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any good recs on the best headset with mic noise cancelling? i want to feel confident taking calls from anywhere this year

hot take: today's noise cancelling processing—whether via H1/H2 chips in airpods or apps like zoom or discord—is what make calls unintelligible. a moderate level of background noise is tolerable when it's a constant pattern, whereas noise cancelling often makes this pattern stochastic as it analyzes and responds in real time.

the superior mic is actually your MBP (or MBA) despite its lack of aggressive noise cancelling, unless you're in an exceedingly loud environment that can actually drown you out.

that said, rtings headphone table sorted by Phone Calls column might be useful:

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that said, rtings headphone table sorted by Phone Calls column might be useful: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tools/table