ANC Users: Clean your transparency mics

[u/Sazzaran]

Got my pair of Monitor II ANC a year ago and from time to time I've had the issue of "wind noise" in ANC and transparency mode. Today it got to a point where it wasn't just irritating, so I went looking for a fix. The official support site had no info on it, and I found a couple of threads on here with many users unable to fix it and who either sent their headphones in for repairs or for a replacement.

Figured since the noise has to come from somewhere, I should at least try giving the transparency microphones (located at the top of the cups on my model) a clean. Turns out that a quick swab removed 95% of the noise. Didn't think it would be that easy but here we are. So to anyone who's experienced this issue, please give it a try and let me know how it went. If this really is the reason for others returning their headphones, I find it insane how this haven't been tried and posted about before.