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ErneXyesterday at 10:12 PM2 repliesview on HN

Sound quality is worse when transmitting and receiving over Bluetooth, when I use the AirPods for calls on the MacBook I switch to the microphone on the MacBook, they will hear me better and I will hear them better since the AirPods will use all the bandwidth for outputting audio only.


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pedalpeteyesterday at 10:18 PM

Are you sure this is a bandwidth issue?

I always assumed it was more about the position and size of the microphone.

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tshaddoxyesterday at 11:28 PM

This is certainly the opposite of my experience. The sound quality from someone speaking via their MacBook microphone is noticeably worse than someone speaking via their AirPods microphone.