
I've been happy with Apple's AirPods ever since I bought them on release day, back in December 2016. Yet it wasn't until I bought the original AirPods Pro in late 2020 as a gift for myself that I was truly sold on what they were capable of — mainly thanks to their fantastic noise-canceling feature. With my previous non-Pro AirPods, I was never able to switch between transparency mode and noise-canceling modes. AirPods Pro unlocked that.
Unfortunately, I was in a subset of users who would experience crackling in one AirPod Pro bud — and this happened, not once, but three times.