December 2019 • Macworld 57Beats Solo Pro
comes with a
Lightning-to-
USB cable and a
carabiner to clip
the case loop
onto...whatever
a screeching underground journey into a
quiet, comfortable commute.
There’s no calibration step necessary (or even
possible) for the ‘Pure ANC’ noise cancelling of
these Beats headphones, and no way to adjust the
strength of the effect. When it’s on, it’s on, and it
continuously monitors outside sound and sound
inside the ear cups with internal microphones,
making thousands of adjustments per second. I was
worried that this automatic adjustment wouldn’t
give me what I wanted, and I would miss some
manual noise control. In practice, ‘it just works’
(to borrow an overused phrase). It went from in
the office to a busy outdoor street, walking past