December 2019 • Macworld 25have soft silicone ear tips. The stems are shorter,
too. In all, the AirPods Pro are about 30mm tall.
Regular AirPods are 40mm tall. And you can get
them in any colour you want, as long as it’s white.Do they sound better than AirPods?
They should. Having silicone ear tips to produce a
seal in your ears is an important part of producing
good low-end sound for in-ear earbuds. That alone
should improve the audio profile of the AirPods Pro.
Apple points to a number of other improvements.
There’s Adaptive EQ, which “automatically tunes
the low- and mid-frequencies of the music to the
shape of an individual’s ear” and a custom high
dynamic range amplifier that “produces pure,Apple’s AirPods Pro have
silicone ear tips and stems
that are shorter than the
ones on the regular AirPods