DatDominican t1_iry3nuy wrote on October 11, 2022 at 10:04 PM

I have probably a dozen over ear and in ear headphones . I use my AirPods Pro more than all of them combined just due to the convenience and portability ,but when I want a critical/ serious listening session of course I pull out the actual headphones.

Also you guys are hella spoiled with all these decent cheap IEMS now . I remember when I was a teenager $100+ iems could still have had CABLE NOISE when moving so if you were walking listening to stuff you heard it rubbing against your shirt or ,God forbid, your zipper.

my2dumbledores t1_irzz8ym wrote on October 12, 2022 at 8:52 AM

Have you tried the Gen 2’s?

I used to use my APP’s for convenience. Now I also use them to chill out and listen to music at home.

DetectiveAmes t1_is06u2t wrote on October 12, 2022 at 10:39 AM

I love the gen 2’s. I used them for a few days but got an allergy from them so I had to stop though. They were so great and the audio quality was definitely improved too. I miss them 😢

DatDominican t1_is1oytg wrote on October 12, 2022 at 5:37 PM

No not yet , I’m lying to myself that I don’t want them and that I should be fine since I just got some custom iems a month ago and got some Xm5s in the summer when my Beats Studios (gift from gf) cracked .

jajdoo t1_irzeu63 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 4:25 AM

did you try fiio utws5?

B3nesyed t1_is0a8lo wrote on October 12, 2022 at 11:19 AM

Damn why did this get so much hate!

jajdoo t1_is0qnw7 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 1:45 PM

oh man i got no clue

DatDominican t1_is1rbxc wrote on October 12, 2022 at 5:52 PM

No I haven’t had the chance but I have three similar tws dacs. The noise cancelling and transparency mode in the AirPods Pro is a big reason I use them more but the other is I prefer the fit vs over ear hooks.

If I know I’m going to be home , unbothered, I’ll end up using one of my open back headphones(or my studio monitors ) , and in the rare case I’ll be moving around town I can use my car speakers .If I’m walking around the AirPods Pro case is smaller iirc . I don’t have the utws5 to compare pass through audio so I can’t speak to that but that leaves me in a very narrow use case where I already have my iems , I can’t use the over ear headphones due to movement , and I’m somewhere where I can’t leave and go walk or jam in the car.

I could always just make a concerted effort to use the tws dacs more but as I said earlier the ear hooks become distracting for me to use for any extended length of time which usually makes me reach for some over ear headphones.