Has Active Noise Cancellation (Noise Control)
Apple AirPods (3rd Gen)
✓
Bowers & Wilkins PI7 ✓
ANC uses more advanced kind of tech to reduce unwanted ambient sounds. How it works, it listens to the sound pattern outside and inside the earbud and after inverts the soundwaves to counter it. Simply put, it's like having +1 (sound from your surrounding) and adding -1 (counter sound by the device) giving 0 which results in a reduced level of noise.
The Apple AirPods (3rd Gen) have Active Noise Cancellation enabling you to listen at lower levels of volume, causing less ear fatigue since you don't need to crank up the device volume to outcompete background sounds.
The Bowers & Wilkins PI7 too have ANC making either of the earbuds ideal for flights and rush hour travels. The Apple AirPods (3rd Gen) and Bowers & Wilkins PI7 work with different noise cancellation settings, pick the setting that suits your commute or that suites your relaxation time.
Has Passive Noise Reduction
Apple AirPods (3rd Gen)
✓
Bowers & Wilkins PI7 ✓
The Apple AirPods (3rd Gen) stay well in place, creating a sound seal that tones down your environment sounds well as preventing the earbuds sound from leaking out at the same.
Both Bowers & Wilkins PI7, and Apple AirPods (3rd Gen) have passive noise reduction this means that they tone down ambient noise without using technology to cancel it out.
Driver Unit Size
Apple AirPods (3rd Gen)
11mm
Bowers & Wilkins PI7 9.2mm
Apple AirPods (3rd Gen) have a unit size of 11mm in diameter, bigger drivers are more powerful, and can produce better bass.
A driver unit is basically a mini speaker that makes sound in the device, the unit size dictates the loudness of the earbuds.
Bowers & Wilkins PI7 driver unit is 9.2mm in diameter,
which implies that they have a smaller driver unit than that of Apple AirPods (3rd Gen) by 1.8mm
, many people have a misconception that driver units of a bigger size automatically produce better sound quality.
However, large drivers find it difficult to produce high frequencies so yeah, larger drivers are capable of generating louder sound, but this does not mean that they deliver better quality sound.
Lowest Frequency
Apple AirPods (3rd Gen)
10hz
Bowers & Wilkins PI7 10hz
The Apple AirPods (3rd Gen)'s lowest frequency is at 10Hz, low-frequency response measures if and how well an audio component generates low recognizable frequencies and if it makes any changes to the signal while at it.
Bowers & Wilkins PI7's lowest frequency is at 10Hz, this implies that
both devices produce equal bass
Highest Frequency
Apple AirPods (3rd Gen)
20,000hz
Bowers & Wilkins PI7 20,000hz
Apple AirPods (3rd Gen)'s highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, high-frequency response measures if and how well a particular audio device produces high recognizable frequencies and if it changes to the signal while at it.
Bowers & Wilkins PI7's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, this means that
both devices generate equal treble
Has A Neodymium Magnet
Apple AirPods (3rd Gen)
✓
Bowers & Wilkins PI7 ✗
Apple AirPods (3rd Gen) have neodymium magnets, if used in audio devices produce a higher sensitivity and substantial sound output while using less power. They can help generate music at quite a high SPL, using high magnetic flux.
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