I’ve owned Apple’s AirPods since their first debut, way back in December 2016. Yet it wasn’t until I bought AirPods Pro in 2020 that I was truly sold on what they could do — mainly thanks to their wicked noise-canceling. I’d never been able to switch between transparency mode and noise-canceling with my previous headphones. Unfortunately, I was one of a certain set of users, who would experience the crackling in one AirPod — and this happened three times.
It dampened the experience of owning them, I admit, causing frequent trips to the Apple Store to get them replaced. You can imagine my excitement when the AirPods Pro 2 were announced — no more crackling, no more replacements, and no more trips to the Apple Store. I bought a pair back in July during the Amazon Prime Day sale and I loved the improved noise-canceling that they offered.
