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Commentary on music capabilities: Sony WF 1000 XM4, Apple AirPods Pro 2, and WF 1000 XM5.

These are the most discussed consumer audio products, at least online. With no difficulty, you will find detailed “analysis”, and “reviews” of these products on long reddit threads, YouTube, or non/pretentious pro audio forums, besides regular tech websites. Despite their terrible nomenclature, these products have garnered lots of positive reviews. Especially with the AirPods Pro 2 (let’s just call them “APP”), the reviews are unbelievably positive. They are generally tagged with adjectives ranging from the futile “best earphones ever” to the less creative “incredible” in Apple speak, and even “shockingly good” where the reviewer was apparently toying with the rising attention deficit of our times. Together, these reviews may as well be case studies of our declining critical thinking supported by a broken internet taken over by big companies and paid reviews. Why is that? Two simple propositions stand to challenge the generally positive reviews of these products: sound is subjective,