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"Steve Jobs didn't live to see the release of the AirPods. In many ways, the latest version, even more so than the pricey and bulkier AirPods Max, represents the fulfillment of his ultimate audio aspirations for Apple."
During a tour of Apple's audio labs and a meeting with Apple executives who helped oversee the development of the AirPods Pro 3, I was taken back to the future.
On the plaque is an iconic photo from 1982 by Time photographer Diana Walker that shows Jobs, age 27, sitting cross-legged on the floor of his sparsely furnished home with a pair of "similar but less advanced" Acoustat Monitor 3 electrostatic speakers and his stereo and vinyl collection behind him. David Carnoy/CNETBoth Costello and Treski like to highlight the yin and yang of noise canceling and transparency and how features first introduced in the AirPods Pro 2, including Adaptive Audio and Conversation Awareness, bridge the two, while also helping with overall hearing protection. Costello says the Pro 3's new "geometry" and a better seal from the new ear tips deliver improved "passive attenuation" and even "porting of sound," making the ANC system better at compensating at higher frequencies, so the mids and highs, particularly human voices, are "much more profound."
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