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Apple Announces AirPods Max Over-Ear Headphones With Noise Cancellation, Priced at $549
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Because you’d need to strap one to each ear, so that would actually be much more expensive?
This guy is not into headphones. Repeating internal marketing terms like spatial audio, transparency mode shows how much he doesn't know.
Impressive as they look (and from their description) sound. They seem way over priced.
I have a pair of Bowers & Wilkins PX7 and these cost £300. For me I can't see the AirPods Max offering sound quality or feature value that is worth an extra £250.
I also don't like the look of that mesh material on the earcups, it just doesn't look durable. I prefer the leather/artificial leather that are on most other earphones.
Too be fair, it would be an impressive product if it were in the £300 price range.
Or and that so called carry case, it looks pathetic.
I have a pair of Bowers & Wilkins PX7 and these cost £300. For me I can't see the AirPods Max offering sound quality or feature value that is worth an extra £250.
I also don't like the look of that mesh material on the earcups, it just doesn't look durable. I prefer the leather/artificial leather that are on most other earphones.
Too be fair, it would be an impressive product if it were in the £300 price range.
Or and that so called carry case, it looks pathetic.
I paid $500 for a pair of Master & Dynamics that sounded great and had great Bluetooth features, but which used a micro-USB charge port that broke after the warranty expired and would have cost several hundred dollars to fix. So I don’t see this price as ridiculous, though it all depends on how good the sound is.
the games on PS5 are certainly better than the games on these headphones.
When I saw the price of these I had one of those stomach jumping into your throat sorts of feelings.
I am curious to try these out but that case! It looks like a purse and doesn't look like it fully covers the AirPods.
You’ll probably go apoplectic but it doesn’t matter. If you take an unbiased look at comparison data, once you get above about 192 kbps the human ear can’t tell the difference between lossy and lossless formats. You may think you can. You can’t. Feel free to look into it, or get some friends and conduct a (fair) test yourself. Which means that a 320kbps AAC via BT5.0 between two native devices will be indistinguishable from an AIFF or M4A/FLAC or WAV or whatever lossless codec has taken over your storage space.
Fair enough. They will sell well but those who buy them won't appreciate that there are better options. It's outrageous that these lack LDAC or some other lossless codec for the price. For 300 I could forgive them but for 550 I want LDAC or something comparable. Most buyers won't care I suppose. I think that's what bugs me the most about Apple.I agree with what you say except that the target buyer won't buy them - Apple are very successful with Prosumer products and there's a lot of people that won't think twice about grabbing a pair just because, even if in terms of audio quality they're more comparable to a set of $2-300 wireless headphones (and frankly I think if these really did push the boat out on wireless sound quality Apple would be selling themselves short with this pricing). Lots of people with lots of disposable income are easy pickings for Apple's marketing team
Yeah, sucks that they give most buyers what they want.
I'm pretty sure the fancy colors and ridiculous carry case/purse tells us who they are aimed at and it's not audiophiles. And if that didn't tell you the lack of LDAC should... These are aimed squarely at the consumer market.
And if you don’t keep them in the case, does that mean they stay “on” like AirPods and the battery runs down? Of so, that’s going to probably be a deal-killer for me (even if I could find a way to justify the price).
More accurately they prey on the fact that most buyers don't know that they are paying a premium price for subpar tech. A perfect example is the lack of a 120 screen on the iphone 12. Flame away.
Oh in Spain is just 629 euros!! While Homepod Mini is 99 dollars and 99 euros. The price is kind of obscene for non pro Earphones. The only MAX is the price. Dissapointed with Tim here
No, you can actually use an Lightning to audio jack cable , sold sperately. I don't know why they don't make this clearer on their website page...
I tried the XM3 and ended up with the Bose 700 which I love. Don't know if the XM4 is substantially different than the XM3