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I'm no sound engineer, but intuitively the design of the AirPods slightly exacerbates noise cancellation issues by: a) Placing the microphone further from a pe
by UVB-76 10y ago
I'm no sound engineer, but intuitively the design of the AirPods slightly exacerbates noise cancellation issues by:
a) Placing the microphone further from a person's mouth, or at least, removing the option for people to hold a wired microphone close to their mouth;
b) Significantly reducing the distance between microphone and speaker.
- mikeash 10y agoI never see people wearing headsets that place the microphone near the mouth outside of specialized settings, nor do I see people holding the microphone to their mouth. I suspect they generally want to keep their hands free. I don't think the distance between the speaker and microphone matters. Canceling out the noise you're emitting isn't hard with modern signal processing.