AirPods 5 ANC: Why Apple’s ’50 Percent More Noise’ and ‘1.5x More ANC’ Are Not the Same Sentence

Apple describes the AirPods 5 noise cancellation gain twice, in two different ways. The press release says the earbuds remove up to 50 percent more noise compared to AirPods 4 with ANC. The product page says up to 1.5x more Active Noise Cancellation than the previous generation. The arithmetic matches. The precision does not. AirPods 5, the first...