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I didn't realize the latency on AirPods was that bad. That actually explains a lot of the difficulties I have with phone calls on them. (One of my hats is "audio engineer", and two people on AirPods plus transmission delay has to get up into the 350-450ms range, and that definitely is fatiguing given that my ears are always cued to this.)

Back to holding my phone against my face, I guess.

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Yeah, this is crazy that Apple is only using AAC for their codec and not anything like aptX that can get down to 50ms range. I would expect Apple to do better here and even have different low latency codec specifically for voice calls.

> Back to holding my phone against my face, I guess.

What about using wired earbuds with a Lightning dongle? That should give low latency, right?

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