Soundcore P31i review: I replaced my AirPods with these $40 earbuds, and didn't regret it

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One downside of being deep in the Apple ecosystem is that you become accustomed to thinking you have to pay at least $130 for decent earbuds. Yes, AirPods are great, but they're also expensive. I love my AirPods Pro, with their amazing sound quality and incredible features. But at $250 (plus $89 each time you lose an earbud), they're ridiculously expensive.

And yes, I've lost earbuds. In fact, I've lost three in the past year. One popped out of my ear while getting onto a busy train in Spain, another was whipped out of my ear by a gust of wind and carried down a ridge, and another fell out of my ear into a small patch of long grass no bigger than a couple of feet square. I searched that patch for at least half ...