Airpods Max Sucked for Me

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Post by mfarrugia » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 5:11 PM UTC

Airpods Max Sucked for Me
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Post by mfarrugia » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 5:12 PM UTC

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

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Post by amelius » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 5:34 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

It seems like your server can't handle the traffic.

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Post by Analemma_ » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 5:34 PM UTC

Bluetooth on Macs is infuriatingly broken, even with Apple's own products. I have the AirPods Pro with a 2019 13" MBP and run into similar issues: if I'm just listening to music, everything is fine. As soon as the microphones come on to do a call, the audio quality goes down the tube and there is a loud crackling noise in the right AirPod that never goes away (and I know this isn't the crackling problem with AirPods Pro in general, because I already had mine replaced to fix that issue, and they work fine on all other devices). I end up having to take the right one out, which defeats the entire purpose of having ANC headphones.

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Post by uncledave » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 5:36 PM UTC

Analemma_ wrote: post #4

Bluetooth on Macs is infuriatingly broken, even with Apple's own products. I have the AirPods Pro with a 2019 13" MBP and run into similar issues: if I'm just listening to music, everything is fine. As soon as the microphones come on to do a call, the audio quality goes down the tube and there is a loud crackling noise in the right AirPod that never goes away (and I know this isn't the crackling problem with AirPods…

Not had that one. The annoying one for me is the switching between the Mac and the iPhone. Never connects to the correct device ever. If I answer a call I have to spend 10 seconds debugging it and reconnecting.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 5:36 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #3

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

It seems like your server can't handle the traffic.

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Post by taf2 » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

Audio quality is great but i tried them for a meeting and the mic is terrible... no one can hear me... Enjoyed listening to music with them just don't do that very often

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Post by Scandiravian » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

Here's an online version. Article is currently down probably because of high traffic https://web.archive.org/web/20210125171819/https://mattfarru...

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Post by damon_c » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC

Your web server sucks for me ;)

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Post by brundolf » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 5:40 PM UTC

Analemma_ wrote: post #4

Bluetooth on Macs is infuriatingly broken, even with Apple's own products. I have the AirPods Pro with a 2019 13" MBP and run into similar issues: if I'm just listening to music, everything is fine. As soon as the microphones come on to do a call, the audio quality goes down the tube and there is a loud crackling noise in the right AirPod that never goes away (and I know this isn't the crackling problem with AirPods…

This isn't the bluetooth, it's a known problem with the AirPods Pro. I used the regular AirPods (with no issues) for a year before getting AirPods Pro, which I then used for a couple months before the increasingly bad audio issues made them completely unusable. I ended up buying a new pair of the regular AirPods and, again, no issues.

I read somewhere that it was an early-batch problem and that it's been fixed in newer iterations of the Pro, but there's no way I'm going to spend money on them again just to find out. The AirPods Pro are the only Apple device I've ever been totally and completely disappointed with. The regular AirPods remain one of the most unambiguously-good Apple devices I've bought.