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I agree with you, yesterday I used my airpods 3 Pro for couples of ours, when I got em off I got scared by the loudness the surrounding.
Having owned both, the air pod pro 3 have insane ANC whereas the pro 2 have better noise transparency.
Legit can't hear anything. Could be riding a forklift and barely hear the backup beeping when moderate musics playing. And 0 engine noise It's actually ridiculous, I'd say on par with Sony's over ear XM6.
Bro the aftershokz are open earbuds. So you can hear around you. Airpods pro 3 and 2 blow everything else in ear out of the water
For open ear, Aftershokz open dots one jus sayin I dont like in ears after these now. Only thing even close is airpods pro XM5 might have more bass but its balanced out by more upper mids so that bass is less textured and you lose lower mids(which is where alot of the feel of music is from)
Bro ignores every nuance about enjoyment of music vs fidelity. And honestly, the monarch mk3 are sharp. you're an ai if you can't understand that sharp ba =\= automatically mean better sound. They measure worse then airpods pro 2 on rtings
my airpods pro2 were spectacular and I beat them up good and they survived a few years with amazing performance/battery life. decided to hand them down to my daughter and buy pro3, and that was a mistake, i wish I would have bought another set of pro2’s for almost half the price.
AirPods Pro 3 - 5x more uncomfortable than AirPods Pro 2, we think you’ll love it!!
I just got the AirPod pro 3 and have to say really enjoy them I had the pro 1 so big upgrade.
Yeah I’m returning my 3s and buying another set of 2s. Extremely disappointed with the size and fit.
This is reminding me that my daughter went to a doctor visit the other day and some dude was playing his old rock and roll on his bone conducting headphones. He might as well have just been using the speaker phone. Everyone in the waiting room and the people working the reception desk could hear it about as well as he could. If you're an iPhone user, I highly suggest the Airpods Pro 3. The regular Airpods are hard plastic that don't seal in your ear so they are leaky by design. The Pros have a silicon tip. Nobody can hear it but you. You might like the Sony XM4 as others have said as well. I had the XM3 since 2018 and they finally broke a couple of weeks ago so they lasted quite a long time. They have great ANC but they are extremely bass forward.
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