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Mine arrived and used in the gym, home listening and some trying them out in DAW stuff. They fit better for me, like obviously so, and the tips are definetly an upgrade for a better seal but also sitting more firmly that they are less likely to readjust or fall out even.

The EQ on them though is not linear. At lower volumes the bass and treble responses kick up little more, then moving them into higher volumes those dial back prob to help not spike the higher freq and then not to muddy the bass stuff. Also with they way these work and how the read the pressure in playback, everyone might get a different "tone" from ear to ear. It's why you can't really go by any of those graphs you see posted, sound isn't a lintier thing to the person listening. You can see those reviewers sold on confirmation bias from looking at the graph before just listening to them.
Overall happy enough with the move from the P2's as the ANC in the gym has given a rather noticeable jump. And for me the better comfort in wearing them.
 
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Got mine today, really good, pro 1s were very good, but I think these are much improved, noise cancellation is a lot better.

I’m using the xxs tips.
 
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One thing I have noticed is that if you have the "turn off when you fall asleep" option on it'll turn off a little bit before you actually fall asleep. I guess when your heart rate falls enough.
 
I’m sure most will know this already, but having got the 17pro recently, I just remembered I needed to change a few settings for the music app.

I enabled lossless music and disabled soundcheck, the latter makes a huge difference.
 
Lossless over bluetooth doesn't really benefit because the bandwidth of bluetooth isn't enough for lossless. On paper it does, but a lot of that bandwidth is required for the actual Bluetooth protocol itself and not all of it is used for music.

To take advantage of lossless you need wired, and from my testing, only the apple dongle works if you want Dolby Atmos.
 
Lossless over bluetooth doesn't really benefit because the bandwidth of bluetooth isn't enough for lossless. On paper it does, but a lot of that bandwidth is required for the actual Bluetooth protocol itself and not all of it is used for music.

To take advantage of lossless you need wired, and from my testing, only the apple dongle works if you want Dolby Atmos.

Atmos is one thing I’m unsure about, it’s on automatic as default but it sounds better with it off, louder at least.
 
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How much of the improvement of noise cancelling is just because of the foam tips. If you swap the gen 2 tips for foam you also get better fit and noise cancelling.
 
How much of the improvement of noise cancelling is just because of the foam tips. If you swap the gen 2 tips for foam you also get better fit and noise cancelling.
It’s the same chip, so all the noise cancelling improvements are due to physical changes in the design.
 
Ordered mine after trading the pro 2 in at CEX. After watching some reviews on the poorer sound quality I was not going to bother but I never listen to music on them anyway, only podcasts and books. The feature I most wanted was the fitness/heart tracking so I can go back to a garmin from my apple watch.
 
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