What is Wind Noise Cancelling?
Wind Noise Cancelling is a technology specially designed to reduce wind noise when listening to music or making phone calls. This is ideal for when you're outside and the wind is disrupting your music or conversation.
Published on: 24 march 2025
Wind can cause the microphones in your earbuds or headphones to pick up unwanted noise, making conversations difficult to understand and music sound less clear. Wind Noise Cancelling uses technology to detect and filter out wind noise, so you can keep talking or listening without interruption. Not only handy for yourself, but also for the person on the other end of the line.
Does Wind Noise Cancelling block wind noise?
Yes, Wind Noise Cancelling helps to reduce the sound of the wind. It depends on the technology and the quality of your headphones or earbuds how well this works.
There are different ways in which Wind Noise Cancelling is applied:
- Design: Some headphones and earbuds have a design that prevents wind from directly reaching the microphones. For example, by placing the microphones in such a way that a kind of tunnel is created, so that the wind is not captured in it.
- Technology: Microphones can recognize wind noise. When a certain wind level is detected, Wind Noise Cancelling switches on. The technology analyzes the incoming sound and specifically suppresses the frequencies of wind noise.
Wind Noise Cancelling works best with constant wind, for example when you are cycling or walking on a windy day. With sudden gusts of wind, the technology first needs time to adapt and thus some noise may still be audible.
