bluetooth headset tip
Jason Davies
Dear Smuggers,
Short version: if you use bluetooth headsets on a mac, turn them off as 'sound input' to massively improve the sound quality (unless you want them to be the mic too, of course).
With the money I'm (still) not spending on commuting, I splashed out on Airpods Max as the number of lawnmowers and people holding Zoom meetings in gardens a few feet away gradually rises;) I had splashed out on Airpods Pro last summer but annoyingly my right ear seems not to hold it for more than half an hour, so they were falling out at random - not a great look when you're teaching. So I've traded up...
And, apart from confirming they have a very very clean sound, are a little bit heavy (which all the reviews will tell you). Noice-cancelling hasn't yet been tested but I'm sure my neighbours are just biding their time.
I had hoped they didn't have the 'limited bandwidth' effect of most bluetooth set-ups; basically if you use them for the mic, they cut the sound output quality drastically as bluetooth can't carry that much information. If you go to Sound Prefs and choose a different input device, after a couple of seconds, the sound will switch to using all available bandwidth, and it's a huge leap in quality. I'm not aware of being able to do this on iOS but it seems to manage it better on its own.
The other thing is that if you activate Siri, it's deafening loud in the headphones with the noise that indicates Siri is available and apparently can't be changed, so I won't be using Siri... (unless anyone knows how to change it)
Cheers,
Jason
Stephen Watson
On 31 Mar 2021, at 21:00, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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Jason Davies
wrote:
> Siri can be (is?) stupidly loud in my AirPods so any secret way of
> reducing it would be welcome.
The Maxes have such good sound you will probably have it fairly quiet so
Siri arrives like a car-crash in a quiet street;)
Cheers,
Jason
Stephen Watson
Stephen
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Jason Davies
<https://www.howtogeek.com/683332/how-to-adjust-siri’s-volume-on-iphone-and-ipad/>
But I don't think you can affect the initial 'Siri's here!' noise
volume.
On Homepad you can say 'set your volume to X percent' and it's separate
from 'the' volume.
Cheers,
J
On 31 Mar 2021, at 21:43, 'Stephen Watson' via Sussex Mac User Group
Cheers,
Jason
