After using them for over one week they continue to really impress me. I haven't missed my Bose NC 700 at all. They are just much more convenient to use due to the size and they don't mess with your hair. I find the ANC to just stupidly good considering these are vented in-ears that doesn't even go that deep inside your ear. They are so tiny, and still they are able to fit microphones making them capable to give me 95% of the ANC of my Bose NC 700. That is incredible to me.
The ANC have some huge benefits as well. They don't seem to get affected by the regular drawbacks of ANC at all. I have no issue with wind, and I don't get feedback while jogging/running. The Bose NC 700 did improve when it comes to wind, but they are still affected and they are downright horrible for jogging/running due to the feedback it makes with ANC enabled. None of this is happening with the AirPods Pro.
The Transparency Mode is impressive as well. The mode on the Sony WH-1000XM3 when I tested those was not very convincing. When you enabled transparency everything sounded really metallic. The Bose NC 700 are better on the transparency but the AirPods Pro does it even better. And all this from these tiny earpieces. And because of the vented design when you have transparency enabled it almost (just almost, not quite) feels like you have nothing in your ears.
The microphones are working rather good for voice calls. Much better than the WH-1000XM3, and just as good as the Bose NC 700 but they are more sensitive to noise and wind compared to the regular AirPods and Bose NC 700. So in less than ideal scenarios they become rather useless.
The only thing I have had issues with the first few days was getting accustomed to remembering to have the charging case with me at all times. I forgot to bring it home from work one day and as there are no way to manually turn them off the battery was at 5% when going to work the next day and lasted just a few minutes.
I also have some issues with the earpieces slowly being pushed out of my ears. Especially if I'm eating, talking or whatever (moving my mouth basically) they become loose and when they get loose the ANC is barely working. You need to have a seal for it to work. I'm using the medium sized ear-tips, perhaps I should try to use the small ones? Or would the smaller ones just get pushed out even more easily?
I was somewhat sceptical about the battery life. But so far it has never been an issue for me. I'm never using them for 5 hours straight without putting them in the charging case and they charge so quickly that even as I use them in bed at night and fall a sleep so the battery is almost drain when I wake up they are always at around 90-100% before I leave the house in the morning regardless. The small design makes them good for use in bed as well. Not ideal, my Shure SE846 that goes deeps into my ear and doesn't have this much outside my ears are more comfortable but they are much better than using headphones or using the WF-1000XM3.
Sound quality is good. They don't sound as good as my Shure SE846 while laying in bed, but the difference isn't big enough for me to care. Especially considering the scenarios where I use my AirPods Pro is on my commutes to work, and when doing various house shores at home the quality is more than capable enough for me to not really notice much of a difference compared to using my Shure SE846. When I sit down to really listen to something I'm going to use my Sennheiser HD 800 and Hegel HD12 DAC anyway.
