Linus was right about Airpods Pro 3

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The labs article: https://www.lttlabs.com/blog/2025/07/14/we-promise-these-lines-mean-something-new-audio-testing-method @SuperReview's video https://youtu.be/kLk_VXvXavg?si=2T-E-kFez1s_Ez2U @ShortCircuit's airpods pro 3 unboxing: https://youtu.be/VC1t56agJ7M?si=jn04rUYVwggamShx Sources relevant to this video: -Cleveland, W. S., & McGill, R. (1984). Graphical perception: Theory, experimentation, and application to the development of graphical methods. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 79(387), 531–554. -Olive, S., Welti, T., & Khonsaripour, O. (2018, May 14). A statistical model that predicts listeners’ preference ratings of around-ear and on-ear headphones (Paper No. 9919). Audio Engineering Society 144th Convention. -The data that was used to generate the figure came from the following studies and databases: -Alon, D. L., Warnecke, M., Ben-Hur, Z., Calamia, P., Amengual Garí, S. V., & Clapp, S. W. (2024, August 5). A high-resolution HRTF database collected at AVAR 2022. Audio Engineering Society. -Algazi, V. R., Duda, R. O., Thompson, D. M., & Avendano, C. (n.d.). The CIPIC HRTF database [Conference paper]. CIPIC Interface Laboratory, University of California, Davis. -Brinkmann, F., Dinakaran, M., Pelzer, R., Grosche, P., Voss, D., & Weinzierl, S. (2019, September 6). A cross-evaluated database of measured and simulated HRTFs including 3D head meshes, anthropometric features, and headphone impulse responses. Audio Engineering Society. -Watanabe, K., Iwaya, Y., Suzuki, Y., Takane, S., & Sato, S. (2014). Dataset of head-related transfer functions measured with a circular loudspeaker array. Acoustical Science and Technology, 35(3), 159–165. -Møller, H., Sørensen, M. F., Hammershøi, D., & Jensen, C. B. (1995). Head-related transfer functions of human subjects. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 43(5), 300–321. -Völk, F. (2014, May 6). Inter- and intra-individual variability in the blocked auditory canal transfer functions of three circum-aural headphones. Audio Engineering Society. -Olive, S., & Welti, T. (2012, October 6). The relationship between perception and measurement of headphone sound quality (Paper No. 8744). Audio Engineering Society 133rd Convention. https://github.com/DMS3tv/Open-Omega Floatplane: https://www.floatplane.com/channel/DMS3/home 🐦I'm on twitter! @dms3tv 🎙If you want to join the discussion checkout our discord community: https://discordapp.com/invite/hgYsgA7