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It is frustrating how opaque bluetooth is. A lot of regular folks would have no idea that getting a newer Mac would improve their airpods microphone quality.

For what it's worth I have found the NC 700's to have a much better microphone quality when in self voice mode. It's explained here: https://www.gearpatrol.com/tech/audio/a594565/bose-noise-can...

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Improve? Mic, perhaps, but my range and connection reliability have gone down the toilet with a new Macbook air, compared to my pre-USB-c version. I can’t get more than 3’ from it without the audio cutting out. The same headphones can get 100’+ with my iPhone SE.

Yes the microphone was better. My Bluetooth 4.0 adapter still resulted in an 8kHz duplex connection to them though

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