As a product that ushered in a new era, AirPods is arguably one of the most successful headphones of all time, and in the years since the release of the AirPods series, TWS headphones have replaced traditional headphones as the highest-selling products in the mainstream consumer market.
As TWS headphones become the mainstream, users have also begun to examine this type of headphones from all aspects, and parameters such as battery life, wearing comfort, delay, connection stability, and sound quality have become the direction of manufacturers' publicity. However, there are not many headphones that have been able to match AirPods in the most important latency and connection stability, and for iPhone users, AirPods are the most suitable TWS headphones and do not have one.
However, Apple's speed of updating the AirPods series of products is not positive, and it is estimated that many AirPods users have also complained about it, such as the popular AirPods Pro has been more than two years from the release time but has not ushered in the next generation of products.
If you are still waiting for the second generation of AirPods Pro, then maybe this year will be able to do so, the famous analyst and Apple new product whistleblower Guo Mingxi pointed out in the latest Apple research report, Apple is likely to release an upgraded version of AirPods Pro this year, that is, the second generation of AirPods Pro, not only with a new design, but also will bring better sound quality and new features.
oh? Under the thousands of calls from fruit fans, Apple is finally going to launch the second generation of AirPods Pro?
AirPods Pro2 is coming soon, what's the update?
AirPods Pro headphones, even in today's TWS headphone market is not lagging behind, whether it is excellent delay performance and stability, or excellent wearing and noise reduction effects, there are not many headphones that can be compared with it. Therefore, even after more than two years have passed since the initial listing, AirPods Pro still appears frequently in the list of major TWS headphones, which is a very rare existence in this ever-changing market.
Although in the traditional headphone market, there is often a case where a classic product is sold for several years or even decades, TWS headphones as an emerging market, its replacement speed is far beyond the traditional wired headphones. Unlike traditional wired headphones, the overall performance of TWS headphones is more dependent on the degree of technological development of chips, batteries and other components, and only when other components can be made smaller and more concentrated, designers have the opportunity to increase the size of the unit and create a larger and more special cavity structure without expanding the size of the headphones.
It can be said that the technological development in the field of TWS headphones today has made great progress with more than two years ago, and AirPods Pro, as the crowning work of Apple's AirPods series, its own technical level is also the highest in the series, even the third generation of AirPods released in the fall of 2021 still does not have the noise reduction function of AirPods Pro.
Therefore, the arrival of the second generation of AirPods Pro has also made netizens talk about whether the functions they value will be upgraded in the new generation of products. In Guo Mingji's report, the second generation of AirPods Pro will bring better sound quality to users, bringing a new lossless connection and support for box battery box sound and other new feature upgrades, a single look at the report is estimated to make most AirPods Pro users rub their fists, pulling their wallets ready to pay money.
In fact, although AirPods Pro has many advantages, such as wearing comfort, excellent noise reduction, low latency, etc., it also has many disadvantages, such as some three or four hundred TWS headphones support lossless music transmission protocols, AirPods Pro does not support.
Some friends may wonder: lossless? When I use the AirPods Pro, I can open it without damage, and some netizens may even turn their heads and spit on Xiao Lei: Have you really used the AirPods Pro? When I use it, I can obviously open it without damage. Of course, whether it is NetEase Cloud Music or QQ Music, or Apple Music, as long as you are a member, you can choose to play in a lossless format, but whether the headset can accept the lossless encoding level signal is another matter.
In simple terms, the Bluetooth connection between the headset and the mobile phone is like a road, as the quality of music rises, the amount of data that needs to pass through every second will rise, and only when the road is wide enough can the data transmission needs of lossless music be met. At present, most of the high-end TWS headphones support high-specification lossless transmission formats such as aptX, LDAC, etc., while AirPods Pro only supports AAC, which has a transmission rate similar to That of Android's SBC, which is a transmission protocol commonly used by low-end entry-level TWS headphones.
Of course, thanks to better coding technology, AAC's sound quality performance is better than SBC, but the gap with aptX, LDAC is still very large, taking QQ music as an example, The transmission limit of AirPods Pro is HQ, even if you choose lossless or Hi-Res, the final transmission to the headphones is HQ sound quality.
Therefore, lossless audio transmission has always been a pain point for AirPods Pro, and on the second generation of AirPods Pro, we may be able to see that it supports Apple Lossless lossless format playback, which is also a complaint of the result fans. And, since the lossless sound quality has kept up, will the sound quality of the AirPods Pro itself be improved?
From the design of the third generation of AirPods, Apple should leave a lot of good things in the design of the cavity and the design of the unit, and it is still unknown whether it will all be shown on the second generation of AirPods Pro. At present, we can only determine that the sound quality of the second generation of AirPods Pro will definitely improve compared with the previous generation, and as for the amplitude and direction of the improvement, it is not known for the time being.
In addition, Apple may add airTag chips to the battery box of the second generation of AirPods Pro, allowing users to directly locate the position of the battery box through the iPhone, and even consider building alarms in the battery box so that it can emit sound to help users locate accurately.
The above are the two new features known so far, although it seems to be very small, but as a TWS headset, in fact, Apple is also difficult to play in the function, and some involve the upgrade of specific parameters, with Apple's confidentiality system want to be exposed before the conference is still somewhat difficult.
What exactly does airPods Pro need to upgrade?
Under the related news of the second generation of AirPods Pro, many users are discussing what airPods Pro upgrade will make them want to buy, from the statistics of Xiaolei, noise reduction, battery life is the most mentioned, and the sound quality and wear mentioned people are not many. Many headphone lovers may be a little confused when they see here: shouldn't headphones put sound quality first?
In fact, for AirPods Pro users, noise reduction and battery life are the most important, and in the eyes of ordinary users, most headphones have similar sound quality. And this is not what Xiao Lei said blindly, there are many friends around Xiao Lei who do not have a clear understanding of the sound quality of the headphones, in their view, it is just "this pair sounds clearer".
For example, some time ago Apple released the third generation of AirPods, a friend who uses an iPhone after purchasing and using it for a period of time, thinks that the third generation of AirPods is better than AirPods Pro. In fact, the third generation of AirPods only added spatial audio support on the basis of the second generation and moved the cavity design closer to the AirPods Pro, and there was no difference in chips, units, etc.
In addition, considering that AirPods Pro supports active noise reduction and transparency mode, both the function and the actual experience are actually better than the third generation of AirPods. Moreover, in fact, the gap between the two in terms of price is enough to explain the problem, so far Apple has not launched a lower price but better performance product, and the price of the official website AirPods Pro is 1999 yuan, and the third generation of AirPods is 1399 yuan.
Back to the second generation of AirPods Pro, what upgrades should Apple bring to this headset? In fact, Xiao Lei believes that only need to be upgraded in the two aspects of noise reduction and battery life, a group of users can directly buy the explosion, as for the sound quality, do not mention whether the user cares or has a clear perception, in the case of outdoor use of a good sense of hearing itself is a pseudo proposition.
Take Xiao Lei himself as an example, as a HiFi enthusiast, Xiao Lei will only bring a pair of TWS headphones with the best noise reduction effect every time he goes out, because in the case of going out, I want to get a quiet environment more than appreciating music, otherwise under the interference of noise, don't say enjoy music, whether the lyrics can be heard clearly is a problem.
Of course, Apple's estimation of this is also clear, although it was not mentioned in the breaking news, but the update brought about by the three-year wait is certainly not only the lossless transmission protocol and the charging case positioning function, the new generation of chips and battery technology should be able to make the second generation of AirPods Pro bring us surprises in noise reduction and battery life.