AirPods Are OK but They Don’t Give Professional Audio Quality

People who love their AirPods REALLY love their AirPods. I’ve never used them but I can certainly appreciate how handy they are.

When it comes to recording podcast episodes AirPods don’t sound very good. They are barely OK sounding and certainly don’t give professional audio quality.

Internet guests who use AirPods sound barely OK — there’s definitely a major lack of clarity due to the sample rate of the AirPods which only capture frequencies up to around 10 kHz, which means all the frequencies between 10-20 kHz are NOT captured, at all. And that affects the clarity of the sound big time.

When I do post-production on AirPods audio it’s always a huge bummer that I can’t even accentuate the high frequencies because they are literally not there. Sigh.

Have you had to do post-production on AirPods audio? What was your experience?

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