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AirPods Bad Sound Quality on Mac

Hello,


I'm using the latest MacBook Pro with TouchBar together with my AirPods. Sometimes the sound quality switches to a bad, noisy sound as if I would listen to some 2$ headphone from Walmart. Sometimes it just takes a few moments and it switches back, sometimes it stays for hours even if I reconnect. Has anyone experienced similar issues and found a solution? Is it possible that my MacBook or AirPods are broken?


Thanks,

Max

Posted on Jan 4, 2017 3:53 AM

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Posted on Jan 14, 2017 3:36 AM

So I just had a call with Apple regarding this and it seems to be that they are aware of the issues and a temporary workaround is to switch the mic from the AirPods mic to the internal microphone.


That workaround is working fine for me.


I experienced the issues in premiere pro and XCode who both seems to use the microphone all the time which causes the bandwith of the bluetooth connection to shrink (or whatever, this is what the guy told me 😁)

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