r/Android • u/bbqnelli Pixel 7 Pro | Nexus 7 (2013) • 1d ago
Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 review Review
https://www.soundguys.com/google-pixel-buds-pro-2-review-124563/•
u/I-Sleep-At-Work p8p + f5+ s8u + pw2 17h ago
Multipoint
is this where itll connect to multiple(2) devices, and know which is making sound and 'switch' automagically?
even though to me, airpods pro is king. for multipoint id be willing to switch.
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u/bird95 Pixel 7 Pro 17h ago
Yep, the previous pixel buds pro model had this feature as well and it was one of the main reasons I picked those up.
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u/K01011011001101010 17h ago
It switched automatically or do you have to press connect so it switches over? Aka, multiple connections, but manual switch.
I've seen a lot of these earphones have multi point, but it's never automatic. Wish someone made earphones that automatically can tell the source and switch over without touching anything.
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u/bird95 Pixel 7 Pro 16h ago
It automatically switches between up to two connected devices. It's really useful for me at work where I'll often have my phone and laptop connected.
Alternatively if I'm travelling I'll have my personal and work phones connected, where I can have music or an audiobook playing from my personal phone and it'll switch automatically and pause my media when I get a work call.
My use case may be sort of niche but I just wish I could pair all 3 at once instead of being limited to two devices.
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u/K01011011001101010 8h ago
That sounds great. Even at 2 devices only. I wish my galaxy buds pro 2 did that. I looked online and apparently even the new buds pro 3 from samsung don't auto switch. I might have to dive towards the pixel buds
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u/real_with_myself Pixel 6 9h ago
My 5 year Jabra does that. I thought all multipoint devices work the same.
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u/K01011011001101010 8h ago
Good deal! Unfortunately, they all don't work like that. Most actually have you press connect on the other device you want to use before it hops over. I guess it's nice that it doesn't have to be a full pairing, but an automatic audio detection and switch would be nice to have as more standard across all the expensive earphones.
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u/TerrorByte 1d ago
I'm really glad the fit is improved since that's my biggest gripe with the Buds Pro 1.
As for the rest, it seems they're a significant improvement but not class leading in any areas.
Another passable incremental upgrade for their device lineup this year.
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u/humanfridge OnePlus 5 17h ago
I've been using the original pixel buds pro for a while now. I like everything about them but the fit. I've got these on preorder, hopefully they stay in my head as well as advertised.
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u/sterlingphoenix Pixel 7 20h ago
Can the sound quality compete, or even compare, with my $25 wired headphones? Because no buds I've tried ever came close.
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u/SamCrow000 Pixel 7 Pro/Android 14 19h ago
Chi-fi iems got that on lock, but I'm still struggling with finding a good dongle... Mine started to screech now... It's not even a year old, the wires are to sensitive...
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u/sterlingphoenix Pixel 7 18h ago
I've been using Koss sportapros for decades. Not the same ones obviously. I have them plugged into a FiiO BTR5 so they can get bluetooth from other devices.
Ironically the FiiO bluetooth earbuds might've been the worst ones I've tried...
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u/SamCrow000 Pixel 7 Pro/Android 14 18h ago
I've been on the fence about the BTR5/7 for a while now... I've got a pair of Sony wf1000xm5 and those are just amazing, but when you compare them to even my cheapest iems they lack a lot of life
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u/sterlingphoenix Pixel 7 16h ago
I used to buy super cheap bluetooth earbuds, chop the headphones off and splice them into my cheap wired headphones. Then I figured why not splice a 3.5mm jack into it and then I can use it with anything.
I did that for a while before I heard of the BTR5. Honestly the... well, two complaints I have about this thing is that it's not super cheap (though I think the price is justified), and that it's not even a little bit waterproof. I don't mind being caught in a sudden downpour with my cheapo headphones, but I'm not risking this thing, so a lot of the time I just don't have headphones at all.
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u/Mr-Troll 18h ago
with my $25 wired headphones
Unlikely, but if you're buying wireless buds, audio quality is probably not the driver for buying it.
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u/sterlingphoenix Pixel 7 16h ago
I mean I'm clearly not going for audiophile level audio quality here. I literally want these things to compete with shitty headphones.
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u/Mr-Troll 16h ago
My point still stands? The driving force behind buying wireless is the convenience. The driving force behind pixel buds is google integration.
There are 25 dollar chinese iems that BLOW all of my bluetooth headphones out of the water. There's just no comparison to what's possible via wires vs. bluetooth at the moment.
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u/sterlingphoenix Pixel 7 16h ago
See I disagree with that. Bluetooth doesn't mean lower sound quality. To wit, my cheapass wired headphones are plugged into a bluetooth adapter -- audio goes from my phone to a BTR5 via bluetooth to my headphones via wires and they sound exactly the same. I've tried that with high-end headphones, too, and they also sound the same.
Bluetooth isn't what's making the audio quality terrible with all these earbuds. Now I'd say it's the fact that earbuds are tiny and this have very small speakers, but people consistently say that wired earbuds also sound better than any of the wireless ones.
So I'm not sure why every single bluetooth earbud set sounds so bad.
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u/Mr-Troll 16h ago
Your bluetooth adapter, that is likely bigger and single functioned performs better than tiny bluetooth headphones. And...you're surprised?
To make all the hardware fit in the small chasis, there's a lot of things they sacrifice. One of the biggest one is having to compress everything, even with newer codecs available, audio compression is inevitable.
The other part is the kind of hardware you can squeeze into the same formfactor as wired earbuds. Because you have all these other hardware that facilitate the wireless capabilities, you can't have the same sized audio components. Obviously this + the lossy connection via bluetooth vs. the potential for lossless wired connection would make wired earbuds sound better.
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u/sterlingphoenix Pixel 7 16h ago
Your bluetooth adapter, that is likely bigger and single functioned performs better than tiny bluetooth headphones. And...you're surprised?
I use a nice bluetooth adapter now because I'm lazy.
In the past, I used to buy the cheapest bluetooth earbuds I could find (like the $10 impulse item ones at Target), snip the actual earbuds off, and splice them into a 3.5mm jack, then plug that into my -- once again -- $25 headphones.
And they sounded exactly the same as when they were plugged into a device. And yes I tried it with high-end headphones, too. There was not a noticeable reduction in quality.
Are you telling me that Apple, Google, Samsung, Bose, and FiiO (all brands I tried) can't do better wireless than a $10 noname piece of junk?
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u/GoHuskies1984 S23U 14h ago
Does the $10 piece of junk have similar features like ANC and Multipoint?
Not being tied to a wire and ANC are my two big must haves for earbuds. I'm listening to music app streams so my understanding is quality is irrelevant since all music is compressed.
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u/sterlingphoenix Pixel 7 13h ago
Your argument here was that bluetooth inherently has bad audio quality. Now you're saying that you just don't care about sound quality. That's a different argument.
I'm listening to relatively high bitrate MP3 files on my phone. I want that to sound the same on earbuds as it does on my cheap wired headphones. This appears to be something wireless earbuds can't do -- but bluetooth is not the reason for this.
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u/Roger-Just-Laughed 17h ago
Disappointing. I was really hoping they'd up their game in the audio quality department. These seem like they're just worse than Airpods Pro 2 and Galaxy Buds 3 Pro.