Apple’s AirPods Noise Cancellation Ladder: 1.5x, Then 3x, and No Number at the Bottom

Apple describes AirPods 5 as offering up to 1.5x more Active Noise Cancellation than the previous generation. Its AirPods comparison page describes AirPods Pro 3 as offering up to 3x more than AirPods 5. Stack those and you get 4.5x of something Apple has never measured. AirPods 5 sit one rung above AirPods 4 with ANC in Apple's own wording....