Apple AirPods (Generation 3)
[ December 2025 Pricing: $139 with updated Magsafe Case at Costco . May be cheaper elsewhere; I'm a little skeptical of some posted prices actually being the 3rd Gen and not the second.] [December 2025 update: I won a pair of these as a door prize at a conference, and I’ve been using them pretty regularly while walking Denali a couple of times a day since September. I was perhaps … uncharitable in my original review. I stand by most of the specifics in my review, but they do sort of hit the sweet spot for listening to podcasts or NPR in an environment where you want to hear the world around you. For me, I find that walking Denali with ANC on can result in me not nearing or seeing people or dogs walking around, and that can give some folks a bit of a fright (weirdly enough, not everyone wants to be accosted by a 65-lb golden lovebug when they’re not expecting it. I mean, they’re wrong, but they are allowed to be). As I noted in the original review, the mid-range is where th...