In an absolute sound quality sense, yes. But they also pick up peoples' gross mouth noises. You hear them chewing food, wheezing when they have a cold, or even

In an absolute sound quality sense, yes. But they also pick up peoples' gross mouth noises. You hear them chewing food, wheezing when they have a cold, or even eating food in waaaaay too much detail. Obviously mute buttons exist but... I've had multiple remote coworkers with boom mics and even if they rememeber to mute 90% of the time over the course of a year that other 10% really adds up lol