We stress-tested a bunch of laptops in Times Square.
we like to do a microphone test. Because we spend a lot of time worrying about our headphones and how things sound to, we stress-tested the microphones on a bunch of flagship wireless earbuds to see which sound the best for voice calls. But not everyone uses earbuds for conference calls and video chats — and many people don’t even have analog wired headphones anymore.
Here is a recording of Monica walking through the middle of Times Square, en route to the TKTS booth, on a video call with the 16-inchThe microphones held up surprisingly well in a super crowded area with lots of traffic and street performers. This is probably the most “realistic”-sounding recording of the laptops we tested, too. It’s not embellishing voice frequencies, but you can hear Monica clearly above the ambience of the city.
This may look like an unrealistic test; no one is really walking through Times Square holding a laptop in front of them, after all. But I’m sure many of us have tried to take a call in a crowded coffee shop, at a park in a city, in a backyard with airplanes flying over, or in a home office with a house full of kids. This test mimics a bunch of those scenarios all in one.
The overall takeaway here: we were sort of amazed at how good these sounded. I could easily take a call from just my MacBook if I were in a massively crowded space outside and not worry about annoying the other person on the call, especially factoring in any other noise reduction and processing happening in apps like Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet.
Over the last couple of years, it looks like laptop manufacturers started to care about the quality of their microphones, for basically the first time ever, and things have gotten a lot better really quickly. Not that long ago, I would have winced at the idea of using the onboard laptop microphones for a voice call, but lately, it’s a great backup for guest audio for our podcasts.
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