Cnet ccleaner review9/10/2023 The Beats Studio Pro comes with a new soft carrying case that's a nice improvement over its predecessors' more bulky hard case. Right now, it's only in the AirPods Pro 2, but I assume it's coming to the eventual next generation of the AirPods Max and maybe even the Beats Fit Pro 2, whenever those earbuds turn up. It's probably a cost-cutting move, but going forward you won't get feature upgrades designed for that chip. I also think it was a mistake for Beats not to power these with Apple's H2 chip. Most $350 over-ear headphones have this feature. That means your music doesn't automatically pause when you take the headphones off and resume when you put them back on. The one big miss here is the lack of ear-detection sensors. For spatial audio with head tracking, you need to be using an Apple device running iOS, iPad OS, Mac OS and TVOS.įor both Apple and Android users, there's a Find My feature that helps locate your buds should they become lost, but it's not the more advanced precision finding that's included with the AirPods Pro 2. David Carnoy/CNETīeats notes that Android users get spatial audio for content recored in Dolby Atmos, but that's a standard feature that most headphones offer, including the nearly 6-year-old Beats Studio Wireless 3. Like their predecessors, the headphones fold up but don't fold flat. In my tests using an iPhone 14 Pro, the spatial audio for video watching seems to be on par with the spatial audio with head tracking that you get with the AirPods Max and AirPods Pro 2. Unlike the Buds Plus, these do have spatial audio with head tracking for Apple users when watching videos (and they also support Apple's Personalized Spatial Audio that works off a scan of the shape of your ears). Two things that Android users don't get are spatial audio with head tracking and hands-free Siri - that's the feature where you can access Apple's voice assistant by just saying the Siri wake command. However, if you're an Apple user, the buds link to your iCloud account, but you'll have to manually switch between devices, which some people prefer because auto switching can be a bit wonky and irritating. Interestingly, there's multipoint Bluetooth pairing for Android users with automatic switching between devices linked to your Google account. They're equipped with Bluetooth 5.3.Īndroid users get Google Fast Pair and can download the Beats app for Android to their devices. In many ways, the features are similar to what you get with the Beats Studio Plus earbuds, and like those buds, the Studio Pro are geared toward both Apple and Android users and are powered by a custom Beats chip, not Apple's H1 or H2 chips. On the features side, there are a lot of upgrades but also some misses. (Note that I said something similar about the Beats Studio 3 Wireless' lack of design changes from its predecessor when they came out, but these days there's a lot more competition in the premium wireless noise canceling headphones market with several excellent models, including Sony's WH-1000XM5.) But the other argument is, why mess with success? We'll stick with this iconic design and just make some tweaks around the edges and try not to reinvent anything. I personally like to see some pretty big design changes from generation to generation, particularly when the last version of this headphone, the Beats Studio 3 Wireless, came out nearly six years ago. I'd venture to guess that there was a lot of internal debate at Apple, which owns Beats, about the design of these headphones. Not a single person noticed that this was a new Beats Studio headphone, even on a crowded subway with people standing right next me. I received a review sample of these headphones a little more than week before they were officially announced and took them out into the streets of New York for testing.
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