good for a light rain if you’re wearing them you want to go outside, you shouldn’t, have to worry ipx4 and there’s, of course, the rubber tips.
Now so in the unboxing you’ll see they come with three different size: rubber tips total the mediums are attached out the box and they have a smaller pair and a bigger pair and actually do a little apple magic with that that i’ll show you in a second And they, of course, still have the h1 chip so they’ll pair by just being near your iphone and opening the case, and then you get this little tutorial on how to use these new airpods pro and with this tutorial, as you can see, it talks you through Media controls reading you your messages out loud with siri and ios 13.2 and noise cancellation, and that’s because that’s right, airpods pro do have active noise cancellation, and this is a rumor that i was sort of on the fence about. If they would do it or not, they did it. So this isn’t just the passive noise isolation that comes with any pair of earbuds that make a seal in your ear. This uses the microphones and the earbuds themselves to do active additional noise cancellation in earbuds, and this is just my first impression so far, but the noise cancellation is pretty decent. I’D, say it’s about on par. If you get a good seal with the beats solo pro that i’ve been testing which are on ear headphones, i mean they’re honestly better than i expected from any sort of earbuds. I don’t use many noise, canceling earbuds, not sure if i’d wear them on a plane. They’Re not that good but hey. Maybe some testing will change my mind in time for when i do the full review the earbuds themselves as you’ve seen, have this larger black grille on the sides and that’s for air to pass through. So, even when you’re wearing them with the in-ear seal, you can still hear sounds, and you don’t feel like you’re all clogged up when you normally wear earbuds because of that air pass-through.
So that’s pretty cool and you can still hear sounds around you and that’s thanks to transparency mode. So you can turn on the noise cancellation a bunch of different ways. You can flip it on in the quick settings in ios 13.2 with that volume or you can squeeze the stem, which is now pressure sensitive for about a second and it’ll activate noise cancellation, or you can even activate it from your watch. If you want to either way you’ll hear a chime and it kicks in, and it’s this pretty good noise cancellation without that vacuum.
Feeling, thanks to the air pass-through, there’s even built into ios this little thing. This is the magic i talked about called the ear tip fit test and you can open it and run through it. It’Ll play a short sound into your ear and use the microphones inside airpods pro to determine if you have a good fit or not a good seal. If you don’t it’ll tell you either one or both of them, you need to adjust the size of the rubber tips you have on for a better seal, and then you can get them right. I haven’t seen that anywhere before and it seems to work really well and again. This isn’t the full review, but as far as sound quality, they sound fine. You know these are new drivers and with the noise cancellation on they sound better and without the noise cancellation they sound. Okay, you know i’m gon na give much more detailed feedback for the full review and i’ll, compare them to other earbuds and things in the price range.
But for now not bad, oh and of course you can’t forget. Last but not least, the new case uh, the case itself is actually a little bigger, a little bit wider, mostly than the previous airpods case, but nothing too drastic. It’S almost like you turn the old one sideways and stretch that a little bit, but it still has wireless charging like gen 2, still very pocketable, and still gives you that quick charging and 24 hours of total battery life – and it’s also still lightning not that i Expected usb type c for every apple pro product, but yeah still lightning, but that is pretty much everything that’s new with the brand new airpods pro.
Why are they called the pro? I don’t know it’s just kind of like everything. That’S high end is just called pro now, whether it’s usbc or high refresh rate or multiple colors or not um. I know for a fact: there’s no audio engineers waiting to use airpods pro in their studios, but those are the new features and so far it seems like a pretty complete package. But i think in theory this solves what my biggest problem was with the previous airpods, which is they didn’t sound great, but they also fell out of my ear instantly. This is about how much you’d stick in a normal pair of air pods right.
So that’s like five yards of running, so in theory these new ones solve that problem. For me, by having this little rubber tip, they’re not going to fall out of my ear as easily and they’re going to sound better and that’s definitely good to see. But let me know, are you into these? Are you into this? I mean this weird silent announcement. They did with airpods pro they’re on the site now they’re available today or tomorrow. I believe you can get them in stores october 30th and they look a little different but same vibe, same idea, just more expensive and some more features.
The cancellation is actually pretty impressive, definitely stay tuned for the full review for sound quality and all of my thoughts – and let me know if you have any questions or comments down below what you want to see in the full review and subscribe to be among the First, to see it if you haven’t already either way until the next one. Thank you for watching catch. You guys in the next one peace.
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