If you’ve spent time shopping for earbuds or headphones during the past several years, you’ve probably seen that many brands advertise a feature called transparency mode. First popularized by Apple’s AirPods Pro, today you’ll see it advertised by brands including Bose, Sony, Samsung, and more. To the uninitiated, the words ‘transparency mode’ can seem a bit opaque. What exactly is transparency mode? What has it got to do with audio playback? Moreover, what makes it so useful that every
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