The AirPods Max ANC downgrade might not be all in your head.

Last month, my colleague Umar Shakir blogged about how he’s convinced the AirPods Max’s active noise cancellation has gotten worse following the 4E71 firmware update from May. But now we may have the evidence to back it up.

In an update to a review published by RTings, the outlet retested the AirPods Max’s ANC capabilities with the new firmware. The outlet found that it actually has dipped in effectiveness when compared to the data it collected previously.