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I'm all for shitting on overpriced products but those you list aren't the same product category.

Wireless noise cancelling headphones worth a damn are expensive. Not to mention, Apple is the only company making a headset where the mic doesn't suck and have trash fidelity when you need to speak and listen at the same time.

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I'd love to hear an Airpods Max mic test here. This is the only meaningful info I could find on its microphone:

> With AirPods Max, voice calls and Siri commands are crisp and clear due to beam-forming microphones that block out ambient noise and focus on the user’s voice.

Mic quality has become a much higher priority for me and I think others since starting to work from home. In my opinion, high-quality voice audio helps greatly improve the quality of conversations over VC.

Part of this is Bluetooth's fault, but Apple has found a way not to kneecap their mics over bluetooth so I'm not sure why industry leading wireless audio (Shure, Sennheiser) that have put engineer years into low power, low latency, high fidelity wireless codecs can't make a headset that doesn't sound like Skype on DSL.

Sony WH-1000XM4.

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