Why the extra mics for the A2nc's?

[Nicholas_Christopher]

Use microphones in both earbuds, so left and right, and in each bud fore and aft, to detect a sound coming centrally front and discard all other sounds, so the loudest central front sound is likely your voice. Humans do this naturally, you can concentrate on one sound in one direction.

This is technically what beamforming mics are supposed to do. It isn’t magic but it’s getting better.

ambient mode, transmit in-phase not out-of-phase to amplify rather than suppress sound.

Isn’t this just transparency mode? Or are you looking for a hearing aid style thing?

intelligent active ANC and application, which learns key sounds, and then move from ANC to ambient when heard. e.g. you teach it to answer to your name so people around you say your name and ANC moves to ambient.
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intelligent ANC which you app configure to change to ambient when particular sounds while moving / location, e.g. ambient comes on on aircraft when human voice is heard.

This would require an epic f ton of processing power. So don’t expect it anytime soon. Dream big I guess lol

detection of in / out of ear, and auto pause/play , turn on/off each bud. This is easy as the sound from the inside microphone changes relative to the sound from outside microphone as the ear canal blocks sound passively.

So the soundcore Liberty air 2 pro currently have wear detection using a capacitive sensor. Other products are coming down the pipe line with this feature as well. The process you are referring to I have nicknamed “ghetto-radar”. This isn’t a feature that could be easily added since the chip used in these devices don’t really support something like this and adding (if even possible) would be hacky and most likely unreliable.

[The_Professor]

ambient mode,

Isn’t this just transparency mode

Same thing, transmit external sound to inside

would require an epic f ton of processing power

Not true. Key word detection exists now, detecting movement exists now (in other brands) , these exist in hardware which many Soundcore fans would find expensive. So it’s a cost vs timing issue.

Example of what can be done today, but at what cost

[ted114]

Thank you all for the great explanations of the differences between these two earbuds. I finally get it now what they are exactly. If anyone may have additional information please feel free to contact me here. Thanks again Soundcore Community!!!

[jercox]

Glad you sorted it, I am still confused but at least I am confused with a much larger data set!