I’m looking to replace a pair of PowerBeats Pro headphones, and at this point I’m hoping for something that DOESN’T have Apple’s “magic switching.”
I’ve got all of my devices set to not connect to them unless they were “last connected to this device,” but nevertheless I still see their battery statuses popping up on other devices, and when I go to walk the dog they have lots of issues with audio cutting out when I get toward the bluetooth range of my unconnected devices. Literally, playing audio from the phone in my pocket, but it seems like they’re still trying to talk to my two Macs, my iPad, my Apple TVs, etc. that are still in my apartment.
So I’m hoping for something non-Apple that’s decent, has ear hooks, and has acceptable microphone quality for indoor use.
I’ve had Shokz, and I love them, but I need closed ear for my current purposes. In a perfect world, I’d have noise cancelling too - but I realize that there are limits to reality.
Yeah. If I never wore the headphones out of the immediate vicinity of my (gathered) devices, I think it would be less of a problem. It just sucks when something I do multiple times per day has me drifting in and out of range of all my other devices, and they garble the music I’m listening to because they can’t multitask.
I’d even be open to the possibility that maybe they got it better with the H2 chip, but the PowerBeats were never updated with it, the AirPods Max don’t have it, and I need something that can’t possibly fall out of my ears for spring/summertime.
I have a pair of Soundcore Space A40 earbuds, which I’m very happy with. Active noise canceling, excellent battery life, and good sound, especially for the very reasonable price. You can fast switch between two devices if you want to but there’s no “magic switching.”
