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Re: Airpods Max Sucked for Me

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Post by washadjeffmad » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 10:58 PM UTC

SloopJon wrote: post #34

dpedu wrote: post #14

Audio / bluetooth on macs is currently a total disaster. My newer macs - mainly a 2019 15" - have some truly bizarre behaviors around these. One example is that if I switch 3.5mm audio cables too quickly it starts routing audio to my HDMI monitor instead. Macs still can't control the volume of HDMI audio out so that means I get hit with a max volume blast. I have to detach one cable, wait 60 seconds, and attach the o…

I've had a lot of problems with USB DACs as well. I frequently find that audio degrades into a kind of stuttering or static that doesn't go away until a reboot. I've experienced this with multiple DACs (Aune, Centrance, O2, and Presonus) on multiple machines (iMac 5K, 16" MacBook Pro, and hackintosh). I feel like it's worse in recent versions of macOS (say, High Sierra and later), but it's intermittent, so it's hard…

I always wondered whether Linux would become MacOS faster than MacOS could become Linux, but I honestly never expected it would be MacOS that would be the one with unrepairably buggy sound device quirks, no support for features of advertised display specs like MST, a condition that requires logic board replacemnt when you try to use the GPU after the battery fully discharges because of T2/BridgeOS, and power/USB problems that cause the computer to crash if you plug/unplug mouse and keyboard while docked over USB-C.

I fixed most of these things running Linux on my MacBook Pro, but if I didn't care whether or not my computer worked, I wouldn't have chosen Apple.

Re: Airpods Max Sucked for Me

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Post by SkyPuncher » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 11:16 PM UTC

SloopJon wrote: post #34

dpedu wrote: post #14

Audio / bluetooth on macs is currently a total disaster. My newer macs - mainly a 2019 15" - have some truly bizarre behaviors around these. One example is that if I switch 3.5mm audio cables too quickly it starts routing audio to my HDMI monitor instead. Macs still can't control the volume of HDMI audio out so that means I get hit with a max volume blast. I have to detach one cable, wait 60 seconds, and attach the o…

I've had a lot of problems with USB DACs as well. I frequently find that audio degrades into a kind of stuttering or static that doesn't go away until a reboot. I've experienced this with multiple DACs (Aune, Centrance, O2, and Presonus) on multiple machines (iMac 5K, 16" MacBook Pro, and hackintosh). I feel like it's worse in recent versions of macOS (say, High Sierra and later), but it's intermittent, so it's hard…

I had a long but with a FiiO USB Dac where it's drop the volume of one audio channel. I'd have to go into MIDI settings and even it back out.

Re: Airpods Max Sucked for Me

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Post by 1_player » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 12:09 PM UTC

Terretta wrote: post #36

If you’re using arbitrary headsets with a desktop Mac for work conferencing from a non-empty household, run don’t walk and subscribe to https://krisp.ai/ > Speak Without Noise: With a single button, the background noise going from you to other call participants will be removed. > Listen Without Noise: With a single button, the background noise coming from the call participants to you will be removed. It works beautif…

Also: NVIDIA RTX Voice

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/nvidia-rtx-voice...

Re: Airpods Max Sucked for Me

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Post by 1_player » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 12:12 PM UTC

bhj wrote: post #40

If you can hold out for Bluetooth 5.2 devices, it includes a new audio codec [0] that might be worth waiting for. [0]: https://www.bluetooth.com/media/le-audio/le-audio-faqs/

No mention of improved latency or latency figures at all. Until it's in the single digit range, Bluetooth audio will remain a gimmick, unusable in certain cases.

Right now, we're 2 orders of magnitude away from that.

Re: Airpods Max Sucked for Me

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Post by tarcisiocjr » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 4:35 PM UTC

mfarrugia wrote: post #2

I admit that my requirements are not the standard ones, I just thought this might be useful info for other people who, like me, thought they'd be perfect for working from home

Do you use the Fenvi bluetooth adaptor or an Bluetooth chip pulled from a genuine Mac? The fenvi adaptor in my experience is bad, it have high interference.