Which iphone are you using?

I'm curious because other than iphone 14 and 14 pro which had Bluetooth 5.3, all previous iphones only have bluetooth 5.0(even the 13 pro). Will it affect the sound quality of the AirPods Pro 2 if used on Bluetooth 5.0 vs 5.3?

This post has been edited by terradrive: Sep 24 2022, 08:06 PM

how's the latency if connect to pc via bluetooth 5.2?

any mention on when brick and mortar store have it?

apple malaysia website changed the airpods pro 2 from "order" to "buy" now

dam i really want to use it at the gym too

finally arriveat sabah, bought this from switch/urban republic store at kota kinabalu



luckily the sound signature fits my taste so well, just the bass abit much because i'm used to flat studio monitoring headphone

edit: after listening a while i find the bass amount is nice

This post has been edited by terradrive: Oct 15 2022, 04:46 PM

which phone did you tried it on? afaik iphones doesn't support LDAC, xm4s sound way better with it on android phones. I have Ultimate Ears UE900 so yeah of course it sounded better than airpods pro 2 but airpods pro 2 sounded so balanced for me (except slightly more bass) that it's my go to now.

I need to try xm4 or xm5 if i got the chance, I tried their headphone xm4 and xm5 and i can't stand the sound at all, the bass is just too much it's hurting my ears. I tried sennheiser wireless headphones and they sounded really good and balanced, the airpods pro 2, their earpod had around the same sound profile as the sennheiser. my beyer also sounded close but with clinical treble, recessed mids and way less bass.

This post has been edited by terradrive: Oct 16 2022, 08:27 AM

of course wired. what i meant is even sony xm4 earbuds can support LDAC, very close to lossless already. Even then I tried airpods pro on some audiophile tracks, the bass quality and mid is really good, it just had some rolled off highs and the upper high and high freqs has lesser resolution but still very good, no idea if it was due to the lossy transmission codec.

mine i just use fixed position. On dolby atmos tracks in apple music it's really cool, very pronounced instrument separation and more 3d instrument positioning. Some audiophiles may hate it because it does reduce some fidelity but in reality, if you listen live or you are the performer on stage, it's not even that clear too LOL. Those who does play in a band or jamming would know.

This post has been edited by terradrive: Oct 16 2022, 03:03 PM

using pc for beyer, of course iphone cannot drive it properly without dacamp

what's the default size of the eartips that comes prefitted onto the airpods? Is it medium?

still sound is sound, airpods pro 2's weakness for me is only the high-midrange and highs, for the bass and mids, it's actually as good as high quality wired headphones. For the bass it can show the plucking details on acoustic bass, and for the mids it can separate different background different vocals well enough, some cheaper audiophile headphones can't even do that.

it's not as good as wired hifi headphones and earphones, but it is already pretty good enough for normie musics. I'm not those who chose to listen to audiophile albums to enjoy the better equipment's sound, I prefer pop, rock and metal and those usually doesn't even have good studio recording and mixing quality to take advantage on real audiophile stuffs anyways

and that's the sound for me when using "off" profile on the noise settings

This post has been edited by terradrive: Oct 16 2022, 08:35 PM

i forgot to tell you my beyer is one of the bass light ones and very bright. For me even normal sone xm4 and xm5 headphone's bass is too much. Airpods Pro 2 bass has good quality and details, very clear when you listen to acoustic bass not those electronic ones, and yeah it's strong too, if the amount is more than this i wouldn't like to listen as much anymore, because what i care is quality not the quantity.

Weird for you to mention it doesn't have much details but when i tried on some audiophile tracks i can listen to every background noises on it just fine, even some songs like on vienna teng's "nothing without you", alot headphones that doesn't have good treble detail can't even distinguish the background 2 different cymbal sounds but the airpods pro 2 can, on a lossy bluetooth codec.

Background vocal separation on audiophile recorded track also is pretty easy on airpods pro 2, don't say about the bass too, it's strongest point, even head-fi audiophiles agree airpods pro 2's strongest audio feature is it's bass quality. I don't know how much bass you liked this to be but for me it sounded fine, the amount and tonality is what i expected, since i myself plays acoustic drum before too, so i hated earphones or headphones that can't do kick drums, snare, toms, and cymbal's sound well.

lastly it is the instrument separation which is actually really good on airpods pro 2 too. it actually shows the sound of each instrument quite nicely that some of my more expensive wired gear wouldn't be able to and make the sound more flat. I don't really care about depth that much despite that airpods pro 2 have some level of depth but not much.

for the me the only weakness is the highs, they just sounded "lossy" and lacked much detail, it sounded like digital artifacts or if you play pc games like have aliasing, wheres my beyer would play the same highs very clear. To be fair even my ue900 aren't able to play highs super clear too, and that's running on balance armature that should be great in highs.

all of this tested via iphone and lossless apple music tracks (let the phone transcode the bluetooth codec)

i haven't tried on android yet but i do noticed it sounded significantly worse when connected to windows 10.

This post has been edited by terradrive: Oct 17 2022, 09:20 AM

man for you it's always lossy lossy lossy
bro you speak like i can't differentiate aac 256kbps vs lossless, i do, i can hear the difference just from using my ue900 alone for thr aac vs lossless. But the fact still remains that by pairing the airpods pro 2 with iphone, even the 256kbps aac sounded pretty farn good and close to being true hifi

so apparently what you can hear is not important, got it

This post has been edited by terradrive: Oct 17 2022, 03:11 PM

you mean just opening the camera app and sound muffled? Just tested mine and it's fine

oh, i tried it on mine and volume stays constant

but one time i tried to use fb messenger speech to text feature iinm, the airpods gone into low volume mode and stucked there. Had to restart the iphone to fix.

i mentioned that the sound is kinda dark (very slightly boosted bass amount and rolled off highs)
well turns out it's tuned as default by apple like that. But then i found out the sound became so much better by going to the airpods menu under settings, go to "Accessibility" and the "Audio Accessible Settings". Click "Headphone Accomodations" and do the custom test with audiogram if you have, or by a short sound and music preference test. Mine changed to "Balanced tone" and damnn, it fits my sound signature preference so much now. Now the highs are returned back to me and the sound really kinda balanced. The detail and resolution in the highs is actually really good too for wireless earphone after i tried it with some high revealing tracks. Loving this earphone even more.

you all should try it out, you can then choose the tuning that fits your music library the best, because some music library that is warm or bright, it'll balanced it out well.

This post has been edited by terradrive: Oct 21 2022, 03:24 PM

except this time the sound quality is actually good. Isn't it better to have good sounding one vs lousier one

they do say xm4 sounded better (although in anc and transparency off mode)

though the airpods just very good in many things like the convenience, comfort, anc etc

i didn't even noticed i worn it so long until it warned it of 20% battery left. Was using it on transparency mode without playing music too, so easy to switch back and forth between my pc and iphone.

I just use airpods pro 1 case, it fits but just no cutout holes for the speaker and lanyard (it has own case lanyard anyways). But doesn't matter to me because the case sound still noticeable.

This post has been edited by terradrive: Oct 23 2022, 12:18 PM