{"id":27678,"date":"2019-12-24T13:24:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27678"},"modified":"2019-12-24T13:24:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:24:31","slug":"modding-the-silicone-tips-of-airpods-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/24\/modding-the-silicone-tips-of-airpods-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Modding the Silicone Tips of AirPods Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/how-i-modded-the-silicone-tips-of-airpods-pro-with-a-memory-foam-layer\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/how-i-modded-the-silicone-tips-of-airpods-pro-with-a-memory-foam-layer\/\"><p>I <em>can<\/em> use in-ear silicone tips without getting a headache after 20 minutes. It&rsquo;s not my favorite method of listening to music, however, because I know that memory foam tips are a better fit for my ears since they can better adapt to the shape of my ear canal and, as a result, provide better isolation and a more bass-y response.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The solution I&rsquo;ve adopted isn&rsquo;t ideal since I still haven&rsquo;t found complete foam replacements made specifically for AirPods Pro, but, at least for me, what I&rsquo;m using today is better than using Apple&rsquo;s default silicone tips. As I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/viticci\/status\/1207663799265845254\">shared on Twitter a few days ago<\/a>, I&rsquo;ve modded the AirPods Pro&rsquo;s silicone tips with an extra memory foam layer, which helps the tips fit better in my ears, resulting in a warmer sound and overall more comfortable feel. The best part: I didn&rsquo;t have to cut the memory foam layer myself &#x2013; I simply took the foam layer from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/gp\/product\/B07T5TBTSW\/\">a pair of Symbio W eartips<\/a> and fitted it inside the AirPods Pro&rsquo;s tips.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/23\/airpods-pro-bluetooth-latency\/\">AirPods Pro Bluetooth Latency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/29\/airpods-pro\/\">AirPods Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federico Viticci: I can use in-ear silicone tips without getting a headache after 20 minutes. It&rsquo;s not my favorite method of listening to music, however, because I know that memory foam tips are a better fit for my ears since they can better adapt to the shape of my ear canal and, as a result, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-12-24T18:24:34Z","apple_news_api_id":"e75bcb67-051e-4252-a200-94fb4d7027e0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-12-24T18:24:35Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A51vLZwUeQlKiAJT7TXAn4A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1422,31,30],"class_list":["post-27678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airpods","tag-ios","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27679,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27678\/revisions\/27679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}