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  • A higher-end AirPods revision would fill a market niche nicely

    zimmie said:
    tylersdad said:
    charlesn said:
    Thanks in part to your review of them, I picked up a pair of MW07s and haven't used my AirPods since. Yes, audio quality is a huge step up from AirPods, but that's only a part of the story. For many people like me, the fit of Apple's EarPods/AirPods has never been great, with a tendency for one or both pods to fall out regularly. Those days are over with the comfortable fit rings on the MW07. In addition, they provide a better seal of the ear canal, resulting in much improved bass response--better than you'd ever imagine from an ear bud--and physical isolation from outside noise. You still have enough audible awareness of sound around you, but I can now listen to music at lower volumes since I don't have to blast it over all the exterior noise you hear with AirPods. And finally, the convenient switches on the earbuds themselves--one for volume up/down, the other a multi-purpose switch--are the perfect blend of small/discreet while still being easily usable. Yes, there's the $299 price to consider, but you get a two week trial if ordered directly from Master and Dynamic--just be prepared not to send them back! 
    If memory serves, there wasn't much mentioned with regard to the performance of the microphone on those. So how is the mic? Do they work well for calls or for engaging Siri? 

    Most of these wireless headphones are complete rubbish when it comes to microphone quality. 
    This is an excellent point. The microphones and noise cancellation in AirPods are stunningly good. I currently drive a rear-mid-engine sport car (so the engine is maybe 2' away from my head). When I've used AirPods, nobody on the other side of a call has been able to tell I was driving, even when I have the top removed, windows down, and I take the engine up above 5k RPM. When I do that, it gets so noisy I can barely hear the other person, but they hear me perfectly. It's weird.
    My wife has the same experience. She used to use the Beats in ear, and I always found it hard to hear her in the car with the top down on the highway. Trucks rolling by made me take my buds out while talking to her, it was so bad. She started using Airpods, and it's like she's not even moving. She apologized once because a truck went by - I didn't even notice until she mentioned it, but it was barely louder than a gust of wind in my ear.
    watto_cobra
  • Dongles & AirPods emerge as most popular Apple products at Best Buy

    nunzy said:
    Best Buy is no good at selling Apple products. They know nothing.
    Fixed it for you.
    Carnage
  • Apple's North Carolina 'Triangle' campus a 'done deal' if legislation passes

    You guys are rich. You obviously have no idea what the Research Triangle was, is and was built for, or who lives here. Three major research universities within 25 miles of each other, IBM for 50 years, Cisco, GSK R&D until recently, the EPA for 45 years and about 200 tech/research/CRO companies with about 50,000-75,000 employees. HIghest concentration of PhDs in the country, all because of the research concentration.

    "Way back in 2001" - funny. This has been here since the '60s. We have built exactly what we wanted, and it's not some tiny economy or low income.
    netmageSpamSandwichbuzdots
  • Why was iPhone X so successful at $999 despite a mountain of false reporting?

    I'll tell you how $999 didn't bother me at all:

    I have T-Mobile's Jump On Demand program and went to check on upgrading for my birthday. Even though it was a $300 price jump, since I had been a customer for 3 years, I had to pay no money down to upgrade when turning in my 7. So did my monthly payment go up because of that? Nope. If I end up keeping this one, my cost for it was $720 + tax.


    watto_cobra
  • Apple TV viewing hours surged 709 percent in March quarter

    It was me watching Game of Thrones from the beginning.
    watto_cobra