Apple AirPodsPro (Generation 2)
[Tl;dr: I really like the AirPodsPro Gen 2. I didn't want to. But damn, Apple figured some things out.] Scores: Cost-agnostic: 10 out of 10 Denalis Cost-sensitive: 9 out of 10 Denalis. [Update 1/20/24: after more than a year, I thought it was worth briefly revisiting the AirPods Pro 2. They're ... still great. They more or less live in my pants pocket, and when I recently thought that I'd finally misplaced them, I immediately went to Costco and bought another pair (in my defense, they were like $80 off on sale). I found my original pair, but I'm holding on to the second as a backup. The new version is identical in almost every way to the version that I originally reviewed, with the exception of having swapped the Lightning charging port on the case to a USB-C port to match the new generation of iPhones (and apparently they added some support for the new Apple VR device which will mean nothing to me). The sound is still really, really good. To the point where I've st...