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I am probably adding to the pile of fanboyist Apple blah blah but I honestly think my AirPods are the single best tech purchase I have made in the last 5 years. They took away so much hassle and work exactly like I would expect.

AirPods are one fine product for daily casual use. Obviously they aren't going to meet an audiophiles demand at $150 but AirPods Pro might even be enough in that case.

My AirPods drop out at the rate of once a month or something. When it happens it's a quick fix and they have been nothing but convenient otherwise.

Would never use wired headphones again unless I am trying to analyze a Beethoven piece.

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I seriously doubt the audio quality of AirPods Pro are any good from an audiophile perspective. I have no way to test without buying them but I have heard both the new macbook pro 16 laptop speakers and the Sony WH-1000XM3 noise cancelling headphones described an incredible sounding by the same people who say Airpods Pro sound amazing. I happen to own both and.... the MBP sounds like my grammas alarm clock radio at best (I'd give it a 2.5/10) and the Sonys are maybe a 7/10. They are decent but way too boomy and the Q in the EQ controls provided in the app don't provide enough granularity to fix it. I feel like we've really devalued certain words in the past decade or so. Everyone speaks like they work for marketing now.

> I feel like we've really devalued certain words in the past decade or so.

For sure.

> Everyone speaks like they work for marketing now.

Maybe we're so inundated that we've internalized it? A semi-related thing I've noticed: when people talk about movies now, it's never "oh I liked it, it was neat" or "it was sappy." Everybody talks about the cinematography this, the character arcs that, did you see that tracking shot??

It's weird to see the "inside baseball" aspects of movies/music/storytelling/etc creep into random conversations.

Hm, I just cant get used how airpods look like while people are wearing them. Like they would stick cigarettes into their ears. Anyway, I prefer over the ear headsets, they just sound better (currently at Sennheiser Momentum, sometimes on cable, sonetimes on BT).

Have you compared with other BT headphones?

Because in general, BT headphones are great and I understand that people love them. But Airpods are not among the better ones in my experience. They drop out more than my other BT headphones, and the fact that they have no volume control is just unbelievably stupid to me.

I have my $20 wired Sony buds drop out about once every never.

My wired buds pop out if I do anything more than sit still while listening with them. Any other activity I'm bound to accidentally karate chop the cord out of my ears. Or they catch on something. It's quite a bad experience.

I didn't think BT headphones were worth anything until I tried them. They are surprisingly liberating for someone active like me.

Mine will drop out when I drop my phone.

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