Interesting stuff Jason. Siri can be (is?) stupidly loud in my AirPods so any secret way of reducing it would be welcome.
Stephen You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung > On 31 Mar 2021, at 21:00, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear Smuggers, > > Short version: if you use bluetooth headsets on a mac, turn them off as > 'sound input' to massively improve the sound quality (unless you want them to > be the mic too, of course). > > With the money I'm (still) not spending on commuting, I splashed out on > Airpods Max as the number of lawnmowers and people holding Zoom meetings in > gardens a few feet away gradually rises;) I had splashed out on Airpods Pro > last summer but annoyingly my right ear seems not to hold it for more than > half an hour, so they were falling out at random - not a great look when > you're teaching. So I've traded up... > > And, apart from confirming they have a very very clean sound, are a little > bit heavy (which all the reviews will tell you). Noice-cancelling hasn't yet > been tested but I'm sure my neighbours are just biding their time. > > I had hoped they didn't have the 'limited bandwidth' effect of most bluetooth > set-ups; basically if you use them for the mic, they cut the sound output > quality drastically as bluetooth can't carry that much information. If you go > to Sound Prefs and choose a different input device, after a couple of > seconds, the sound will switch to using all available bandwidth, and it's a > huge leap in quality. I'm not aware of being able to do this on iOS but it > seems to manage it better on its own. > > The other thing is that if you activate Siri, it's deafening loud in the > headphones with the noise that indicates Siri is available and apparently > can't be changed, so I won't be using Siri... (unless anyone knows how to > change it) > > Cheers, > > Jason > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/28892D19-F998-46C2-A714-D2BCA1EAC8F7%40me.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/A9104BD3-A543-4FAB-89F5-CE5677AC54C1%40icloud.com.
