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Apple AirPods Max, video analysis

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A wireless headset where design is key

As often happens with other Apple equipment, as soon as you take them out of the box you know that you are facing a product with a good finish. His metallic material It helps a lot to this feeling and is that it is the same as the Macbook chassis or the back of the iPad. This offers a component attractive and differentiating difficult not to appreciate, although it is also true that it can create a certain impression of fragility that continues to accompany me today. Don’t get me wrong: so far and after several weeks of testing, the headphones are still intact despite having brushed them more than once with something – and thinking that he had scratched them – but that feeling or fear still does not go away completely.

The sheath that these headphones bring also does not help to feel more protected, it should also be noted. Regardless of its design (which is, well, pretty weird), the biggest problem I see with it is that does not offer comprehensive protection of the team. The entire headband is exposed and even part of the lower area of ​​the headset is also exposed, so in the end the headphones are never 100% protected to be carried in a backpack or in a bag with peace of mind with other things .

Apple AirPods Max - Review

Talking about your comfort, these peripherals are very comfortable. When I first picked them up I thought: “wow, these headphones are heavy”, but it is true that later you realize that their design perfectly distributes the pressure on the head, with an ideal fit on the ears and with a top band that, Perhaps it is because of the thin and elastic mesh that it has, but that does not disturb anything when using them. We go back a bit to what I told you at the beginning of this article: Apple is a specialist in making very good designs – well, almost always – and here it more than proves it.

Apple AirPods Max - Review

The pads They are also very comfortable, they sink just enough and the only “but” I could put on them is that their fabric finish can give some heat in summer, but it is something that right now is impossible for me to verify.

Apple AirPods Max - Review

Regarding the controls, Well, they are another display of the care that the Cupertino house has put into design. The Max have two action buttons reminiscent of the Apple Watch, very easy to find by feeling (which is very appreciated) and comfortable handling. Do you know that click click click What does the wheel of the Watch, the so-called Digital Crown, do? Well, right here you will also notice it and it is very tasty. It seems that you are putting the combination of a safe of how precise it is, something that translates into the existence of many levels to control much better and with more precision volume – which is what this action is for.

Performance: at the height of the high-end

Speaking of sound performance, I have several things to tell you that I think are important. The first one is that its multiple smart functions -I will explain more about them in the first part, more «technical», of our video-, computational audio, equalization … they work really well and do all the work so you just have to put the ear, but at the same time they lose control. What do I mean by it? Well, because the customization settings that the headphones have are very scarce, not allowing, for example, the most knowledgeable and connoisseurs of sound to better control certain audio parameters that they may look for in such headphones. premium and of such high cost.

Do they sound good? They sound incredibly good. Better than the Sony WH-1000XM4, considered “its great rival”? There I could no longer tell you. I would dare to say that the sound of the AirPods Max is slightly cleaner and clearer in the highs, but I am not a sound expert who knows how to differentiate all the nuances that can be in these high-end equipment. What I am clear about is that comparing them or not, they will leave you satisfied with satisfaction because the audio quality is fantastic.

Apple AirPods Max - Review

The synchronization with Apple computers also instant. As soon as you put them in your head, the link with the MacBook, the iPhone … is instantaneous. And as for its battery, they meet the times promised by Apple quite well, the biggest problem that I see is the fact that they can never be turned off completely. As you read. The moment you remove the headphones from your head, the Maxs enter a resting state with a very low consumption it even becomes accentuated after some time in the case (they go into an ultra-low-power state), but there is no way to ever completely ‘unplug’ them.

Apple AirPods Max - Review

I have left for the end of this review what has undoubtedly surprised me the most about these Max and is the subject of the Noise Cancellation and, above all, in his way “transparency”. Not so much the first, which does it very well but whose isolation is just as good as that of the Sony, as the second: that moment when you press its button and activate the passage of outside noise. Seriously, it’s a blast.

Apple AirPods Max - Review

Surely you know that with Sony, To let the sound through, you have to put your hand on the right earphone, something that activates its “transparency” mode. I have always thought that the function is well executed but it is true that many times I have seen the need to take them off to maintain a fluid conversation because no matter how much that external sound facilitates, it does not get close enough or how to 100%. With the AirPods Max the same does not happen to me.

Apple AirPods Max - Review

Pushing its button is practically making me feel as if I didn’t have them on. You know that the microphone is activated, because in the end there is a certain touch (very very faint) canned in what you hear, but in the end what you stay with is that you get a super loud, clear and clear sound that allows you to carry on a conversation complete and comfortable without having to take them off at any time. It is by far the characteristic that has surprised me the most about them and I assure you that no matter how much I explain in these lines, it is something that you have to try to understand it.

To buy or not to buy the AirPods Max?

As you have already noticed, I have not wanted to stop at the price of the AirPods Max. After all, his label is already known to all of us (629 euros) and at this point debating about it I think is absurd. Is it an expensive product? Yes. Is it a quality product in which you are also paying for design and branding? Well too.

Apple AirPods Max - Review

My recommendation in this sense is that if you do not have a special predilection for the brand, the design does not attract your attention and you are looking for something more balanced quality / price, opt for the WH-1000XM4 (and even the WH-1000XM3), which are still my go-to headphones to recommend to anyone who asks me for good quality noise-canceling over-ear wireless.

Apple AirPods Max - Review

Do you have other Apple products, do you like this design and do you understand the investment involved? Then the AirPods Max they are definitely your headphones. And it is that they can hardly be able to disappoint you.

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