A new interview with Esge Andersen, an engineer from the acoustics team at Apple, has just appeared at What Hi-Fi?.
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it's not talking about the enclosure or how it looks – but it's about ensuring that we also design for airflow.”
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The most recent AirPods Pro look almost identical to the first-gen, but the vents have been changed with one at the back instead of two on the previous model.
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This fits with what Apple has previously told me, that the new venting means there’s less of the obtrusive pressure
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which can be felt in the ears when noise-cancelling is turned on, and which is noticeably absent in the latest headphones.
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“We wanted to give everybody an AirPods Max in their pocket,” Andersen claims. This is quite the ambition, given the disparity in size.
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The new earbuds also sound better, whatever volume you listen at, which is not always the case
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What about lossless?Many reviewers mourned the absence of lossless audio on the AirPods Pro second-generation earbuds. As What Hi-Fi? points out, the multi-million lossless hi-res tracks in Apple Music can’t be listened to in lossless on any AirPods.
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We can still make big strides without changing the codec. And the codec choice we have there today, it's more about reliability.