apple what could you possibly be thinking according to the internet i'm the
biggest apple hater out there and yet here i am on launch date with
the airpods max why would you send it to me
oh we bought them all right well we bought them so these come in
at 550 us dollars which means that
naturally in the uh current
environment we paid how much was it 400
canadians 1200 canadian all i have to say
is these things better be flipping awesome
i have cloistered myself i know absolutely
nothing about them other than what is on my spec sheet here
they come in five different colors so we got the
basically black i guess is what this space gray with a black headband
that's what we've got they've got eight active noise cancelling microphones and
if there's anything i know about apple's active noise cancelling technology based on my
experience with the airpods pros it's that my
expectations for this are extremely high it's got three mics for voice so two of
those are also used for anc that gives you a total of
nine microphones on these things and they've
got an apple h1 chip in each ear cup what kind
of carrying case is this
truly it is the bra purse
oh i can already tell that that's probably not going to be enough cushion
for my head pushing i mean it's one thing for a pair of
headphones to be comfortable when you first put it on for like 10 minutes
it's quite another for a pair of headphones to be comfortable when you've been sitting listening to them for
you know three hours on a super long train ride or whatever the case may be
all right well it's got a magnetic dudata majig there
two apples credit it's fast to put in and take out i guess
okay first let's finish the unboxing okay lightning charging cable lightning
to type c cable included no charger do you see brazil challenged apple's stance that including
a charger is or not including a charger is for environmental purposes they were
like sorry what a charger is sort of fundamental to using the product you
guys are going to need to include chargers okay we've got little
paper protectors this is nice though nice environmentally friendly packaging
okay all right only twist one way so
that means it's you know you don't have to have any like muscle memory for which way it folds to
put in the case the ear pads are removable it's magnetic
absolutely freaking love that nice big drivers in
there although i wouldn't have expected anything less from an audio product that
cost 550 us dollars although i do want to take a second to
comment on the price i saw people outraged about a 550
price tag for these and i guess if all you've ever known
for high-end consumer audio is like
bose you know qcs then 550
seems like a lot but i can tell you from the audiophile community point
of things that's like wow well these are like bang for the buck
wow they've even got wireless built in at that price what is a disappointment
from an audiophile standpoint is you don't even have the option of driving them with an external
amp and dac so you can see here the only interface for these
in true modern apple fashion is you've got lightning down here for charging
and guess what that's flipping it
so if you want to plug them into your you know hi-fi setup at home or whatever
you might as well just give up bluetooth is all we've got a
crown kind of wheel and button up here another
button over on what is the right ear cup i love these nice clear labels on the ear cups
you see that david not that that is how i would evaluate a
pair of headphones but they do look pretty freaking sick in
terms of sizing i'd say if you've got a super
you'd have to have a pretty super small head for this to not go small enough for
you like i don't think my kids could wear it but if you're an adult it should be no problem
and oh they powered on immediately so intuitive i already figured out how the
active noise cancellation works i just went to like adjust them on my head
and immediately the exact same noise that i expect from my airpods pros
uh the active noise cancellation i think was on by default so it kicked off and
now i've turned it back on it's a little bit of hiss just a little
bit a little bit of that active noise
cancellation pressure they're heavy though like metal
construction has been attempted many times on headphones and rarely
well but to their credit they're holding really well you're holding back
shake test oh there's a little bit they've
they got momentum to the headband's credit
this held up way better than i expected
like usually i can tell very quickly like oh yeah there's a
ridge running across my head they've got just enough ear clamp
pressure that it might be okay but like i said i'd
have to really wear them for two hours to see if they eventually fatigue me
hold on a second sorry i'm having a hard time hearing you just have to turn on the transparency whoa
to an even greater extent than the airpods pros
i kind of feel like i am listening to myself on the radio
can you guys just tell tell me uh james tell me about uh
how's your how's your daughter doing well uh she's
she climbs on everything yeah okay you sound totally normal to me though
it's like it's damn close like that's impressive
okay so the crown controls so you turn it for volume control
press once for play pause or to answer a phone call twice to skip forward
three times to skip back this button has a nice feeling to it actually
and press and hold for siri i think it's a little easy to press for my liking
though like every time i grab them i'm like i'm pressing and holding it it's the
kind of thing that once you own the product realistically you're gonna get used to it in time but
it's it adds an adjustment period that there maybe didn't have to be when you put it
into the smart case it makes them go into a lower power state
why wouldn't they just go into a lower power state when you take them off your head like
every other pair of wireless headphones in this price bracket you don't want
everybody walking around with stuff so you have to carry this stupid case
around with you that is completely asinine why wouldn't you just have i mean this is
ugh see i sit here and i try to
appreciate the good things but then apple just has this like
point of clarification it does eventually go into low power mode
but it takes two hours to get there why don't we just
have a button combo for this i just i fixed it for you apple
let's pair it to a phone we're gonna go with my iphone because there are some
features that work better on iphone apple's spatial audio
uh 360 degree virtual surround only works on iphone uh the seamless
sharing and switching features are unlikely to work on Android uh so this
lets you sort of seamlessly switch between your mac and your iphone which
is pretty cool or share an audio stream with another pair of airpods uh voice activation will
be specific to siri and the headphones have a lightning port
for charging rather than usb type-c that's not strictly speaking something
that is you know works better on iphone but it'll certainly integrate better into
your the rest of your ecosystem if you have an iphone and use lightning for all of
your charging so normally you just like bring airpods close to an iphone and it
just like kind of magically pops up is it do i have to like take it out of the
magic case to magically pair i don't know yeah like if you just open up the
case of your pods it just pairs so i'm just kind of like making assumptions here nope magic case
doesn't even have that functionality thanks magic case smart case i don't whatever hold the
crown press this maybe holding them both is
bluetooth pairing oh wait whatever it's here i don't even
know what put it in pairing mode why does it not just have a light for pairing mode
oh yeah it does there it is i think okay whatever it's connected
magical enough all right let's go with songs that you guys are allowed to hear
can you guys is it completely noise isolated like can you guys hear anything i can't hear you
okay i hear something so if i like crank it and i'm like vibing on the bus or
whatever i can hear a bit now yeah even even with
transparency mode on i can't hear a damn thing you're saying sorry i can hear it a bit you can hear it okay
so that's a good sign when you're trying to build a product
with active noise cancellation one of the first steps is building
something with good noise isolation because it's obviously a lot harder to
compensate for sound waves that are getting right through it into your ear holes if
you can just block out most of it in the first place it makes life a lot simpler now let's
just pop into the settings app uh so there's transparency there's just
off so this is no anc but wow these are really isolating like i feel like i'm
inside my own head yeah like i can i can hear it but it's
like it's like i've got my bed sheets and my pillows like over top of my head
and i'm like talking to myself like i can almost feel the vibration of
my voice in my own skull that's actually kind of
trippy i would definitely have them in transparency mode or anc all the time i
would never do this not really a whole lot to adjust i'm
sure there's like third-party apps for eq but that's something we can explore
in the full review make sure you're subscribed to Linus tech tips so you don't miss that we'll also be comparing
two boses uh what are these noise cancelling headphones 700's as well as
sony's i think these are their gen 4 xm4 yeah they sound a little
better to me in this like off mode but everything
else is kind of weird and trippy so all right let's try transparency mode
and can you guys uh i'm going to listen at like sort of a reasonable volume here
let's see if i can kind of hear you i can hear myself much better and i don't actually know i don't notice the
unnatural sound of my own voice anymore jono how's your how's your dog doing
how's cadence he's doing fantastic can't hear a damn word you're saying okay
uh let's try someone louder david yeah tell me tell me about cyberpunk
cyberpunk is a video game that is a hot
mess but i'm enjoying the heck out of it and all right wait to go home and play more
yeah okay so it's usable i'd still have to turn down what would i think would be
my typical listening volume but it's working let's pop it in noise cancellation
because this is probably how i would use them the vast majority of the time
so even at i would say a fairly modest listening volume
i'm not expecting to hear a word you guys are saying
james how was your commute this morning
okay i can tell you're just making noises now because i could see
i could barely hear that okay were you doing it loud
oh i see so just like with the airpods
pros i'm really impressed with the active noise cancellation apple's done a great job of
reducing that that pressure feeling on your ears and
it works really well i take issue already with apple's claims
that what what did they call this the the best audio experience
possible or on the market or something like that they're not
like within about four seconds
they're not why does apple make me do this
like if they had just said yeah they're pricey because they're made of a solid
piece of aluminum for each ear cup and they have great modern features like high-end
bluetooth connectivity and spatial audio you know what do you want from us
they're pricey they're you know 150 more than the competition deal with it
if that's what they said i'd have been like fair enough apple i get it don't call
them the best sounding headphones yeah rated for 20 hours of listening
time on a single charge with anc or transparency
up to 20 hours of movie playback on a single charge with spatial audio on so
that's pretty sweet uh we're gonna have to try that in the full review i'm actually kind of excited
for that that'd be pretty sweet being able to take like a
5.1 setup around with you effectively at most actually that actually makes
sense five minutes charge time provides one and a half hours of listening time
that's pretty sweet so you can top them up right before you you know leave and 20 hours of talk time on a
single charge man i would feel like such a douche bag like walking around having
phone calls on this thing i mean maybe it's just like it just needs to become you know the norm though
like i'm sure people felt like douches with their air pods at first
maybe this will just become normal because lord knows apple is
not having any difficulty selling the things first impressions then
build quality feels great they're surprisingly comfortable
they look outstanding i mean you know what it's not like i'm gonna gloss over
that they look absolutely sick and they sound
pretty damn good even if it just doesn't hold up to what
apple claimed they sounded like go get yours for 550
just kidding they're gonna cost you probably another 250 bucks on top
of that because scalpers you scalpers
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