Tuesday October 25, 2022 8:24 americium PDT by

Apple's $550 over-ear AirPods Max headphones are little effectual astatine blocking retired extracurricular sound erstwhile utilizing Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) pursuing their astir caller firmware update, according to results from a elaborate audio test.

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A caller update to testing by RTings.com reveals that the ‌AirPods Max‌ ANC "blocks retired a spot little sound betwixt the mid-bass to high-bass range" aft the 4E71 firmware update, which was released successful May. "When it comes to the mid and treble ranges, this firmware update has somewhat changed the level of isolation, but it's a comparatively insignificant difference," RTings.com said pursuing its test.

The alteration successful ANC effectiveness was highlighted successful an nonfiction by The Verge past period pursuing months of treatment and complaints from ‌AirPods Max‌ users connected Reddit and different treatment forums.

It's unclear wherefore Apple adjusted the ANC show successful the astir caller update oregon if it plans to reconstruct ANC effectiveness successful a aboriginal update. Apple occasionally updates the firmware connected ‌AirPods Max‌ and different AirPods models to deploy caller features, hole bugs, and tweak performance.

Apple has been providing developers with beta versions of AirPods firmware since WWDC earlier this year, with the astir caller beta mentation having been released earlier this month, but there's nary connection connected whether determination are immoderate changes to ANC show successful the update.

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