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Sorry to crash your launch but this is supposed to be fixed in the new version of MacOS Sequoia + AirPods 2

https://www.headphonesty.com/2024/07/apple-solves-bad-airpod...

I'm still on Sonoma for work reason so I didn't test it.



IIUC, what Apple is doing is reducing the number of active channels, so they can keep audio streaming at 48kHz in mono. OP is claiming better audio out quality, which to your point will be unnecessary with the new update, but also better audio in quality by always forcing the external microphone to be the default source, since it's not constrained by the BT bandwidth and is of overall better quality than those of AirPods.

I also think that by doing this, BT audio out can be in stereo/48, which is arguably "better" than mono/48, so their app is still useful.

I personally wouldn't subscribe to it, though. The script OP mentioned on their post seems sufficient for my use case.


Got time to test it and it works.

2 Ch 48kHz for output and 1 Ch 48kHz for input while using Airpod 2 on Sequoia. Be aware that the app must request a high bitrate for this to work.

Example: you need to use Safari for Google Meet. It doesn't work with Chrome.


I would be happy if its fixed! I'm on Sequoia 15.1 and it's not fixed yet. This is not exactly my million dollars idea, just a side project I made for personal use decided to see what happens if I put it on the AppStore :)

Fingers crossed it gets fixed.




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