Best Headphone Mics for Video Calls so People Will Think You're Smart

Popular question: "What are the best headphones for video calls?"
I would advise choosing based on how good YOU will sound to the listeners. Want the short answer? Don't use bluetooth, and don't video meet with noisy background sound. For details on products... watch the video! (We also compare the Airpods Pro and Yeti Blue.)

Contents (used Zoom):
00:10 Intro (headphones and cables we tested)
03:05 Internal Mic, Macbook Air. Quiet office, high speed WiFi
03:18 $10 Generic cable. Quiet office, high speed WiFi
03:37 Built-in mic on Audeara HP (bluetooth). Quiet office, high speed WiFi
03:56 V Moda Boom Pro. Quiet office, high speed WiFi
04:27 Audeara Cable (included with HPs). Quiet office, high speed WiFi
05:10 Airpods Pro. Quiet office, high speed WiFi
05:28 Built-in mic on Beyerdynamic's Aventho HPs. Quiet office, high speed WiFi
06:01 External USB mic, Yeti Blue. Quiet office, high speed WiFi
06:49 Internal Mic, Macbook Air. Loud NYC cafe, public WiFi.
07:12 $10 Generic cable. Loud NYC cafe, public WiFi.
07:30 Built-in mic on Audeara HP (bluetooth). Loud NYC cafe, public WiFi.
07:47 Built-in mic on Beyerdynamic's Aventho HPs. Loud NYC cafe, public WiFi.
08:06 V Moda Boom Pro. Loud NYC cafe, public WiFi.
08:29 Audeara Cable (included with HPs). Loud NYC cafe, public WiFi.
08:50 Airpods Pro. Loud NYC cafe, public WiFi.
09:05 Internal mic on Macbook Air. Urban Park, hotspot WiFi.
09:10 $10 Generic cable. Urban Park, hotspot WiFi.
09:30 Built-in mic on Audeara HP (bluetooth). Urban Park, hotspot WiFi.
09:51 Audeara Cable (included with HPs). Urban Park, hotspot WiFi.
10:15 V Moda Boom Pro - was on mute.
10:33 Summary (using Yeti Blue and Zoom).

About the "smart" part of this title? Well, results of a study by Norbert Schwarz (2018)* float around the marketing world with click-bate-able headlines warning us that the audio quality of your voice will influence how “smart” people judge you to be. The subheadings report a 19% increase in how much better a talk was with high quality audio. Sounds like a lot! Looking more closely at the data, of ten outcomes, “talk good” did average 0.93 point higher on a point scale from 1 - 5 (19% increase), but there was a much smaller difference of 0.33 in “speaker smart?” However, the headlines sneakily combine the 19% improvement with “smart” and “intelligent” verba, so we must remember that research can be subtly (or boldly) contorted to grab more attention without technically being false, especially to lure the thumb to touch or pointer finger to click. E.g., percentages can feel more impactful than a regular, raw number, and though there was an increase in how “smart” viewers judged the speaker, it had the smallest difference of all the outcomes. Intelligence judgments aside, we do know that better audio quality will certainly improve clarity and speech understanding for those on the other end of the call. It’s like reading my sloppy handwriting versus typed text. So do choose your audio devices wisely!

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