I was so disheartened by the process the last time I had to replace an AirPod, that I had been procrastinating for two months about getting it replaced. I was going to get a replacement through AppleCare, but before I could I lost one of them. Last week I also told you about how last October, just a few months after I bought another pair of gen 2 AirPods, they started to fail just like the first pair. A couple of days later, I heard on MacOSKen that Apple had just announced that they would be bringing Beats Fit Pro to Europe, Japan, and Canada in late January. Especially after last week when I said buying them in Stone Purple ensured he would never steal mine!Īfter I posted the article about the Beats Fit Pro and how much I liked them, I got an email from Gazmaz saying that he had been unable to find them in Europe. When he opened my Beats Fit Pro next to his phone, the graphic said, “Not Your Beats Fit Pro”! I thought that was hilarious. You know how when you open a set of AirPods or Beats, sometimes, if you’re lucky, a graphic slides up from the bottom showing you the headphones and their battery status? There was one funny thing when he was doing the setup with his iPhone to connect to my Beats Fit Pro. His analysis after the run was that they felt good and most importantly stayed in his ears just fine. He doesn’t have a strong interest in noise cancellation so he chose the medium tips for comfort. He ran the fit test, and with small, medium and large tips, none of them would give him a successful fit test. Now that he’d tried them for TV watching, he thought it might be fun to try them for running. That let him try out Spatial Audio we don’t think is supported on the Powerbeats Pro. He tried my Beats Fit Pro and the Apple TV immediately saw them and connected. We’re not sure why, but the Apple TV simply did not see them. The other day he wanted to watch The Expanse while I was watching another show in an adjacent room.Ī show like The Expanse isn’t any fun without the volume way up so he decided to use his Powerbeats Pro to connect to the Apple TV over Bluetooth. I also mentioned that Steve has the Beats Powerbeats Pro that have the wraparound hooks for the outside of your ears. They always default noise cancellation to off. I could have sworn that the AirPods Pro keep noise cancellation enabled if I had it on during the previous usage, but the Beats Fit Pro definitely do not. I did a long press to turn it on, and I have to say it was an amazing difference for such a loud and continuous sound. I was listening to a podcast and I realized that it didn’t sound like noise cancellation was enabled. The other day I was power washing my neighbor’s driveway (he was in the hospital so he couldn’t stop me). I need to do some more scientific experiments to determine if there’s a position in which they just feel better to my ears. I’ve also noticed sometimes that they hurt a little bit after wearing them for a long time, and yet other times I can wear them for hours without discomfort. It’s a lot easier to twist back in than the AirPods Pro were, so I’m still happier with the Beats. It’s easy enough to kind of twist it back in to get the ear hook where it belongs, but it’s not staying in quite as well as I first said. I’ve been for a couple of runs now and the right one does have a tendency to work its way out. When I wrote my review of the Beats Fit Pro, I hadn’t yet run in them, I’d only walked and done chores while wearing them. I wanted to give an update on the situation in my ears. I did this because the AirPods Pro squirt out of my ears, and the AirPods Gen 2 don’t charge properly and that I lost one before I could execute yet another warranty repair. Perhaps I've finally learned not to waste time and money on a sub-par sounding, poorly made pair of fashion headphones.I told you last week that I’d replaced my AirPods with Beats Fit Pro. Beats are made like crap and they couldn't even just fix them considering the issue had nothing to do with “punctured mesh" which they acknowledged. Well I get an email from support saying I'd have to pay to get the beats fixed because the mesh was punctured on one of the earphones which voided the warranty. I sent them in at the Apple Store and they were nice as usual, assuring me my beats would be fixed and should return in around 5-7 days. I immediately contacted Apple because I've dealt with several pairs of defective Beats, (I know, I should have stopped trying after like Solo 2 pair 4, but these looked promising) and I knew they'd just take them in and fix/replace them and I'd be good to go until they went out again, hopefully within warranty. They wouldn't turn on and had a light then the light stopped turning on and they stopped charging altogether. I had a similar problem with the Beats X.
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