I recently purchased the Apple AirPods Pro 2nd Generation from Amazon, and I must say, these earbuds are a remarkable upgrade from the previous model. The improvements in sound quality, noise cancellation, and battery life are evident right out of the box.The audio clarity is exceptional. Whether I’m listening to music, podcasts, or taking calls, the sound is crisp and rich with detail. The bass is more pronounced than in the first generation, providing a well-rounded and immersive listening experience. The AirPods Pro 2nd Gen also features enhanced spatial audio with dynamic head tracking, which brings a whole new level of realism to my audio experience, especially when watching movies or playing games.Active Noise Cancellation on these AirPods is top-notch. It effectively blocks out background noise, allowing me to focus on my audio without distractions. The Transparency mode is also improved, letting in ambient sound when needed without compromising the audio quality.The fit and comfort are excellent. The new ear tips come in multiple sizes, ensuring a secure and comfortable fit for extended periods. I’ve used them during workouts and daily commutes, and they stay firmly in place.Battery life is another area where the 2nd Generation shines. I can use them for long hours without worrying about recharging, and the wireless charging case provides additional charges, extending the total usage significantly.Pairing with my Apple devices was seamless, thanks to the H1 chip. The earbuds instantly connect to my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook, and the switching between devices is smooth and intuitive.While the price is on the higher side, the quality and features of the AirPods Pro 2nd Gen make it a worthwhile investment, especially for those already in the Apple ecosystem.In summary, the Apple AirPods Pro 2nd Generation from Amazon is a fantastic choice for anyone looking for premium wireless earbuds. They offer superior sound quality, effective noise cancellation, and a comfortable fit, along with the convenience of seamless integration with Apple devices. Highly recommended for their cutting-edge features and overall performance.

These weren’t what I’d call cheap, but I got them on a Prime day and in the realm of noise cancelling ear buds, these are really worth it.Good: Sound quality & noise cancellation are next level. I have a set of Bose noise cancelling I was using and haven’t picked the Bose up since. These are just better, in every aspect.The spatial audio sounds like a gimmick, but honestly, the separation, sound stage and quality is really, just excellent. The setup takes a little bit of time, but it’s easy to do, intuitive and seems worth it.Latest firmware allows you to select an adaptive noise cancelling setting, or full noise cancelling. I’ve tried both and although everyone I’ve heard raves about the adaptive setting, I prefer full noise cancelling, but I think the adaptive setting might be better if you’re listening to music while jogging, walking, biking, etc.Music is quite enjoyable with these and with the noise cancelling, you get music that is not polluted by external sound. Unless someone calls you, and then you can click them in with the ear pods.Once that happened to me, I thought I’d try them for my various conference calls at work. They’re great for this too. The mic is orders of magnitude better than my laptop.Noise cancellation is excellent with machinery, lawn equipment, etc. with or without music. I prefer full noise cancellation for this and not the adaptive. To me, the adaptive setting lets in too much background noise when I don’t want it under these conditions.Not so good: the case is just a little less robust. So far it’s worked fine, but I could see this possibly breaking in the future. it probably wouldn’t hurt to get a protector.Also, if you are using these for a call – especially a conference call, and there’s that one person who seems to have an amplified mic that makes it sound like he’s using a megaphone – you’ll be hearing “that guy” in perfect stereo, making them even more annoying.Just observational:Battery seems to be pretty good, but I’ve let the case sit for a couple days off the charger – 2 to 3 days max and found them dead. It’s not long to charge them, but that was surprising. Don’t let that catch you out.Nice to be able to charge wirelessly –and– with a cable.I bought another pair for my wife after having these a few months.

I have finally bought an AirPod Pro, and I’m so glad I did! It’s a bit pricey, but I definitely think it’s worth it. They are the best-fitting ear buds I have ever had. I don’t like the old style that normal AirPods have. These fit so much better on the ear. It doesn’t get uncomfortable when you wear it for a long time.Wireless ear buds are such an improvement to daily life. It’s so easy to use; just take them out and plug them into your ears, and it’s connected to your iPhone. The case will charge your ear buds when you’re not using them. You can also keep the case open and see the charge level of your case and two ear buds on your screen.Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) is a game changer! I use my AirPods Pro while cooking, cleaning, using my Airwrap, etc., and the noise cancellation feature cancels all of them! It’s so much better to listen to music without background noise.The Personalized Spatial Audio update lets you scan your ear with the iPhone’s camera and lets your AirPods Pro play sound in a way that matches the shape of your ear. The personalized spatial audio was amazing. At first, I thought it was just a gimmick, but the surround sound feels as if you are completely immersed in it.The new Adaptive Transparency mode was alright with me. You can definitely hear more sounds as much as you would without having the earbuds on, and it also scales down harsh, unpleasant noises in the background.Now it has a Conversation Awareness Mode you can turn on. It will automatically lower the sounds when you are speaking to someone. Although you might want to keep it turned off when you want to sing along because sometimes it will think you’re speaking.I definitely recommend you get them.

I’m a self-described armchair audiophile, and this would be my first wireless set. I’ve sampled a few sets in the far flung past to demo, but have never felt compelled to keep them.Not these. I’m using them right now as I write this review on my pc desktop. Outside of really dedicated audiophile listening, or applications that demand extreme attention to detail such as audio engineering or sound production for high profile projects, they’re too versatile *not* to use for the vast majority of daily scenarios, with very decent sound quality to boot.To start, I don’t have to reach for my phone to operate them (remember, this is the first wireless set I’ve logged more than a few hours on). The closest I had before was volume and playback controls integrated into the wire at the joint on wired sets. Very serviceable, but also finicky in certain situations. If you were, say, leaning over or had your body twisted a certain way, reaching for the controls would pose various difficulties. Worse if you had happened to tuck the wire into your jacket. Having a bunch of different gesture and pinch commands at the stem by your earlobe has been a joy to operate.The automation is also nice. You can set it so that if one or both buds are taken out of your ears, it automatically pauses content. It auto resumes when the bud(s) go back in. You can long pinch to swap between Transparency Mode and ANC (active noise cancelling), because they correctly predicted that just ANC-off (thereby functioning like $15 earbuds with no tech built into how they handle an external sound environment) is useless.The ANC is astonishing, but Transparency mode even more so. It’s scarily good now that I’ve spent a good week using these at work. I’m in a position (mechanical engineer working in industrial power delivery) where it’s safety critical that I can hear my surroundings, and at the same time I’m sometimes exposed to loud machinery for short (less than a couple minutes), medium (5-15 minutes), and extended (hour+) durations. For environments involving loud machines, ANC performs extremely well, cancelling out the vast majority of noise so that it’s well within safe levels for my ears, while still letting me hold conversations with shocking ease. I’ve had colleagues remark at my ability to converse fluidly, without asking them to repeat themselves in deafening environments, whereas they have trouble hearing me shouting into their ears (while they’re taking a moment to lift off their earmuffs). I let one of our machine operators demo these and he immediately bought his own pair. That’s how good they are. How he’ll get around the prying eyes of his supervisor (since we’re still in medieval times where seeing earbuds in ears can be misconstrued as a productivity issue) remains to be seen.Outside of that admittedly niche environment, Transparency Mode has been amazing for regular office use. I literally can’t tell (for non-obvious content like podcasts and talking head YouTube videos) if they’re in. I kept anxiously double checking the other morning that James Hoffman wasn’t actually lecturing our entire office about coffee flavor notes out of the phone speakers. I leave these in throughout the day and, frankly, forget that they’re in. The environmental reproduction is unparalleled.So that’s the big thing about the raw sound quality that the marketing hasn’t quite articulated: the soundstage is extremely natural. It’s like open backed headphones, but better (literally like not wearing anything), and they’re shockingly good at integrating media content with your surroundings to the point that unless you’re listening to something that would make it obvious (like loud or highlight/bass heavy music), it’s legitimately hard to tell if the sound is coming out the buds plugged straight inside your ears.So wearable audio gear comes in 3 broad categories: neutral/open, noise isolating, and noise canceling – the latter being a relatively very recent addition to the list. The 2nd category, noise isolating, relies on mechanical design to prevent external sound from entering the stage. It’s good if you’re, say, an audio engineer and really need to nitpick and correct intricate details, but isn’t the best for normal listening. The classic design puzzle here is that the better the mechanical isolation, the more obvious or cumbersome (read: uncomfortable) it is to use the wearable. I usually personally favor the 1st category because those headsets tend to be lighter and easier to wear for longer periods and the natural soundstage just sounds better to me in the vast majority of scenarios.It’s the 1st and 3rd categories that are more interesting – higher end models occupying the 1st category tend to be “open backed” headphones, typically these big cans you wear on your head that are surprisingly lightweight and have a gentle, natural soundstage. They don’t have software processing, so any sound produced is natural and unpolluted from the headset. But besides being bulky and wired, they’re also infamous for leaking out sound to your external environment, so they’re best for personal use cases and aren’t appropriate for public or office use.The 3rd category, ANC, uses realtime processing to negate leakage getting *into* your wearable audio gear by canceling any external sounds before you can hear them – basically the “software version” of the hardware-based 2nd category. The challenge here has classically been execution – working with sound involves a lot of advanced mathematics. Remember sine, cosine, and wave characteristics including frequency and amplitude? And how everyone hated them? Well, I’ve worked with them (still do sometimes), and I can confirm they’re the worst. Fourier transforms, ugh, kill me now. ANC is based on these really complicated mathematics, and you have to combine the math – hopefully with very high precision and with no errors – with good software logic, and ON TOP of that you need good hardware like a fast processing chip and responsive speaker design to achieve results with as little time lag as possible. There’s a lot that has to come together, and historically the execution/implementation side has been lacking, resulting in random and omnipresent inconsistencies like weird lowkey “hissy” noises you’ll catch here and there. At worst, at least for self-described armchair audiophiles such as myself, there’s the real concern that poor execution damages the raw sound quality of what you’re listening to. ANC has been known to interfere not just the external environment (which is its intended use), but also with the desired audio produced by the wearable (which is really bad), undercutting bass frequencies in headsets that are already poorly optimized for low frequencies in the first place, or negating and partially muting the sparkle of higher registers.The Airpod Pro 2s are the 1st and 3rd categories simultaneously and insanely good at both. Like, unprecedentedly good at both. And this starts with their frankly astonishing implementation of practically flawless ANC. This has allowed them to get around the design challenge of the first category (the aforementioned leakage issue) by leveraging their superior ANC *in reverse* to also be the 1st category: the Airpod Pro 2s are extremely good at reproducing your sound environment in a way that feels indistinguishable from not wearing them. This opens up a huge amount of usage options – such as walking around the office with zero fear of missing cues from colleagues, or, in my current scenario, using these to play music while writing this review so that I don’t bother my sleeping cats with loud music, while still being assured I can hear them if they need to get my attention for anything. On top of that, I don’t have to swap away from this window and ruin my rhythm if I need to change tracks or adjust volume.Another thing – iPhone users have the option to modify Transparency mode to enhance vocals, or boost certain frequency ranges, making them function as very good entry-level hearing aids. This can be done by heading into your iPhone Settings, selecting Accessibility, selecting Airpods, heading into Audio Accessibility Settings, and tapping into Headphone Accomodations. From there you can literally upload an audiogram and from there select “tune audio for audiogram” and voila – Transparency mode is now tuned for your specific hearing shape. Besides that, a good amount of basic control (not having to upload anything and just tweaking menu knobs) is available, from focusing on enhancing vocals and specifying how softly or strongly softer sounds are enhanced. It’s very likely I’ll be purchasing these for my parents in the near future.On top of that, as a default feature, they actively monitor your environment for harshly loud sounds and protect you against them in realtime. Drop a pot? Well, sucks for the pot, but it won’t be as harsh on your ears. You’re walking along and a dog comes barking at you over the fence out of nowhere? Well, you may or may not get jump scared practically out of your socks, but at least the sudden barking will be at the level of, you know, a reasonable conversation.One nitpick – the stock silicone tips are prone to fall out if you’re on the move. They’re fine for normal walking and definitely sitting, but I definitely wouldn’t trust these to stay in while riding a bike or taking a jog. There are 3rd party options that help with this (I’m currently using a silicone/memory foam tips that already feel much more secure), but be aware I don’t really use these outside daily office use and walking between the different production cells at our manufacturing facility.Quite frankly, these things have been a joy to use for hours every day. I only wish I’d gotten them sooner. Besides being extremely versatile and natural sounding earbuds with cutting edge realtime processing, it’s amazing to me that we have commercial access to essentially non-surgical ear enhancements. You know what that sounds like. The future. And you can shove it straight in your ears today.

I have had Apple AirPods Gen 1 and the Apple AirPods Pro (first gen) prior to having these. I have enjoyed each iteration’s improvements, but especially in these AirPods Pro 2nd gen. These are such a quality of life improvement and I find I will always desire these features. Yes, these fit well in the ear, provide nice noise cancellation, they sound great, they offer things like spacial audio, and this new version has volume controls on the AirPods themselves (so cool!). However, my favorite thing about these happens to be my least favorite feature of the older generation – transparency. I found that I could never use transpareny on my last generation as they constantly let in very loud. noises, but it seemed to be amplified. I found my ears constantly being shocked, so I never used this feature. Now, with the new tweaking, these do not allow sounds in that will hurt your ears. I wear these on transparent mode to concerts now and I can hear the concert in a way that does not harm bass or sound in any way, but in a way that my ears are protected.I loved AirPods before and I have always used them, whether for audio calls, audio books, listening to music, taking Teams calls at work, amongst many other ways I use these – but now I can protect my ears at a concert and still hear everything as it was meant to be heart and these are worth the price just for that feature alone.I highly recommend these AirPods to anyone. If you are someone who finds noise transparency a nice thing to use or if you are a concert-goer who will use ear protection, do not hesitate to buy these. This are worth the extra money for people who use all of their features.