With ANC enabled I sometimes hear godawful distortion in mid-high range, similar to low bitrate mp3 artifacts, this wobbly drum sound. This sort of thing (see link), I kid you not - it’s that bad. I’m pretty sure it only happens when there’s a short, loud noise which wasn’t present before so ANC wasn’t prepared for it. And I don’t use adaptive ANC btw, but it still behaves suspiciously adaptive anyway, any Ear user will know what I’m talking about.
This never happened with Ear (2) (although that one suffered from the “adaptive” ANC as well, you could clearly hear when ANC became stronger or weaker and it was very distracting).
So, two questions: does anyone else experience this or is my hardware just faulty perhaps? And two, what can I do to remedy this? Disabling ANC is not an option, unfortunately, although that solves the sound quality issue. Or maybe the outside noise just makes it so I can’t hear it.