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I’m not confused. I understand the concept of the wireless bandwidth that’s needed for the bidirectional communication when in headset mode vs headphone mode. M
by orev 5y ago
I’m not confused. I understand the concept of the wireless bandwidth that’s needed for the bidirectional communication when in headset mode vs headphone mode. My point is that the laptop microphone arrays are just not as good as a microphone that’s designed to be right next to your mouth, or at least within 6 inches. The mic arrays on laptops almost always sound worse than headsets.
- chrisseaton 5y ago> My point is that the laptop microphone arrays are just not as good as a microphone that’s designed to be right next to your mouth, or at least within 6 inches. Those are tiny microphones in your headset, and there's only two of them, sending back a mono signal! A MacBook Pro has an array of three much larger, higher-quality microphones, with high SNR and directional beamforming and the ability to do proper noise cancellation. They're also on a hardware bus to your system. The microphones in a headset just don't compete. Try it yourself!
- orev 5y agoAll I can say is that when you’re on the other end of a call with someone using the laptop array, vs a headset, the quality of sound from the laptop array is objectively much worse than the headset. You hear room noise, echo, etc. It’s definitely not as bad as older laptop mics that didn’t have noise cancellation, etc. but it’s still worse than a headset.