The AirPods Max went on deep discount today -- to $429 on Amazon. What are the chances they will drop the price from $549 in the Apple Store? Want to get the engraving but want the discount too!
Well, miss out on lossless if that’s important to you.
Also, if you finally transitioned completely from lightning to usb-c, it would kinda suck to have to still keep a lightning cable around just for one thing.
AirPods Max USB-C were available for several days last week, at $399 from Best Buy. And you could use the PayPal 20% discount offer as well. My net price was $345, including tax.
Assuming you're in the US and want 'new', there would be no reason to hunt down the Lightning version.