"The Ear 3 buds feature what the company calls "Super Mic." What that really means is a pair of microphones built into the earbuds' case, with a button to activate those mics instead of the ones built into the buds. Nothing's pitch is that the beamforming microphones in the case can deliver clearer audio and better noise cancelling, which probably mostly comes down to the fact that you can hold the case right in front of your mouth - traditionally where microphones go - rather than inside your ears."
"Things are more mixed in noisy areas. Nothing has built in some fairly powerful noise cancellation to both sets of microphones. It's impressive at blocking out unwanted noise - I stood a few feet away from a jackhammer and couldn't hear it in the recording - but it's so aggressive that it chopped up my voice in the process, the sound dropping in and out like it might on a call made from a moving train. This happened on both the earbuds and the Super Mic, and the latter suffered from it just as much."
Super Mic places beamforming microphones in the Ear 3 charging case to capture voice closer to the mouth for potentially clearer audio. Recordings in relatively quiet environments show reduced tinny quality, more rounded sound, and greater vocal depth. Improvements can be subtle on regular voice calls and may depend on connection quality. In noisy environments the noise cancellation effectively blocks background noise but can aggressively chop voice, causing intermittent dropouts. Video use is hampered by latency, producing audio that can quickly fall out of sync with recorded video.
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