Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “AirPods Pro 2 vs. Sony WF-1000XM5: Battle of the Buds!”.
The second J airpods Pro just got a brand new update with iOS 17. The airpods pro have two brand new features: an Adaptive listening mode and a conversational awareness that quiets your music. When you want to speak to someone, if those features sound somewhat familiar, it’s probably because they’ve been present in most of Sony’s wf1000 line, most recently, the wf1000x mark 5. So I’m going to test out these buds to see if there’s any noticeable difference in their approach to these features. Let’S go so to know if your airpods are on the latest firmware. You just need to go to settings, go into Bluetooth and look for your airpods and tap on the I icon from there. You should be able to see the version number, which should say 6A 301.
If they don’t, you can try and speed up the update by connecting your airpods to your iPhone or iPad, just give it 10 or 15 minutes, and they should be updated as an aside, these are the older, lightning airpods Pro 2 too. The updated versions have USB type-c and lossless audio. You just need the extortionately expensive Apple Vision Pro to make them work, but I digress. Let’S get on with it both conversational awareness and speak to chat, allow users to speak to someone without having to physically take their buds out or lower the volume.
However, their approach couldn’t be more different in typical Apple fashion. Conversational awarness consists of a toggle in the airport T, and that’s it after that. You just have to start speaking and your music will gently taper off into the background and transparency mode will kick in. So you can hear whoever you’re talking to once.
You stop talking. The music will fade back up in around 5 seconds with the XM 5S. You get a whole lot more control with the accompanying Sony, headphone app with the app you don’t just get to toggle the feature. You also get the option to set the sensitivity from high to low to automatic and how long before the music restarts once you’re done talking, so you do get a little bit more control with the xm5.
Once once you start talking, you hear a chime and your music pauses and won’t restart until your set time. But what about sensitivity like what does it take for these modes to trigger? Let’S find out so right now, I’m whispering to see if this is enough to trigger conversation, awareness mode and as you can see, the decibels are still high, so Whispering works. So I’m whispering now to see if it’ll work with speeder chat and as you can see, the music is going so spring works.
So humming seems to uh trigger conversational awareness mode for those Hummers out there m music pours straight away so humming, just like the airpods triggers the speak to chat so apparently clearing your throat seems to trigger the speak to chat who knew so yeah. It seems like the airpods do just that little bit better, differentiating from clearing your throat to actual spoken words which the Sony seems to stumble over a little bit, but overall, when it comes to both features. If you prefer to pick up where you left off the XM FS are for you, if you like, a more seamless transition in and out of your music, then you want to go for the airpods moving on to each Bud’s adaptive mode.
They are meant to take the guessing game of when you need to engage transparency or noise. Cancelling the Spiel is the more you use them the more they adapt to your habits once again with apple. You just toggle a switch from the control sensor and forget about it. This makes it a little harder to know if it’s actually working or not. For the most part, it feels like you’re, just in a slightly less transparent transparency mode, but it’s not until you start adding loud noises around your environment that you know that it’s really working so right now I have adaptive mode on and you know I can hear Some of my uh surroundings, when I snap I can hear my snap very clearly, but as soon as I put on the vacuum, let that go on for a little while suddenly it cuts off a little bit in my ears and now that snap is nearly inaudible. I can barely hear it if, at all so yeah adaptive mode works like a Dr with the xm5, you get far more granular control.
Once you have adaptive mode on, you can select from a number of states in which to have more or less transparency by default. When you’re stationary or in a commute noise cancelling is fully on, whereas when you are on the Move, walking or running transparency mode is on, but you do get to choose how much of the world you want to, let in so if you’re, on a run. For example, you might want more transparency than if you were on a leisurely stroll there. Is this notable chime every single time the states change in the adaptiveness, which can definitely take you out of your music.
However, you do have the options and settings to disable that tone to make things flow a little better after spending a little time with both Birds. It’S clear to see that they’ve taken totally different approaches. Everything Apple does is made for complete convenience that does somewhat stifle control on the user side, but the implementation is so smooth and seamless that you might actually forgive the lack of autonomy. The XM 5s, on the other hand, give you all the control for those who know what they’re doing they’ll love to tailor every part of their listening experience. One thing I could do without is the constant Chimes you get when the buds listening States change but, like I said earlier, you can turn that off in the settings at the end of the day, if you’re someone who just wants to plug play and forget, then I think the airpods are a great shout cuz. They do this so well, but for a deeper control. You can’t go wrong with the XM 5S. They give you just enough options to make it worth it without being overwhelming. Well, that’s all from me, but what do you think of these buds? Do you think their features were implemented? Well, like let us know down in the comments and don’t forget, to hit the link in the description to find out more information about these buds thanks again so much for watching and I’ll catch you on the next one. .