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Casey Liss

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Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

With every new shape of AirPods, we all have to learn, when I open this case lid, how the hell do I get these things out of here? And the move has been different for every single kind of AirPod. The Pros, the Originals, the 2s, the 3s. Well, the 2s were the same as one of those things. Anyway. It's a bit different for all of them. This one is same deal.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

With every new shape of AirPods, we all have to learn, when I open this case lid, how the hell do I get these things out of here? And the move has been different for every single kind of AirPod. The Pros, the Originals, the 2s, the 3s. Well, the 2s were the same as one of those things. Anyway. It's a bit different for all of them. This one is same deal.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

I could not get them out the way I get the other ones out. Instead, I have to come from the side on an angle, and that's how they come up. It's fine. You just learn it and do it, but it's weird that that's always different. The sound...

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

I could not get them out the way I get the other ones out. Instead, I have to come from the side on an angle, and that's how they come up. It's fine. You just learn it and do it, but it's weird that that's always different. The sound...

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

here's the thing about airpods my my uh daughter in particular but both my kids have you know the people who have the fingers that wear the the letters off the keyboards right my kids have ears that destroy airpods wow and and the way they destroy them well my daughter somehow is able to destroy the microphones i don't know how she does this but it's a thing that happens right we've gone through so many under apple care we just keep getting new ones and she just destroyed anyway

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

here's the thing about airpods my my uh daughter in particular but both my kids have you know the people who have the fingers that wear the the letters off the keyboards right my kids have ears that destroy airpods wow and and the way they destroy them well my daughter somehow is able to destroy the microphones i don't know how she does this but it's a thing that happens right we've gone through so many under apple care we just keep getting new ones and she just destroyed anyway

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

But both my kids, the failure mode of their AirPods, and I think now they're using 3s, the previous non-pro models, is that the AirPods just lose all bass. I don't know if it's like a tiny speaker cone tearing, so it's only like the middle part of the driver that's vibrating. It basically becomes all treble because the part that would be bass is gone because the paper has torn or something.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

But both my kids, the failure mode of their AirPods, and I think now they're using 3s, the previous non-pro models, is that the AirPods just lose all bass. I don't know if it's like a tiny speaker cone tearing, so it's only like the middle part of the driver that's vibrating. It basically becomes all treble because the part that would be bass is gone because the paper has torn or something.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

But I think they've had like three or four pairs, sometimes under warranty, sometimes not, that like...

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

But I think they've had like three or four pairs, sometimes under warranty, sometimes not, that like...

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

you know i put them in my ears i'm like how are you listening to this it's all treble like the bass is gone don't you realize these are essentially broken and sure enough you've taken them to the apple store they put them in some little test rig and they test them like oh yep these are totally bad like they're not producing sound the way they're supposed to be right i don't know what causes that you can't see inside the airpods but it's a thing uh i don't know if my airpods 3 that i had before have this problem or we're starting to have this problem

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

you know i put them in my ears i'm like how are you listening to this it's all treble like the bass is gone don't you realize these are essentially broken and sure enough you've taken them to the apple store they put them in some little test rig and they test them like oh yep these are totally bad like they're not producing sound the way they're supposed to be right i don't know what causes that you can't see inside the airpods but it's a thing uh i don't know if my airpods 3 that i had before have this problem or we're starting to have this problem

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

But what I do know is that the AirPods 4 have so much more bass than my previous AirPods. So much more bass that I went immediately to try to find settings like, is there a way I can turn the bass down? Because this is too much bass for me. Because I'm listening to podcasts and everybody sounds like a newscaster with a super deep voice. So much bass.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

But what I do know is that the AirPods 4 have so much more bass than my previous AirPods. So much more bass that I went immediately to try to find settings like, is there a way I can turn the bass down? Because this is too much bass for me. Because I'm listening to podcasts and everybody sounds like a newscaster with a super deep voice. So much bass.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

And I know people who have AirPods Pro are like, yeah, that's the right amount of bass, dummy. And you've just been listening to crappy AirPods. It should sound like that.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

And I know people who have AirPods Pro are like, yeah, that's the right amount of bass, dummy. And you've just been listening to crappy AirPods. It should sound like that.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

i wasn't used to it but listening to music i appreciate it listening to vocals even with voice boost on and overcast i'm like could you turn the bass down a little bit so i wish there was an adjustment for that but i would say this is the result of the airpods 4 having superior sound quality to my own personal airpods 3 which may or may not be in the process of losing bass so there is definitely that um the second thing is with the noise cancellation uh

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

i wasn't used to it but listening to music i appreciate it listening to vocals even with voice boost on and overcast i'm like could you turn the bass down a little bit so i wish there was an adjustment for that but i would say this is the result of the airpods 4 having superior sound quality to my own personal airpods 3 which may or may not be in the process of losing bass so there is definitely that um the second thing is with the noise cancellation uh

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

You know, Apple said that their pros are twice as good. That may be underestimating it. The noise cancellation doesn't cancel noise so much as... It changes the nature of the noise. So to give an example, I'm very often listening to my AirPods when doing dishes, and there's the running water sound, right? It's kind of like white noise, kind of running water sound.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

You know, Apple said that their pros are twice as good. That may be underestimating it. The noise cancellation doesn't cancel noise so much as... It changes the nature of the noise. So to give an example, I'm very often listening to my AirPods when doing dishes, and there's the running water sound, right? It's kind of like white noise, kind of running water sound.