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Re: AirPods Max

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Post by dijit »

mabbo wrote: post #37

Remember the days when Apple was breaking new ground, pushing the limits? The iPod was fundamentally a game changer in the music space. The iPhone caught Blackberry with their pants down and they never recovered. Macbooks were a level up in so many ways to their competitors. It was worth paying extra for the device Apple was selling because everyone else was years behind them. Now it's wireless headphones with techno…

For... the very little that it’s worth, these must have been in development for a long time given that I remember reading a patent 4 years ago from Apple that was for over-ear transparency mode.

As much as it’s an evolution of the AirPods Pro and doesn’t do anything completely new, you can’t say that innovation wasn’t driven here.

The price point is pretty dire though.

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Post by jankotek »

clolege wrote: post #15

These are quite appealing for their spatial audio support, without seeming quite as throwaway as the in-ear AirPods [0]. I wonder if they'll end up sounding like beats? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23826070

$500 for headphones is fine, if they would last 20 years.

AirPods look like flimsy plastic stuff. For portable heapdhones they are not water resistant, do not fold and not even come with hard case. And given apple, there will be no spare parts and manuals.

Get Sony, much better value.

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Post by maguay »

llbowers wrote: post #57

I wonder if this will eat into their Beats market. What is Apple’s long term play with Beats anyway? These are beautifully designed and no doubt they will pair seamlessly with other Apple devices, but that price tag seems...audacious to put it nicely.

They may be taking Beats low market, as this year’s Beats Flex have AirPod tech at $49, leaving Apple branded headphones with the premium market.

Re: AirPods Max

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Post by diffeomorphism »

nojito wrote: post #60
lma21 wrote: post #49

A few months ago, I experienced sort of an inflection point regarding the love I had for Apple products when my iPhone broke for no reason whatsoever: it worked perfectly during the day, no physical scratch or anything, woke up and I noticed that the phone was hot, i opened it, tried to close some apps and I noticed that it's quite slow. I opened the settings and kept getting notification popups regarding storage and…

>I'll never buy an 'un-repairable' headset for $549. What other headphones are repairable at that price point?

Pretty much all of them?

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Post by mirthflat83 »

mabbo wrote: post #37

Remember the days when Apple was breaking new ground, pushing the limits? The iPod was fundamentally a game changer in the music space. The iPhone caught Blackberry with their pants down and they never recovered. Macbooks were a level up in so many ways to their competitors. It was worth paying extra for the device Apple was selling because everyone else was years behind them. Now it's wireless headphones with techno…

They literally just released M1 macbooks a couple weeks ago lmao

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Post by decafninja »

reedf1 wrote: post #46

> Using the gyroscope and accelerometer in AirPods Max and iPhone or iPad, spatial audio tracks the motion of a user’s head as well as the device, compares the motion data, then remaps the sound field so it stays anchored to the device, even as the user’s head moves. I'm not sure I want this? What does this actually mean?

It sounds like an unnecessary overengineered feature to me.

Could be something Apple is testing and "pre-staging" for the future though. VR/AR?

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Post by stetrain »

crispyporkbites wrote: post #51

Yes these are expensive, but I understand that these will work seamlessly with your iphone, macbook etc. Compared to my bluetooth Sony headphones, where pairing is always hit and miss, I can see why someone wearing headphones all day and tranistioning between apple devices would see this as a reasonable purchase. Plus you get the virtue signalling of being "rich"

I have the Sony XM4s which support multi device pairing.

It works fairly well, but every time a new device connects the headphones say loudly into your ear

"BLUETOOTH. DEVICE. TWO. CONNECTED."

... over whatever you were listening to.

And you can't turn that feature off or replace it with a simple tone.

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Post by bosie »

Etheryte wrote: post #39
headmelted wrote: post #7

$549 a pair. Yikes. I'm fairly confident I've reached my own personal peak for Apple pricing. As a spectator I've no doubt these will sell massive numbers but I'm curious to learn what the market will bear for Apple's products.

For comparison, Sony's WH-1000XM4 which are currently widely considered the state of the art in the active noise cancelling over-ears, will cost you anywhere between $300-$400 depending on where you are. (I was very surprised the price can vary that widely, actually. On Sony's US page they're $279, while in the EU they're €380 which is about $460.)

i had both the sony wh-1000xm4 and now use the sennheiser momentum 3. via bluetooth i have the same problem on both my macbook pro and iphone: they lag. i watch a youtube video (on ios in the app; on osx browser or a video app) and the sound is a few ms behind (very noticeably though).

any idea what's going on there and/or if apple would solve this somehow with airpods max?

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Post by ordinaryradical »

headmelted wrote: post #7

$549 a pair. Yikes. I'm fairly confident I've reached my own personal peak for Apple pricing. As a spectator I've no doubt these will sell massive numbers but I'm curious to learn what the market will bear for Apple's products.

In the same boat. Love music, love hi fidelity headphones, very enthusiastic about wireless for home office use, not at all interested in these.

“One touch set up” is just not a feature anywhere on my Venn Diagram of excitement.

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Post by akmarinov »

reedf1 wrote: post #46

> Using the gyroscope and accelerometer in AirPods Max and iPhone or iPad, spatial audio tracks the motion of a user’s head as well as the device, compares the motion data, then remaps the sound field so it stays anchored to the device, even as the user’s head moves. I'm not sure I want this? What does this actually mean?

They have it on the AirPods Pro as well, basically it makes it seem that the audio comes from your iPhone or audio source, even when you move.

It’s cool but I’m not sure why it exists.

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