AIRPODS MAX
headphonesessentiallyrequireyou
to buy a third-partycase and an
overpriced3.5mmcable,both of which
shouldbe included.
The AirPodsMax occupya strange
no-man’sland of both price and
quality.They’remore expensivethan,
and more premiumthan, competing
consumerwirelessnoise-cancelling
headphoneslike the Sony XM4s or
Bose 700s. But they don’t offer sound
qualityup to the standardsof more
expensiveaudiophileheadphones,like
those from Sennheiseror Focal.
It wouldbe easierto recommend
them despitetheir shortcomingsif
Appleincludedthe 3.5mmcable,a
propercase, and charged£100 less.
You’d still be payinga premiumover
competingproductsfrom the likes of
Bose or Sony, but with materialsand
build qualityto justifyit. This is a good
product,but the intersectionof what
you pay and what you get is way off
the mark.JasonCrossSPECIFICATIONS
- Apple-designeddynamicdriver
- ActiveNoiseCancellation
- Transparencymode
- AdaptiveEQ
- Spatialaudiowith dynamichead
tracking - Optical sensor (each ear cup)
- Positionsensor(each ear cup)
- Case-detectsensor(each ear cup)
- Accelerometer(each ear cup)
- Gyroscope(left ear cup)
- Nine microphones in total: eight
for Active Noise Cancellation; three
for voice pickup (two shared with
Active Noise Cancellation and one
additionalmicrophone) - Apple H1 headphone chip (each
ear cup) - DigitalCrown
- Noisecontrolbutton
- Bluetooth5.0
- 187.3x168.6x83.4mm
- 134.5g