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Psst! Amazon is having their first ever Prime Early Access Sale: a two-day shopping event that will be held October 11th and 12th where only Prime members will get the opportunity to shop hundreds of thousands of early holiday deals.
You can learn more here, but in the meantime they're already offering plenty of early access deals!
But one of the best deals is already live, so let me cut through the ~noise~ to inform you that you can score a full $69 off Apple's AirPods Pro right now, making them $179.98 (originally $249) — one of the lowest prices they've ever been.
Here's the main thing you need to know: the noise cancellation on the AirPods Pro is genuinely, alarmingly effective. The first time I put these on and toggled it into noise cancelling mode it was like the whole world fell away. Like, walking down the street I felt like Anne Hathaway in an early 2010s rom com because I genuinely could not hear one thing on a busy crowded New York City street except pop music in my ears.
And while it's a full mood that I appreciate while I'm out walking and running, it's gone from "wow, neat!" to "oh, cool, I can't exist without these" when it comes to working from home. These pretty much block out *any* noise I've dealt with (including very loud construction, my apartment neighbor's louder baby, and a very indignant shih tzu).
They're also super comfy and stay put — and I am saying that as someone who wears them pretty much all through my waking hours. I take them on long, absurdly sweaty runs and they don't budge. I have them in my ears all day at work and they never ache. I use them to go into a Netflix black hole at night and even then, after a full human day, my ears feel fine.
Now let's talk about the absurd charging capabilities on the AirPods Pro. First of all, the wireless charging case on this is convenient as heck. I'm on the move a lot, but even if the AirPods Pro run out of their 4.5 hour battery life, you can snap them right back into the case and have them fully charged within a half hour (and like, half charged in ten minutes, if you're impatient like me).
These come with other convenient, intuitive features, too — if your phone or the device you're listening on is out of reach, you can tap one of the AirPods Pro to pause your music. You can say "Hey Siri" and talk to her the way you normally would. You can also toggle the AirPods Pro into transparency mode without your phone squeezing one of them.
Plus if you don't want to be in noise-cancelling mode, you can toggle to two other modes: one is "Off," where the headphones aren't doing anything in your ears, and one is "Transparency," when you can still hear the world around you and your music at the same time.
And while these are Bluetooth and absolutely work on non-Apple devices, can I just say, the *immediate* syncing to your phone from the moment the AirPods Pro are charged is such a relief. I am very bad at technology. These were absurdly easy to set up.
And I am not alone in my aggressive stanning of AirPods Pro — on Amazon alone, they've amassed tens of thousands of 5-star reviews from people who love them for everything from the stay-put, personalized fit to their noise cancellation to the ever-hand Transparency Mode.
All this said, the primary reason I have come here today to yell about these perfect headphones is that I rarely see them at a price this affordable. The $69 off the AirPods Pro makes them lower than the price it usually is to get regular AirPods (which are $147.99 down from $199 for the Prime Early Access Sale, if you were wondering) — but do yourself a favor and spend the extra money get these instead.
You can get the AirPods Pro from Amazon for $179.98 during the Prime Early Access Sale — just remember to poke your head out to say hi to the real world every now and then after you take the leap.
