Which duh c'mon Apple! If Bose can do it you can. In Apple AirPod speak, that last would be something like Active Noice Cancellation with Conversation Transparency. Specifically: mute from headset, sidetone (adjustable too!), and sidetone with ANC enabled. They just have better features for calls. As I alluded to earlier, for now I am keeping my QC35ii to use with work. But I think frankly I'd prefer multi-point (2 devices at once). Possibly because I connect to work in this way. Personally I find Connectivity (switching bluetooth connections automatically) buggy. I just connect from my work Mac bluetooth menu.

I've even read that some people hate it! I'm really not that old, but my hypothesis is that younger people who never used a landline phone are used to not being able to hear themselves.Ĭlick to expand.My company really locks down iCloud stuff, I don't see any benefit to logging in with any Apple ID (even a work-specific one). I'm mystified that so few people seem to know what sidetone is.

I don't know why no reviewers seem to have noticed or mentioned this.

The Max has notably, keep-worth better sound than either of those for music and media. Bose does it - I know this from the QC35ii I own as well as the NC700 I tried. Why they wouldn't have sidetone for conversations regardless of noise cancelling makes no sense. Sounds unnatural and makes it difficult to modulate your voice (know how loud you are). Everyone else sounds normal, but I sound like I'm in a coffin. Yes, you can make a call that way, but personally I find it very unpleasant. With noise cancelling on, your own voice is blocked from getting back to your ears - and so you sound completely muffled to yourself. Yes, you can turn on transparency mode, but then you let in noise as well as your voice. Why? It's what others have mentioned: they have no sidetone. Sadly I think Airpods Max are *terrible* as a work headset.

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