The Art of Noise Cancellation: A Deep Dive with AirPods Pro

As I put on my AirPods Pro, I couldn't help but think about how much more emphasis awareness has become for me. The constant need to be mindful of my surroundings has taken a backseat in favor of the convenience and portability that these earbuds offer. I've grown accustomed to the feeling of being completely immersed in music, with the sound quality so crisp and clear that it's almost like I'm not even wearing anything on my ears.

But what really gets under Mo's skin is when he's alone cleaning his apartment with AirPods Pro in his ears. He hates it when the singing along feature turns the music down, disrupting his carefully curated playlist. This small annoyance drives him crazy, as he feels like he's missing out on an opportunity to help someone in need. The thought of not being able to hear a knock at the door or a dog choking on something is one of his worst nightmares.

One of the most fascinating aspects of AirPods Pro is their ability to adapt to different situations. When Mo puts them back on, he's surprised by how much more aware he becomes of his surroundings. The transparency aspect of the noise cancellation feature allows him to pick up on subtle sounds that might otherwise be lost in the mix. It's a subtle yet powerful effect that adds depth and nuance to his listening experience.

For some people, this level of awareness might not be necessary or desirable. That's why Mo recommends going for the regular AirPods 4 if you're looking for an easy, inexpensive wireless earbud that works with all your Apple devices. The AirPods 4 offer a more straightforward listening experience without the bells and whistles of the Pro model.

However, for those who value sound quality and convenience above all else, the AirPods Pro might be worth the extra $50 investment. Mo himself has found that the noise cancellation in his earbuds is substantial enough to make a real difference in his daily life. Whether you're running on a treadmill or just lounging around the house, the AirPods Pro are up to the task.

Another feature that's often overlooked but worth mentioning is the ability to customize your AirPods with different cases. Mo's own experience with the Later case has been nothing short of impressive – it slaps on seamlessly and adds an extra layer of protection to his beloved earbuds. For those who want to stand out from the crowd, a custom case can be a great way to express yourself.

In conclusion, AirPods Pro are more than just earbuds – they're a reflection of our values as consumers. We're willing to pay extra for features that make our lives easier and more enjoyable, even if those features might not be necessary for everyone. By embracing the nuances of noise cancellation and customization, we can unlock new levels of sound quality and convenience that were previously unimaginable.

As I take my AirPods Pro off and continue on with my day, I'm reminded that sometimes it's the small things in life that make the biggest difference. The ability to focus on our surroundings without distraction is a precious commodity, one that these earbuds are uniquely equipped to provide. Whether you're Mo or just someone looking for a great pair of earbuds, AirPods Pro are definitely worth considering.

Testing the Noise Cancellation

I decided to put my AirPods Pro through their paces by testing the noise cancellation feature in different situations. First, I turned up the volume and listened for any sound that might escape the earbuds. To my surprise, there was almost nothing – a minimal hiss from the earbuds themselves, but otherwise, it was like being in a quiet room.

However, when Mo started talking again, the noise cancellation feature kicked in, and I could pick up on his words even at full volume. It's as if the earbuds have become attuned to our individual voices, allowing us to communicate more effectively in noisy environments.

But what happens when the music starts playing? The sound quality is stunning – I can almost feel the bass vibrating through my entire body. And yet, despite the impressive soundstage, the noise cancellation feature still manages to keep out most of the ambient noise.

One thing that did strike me was how quickly the earbuds adapted to different environments. When I put them back on after taking them off, it took a little while for the noise cancellation feature to kick in – almost as if my brain needed time to adjust to the new sound.

Mo's Test: Will They Stay in His Ears?

I asked Mo to test the earbuds' staying power by asking him to run at a high speed. This would put their ability to stay firmly in place under intense physical activity to the ultimate test.

For his part, Mo was initially skeptical – he wasn't sure if the AirPods Pro could withstand the rigors of his daily workout routine. But as soon as he laced up his sneakers and hit the treadmill, he knew that these earbuds were more than up to the task.

The results were impressive: not only did the AirPods Pro stay firmly in place during the run, but they also managed to block out most of the distracting sounds around him. It was as if Mo had become a human noise-cancelling machine – completely immersed in his music and oblivious to the world outside.

Conclusion

The AirPods Pro are more than just earbuds – they're a testament to human innovation and our desire for convenience and quality. Whether you're Mo or just someone looking for an exceptional listening experience, these earbuds are definitely worth considering. With their impressive noise cancellation feature, durable design, and sleek interface, the AirPods Pro offer something for everyone.

As I put my AirPods Pro back on, I couldn't help but feel a sense of gratitude towards Apple for pushing the boundaries of what's possible with technology. The AirPods Pro may seem like a small thing to some, but their impact is anything but – they represent a new era in sound quality and convenience that will shape the way we experience music forever.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso I've been meaning to try out these new airpods airpods 4 it's a little confusing there's more than one version airpods 4 airpods 4 with active noise cancellation they cost more money 129 versus 179 and then the question is is it worth the extra 50 bucks in order to get the noise cancellation when you're talking about a headphone that isn't an inear to begin with that's going to be the most major noise cancellor is the fit and the fact that it seals you off from the external world now if you want to do that you've of course got the airpods pro which I mean for what they are they do what they claim to do they're expensive these are $2.49 though you can find them on promotions this is going to give you that more extreme noise cancellation it's going to be tough to beat with any kind of product that sits on the outside of the ear rather than inside with an ear tip for a lot of people that doesn't matter because what they're looking for is the most convenient package they're looking for something that they can pop in and out of their ear all day and maybe it limits their ear fatigue because possibly an inear head phone it gets them a little bit sore after a while or maybe they don't want to be that closed off from the world or maybe they use transparency mode more than they use noise cancelling mode they rearrange them slightly like they're not presented in the exact same way so I guess if you work at the Apple Store you can kind of quickly tell the difference it almost looks like they come from different factories cuz even the the black color on the print is different that's odd anyway let's start with the non-noise cancelling version the main thing I'm attempting to do with this video is just figure out if that noise cancelling is significant enough to justify this increase in cost and if it even makes sense on an earbud that isn't a true inear headphon so unboxing experience uh similar so far as expected paperwork the case has gotten smaller from the previous generation airpods and it remains smaller than I'm going to get them mixed up right now it remains smaller than the pro model if portability is the most important thing for you ooh interesting little blue identifier thoughts what does it mean quality control I don't think that's supposed to be on there an unapp like thing it's oh it's like a it's not even a permanent that is odd little tiny sticker on there two pairs of airpods you can hardly tell the difference until you look at the bottom and then you notice that you've got the speaker on the model with noise cancellation noise cancellation isn't the only Improvement you've got wireless charging but then beyond that you're looking at two pairs of headphones that are very very similar with $50 difference now maybe you need a pair of fully wireless earbuds but you don't want to spend Apple prices our partners at ear fund have you covered with their new ear fun air proo 4 ultrac now this gives you an inear airbud like the pro model but for a lot less these things start at 89 bucks they still got lots of features Qualcomm adaptive active noise cancellation support for ldac and AP X lossless there's a six mic array for call Quality and a dedicated app which actually does let you control things like your equalizer so because this is an inear style headphone you get a bunch of ear tips to choose from and there's USB cable to charge up the case we have a triple led setup there is your inear earbud very lightweight and already because it's an inear Style with a silicone tip I'm getting tremendous isolation without even using the active noise cancellation I mean there's just a reality of having an isolating in earbud you can't replicate that punch with a earbud that doesn't sit in the ear canal period and you get the base because of it so you want fully wireless inar earbuds with a variety of tips so you can get the best seal check out our partners at ear fun now the other question is Comfort people like the fact that it's just in and out and it doesn't really you know sit too far in the ear maybe you forget that you're wearing it this for me is extremely com able and it doesn't it's not going to fall out it's definitely not going to fall out let me connect this so this is the model with noise cancellation switch between listening modes press and hold okay there's noise cancelling now I can get a sense for the noise cancelling go ahead and talko testing 12 yeah testing one 12 I mean I can hear him I'm not playing music at the moment though so like it is a good test for noise cancelling but obviously when you're also listening to something it's going to drown out whatever he's talking about it's doing something but it's nowhere near as significant as the inear airpods pro now here's conversation awareness when you start speaking airpods will lower the volume of the media which is cool reduce background noise and then enhance the voices okay so sure we'll do that so now it knows that I'm speaking and it's like kind of like an auto transparency mode which is pumping Mo through the earbuds testing 1 23 it's extremely clear this transparency mode is awesome but uh part of it is because the earbud itself is not really sealing off the ear con now like it's just really easy in and out the regular airpod is as much a convenience headphone a daily headphone kind of in Awareness headphone as much as it is about sound quality performance isolation and so forth you see people wearing these things like almost permanently throughout the day this is like in the office video conferencing on and off traveling on public transit like this he just puts much more emphasis on awareness in my opinion okay now let's give a little listen here turn up the volume a little bit and that's interesting so the talking and all of a sudden it's getting quiet very solid performance there it's kind of gradual takes a little while takes a little too long to come back but I guess how I mean that'll be difficult to program that because the assumption is if I open my mouth I'm waiting for respon response so in that case it should take a little while before it comes back not in public you're insane a part of the song comes on they can't hear you so I'm going to have to reiterate what he's saying MO is saying right now that this feature drives him nuts because when he's alone cleaning his apartment with airpods Pro in his ears he hates it that his sing along turns the music down the type of problems that Mo concerns himself with you know when you're cleaning your apartment alone with your airpods on blast I hate the situ problem of noise cancelling in private when I'm by myself that drives me crazy because I I feel that something's going to happen that I'm not going to hear a knock at the door somebody screaming an emergency of some kind the dog is choking on something like I think that's one of this is one of my worst nightmares I missed out on the huge opportunity or the chance to help because I was so noise cancelled and I have babies like small babies so I'm like when am going to be sorry I I can't hear you on purpose on purpose I can't hear you okay nothing now you talk testing 1 two 3 okay I hear you okay noise cancelling now you talk testing 1 two 3 testing 1 two 3 testing now it's off go testing 1 two 3 testing 1 two 3 I'm going to go half volume talk testing two 3 testing 2 3 testing 1 two 3 testing one two 3 it's subtle it's a subtle it's a subtle thing I do like the transparency aspect the noise cancelling it's a subtle I mean you're going to have to have them cranked and noise cancelling and then maybe it's going to let me do that and cranked now go yeah now he's gone but that's full max volume total they sound better than previous generation base airpods to me it's the type of fit where you just kind of forget you're wearing it at least for me and for my ears it's kind of lightweight and it it just I don't know I would forget that I was wearing I think that's the idea of it it gets a little bit less filthy than the inar ones depending on your ear wax situation like it since it doesn't fit so deeply in there now what I want to do is just grab the other ones and just make sure they sound the same minus the noise cancellation talko testing one two three testing one two three testing one two three you know I'm trying to make a recommendation here uh I guess my recommendation is just to go to for the regular airpods 4 that's kind of what this model is designed for the easy inexpensive Wireless earbud that works with all your Apple devices has decent battery life and fits most ears without having to sit too deeply in there like that's the airpods 4 they give you enough products to choose from at a variety of price points because you probably have an idea of what you want to spend and I do think for some people that value is going to be worth it to spend the extra 50 bucks but for me then that's like okay you spent the 50 go up to the pro get the full in ear and get that really substantial jump in noise cancellation now the reason for the treadmill this was Mo's idea to see if they would stay in my ears when I'm running I'm sure that they will but this is my ears everybody's ears are different let's go find out they're not going to budge like I had I have to go a lot faster than this maybe no like for my ear at least could be different for you now the other cool thing you can do with airpods is you can throw a later case on them because you might not love the existing look of airpods or you might just be bothered by the fact that so many people have the exact same looking set that they're easy to confuse with your friend's set of airpods we do actually have cases for the new fours look how easy that slaps on and now you have your own exclusive airpods with a nice Kevlar protection it's still super thin but now you're not going to confuse your airpods for with somebody else's shout out to the entire latercase teamso I've been meaning to try out these new airpods airpods 4 it's a little confusing there's more than one version airpods 4 airpods 4 with active noise cancellation they cost more money 129 versus 179 and then the question is is it worth the extra 50 bucks in order to get the noise cancellation when you're talking about a headphone that isn't an inear to begin with that's going to be the most major noise cancellor is the fit and the fact that it seals you off from the external world now if you want to do that you've of course got the airpods pro which I mean for what they are they do what they claim to do they're expensive these are $2.49 though you can find them on promotions this is going to give you that more extreme noise cancellation it's going to be tough to beat with any kind of product that sits on the outside of the ear rather than inside with an ear tip for a lot of people that doesn't matter because what they're looking for is the most convenient package they're looking for something that they can pop in and out of their ear all day and maybe it limits their ear fatigue because possibly an inear head phone it gets them a little bit sore after a while or maybe they don't want to be that closed off from the world or maybe they use transparency mode more than they use noise cancelling mode they rearrange them slightly like they're not presented in the exact same way so I guess if you work at the Apple Store you can kind of quickly tell the difference it almost looks like they come from different factories cuz even the the black color on the print is different that's odd anyway let's start with the non-noise cancelling version the main thing I'm attempting to do with this video is just figure out if that noise cancelling is significant enough to justify this increase in cost and if it even makes sense on an earbud that isn't a true inear headphon so unboxing experience uh similar so far as expected paperwork the case has gotten smaller from the previous generation airpods and it remains smaller than I'm going to get them mixed up right now it remains smaller than the pro model if portability is the most important thing for you ooh interesting little blue identifier thoughts what does it mean quality control I don't think that's supposed to be on there an unapp like thing it's oh it's like a it's not even a permanent that is odd little tiny sticker on there two pairs of airpods you can hardly tell the difference until you look at the bottom and then you notice that you've got the speaker on the model with noise cancellation noise cancellation isn't the only Improvement you've got wireless charging but then beyond that you're looking at two pairs of headphones that are very very similar with $50 difference now maybe you need a pair of fully wireless earbuds but you don't want to spend Apple prices our partners at ear fund have you covered with their new ear fun air proo 4 ultrac now this gives you an inear airbud like the pro model but for a lot less these things start at 89 bucks they still got lots of features Qualcomm adaptive active noise cancellation support for ldac and AP X lossless there's a six mic array for call Quality and a dedicated app which actually does let you control things like your equalizer so because this is an inear style headphone you get a bunch of ear tips to choose from and there's USB cable to charge up the case we have a triple led setup there is your inear earbud very lightweight and already because it's an inear Style with a silicone tip I'm getting tremendous isolation without even using the active noise cancellation I mean there's just a reality of having an isolating in earbud you can't replicate that punch with a earbud that doesn't sit in the ear canal period and you get the base because of it so you want fully wireless inar earbuds with a variety of tips so you can get the best seal check out our partners at ear fun now the other question is Comfort people like the fact that it's just in and out and it doesn't really you know sit too far in the ear maybe you forget that you're wearing it this for me is extremely com able and it doesn't it's not going to fall out it's definitely not going to fall out let me connect this so this is the model with noise cancellation switch between listening modes press and hold okay there's noise cancelling now I can get a sense for the noise cancelling go ahead and talko testing 12 yeah testing one 12 I mean I can hear him I'm not playing music at the moment though so like it is a good test for noise cancelling but obviously when you're also listening to something it's going to drown out whatever he's talking about it's doing something but it's nowhere near as significant as the inear airpods pro now here's conversation awareness when you start speaking airpods will lower the volume of the media which is cool reduce background noise and then enhance the voices okay so sure we'll do that so now it knows that I'm speaking and it's like kind of like an auto transparency mode which is pumping Mo through the earbuds testing 1 23 it's extremely clear this transparency mode is awesome but uh part of it is because the earbud itself is not really sealing off the ear con now like it's just really easy in and out the regular airpod is as much a convenience headphone a daily headphone kind of in Awareness headphone as much as it is about sound quality performance isolation and so forth you see people wearing these things like almost permanently throughout the day this is like in the office video conferencing on and off traveling on public transit like this he just puts much more emphasis on awareness in my opinion okay now let's give a little listen here turn up the volume a little bit and that's interesting so the talking and all of a sudden it's getting quiet very solid performance there it's kind of gradual takes a little while takes a little too long to come back but I guess how I mean that'll be difficult to program that because the assumption is if I open my mouth I'm waiting for respon response so in that case it should take a little while before it comes back not in public you're insane a part of the song comes on they can't hear you so I'm going to have to reiterate what he's saying MO is saying right now that this feature drives him nuts because when he's alone cleaning his apartment with airpods Pro in his ears he hates it that his sing along turns the music down the type of problems that Mo concerns himself with you know when you're cleaning your apartment alone with your airpods on blast I hate the situ problem of noise cancelling in private when I'm by myself that drives me crazy because I I feel that something's going to happen that I'm not going to hear a knock at the door somebody screaming an emergency of some kind the dog is choking on something like I think that's one of this is one of my worst nightmares I missed out on the huge opportunity or the chance to help because I was so noise cancelled and I have babies like small babies so I'm like when am going to be sorry I I can't hear you on purpose on purpose I can't hear you okay nothing now you talk testing 1 two 3 okay I hear you okay noise cancelling now you talk testing 1 two 3 testing 1 two 3 testing now it's off go testing 1 two 3 testing 1 two 3 I'm going to go half volume talk testing two 3 testing 2 3 testing 1 two 3 testing one two 3 it's subtle it's a subtle it's a subtle thing I do like the transparency aspect the noise cancelling it's a subtle I mean you're going to have to have them cranked and noise cancelling and then maybe it's going to let me do that and cranked now go yeah now he's gone but that's full max volume total they sound better than previous generation base airpods to me it's the type of fit where you just kind of forget you're wearing it at least for me and for my ears it's kind of lightweight and it it just I don't know I would forget that I was wearing I think that's the idea of it it gets a little bit less filthy than the inar ones depending on your ear wax situation like it since it doesn't fit so deeply in there now what I want to do is just grab the other ones and just make sure they sound the same minus the noise cancellation talko testing one two three testing one two three testing one two three you know I'm trying to make a recommendation here uh I guess my recommendation is just to go to for the regular airpods 4 that's kind of what this model is designed for the easy inexpensive Wireless earbud that works with all your Apple devices has decent battery life and fits most ears without having to sit too deeply in there like that's the airpods 4 they give you enough products to choose from at a variety of price points because you probably have an idea of what you want to spend and I do think for some people that value is going to be worth it to spend the extra 50 bucks but for me then that's like okay you spent the 50 go up to the pro get the full in ear and get that really substantial jump in noise cancellation now the reason for the treadmill this was Mo's idea to see if they would stay in my ears when I'm running I'm sure that they will but this is my ears everybody's ears are different let's go find out they're not going to budge like I had I have to go a lot faster than this maybe no like for my ear at least could be different for you now the other cool thing you can do with airpods is you can throw a later case on them because you might not love the existing look of airpods or you might just be bothered by the fact that so many people have the exact same looking set that they're easy to confuse with your friend's set of airpods we do actually have cases for the new fours look how easy that slaps on and now you have your own exclusive airpods with a nice Kevlar protection it's still super thin but now you're not going to confuse your airpods for with somebody else's shout out to the entire latercase team\n"