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AirPods Max
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#912The price is high at $549 however given Apple's proven audio engineering I will give them the benefit of the doubt on sound quality on par with similarly priced headphones from Sennheiser, etc. I mean have you heard the speaker quality on the 16" MacBook Pro?! Literally no other laptop sounds as good. My biggest concern is if they are user serviceable. I have a pair of Sennheiser that cost around £700 when I bought t…
I don't understand apples 'proven audio engineering'. The airpods pro don't sound good and cost $250. Incredibly muddy vocals, bass is washed out, and they just don't make music sound good. I need to crank the volume sky-high before they start to sound ok. A $15 pair of sony wired earbuds beats them out in terms of sound quality. The ANC is meh, I can still hear people talk in the background, and theres a decent amou…
I think that reputation comes from Apple's historical care for iPhone audio engineering which used to have a massive advantage over Android when it came to latency, quality, and dev APIs.
Re: AirPods Max
#913Nice industrial design and I'm sure the integration and spatial audio will be great (like the Airpods Pro) but $900AUD seems about twice the price point I'd expect them to be at.
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#914Earlier quoted context omitted.
Headphones market is a crowded place. Apple with this expensive headset may be addressing very small segment of the users. I'll wait for SE model. $500 for headphones doesn't sound good to me :)
And yet they’re already nearly sold out for pre-Xmas delivery...
How do you know that?
Re: AirPods Max
#915For all the complaining about the pricing here, just set a reminder to yourself for 1 year later, when the pandemic has waned and some workplaces begin to return to normal. Then take a visual survey of how many people are wearing these in those hip open office development workspaces. You'll see the pricing didn't matter at all. You'll probably be wearing a pair yourself when you do that visual survey.
If you think of them as being just over half the price of a monitor stand [0], they're actually quite a bargain! ;-) [0] https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand
And if you're actually the target market for that stand and monitor, they are also quite a bargain, because if you're not mounting that monitor on that stand, you're mounting it on a more expensive rigging.
Re: AirPods Max
#916Earlier quoted context omitted.
I will set that reminder. My guess is these headphones will be about as popular as the original HomePod. Not a failure, but definitely a niche-y product. Apple's magic is making you pay just that bit more for a "magical" experience. Bluetooth earbuds: $100. AirPods: $159. Clunky smartwatch: $300. Apple Watch: $449. However the price difference with competing products here is so large I think Apple has priced themselv…
> However the price difference with competing products here is so large I think Apple has priced themselves out of the market here. The idea that a comment on HN has done more extensive research and modeling than Apple for a pricing a particular product is amusing.
It's mind-blowing. It's like they've never walked down the street of a major city, and see the $200+ AirPods line are already the most popular headphones used.
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#917I'm a sucker. I just bought them. I love being able to switch between my iPhone and my Mac on my AirPods. I have the Sony MX3's, and they are great. I don't like toggling between devices and having it automatically connect to my last used device, have to disconnect it from one, blah, blah. This is what Apple does. They raise prices. People are stunned initially. Others follow, then those prices are the norm. iPhone w…
Ok, can you explain to me how you do it? I have AirPod pros and the only way I can switch between devices is to go to the Bluetooth menu on the device I want to listen to and tell it to connect to the AirPods. That’s fine, and it doesn’t bother me much, but it doesn’t seem especially fast or magical to me. Is there a better way?
If your devices are on iOS 14 / macOS Big Sur then you can just start playing music or a video on one device and the audio automatically switches to that device and pauses on the one you had previously been using.
Re: AirPods Max
#918For all the complaining about the pricing here, just set a reminder to yourself for 1 year later, when the pandemic has waned and some workplaces begin to return to normal. Then take a visual survey of how many people are wearing these in those hip open office development workspaces. You'll see the pricing didn't matter at all. You'll probably be wearing a pair yourself when you do that visual survey.
I will set that reminder. My guess is these headphones will be about as popular as the original HomePod. Not a failure, but definitely a niche-y product. Apple's magic is making you pay just that bit more for a "magical" experience. Bluetooth earbuds: $100. AirPods: $159. Clunky smartwatch: $300. Apple Watch: $449. However the price difference with competing products here is so large I think Apple has priced themselv…
IIRC AirPods was cheaper TWS earbuds at launch, but soon chinese manufacturer start selling cheaper products in extremely cheaper price.
Re: AirPods Max
#919Looks like they do support wired playback. If you add them to your cart, Apple's website suggests this[0] add-on: > Lightning to 3.5 mm Audio Cable (1.2m) > Connect AirPods Max to your iOS or iPadOS device. Or connect to 3.5mm audio ports in your car, on an airplane, and more. After AppleCare, this optional 3.5mm cable, and tax, it comes out to just over $700 USD. [0]: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MR2C2AM/A/lig…
They don't support the mic over wired connection which is unfortunate, as even apple products are limited to pretty bad mic audio quality over bluetooth.
I realized this issue when I replaced a set of wire/bluetooth headphones with a new pair, and noticed the mic quality was way worse, even when wired. It turns out my old ones had a wired connection for the mic, and my new ones always use bluetooth for the mic.
After googling a bit, I found there's still no high quality microphone audio profile inside bluetooth, even after all these years.
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#920If any Apple engineers are reading this, for the love of god please make the low battery notification volume adjustable. Thank you.
Or just make it like a quarter of its current volume. I don’t think there’s been a single time that fucking notification went off where it didn’t make me physically jolt in my chair.