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Re: AirPods Max

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Post by Tepix »

warriorstar wrote: post #915
doodpants wrote: post #636

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That doesn't make it a bargain the same way that $400 for wheels on a Mac Pro are not a bargain.

$25000 for 1,5TB of ECC RAM on a Mac Pro are not a bargain. You can buy them for $12300 yourself and plug them into the box.

Re: AirPods Max

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Post by idkwhoiam »

dahfizz wrote: post #721
low_common wrote: post #717

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 do not need to spend $500 if all you need is headphones that do their job. Its amazing to me the number of Apple fanboys in this thread that seem to think that every other pair of headphones out there is completely broken, and nothing will "just work". This has been a solved problem for like a decade.

Definitely not a solved problem. My bose qc35 II headphones constantly drop connection or connects to my ipad instead of my laptop. The sound quality is trash but I'm ok with that as I got them for active noise cancellation. ANC works great I must admit.

Re: AirPods Max

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Post by torgian »

the_arun wrote: post #864
gonehome wrote: post #845

One 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.

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 :)

There are headphones in that price range that are much better sounding too, I bet.

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Post by DevoidSimo »

low_common wrote: post #717
zcw100 wrote: post #240

I 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…

In fact the only bluetooth issue I've had with my Sennheisers is that the bluetooth driver in my mac will crash most days. Requiring a restart.

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Post by volta87 »

dahfizz wrote: post #721
low_common wrote: post #717

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 do not need to spend $500 if all you need is headphones that do their job. Its amazing to me the number of Apple fanboys in this thread that seem to think that every other pair of headphones out there is completely broken, and nothing will "just work". This has been a solved problem for like a decade.

I bought AIAIAI headphones decades ago, they work with all tech I use: I just plug them in, and they just work. No need to pair them with bluetooth, no nothing.

Since they are modular, they also have been a breeze to upgrade and repair. Need different cables? Better microphone? Its 20$ to upgrade that part of the headphone. Want to add bluetooth support? Can do that as well.

People buying and gifting pair of > 200$ headphones every year as if speakers are some kind of tech that gets outdated.

If you really care about audio quality and the environment, just buy a good pair of upgradeable headphones. They'll last you your whole life.

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Post by swiley »

zcw100 wrote: post #240

I 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'm not dealing with connectivity issues, battery issues

The $6 wired headset I bought from amazon for WFH and looks like something from the 90s works exactly like this.

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Post by timwaagh »

kmonsen wrote: post #811
timwaagh wrote: post #808

I scrolled all the way to find out the one thing im interested in with apple. How much do they take you for this time around. 549 or about 100 times what the Action store charges for headphones (with good sound). Sound is produced using magnets and a coiled up wire. Its the simplest electronic product out there by a large margin. Yet people are jumping at the chance to give apple money. I can only complement Apples m…

They seem to be sold out for the next 6 months, so I guess it is a product people want.

Yes, that's kinda the point. You see Apple, you buy.

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Post by SZJX »

zcw100 wrote: post #240

I 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…

On smartphones and tablets I can definitely agree with this sentiment. There's just nothing close to the reliability and comfort that iOS gives you (Used Nexus/Pixel for 5+ years and finally had enough and switched this year back to iPhone. God was my life so much easier).

On earphones I'm not so sure. My Sony 1000XM2 works really well and I don't have advanced needs like switching devices constantly or sharing the audio with another person. Then again, maybe we just didn't know something is possible before somebody actually delivers it out there.

The "spatial audio" thing I don't think would be a very good argument though. The promotion materials are extremely vague and I don't have much confidence that the noise cancelling/sound quality of this will be night and day compared to other established earphones. So I'm not caring too much about that aspect. As long as the sound quality is not worse than Sony/Bose/Sennheiser I'll be fine with it.

Re: AirPods Max

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Post by timwaagh »

nine_k wrote: post #816
timwaagh wrote: post #808

I scrolled all the way to find out the one thing im interested in with apple. How much do they take you for this time around. 549 or about 100 times what the Action store charges for headphones (with good sound). Sound is produced using magnets and a coiled up wire. Its the simplest electronic product out there by a large margin. Yet people are jumping at the chance to give apple money. I can only complement Apples m…

Coils, magnets, and membranes: $30. The over-the-head hardware, wire, etc: $40. Usability, care for minor conveniences, thorough support in the rest of Apple products: $529. Some other companies tried to emulate this, with limited success. It's not just a problem of designing and executing (which are real large problems), but also a problem of forming a large base of devoted fans, and a reality-distorting field™ to k…

Very much true. You cant see these out of context of the whole ecosystem. Making the best (according to many) computers, operating systems and phones means being able to sell headphones at a high margin.
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