Kuo: AirPods Pro 3 Coming Soon, But Bigger Upgrade Arriving Next Year

[HiFifreak]

" Kuo did not mention any new features that are planned for the AirPods Pro 3. However, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman recently reported that the AirPods Pro 3 will likely have the same heart rate monitoring feature that Apple introduced on the Powerbeats Pro 2 earlier this year, along with a significantly smaller charging case. "

In other words, as usual, ALL the prediction of the loser Gurman arent worth the paper its been writing on.

 

[xeilon]

You won't get lossless audio over Bluetooth.

The best you will get is Apple managing their devices sending ALAC wirelessly to AirPods, but it's still not going to be "lossless audio" in how people generally understand "lossless audio".

There's going to be compression.

ALAC is lossless…
There is no difference between a lossless uncompressed and lossless compressed file, they are both lossless. The compressed one is just smaller.

If you compress files in a Zipfile, the files are the same once decompressed.

 

[omenatarhuri]

Seems subjective, to me the upgrades this year sound more meaningful. HR and sound quality trump ear cameras.

 

[Ralfi]

I do not understand the attitude that many people have where they feel cheated as tech keeps improving.

I thought it was explained, not only in my post, but many others in this thread..

Just get over it.

Oh ok 😂

 

[Happy_John]

ALAC is lossless…
There is no difference between a lossless uncompressed and lossless compressed file, they are both lossless. The compressed one is just smaller.

If you compress files in a Zipfile, the files are the same once decompressed.

Can you see the problem with what you've said here?

What do you think "compression" is?

In any kind of audio compression there will be "loss". ALAC is a codec that claims the loss is not noticeable / significant for listeners. That's bold claim. They are not claiming there is no loss.

You're not going to get lossless payback through Bluetooth. You will reduce loss by using FLAC or ALAC etc using wired speakers, but there will still technically be loss.

If we get pedantic about it, the very nature of converting analogue to digital via bit sampling meaning that there will always be a certain level of loss. The aim is a level of loss that is not significant enough to be noticeable.

Bluetooth, at its current stage, will have noticeable level of loss. There's no way around that. Realistically you are not going to be using bluetooth headphones / airpods professionally a recording studio, you'll be using a pair of wired reference headphones, giving you as close to a raw audio feed as possible.

AirPods are NOT reference headphones. There is a lot of sound processing going on that cannot be turned off.

Apple, and other companies use the "lossless" as a marketing term, what they mean is higher sound quality.

 

[oopsroger]

Who wants a camera on their airpods??

 

[Mike_Trivisonno]

Make them glow blue when I have noice cancellation activated.

 

[scrapesleon]

always next year for this company

 

[spillled typos]

I just want all-day battery life please

 

[blacktape242]

why would I buy now if there is a BIGGER update next yr....smh...

 

[turbineseaplane]

Everything now is always “next year “

 

[Happy_John]

why would I buy now if there is a BIGGER update next yr....smh...

Because there's a hazy rumor that there will be a bigger update next year, and you have a need for new AirPods now.

 

[kevinlaz]

As expected, it was forgotten that the USB-C AirPods Pro 2 actually had different features that the lightning ones didn’t have. It wasn’t regulatory and it wasn’t ‘not a new generation’. It literally was and remains the newest version these years later, and the only ones that work in tandem with Vision Pro losslessly.

Your claim that it was a new generation is rather easily refuted by both being called Airpods Pro 2nd Generation.