Apple’s cutting-edge Audio Lab in Cupertino, California, serves as a hub for its acoustic engineers’ innovative work. The lab enables them to conduct user studies across different listening rooms and to test new features within anechoic chambers, specially designed to fully absorb sound reflections and block out external noise.

The Audio Lab is central to the design, measurement, tuning, and validation of all Apple products with speakers or microphones. It also serves as the core of Apple’s extensive collaboration across teams to develop the innovative new hearing health features in AirPods Pro 2. Learn more about the Audio Lab and the hearing health features.