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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.
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.
Lots of reviews online. AirPod pro 3 are the standard best. But see if your like me and have lost an AirPod or 5. Most recently lost my AirPod Pros at a festival…. I went and got some soundcore liberty 4 pros on Black Friday for $89 and the sound is very on par with my pros. But a fraction of the cost. Still love AirPods just replacing them is $$
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