I have tried Airpods at an Apple Store and spend a good 15 minutes listening to various types of music as well as a bit of an audio book. I agree that they sound slightly better than Earpods, but I wouldn’t say that is a “Wow experience” type difference and the fit is exactly the same, think of the earpods with the cable cut off at the end of the little plastic part that sticks down. It’s interesting how perception differs, I think the wired Apple Earpods are by far the best sounding earbuds that are not noise-isolating and especially in that price range. I also have a pair of $200 V-Mota over the ear headphones with beautiful soft leather earcups and they sound great, but they definitely don’t sound 6 times as good. I have a feeling if you don’t like Earpods that Airpods may also not be to your liking and you might want to look at something like the new Beats X which are actually a bit less expensive and they have a cord/cable connecting the two earbuds and there is a fully functional remote built into this cable whereas with Airpods all you can do is to answer/hang up a call, invoke SIRI and pause playback by taking them out of your ear, there is no way to control volume unless you bring up SIRI to raise or lower the volume. Otherwise you have to use the iPhone itself for volume, skip/rewind, play/pause etc. I am definitely waiting to see what the next generation of Airpods bring, I’m pretty sure they’ll also come out with the second generation this fall and hopefully Apple for once listened to what the customers want which definitely is volume control and at least the basic functions of rewind and skip and I’d love to see a small hole molded in the plastic which would allow you to connect a cord so it’s not quite as easy to loose one. And of course Apple could make said cord in 10 different colours for 5 Cents, sell it as the “Aircord” for $9.99 and add a bit more cash to the quarter trillion Dollars they already have on hand.
Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jennie Facer Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 9:09 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: AirPods versus the free EarPods Hi Mary, I pretty much agree with Michael. I love the AirPods. They sound just as good as my Bose headphone did. The batteries last for about 5 hours which isn't too bad. My husband also says that he can't hear them much when they are in my ears, so they are pretty quiet for that. Hope this helps you a bit. Jenn Jenn and Kumi On May 29, 2017, at 9:25 AM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com<mailto:motte...@gmail.com>> wrote: Sent hi all, I am considering the possible purchase of AirPods. I don't like earr buds in general and I have never been impressed with the EarPods the Apple include with its phone. For those of you who have both, are the AirPods really better? Or is it just nice electronics with the same old less than wonderful sound? I have great headphones. But they cover the ears, and I don't think I want to wear them for hours on end. Mary from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu<mailto:mk...@ucla.edu>. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com<mailto:caraqu...@caraquinn.com> The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu<mailto:mk...@ucla.edu>. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com<mailto:caraqu...@caraquinn.com> The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
