From the website - https://www.apple.com/airpods-max/#footnote-5 - A quick five-minute charge delivering 1.5 hours of listening.
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AirPods Max Unboxing Videos: 'More Than Good Enough to Compete With Other High-End Headphones'
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Have you even checked out the web page for the headphones or are you just going to be lazy and rely on reviews?
I can’t judge these without hearing them myself but have some issues with the design choices
I understand people saying anyone with these is likely to have an iPhone which has lightning chargers. The issue is that it’s heavily rumored that within the next couple of releases the iPhone will lose its port. Apple is moving to wireless charging. While that may or may not be an option for headphones of this size... the remainder of Apple’s lineup that will continue to use ports for the foreseeable future are the iPad or macbook which both use USB-C. Long term it doesn’t make sense to me to include lightning for these if apple’s primary lightning device is going to lose that part and only usb-c will remain on the rest of their products
I don’t mind expensive headphones and the full review will tell the whole story.. but for substantially more money they should sound much better than the competition and not be comparable to them. People are talking about the next tier of audiophile headphones as potential competitors but apple isn’t marketing these as reference grade monitors. That doesn’t mean they don’t sound good or won’t sell well, but it’s a tougher sell to a group of people at the very high end that likely aren’t considering these or even the alternatives by Sony or Bose
The case also seems like a bad design. It doesn’t look good from the pictures, and many people put their headphones in a bag. The case doesn’t seem to provide a lot of protection.
I understand people saying anyone with these is likely to have an iPhone which has lightning chargers. The issue is that it’s heavily rumored that within the next couple of releases the iPhone will lose its port. Apple is moving to wireless charging. While that may or may not be an option for headphones of this size... the remainder of Apple’s lineup that will continue to use ports for the foreseeable future are the iPad or macbook which both use USB-C. Long term it doesn’t make sense to me to include lightning for these if apple’s primary lightning device is going to lose that part and only usb-c will remain on the rest of their products
I don’t mind expensive headphones and the full review will tell the whole story.. but for substantially more money they should sound much better than the competition and not be comparable to them. People are talking about the next tier of audiophile headphones as potential competitors but apple isn’t marketing these as reference grade monitors. That doesn’t mean they don’t sound good or won’t sell well, but it’s a tougher sell to a group of people at the very high end that likely aren’t considering these or even the alternatives by Sony or Bose
The case also seems like a bad design. It doesn’t look good from the pictures, and many people put their headphones in a bag. The case doesn’t seem to provide a lot of protection.
Totally covet these, but have other spending priorities (in spite of the reasonable, yes, reasonable price). Apple even put thought into the shipping box. I so love their design ethic. They assume nothing.
Not as long as they provide the best listening experience.
They do not get to keep them, they have a set time period to use the review item and then they are required to send it back. Failure to do so means no more early access review hardware. No, Apple doesn’t discount this stuff if you want to buy the unit. In certain cases you are reviewing an early production unit that doesn’t even have a valid “real” production serial number and is never meant for resale, just demonstration purposes.
Is the release of future port less iPhones somehow going to magically make existing cables disappear?
Come on people.
Come on people.
I'm sure they more than earned them and Apple couldn't care less. But it's more the principle and appearance. Letting them keep is basically a paid review. But who really cares? I think it's sad people on here are arguing whether MKDHDDH or iJustine are credible or not. LOL I'd never heard of MKDHDDHGD til this year but he's a joke. And iJustine? The fact she uses i in her name is kinda telling how long she's been around. You know this forum is going downhill when you see link after link for idiot youtubers like this. "not according to MDHDIDHB" He didn't like it..lol
They are BT yeah. Will work on PC.
I think for a lot of people having to put in a case is particularly “long”. But from Niley review he said they turn off after x amount of time whether in or out of the case, apparently. As the AirPod Pros don’t turn off if just laying on the desk.
Editing my voiceover audio on earbuds is perhaps the surest way to financial ruin. Any serious professional has a set of decent wired cans lying around to monitor their audio before sending it out to a client.
If people are looking for a 'consumer' perspective then they should go check out the tech reviewers but the one thing these tech reviewers will not be able to do is offer any credible view or advice on how the headphones match up to other manufacturers headphones that are within the same price range. People will have to wait till until audiophile reviewers get their hands on the headphones because these are the people who will be able to offer credible reviews on both audio performance and comparability against headphones in the same price range.
These early “reviews” from the same Apple liaisons every release are pretty lame and predictable.
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Thats what he does. All about views and clicks. When Airpods Max were first announced he made a stupid video....while he in all likelihood had them sitting on a desk next to him. Now making another video to stay tuned for his full review.
From the tech specs:
- 5 minutes of charge time provides around 1.5 hours of listening time
AirPods Max - Technical Specifications
View all technical specifications for AirPods Max.
www.apple.com
To be fair, the iPhone got a $200 price drop, and the iPod didn't really become popular until it got a $200 price drop too...
And no one is saying that they're bad headphones (actually I am, I think they're too heavy, but I'm in the minority), just way overpriced for what they bring to the table. And they should be about... wait for it... $200 less.
See the pattern here?
The only thing we will learn is that she can still flick her hair while wearing them.
Depends. I keep everything Amazon sends me. Reviewing does get old though. Have to take a break now and then or I'll have boxes piled up. But hard to turn down some of the stuff.
If ANC tech is off... what else is there to be on? Genuine question.
With my B&O H9i's, I only ever turn on / off the headsets ANC via a side-mounded switch, and with that switch, they headphones are off.
I think this is just people not getting lots of time to really play with the new kit in the rush to get a video out (which is fair enough), but I highly doubt Apple would overlook such an important thing.
Oh dear god, no! I don’t think proper cans can ever be replaced, I’m not referring to the AirPods Max here, just in general.
I’ve never met a set of buds that can compete with nice, big, over-ear cans, with (rather obviously) significantly larger drivers.
I do have a few sets of buds, wired and wireless, and they’re good, I won’t argue that. Great things can be achieved with those tiny little beasties. But not to the extent I’d want to throw out any of my full-sized, over-ear cans.
But, hey, we’re all different, which is nice. One mans meat and all that.
As for these particular headphones. It’s nice to get some opinions on them now, rather than them being a completely unknown entity. But I’ll believe it when/if I ever put them on my own head. I’ve disagreed greatly with ‘professional’ opinions on headphones many times in my life. But then, all of our ears are different - literally, we don’t all hear the same sound, from the same source. So, time will tell.
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These will sell like crazy, despite the price and the case.
Apple REALLY knows their audience, and folks will want to be seen in these.
And of course, they work with the typical Apple panache.
As far as tech reviewers out there, my go-tos are MKBHD, Dave Lee, Dieter Bohn, and of course Linus: the skeptic, if a little annoying, voice from the PC side.
Apple REALLY knows their audience, and folks will want to be seen in these.
And of course, they work with the typical Apple panache.
As far as tech reviewers out there, my go-tos are MKBHD, Dave Lee, Dieter Bohn, and of course Linus: the skeptic, if a little annoying, voice from the PC side.