{"id":542,"date":"2025-09-18T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:54:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:54:34","slug":"a-rare-look-inside-apples-airpods-testing-and-refinement-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/a-rare-look-inside-apples-airpods-testing-and-refinement-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"A rare look inside Apple\u2019s AirPods testing and refinement labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/A-rare-look-inside-the-Apple-audio-lab-used-to-test-and-refine-AirPods.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> runs literally thousands of tests while validating, tuning, and refining <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/airpods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AirPods<\/a> in a facility which includes mini recording studios with real instruments.<\/p>\n<p>One tech writer got a rare tour of the facility, which is even home to a large vintage hi-fi setup donated to an earlier generation of Apple audio engineers by <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/steve-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steve Jobs<\/a> \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,airpods,airpods-pro-3\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1020204\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/09\/18\/a-rare-look-inside-apples-airpods-testing-and-refinement-labs\/#more-1020204\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple runs literally thousands of tests while validating, tuning, and refining AirPods in a facility which includes mini recording studios with real instruments. One tech writer got a rare tour of the facility, which is even home to a large vintage hi-fi setup donated to an earlier generation of Apple audio engineers by Steve Jobs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}