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I was about to post this. People with AirPods really should know this - you sound like you're talking on a 1980s radio when you're on a Slack/Zoom/Teams call.

Wired headphones have the mic on the wire beside your mouth. Wireless headphones have them around the corner on the side of your head, which is an objectively terrible location for a microphone.

Dankpods did a pretty good comparison of wired mic quality with wireless: https://youtu.be/N6Y_Q7RYmmY?t=315