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I'm open to this. I can't believe after 2 years of work from home zoom calls are so bad. Headsets really arent as good as they should be. I'm experimenting with
by rr888 4y ago
I'm open to this. I can't believe after 2 years of work from home zoom calls are so bad. Headsets really arent as good as they should be. I'm experimenting with regular shotgun mics but they aren't ideal either. How come if you sit in a room its easy to talk to someone but online people are muffled or too loud or just hard to understand.
- ARandumGuy 4y agoPart of the issue is bandwidth. Most online call software limits the bandwidth based on the user with the slowest internet. So if one person on the call is on crappy wifi, the quality goes down for everyone.
- lstodd 4y agoSeriously? Voice requires 1-1.5Kb/s to be perfectly legible with ancient codecs. It's when everyone insists on video that it all breaks down.
- beanjuice 4y agoThe segment of the population which is both interested enough in what their colleagues are saying, and are interested enough in what their colleagues experience to required change is minimal.
- falcolas 4y ago> online people are muffled or too loud or just hard to understand Crappy (i.e. cheap) microphones and wireless connections. I use a Sennheiser EPOS headset - wired USB connection and a microphone with a passive background noise rejection - and it's all but perfect. The quality is high, and it was under $100. Non-headset mics, even shotgun mics, are going to be sensitive to background noise. That's just how they are. They have a lot of rejection around them, but it's not 0. Headset mics put the mic close enough to your mouth that rejecting other noise becomes a lot simpler. Oh, and Google et.al. try too hard sometimes to "fix" audio that they'll screw a decent audio setup up by "fixing" the gain dynamically.