Apple’s AirPods Pro are down to their lowest price yet on Amazon
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Today's Dealmaster is headlined by a modest yet notable discount on Apple's AirPods Pro, which are currently down to $228 on Amazon. You'll see the full discount at checkout. While we've seen the AirPods Pro go for a couple dollars less at other retailers, this is the lowest they've been on Amazon to date. The deal takes about $20 off Apple's standard MSRP and about $12 off the average street price; given that deep discounts on the noise-cancelling earphones have been fairly rare, we consider this a decent drop.
We recommended the AirPods Pro in our travel tech gift guide last holiday season. While we don't think they're the absolute best true wireless earphones on the market, they're the best noise-cancelling earphones in their class, and they're a marked improvement over the standard AirPods in almost every meaningful way. Their active noise cancellation can't match that of the best over-ear headphones from Sony and Bose-and we're aware of reports saying that past firmware updates have lessened the overall ANC strength-but, generally speaking, the earphones still isolate noise well enough to be useful on a train or busy sidewalk. Their in-ear tips create a tighter seal than the earbud design of the regular AirPods, which helps them produce more bass and better isolate noise passively. The included eartips are soft and relatively comfortable as well.
The AirPods Pro have a largely neutral sound quality that doesn't emphasize the bass or treble too much. It's not spectacular for the money, but it's inoffensive and better than most other true wireless models. The earbuds are still dead simple to pair with an iPhone, and they rarely suffer from connection hiccups. Apple's transparency mode, which blends your audio with noise from the outside world, works beautifully. Battery life still isn't great at roughly five hours a charge, but the included charging case is at least easy to carry around. Likewise, the earphones' sensor-based controls are less consistent than physical buttons, but they're not enough of a nuisance to ruin the experience.
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