In other news, still no support for lossless audio, and the charging port is still Lightning rather than USB-C. Seems like a good time to pick up the 1st gen Pros on discount
You don’t have golden ears. You aren’t listening closely while walking around town. Noise cancellation removes some of the frequencies. Lossless would drain battery for literally no gain in quality.
Edit: as others have noted, these do feature the ability to receive lossless audio. You should disable it.
I am no audiophile, and I don’t really care about lossless audio one way or the other, but it seems deceptive to plaster “Apple Lossless” all over the Apple Music app when no Apple headphones can play lossless audio. All the marketing talk about the audio improvements in the H2 chip seems designed to obscure this fact, and to compensate for the fact that the AirPods Pro 2 are technically inferior to other Bluetooth headphones that support lossless playback.
There are still benefits to lossless from a preservation perspective, but for actually listening to music it really doesn't matter.
A̶i̶r̶P̶o̶d̶s̶ ̶P̶r̶o̶ ̶2̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶p̶o̶r̶t̶ ̶l̶o̶s̶s̶l̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶a̶u̶d̶i̶o̶.̶ [see update below]
https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/09/07/new-airpods-pro-w...
I'm suspecting the journalists might be wrong? But I'd love to be proven wrong.
I believe you're right. Although the URL still includes "lossless", the claim was just removed from the article itself.