Apple’s Esge Andersen talks Airflow and Lossless audio in interview

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Apple engineer Esge Andersen gave an interview to book What Hi-Fi? recently, in which he pointed out what Apple has achieved to enhance sound fine at the AirPods Pro 2. He additionally addressed the dearth of guide for Hi-Res Audio or Lossless audio withinside the new earbuds.

When designing the AirPods Pro 2, Apple’s purpose became to “deliver all people an AirPods Max of their pocket,” stated Andersen, and one of the methods they completed this, is with the aid of using enhancing the airflow.

Andersen says that even as the AirPods appearance equal among generations, what has modified is the manner group dealt with the acoustics. The enterprise absolutely repositioned the inner vents and mic’s for higher airflow for the earphone’s driver.

Overall, the airflow machine became simplified as compared to the preceding generation, and in vicinity of vents, there’s now handiest one.

Andersen says the lower back venting machine allowed for richer bass and cleanser highs. The group additionally optimized, “the airflow for the driving force so we will get higher excursion.”

The acoustics group additionally minimized turbulence in the machine (better turbulence results in distortion) and have been capable of see profits specifically withinside the readability of the bass frequencies.

As for Hi-Res audio, Andersen says that there are methods to enhance fine, “with out converting the codec.”

Apple has drawn a few grievance for the lacking lossless guide at the earphones. It additionally makes no experience for the enterprise to offer lossless audio on Apple Music however now no longer on their hardware.

“We need to push the sound fine forward, and we will do this with quite a few different elements,” stated Andersen. “We do not assume that the codec presently is the trouble of audio fine on Bluetooth products,” he added.