Apple AirPods Pro (1st Generation) with MagSafe Charging Case

Amazing sound and functionality!
Wow, these really exceeded my expectations. I’m usually slow to buy new Apple products because mostly I feel my needs are more than met by the iPhone and MacBook Air I own. But I also find myself frequently fumbling with ugly tangled headphone cables, attaching and detaching (and sometimes losing) the obnoxious “dongle” needed to switch from my iPhone’s lightning jack to my MacBook’s headphone jack, and I find the sound quality on the standard Apple earbuds pretty bad for anything but the most utilitarian listening, e.g. a news podcast or a call to the bank. So I’m pleased to report that my AirPods have already become *incredibly* useful in the first week of use for their ability to connect almost instantly, and with fabulous intuition about when and where to connect, to either my two primary devices, transforming my day’s patchwork of Zoom sessions (I’m a therapist and a yoga teacher), phone calls, audiobooks, podcasts, and music into something much smoother and more flowing.The features, and their usefulness, were what surprised me. When I bought these I had assumed, wrongly, that they would basically be the same as the standard Apple earbuds, but made wireless. On the contrary, the sound here is massively better, a gigantic leap from one end of the quality spectrum to the other, and the sound can be shaped in several useful ways:1) Noise-Cancelling Mode, which instantly sucks the background noise out so well for a moment you’ll think you’ve gone deaf2) Transparency Mode, my favorite, which beautifully mixes the original sound source (music, podcast, etc) with the sound of your own breath and the outside world. The levels are perfectly adjusted to give you an amazingly crisp listening experiencing while remaining aware of your surroundings. It’s ideal. If in a dystopian Total Recall scenario a microchip were implanted in my head to play music, this would represent the best possible audio mix.3) Normal Mode/“Off”, which gives the unmixed, untreated effect of standard headphones, allowing the normal amount of bleed between the sound in the ears and the slightly muffled sound of the outside world. This is the only mode I have no use for, because the other two are such big improvements to me.Turning these features on and off, pausing, or switching between music tracks works very well with the old “pinch the stem” technique that most wireless earbuds use. It’s the Morse Code style, squeeze once for this, squeeze twice for that system, and while it occasionally fails to understand what I want to do, it is much more intuitive and accurate than the few other brands I’ve tried. I’d say it following 3/4 of my commands perfectly, which for me is good enough, and again a vast improvement on other wireless earbuds I’ve tried, which usually suffer horribly in this category. I was a bit worried about this feature due to past negative experiences, but there was nothing to fear. Once again, Apple made the best.My strongest area of constructive critique is the voice quality of a AirPod user as experienced by the listener. The sound is crystal clear, and the volume is well-controlled, but it does sound slightly sterile and thin to my ears. I am a therapist and a yoga teacher and I frequently see clients through Zoom or other streaming video, so I was hopeful that these might also double as a solution for a wireless microphone. But I find the sound of a voice over AirPods in Zoom to be too thin and papery to match the sound of a good or even mid-level wireless mic. They sound best-suited to business purposes to me. Your experience may differ! That said, these are about half the price of an average studio or wireless mic, so this is not a crime, merely a point worth noting for other users.They are also a bit distracting visually for me, as their shape is a little chunky and protruding from the ears, and their milk-white color really pops against the skin. They are by no means huge or ridiculous, you’ll feel fine wearing them, but they are large enough that I am persistently aware of them when I see someone over video talking to me or giving some kind of instruction. It also throws me off slightly because I associate headphones with someone being unable to hear me, rather than as a way to connect with me. This is another reason that a wireless mic or a proper studio mic still has its place. That said, connecting a wireless or studio mic to literally any Apple device requires a bit of technical knowhow, plus a receiver and a collection of cables and connectors to get it to work, and with AirPods you just take them out of the case and that’s it, and you’re connected!Great product. These are the droids you’re looking for.

Great sound quality with very nice noise cancelling mode. Have lasted 2+ years with minimal issue.

Aún sabiendo que existen mejores opciones en el mercado por un precio similar yo me decanté por estos debido a la versatilidad del dispositivo, soy una persona que diariamente sale al trabajo y ocupa transporte, camino largas distancias, hago ejercicio, estudio y como punto personal es que a veces me da un poco de ansiedad los ruidos que generan las multitudes como las voces y así, así que el hecho de tener cancelación activa en un centro comercial, en la calle o en el transporte público me genera mucha tranquilidad y felicidad; el modo transparencia es sorprendente aunque hay una cantidad de ruidos muy específicos que se saturan un poco, lo cual habla del buen alcance que tienen los micrófonos incluso para captar sonidos a distancia larga o media, el modo transparencia es tan bueno que no necesitarás quitarte los audífonos para hablar con alguien, su batería nunca me ha dado problemas incluso cuando los ocupo durante todo el día, la conexión cuando abres la caja y los sacas es muy veloz aunque siento que podría mejorar para la próxima generación de airpods ya qué hay veces donde quiero consultar la batería y se tarda unos cuantos segundos en desplegar la pantalla de información, y por último y lo más importante para muchos de nosotros, su calidad de audio es más que suficiente, no es para nada mala, aunque si lo único que te interesa es calidad sobre funcionalidades y versatilidad puede que no sean para ti, pero el hecho de tener una calidad ligeramente por encima del “suficiente” (lo cual podría etiquetarlo como una calidad de audio buena-excelente) en unos audífonos tan pequeños y versátiles se agradece demasiado. Perfectos para aquellos que estamos en constante movimiento todo el día, eso si, las gomitas sellan muy bien el canal auditivo por lo que tienes que tener cuidado con el tamaño que seleccionas para las mismas, al igual que siempre será recomendable que primero conozcan qué tan bien se adaptan ustedes a los audífonos de gomitas ya que es por ello por lo que mucha gente no logra acomodarse a estos audífonos.PD: También depende mucho del ecosistema en el que te desenvuelvas, su funcionalidad con dispositivos apple es perfecta pero si cuentas con un android o la mayor parte de tu ecosistema es android puede que existan mejores opciones.

Anteriormente use los de Sony, los 1000xm3, tuve que comprar estos debido a que los de sony me dejaron de funcionar después del año. Pero volviendo a estos, el sonido de los AirPods es de tan buena calidad como los de sony, la cancelación de sonido es casi tan buena como los sony, el sonido ambiente es una locura, realmente parece como si no los llevaras puestos, y si le sumas el audio espacial aumenta la sensación de no llevar nada puesto. Lo único que me decepciono fue que el material de los audífonos y la mano factura de ellos, se ve de una calidad regular, así como la caja la cual se le escucha moverse un poco la tapa, dando la sensación de ser una bisagra de material barato. Fuera de ello la experiencia es buena, pero sinceramente si no tienes iphone no vale la pena, creo qué hay mejores opciones.