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Re: AirPods Max 2

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Post by ranger_danger »

zamalek wrote: post #285
Paria_Stark wrote: post #227

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Doubt audiophiles are really the target for the AirPods Max.

I'm a slight audiophile, enough to own a Schitt stack and lower-end planar magnetics, overall cost would be slightly more than the AirPods Max 2. I did try the previous generation and walked away with no emotional response either way to the quality of the sound. The Apple tax makes me extremely skeptical that I would get $500+ worth of sound quality, however ANC upsets that equation quite a bit. For around the same c…

> You also can't experience true lossless on any bluetooth audio output device

Pretty sure you can... there's no technical reason you cannot use BT purely as a digital-only lossless data carrier. Whether or not current devices exist that work this way may be another story though.

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Post by menno-sh »

KoolKat23 wrote: post #509
AdamN wrote: post #493

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The Beats brand was a great entrée to an entire market segment that Apple was trying to better access. I'd say it was a masterful acquisition (and integration).

I completely disagree. Beats brand basically disappeared after that or at the least has become "uncool". Apple had iTunes already, they very well could've acqui-hired and improved their service themselves. Apple music slowly died and is only becoming resurgent now, many years later.

Beats (or I guess Apple under the Beats name) still make H1/2 based in-ears that are generally well received.

Re: AirPods Max 2

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Post by mwelpa »

kakacik wrote: post #220
porphyra wrote: post #136

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Isn't this pricing pretty in line with other high end ANC headphones? e.g. Bowers & Wilkins PX8 ($699), Focal Bathys ($849), Sony WH-1000XM6 ($399), Kef Mu7 ($399), Bose QC Ultra ($449)

Or Sennheiser momentum 4, 150 bucks and sound at least as good if not better, have absolutely huge battery compared to tiny apple one, more comfortable and generally work much better with non-apple ecosystem (also apparently they support multi-device pairing but I haven't used that one). Don't pay the novelty price shortly after release, these go down quite a bit after introduction, ie last year Sony are basically th…

Yeah, but anc is trash in the Sennheisers.

Re: AirPods Max 2

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Post by t1234s »

When the max 1 came out I tried them out in a busy apple store back to back with airpod pro 1 and didn't notice that much of a difference with the active noise cancellation to justify double the price.. Is that something that has improved over time with firmware updates?

Re: AirPods Max 2

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Post by nsbk »

I've been waiting for this release for a long time. I lost my first gen Maxes and was expecting for a significant upgrade to get a new pair. This feels like a very minor update to the originals and not really a new product.

Considering the modest update and the fact that they lose many of the quality of life features if outside of the Apple ecosystem, which I am becoming increasingly disenchanted with, I will be looking elsewhere.

Re: AirPods Max 2

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Post by jnrk »

wil421 wrote: post #308
larrik wrote: post #206

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As someone who has never seen these or paid attention to them I was thinking "how heavy could they possibly be?" Then I saw 13.6 oz and I was blown away. That's actually really heavy for headphones!

People wear them at work daily and it doesn’t seem to be a problem. One guy looks likes he’s Tier 3 support and uses them 8 hours a day 5 days a week for years. People compliment my Jabra’s voice quality otherwise I would’ve switched already.

I have absolutely no problem with the weight. My only gripe is with the battery and lack of a power button.

Re: AirPods Max 2

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Post by roryirvine »

argee wrote: post #498
nunez wrote: post #454

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They sound incredible (with Apple products), feel super premium, excel at noise cancelling and have really good mics. I've tried Bose and Sony; in fact, I have two pairs of QC Ultras sitting in their boxes waiting to be sold. Neither sound as good, even after EQing them as close to the Harman curve as their software allows (with Apple products; I haven't tried them with AptX streaming) and both were slower at cancell…

I’m always surprised at how people seem to assign zero value to seamless switching of headphones between iPhones, MacBooks, Vision Pros etc. Only those who haven’t been spoiled by the luxury of not having to even think before just starting to play music from a laptop when music on your phone was already playing into your headphones could think this way…

Is that not a standard feature?

My ~6 year old Jabra headphones connect to two devices simultaneously, and can easily switch between a total of five at the touch of a button. My Pixel Buds do the same (called 'multipoint' and 'audio switch').

Yeah, things were more awkward in the mid 2010s, but I'd expect everything from the current decade to be able to do it without issue.

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Post by _ks3e »

hnburnsy wrote: post #422
_ks3e wrote: post #163

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Replacing the batteries on the Maxes is actually a fairly straightforward process (no adhesive melting required, just a screwdriver and a pry bar), and spare batteries can be purchased on Amazon or Ebay for around 50 USD. It's one of the better Apple products in that regard, very unlike the in-ear models.

Did that change with the Air Pod Max USB-C, because iFixit says you have to get past adhesive to get to the batteries, after you turn the specialized screws only a quarter turn, and then use a dental pick to separate the pieces after you heat the adhesive being careful not to melt other parts? https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+Max+Teardown/139369 >The next round of frustration: adhesive. That's right, releasing…

You don't have to melt through that adhesive - it's incredibly weak and you can just pop it out with a sufficiently thin pry bar. This guide [1] does it with an iSesamo, but I just used a utility knife since I had one on hand and wasn't particularly concerned with scratches (the entire seam is covered by the headphone pads, so scratches around it are invisible).

[1]: https://docs.kenp.io/airpods-max/usb-c-kit/v1dot1_assembly/

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