Calling an English expert. Is “AirPods Max” singular or plural? Help. The AirPods Max is a headphone. AirPods Max are headphones. I saw two AirPods Maxes.
AirPods Max are headphones.
Soon we will all see many pairs of AirPods Max.
AirPods Max
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#852One pleasant side-effect of these is when we all start flying again it'll be even easier to find the SFO airport gate. Currently you can just look for the one with >50% Airpod use, but that's hard to see from a distance. These are much easier.
Lmao
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#853The 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'm already on my third set of AirPods so I don't have much hope on battery life
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#854I have an undisclosed short checklist of items I secretly check for when interviewing a candidate. I cannot use this list "officially" as most of the entries are either illegal or at least unethical. One of these items specifically involves finding out whether the candidate uses anything Apple/Beats for music listening. Don't ask me why, it's a telltale sign on who I am hiring. When Apple decides to make its "airpods…
Sounds like you pass on them. And if you're serious, it sounds like you're a terrible and biased hiring manager either way. You should stop doing this.
Especially since you acknowledge that it would be illegal or at least unethical if you acknowledged it. Knock it off.
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#855I think this is actually a fantastic place for Apple. I'm happy to trash Apple where appropriate and I've got plenty of complaints. I think Apple does it's best when the integration of hardware and software is really important and there is a very low tolerance for, I won't say bugs, but issues. They're headphones. I want to put them on and they need to make noise. I'm not dealing with connectivity issues, battery iss…
The Sony 1000XM3/4 series actually does all this and more already and has been for the last few years. Of all the noise cancellation headphones I've tried they're the best out there in the market and you can have them for less than $500. What am I missing here?
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#856It feels like we are seeing the result of diminishing returns with technology advancement. To make a product that Apple believes is significantly better than the competition they had to design a very intricate solution that includes: * High end look and feel not similar to the bulk of their products with lots of textile webbing and memory foam ear cups. These get way more wear and tear than normal electronics being e…
> At least 40 people worked on designing and engineering this new headphone.
You're probably off by an order of magnitude. 40 people is nothing for a largely produced product.
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#857For 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'm having a hard time understanding what you're trying to say.
As far as I understand it: OP thinks people who complain about the price, think that they won't sell while people who complain about the price are either:
- making fun of people who would have to pay the price because they feel the peer pressure or
- are pissed because now every other brand who thinks it's fashionable will push their price because they know people will pay it or
- have perfectly working headsets already which were significantly cheaper or
- are jealous that they can't pay for them
...which makes OPs comment look quite ridiculous.
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#858Earlier quoted context omitted.
> With the spatial audio they're actually cheap if you figure I'm done with any Dolby Atmos, 9.1, 7.1, 5.1 etc stand alone setup. I'm watching movies with this. Spatial audio is a replacement of true surround sound to you? it's a gimmicky weird audio effect to me. Zero sense of sound source behind or in front of me.
Humans have limited ability to discriminate between directly in front and directly in back based solely on cues encoded in the audio. It is a well-known ambiguity in how we hear space along that narrow axis. How you arrange the sound sources doesn't matter much. Research has demonstrated that human perception of a sound being "front" or "back" is determined by non-aural sensory cues. Specifically, if you can see a pl…
interesting info.
I'm sure visual sensory input factors somewhat into how audio positioning is being processed by the human brain.
However an audio experience w/o visual input via physical surround sound sources provides convincing and precise positioning of audio sources. So that indicates visual input is just a tiny factor.
What I struggle with given all audio enters the two years, regardless of headphones or multiple speakers, why is the latter so much better at conveying "surround" sound than headphone? Does this distill down to a simple scenario of sound waves entering the two ears?
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#859I think this is actually a fantastic place for Apple. I'm happy to trash Apple where appropriate and I've got plenty of complaints. I think Apple does it's best when the integration of hardware and software is really important and there is a very low tolerance for, I won't say bugs, but issues. They're headphones. I want to put them on and they need to make noise. I'm not dealing with connectivity issues, battery iss…
I bought a $100 pair of bluetooth Sennheisers that have a battery life that seems to be measured not in hours, but in days. I use them all day every day while working in the office, at home, or coffee shop. Music sounds great and so do movies. Never have to worry about the bluetooth connnection, pairs to my Mac or to my work laptop just fine. And they got to me with Amazon Prime. You do not need to spend $500 if all…
You spend hours in a coffee shop? Are you in Australia?
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#860Am I the only one who still doesn't see what the issue with an old fashioned 3.5mm pair of cabled headphones? I have a quality pair of headphones that works great, that I can easily plug into anything, except nowadays many phones. I still don't get what issue wireless is solving? All this talk of battery life and easily connecting is ridiculous. What's so horrible about a cable?
A cynical take Ive heard before: replacing a power cable with a lithium ion rechargeable battery turns many devices into a quasi subscription service (you pay for a product but then must "renew your subscription" when the battery goes out).