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Apple Announces AirPods Max Over-Ear Headphones With Noise Cancellation, Priced at $549
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Nope. NVIDIA just said recently that SAMSUNG is not able to keep up with the components needed for enough RTX 30 series stock and it was causing the stock issues.
Grocery stores in my area are still VERY empty.
I wouldn't be surprised at all when Bose and Sony fix that with their next gen models.
I used to use Sennheiser HD595 or something along those lines and I loved those headphones. Great sound and comfort.
Apple lovers will obviously buy them regardless of the price because it's an Apple product.
Many people still have good wired headphones for many years.
For everyone else, the ridiculous high price for a pair of headphones is a turn off considering that the headphones will end up in the garbage or recycle bin in a few years because of the batteries. Apple is known as an environmentally friendly company?
You know that people will use it with their iPhones, if not any other products supporting bluetooth, but some people actually do like wired cables, despite what Apple lovers say that it's outdated.
For the price, there are better headphones available for less money.
Many people still have good wired headphones for many years.
For everyone else, the ridiculous high price for a pair of headphones is a turn off considering that the headphones will end up in the garbage or recycle bin in a few years because of the batteries. Apple is known as an environmentally friendly company?
You know that people will use it with their iPhones, if not any other products supporting bluetooth, but some people actually do like wired cables, despite what Apple lovers say that it's outdated.
For the price, there are better headphones available for less money.
Where’s the button to hide all the “too expensive, won’t buy it” posts? Do you people turn up to auctions for homes you think are too expensive, never bid, but tell every person who’ll listen that it’s too expensive and you won’t buy it?
Ok yeah they’re more than you thought they’d be. But 44 pages of “nope too expensive” is ridiculous. Enough is enough.
Ok yeah they’re more than you thought they’d be. But 44 pages of “nope too expensive” is ridiculous. Enough is enough.
People saying ‘$550 for a headphone’ don’t know much about the pricing of headphones in that market. There’s headphones for much much more available.
how would you know....no one has the max's yet. your just guessing. with zero experience.
It's great ! I too own several of theirs. But it isn't because you like the HD595 that you'd like others from the same company. That's my point : Sennheiser, like a lot of other headphones manufacturers, have made products of varying quality, and the ones of a decent quality may suit better one person or another depending on various factors.
So comparing these to "Sennheiser" in general makes zero sense.
Are they headphones that compete with this though? Popular thought here is these compete more with the Bose 700 and Sony XM4
So you're "okay with the price" AND you use Tidal? There is a lot to parse there... 🤔
I’m hazarding a guess, as I haven’t bothered to delve too deep into them.... yet.
But I believe they will work wired using Lightning to USB-C, or via the bi-directional Lightning to 3.5mm aux adapter cable.
Wow, so many people complaining about the price. That makes me laugh. I would encourage you to go take a peak at Sennheiser, they have many headphones OVER 1000$. Given the materials these are reasonably priced.
I think these are aimed squarely at the same target audience as the B&O H95 - which by the way sound quite lovely.
There is a lot of parallels there in terms of industrial design and material use.
The reality is these are not really intended to complete with the mass market XM4 or Bose 700’s, and I’d certainly expect something a little more impressive than the Sony’s or Bose’s mass market sound tuning too.
By the looks of things I’d not say these are overpriced at all in the market they’re intended to compete in.
Indeed, I’ve got a HD800S at home and Sennheisee do products more expensive than that (HD820 - closed) and HE1 (Open). Although, finding a HE1 buyer would be rare.
If these provided spatial audio or some kind of surround sound with an Apple TV 4K, maybeeee they’d be worth the price. But to just listen to stereo audio with an Apple TV it’s over kill.
But that's not really comparing apples to Apples. I mean, you might as well look at Audeze, Hifiman, Abyss, etc and go over $5K. Wired, fully analog high-end headphones serve an entirely different market than their wireless, noise-cancelling, mobile counterparts. The market movers there are Bose and Sony.