apple airpods max stylish trendy
fashionable the ultimate status
except they're fake these knock off a pull not to be
confused with apple air max cost less than 200
all while promising to deliver a one-to-one
authentic experience whatever that means
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it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that the market for knockoff apple
products is absolutely huge if you roll over to your favorite
unscrupulous ecommerce site be it aliexpress dhgate or wish you will find
an absolute mountain of fake apple products
apple watch for 18 sounds good to me
well sort of these kinds of super budget rip-offs are
usually nothing like the original product aside from bearing a passing
resemblance to it the performance and build quality will be terrible the
battery life is typically non-existent and the feature set won't even be in the
same universe let alone ballpark but in certain categories if you step up
your budget a bit there's this weird middle ground of
premium knockoff devices that can actually come pretty close to the real
thing and that is what i suspect we have here today
these specific headphones were sent over by a company that calls themselves
pro max very clever name by the way and they
included a little note hi Linus
we here at promax are excited for you to review our newest headphones
when we designed these headphones we wanted to make something similar to the
airpods max and have an emphasis on
price to quality ratio active noise cancellation different colors sound
quality we guarantee this will be the best headphones available under the 200
mark and the closest it will ever get to
the original airpods max wow same
material same sound same style just much
more affordable enjoy promax team available at www.atpromax.com
um sad story by the way that website appears to be gone honestly speaking
this note raises more questions than it answers i mean when we designed these
headphones what does that even mean does it count
as design if you just scan someone
else's product and carbon copied it or maybe even somehow gained access to
their tooling i don't want to be a snob but best headphones available under 200
and closest it will get to the original airpods max
you gotta pick one bra because their headphones under 200 that sound a lot
better than even the real airpods max they're
they're okay same material same sound same style just much more affordable i
will be the judge of that because i have both a pair of real airpods max
and oh right the pro max oh my god i see i got confused i was like wait a minute
i thought it's airpods max not earpods pro max yes it is airpods max i have
both a pair of real airpods max and the promax promaxes
and i am going to be comparing them starting with trying to figure out which
one of these is the real one and which one is fake because
not gonna lie i cannot tell based on the packaging
wait yes i can this has to be the fake
apple's um apple's paper quality is higher no i'm serious that's a thing
somehow it looks like they actually got their hands on apple's original assets
rather than it just being a high quality scan no no no no hold on
i think there's less contrast in the print it's really interesting to me that
they didn't have the guts to put air pods like on the name of the product
because i guess they were worried that would attract apple's lawyers but then
they so they again they don't put apple here but they put their address as one
apple parkway cupertino california
where i don't understand these lines you're drawing
i think this is actually for like customs reasons so if you're importing
like knockoff products it's not as illegal if they're not
called the same thing right but here's the problem it says
right here airpo oh my god this is hilarious
airpods max silver with white headband
designed by apple in california
apple you don't have a california design
studio oh my god compatible with iOS and ipad
os devices apple watch or mac with the
latest software so i better not try and pair it with an apple watch i better
make sure i have an apple watch you gotta get immersed in the ecosystem all
right i haven't actually looked at the airpods max since we did our review
because why would i so i'm gonna start with the fake ones and i'm gonna see if
without comparing to the originals i would be able to tell the difference
to be clear apple's box quality is better but this is
good so here i've got my smart case
mesh seems pretty meshy i have our pants made out
of that honestly the materials feel great like
this is super soft and the whole thing's pretty like pliable
like it feels wait a second
whoa there was a thing it popped the thing popped up did it manage to
actually pick up just like airpods max when you open them up did you put the
wrong are these the real ones just double check i i like triple
checked before but i just want to make sure oh my god these are the real ones
all right let's try this again oh god
well for starters the smart case is
not built to the same standard of quality still got magnets okay like
functionally it's exactly the same
somehow they managed to reverse engineer apple's pairing process so it works like
magic just like normal airpods would
whoa look at that everything in here
actually looks legit
connect press and hold the noise control
button okay
wait
wait a second
these are plastic did promax lie to me
same material no i need the real air pods hold on a second where'd they go
fetch me a scale let's start with the pro max pro max's
400 grams okay official airpods max
wait what what the hell okay hold on a second
are they plastic okay now i'm doubting these are so much colder to the touch no
this has to be how do they weigh more than the than the
real ones okay just don't don't answer don't answer that i want to figure it i
want to figure it out on my own okay 385
oh i'm opening these i want to find out if there's weights
inside okay this is how we'll tell which ones are
real
this feels this feels metal though okay has the resize mechanism they feel the
same but this one sounds cheaper
here hold on no no i'm going to quantify this okay david listen listen listen
hold on here's real airpods max
you got that okay fake
for knockoffs though not bad for knockoffs not bad at all also i take
back what i said about the mesh both of them this mesh is a bad design that's the
thing about copying an apple product is you're copying everything for better or
for work wow now
that's impressive i was just standing here talking while
the noise cancellation kicked in
it really works even the sound of my own voice the sound of our hvac here it's
like no okay you make that face but i have
yet to encounter a knock-off product that manages noise cancellation that
works like this try transparency mode okay now hold on a
second that did not sound very good you're quieter
but it also sounds like you're coming from over there
it's really creepy there's jakes all around me in terms of just ambient noise though
kicks it to the curb it's not bad okay i'm in transparency mode now i'm
expecting this to be not as good hi how's it going
it's muffled but it's more transparent
yeah they're definitely not using the same grade of microphones on these if
the goal was for these to pass as real
then as long as your friends don't ever call you on it and like grab them i
think you'd get away with it they did a really good job of the finish
on the plastic like let's take a moment to appreciate that for what it is it is
really really hard to nail down like uh an
anodized or like a blasted aluminum finish on plastic and these look really
close like really close oh
interesting they just totally got the clamping
pressure wrong because they have a mechanism that
allows them
yeah they have it they have it it's just it's just crappier and here on the
original airpods max it's just it's a smoother mechanism and it doesn't
require as much force so it means that when they sit on your ears wow this
transparency mode is so much better when they sit on your ears they sit at the
right angle whereas these the clamping pressure is
too much and they don't really sit at the right angle so it puts a bunch of
pressure at the top yeah this transparency mode is absolute horse poo
compared to the apple one it's impressive that they have it though
the fact that they have it at all you're right but here let's just turn it off
entirely okay talk to me hi how's it going okay
okay keep talking things and stuff and stuff and things how's it going telling
you about my day i had a fantastic morning i drank some coffee oh it is it
is markedly better than just having
very natural sounding for conversation
now this is where things might get interesting because if they did manage
to get their hands on the exact driver
they probably still sound relatively poo poo because they're not going to be
tuned properly for this plastic housing the drivers do look identical
even down to the really fine mesh in front of them
it's very loud you know if i was into a
kind of bass heavy kind of muddy mainstream
sound signature they're not bad
i am very surprised
uh okay let's see if they turn off when i
put them here it works so what i noticed
the sensors detect that you're taking them all like you take put them on the desk yeah
but like it has done the beat to tell you that they've taken them off yeah when
you put them back on you hear the beep that tells them that they're on again yeah but sometimes it doesn't pause the
music depending on the app
they're still going and they're off okay bit of a delay wait they're back
it's my chin
see okay hold on hold on hold on
i figured it out okay you put them face down on the table
and they play yeah so the sensors are just not tuned
correctly LTT's airpods max
more balanced definitely better sounding
and transparency mode is a universe
better so much better i still can't hear you just because
these are pretty loud right now way more balanced sound that's something
that apple has managed to maintain in spite of their beats acquisition yeah
they're better they're also 550 like
a song like this really reveals that even though these are much
more detailed than the fake ones they are really not great headphones it's
just there's just too much it just can't can't handle it there's not enough
resolution here anyway that's not the point the point is
we're gonna see what we can do to eq the fake ones to at least hit this level
i see you have what appears to be a suggested eq curve here so i'm going to
try yours first i i see you've uh really neutered the
bass just
goodbye bass with enough tinkering
you could reach the point of satisfying sounding i'll say that i don't know if
you could get quite to the level of the regular airpods max
now the thing i want to know next
is what have they done bluetooth wise
to make these identify as a genuine apple product now you did some sniffing
around in in what's going on there right so i did some sleeping on an Android
phone because that's all you can really do apple phones don't really give you that much data
interestingly enough they use the same exact same codec exact same bitrate
exact same sample as the real one yeah it's all the same
i wasn't able to determine how they salute it because they don't
even show apple as the manufacturer
well there are non-apple headphones
that do operate like apple headphones like beats for example well they'll work
in exactly the same way you flip open your case and it prompts you to pair the last magical thing they managed to clone
is synchronization between your apple devices so if you have an iphone and a
macbook for example if you pair these to one of your devices it will pair to both
of them but what doesn't work is switching so you're sitting there with
your iphone on the desk and you're using your macbook and you want to just like
use icloud to switch between them that that will not work you'll have to just
disconnect them from one and connecting to the other okay
well that was a very straightforward disassembly process
these bear no internal resemblance
to real ones i
don't know what else to tell you about that other than that
so i used them for like eight hours like a whole day yeah and they had like 25
battery life at the end of the day really so they last a whole day so they
last a whole day that's not bad it sounds like they have about half
of the real airpods back which makes sense the real airpods max are around 20
to 22 23 hours uh here we go so sun woda
two cells in parallel total capacity of 664 milliamp hours
and this is 470 milliamp hours in a single cell okay then
okay so that kind of checks out yeah that that tracks
now what would be surprising but
who knows is if we opened up the other side
and found that there's another cell in there i really doubt it though
yeah yeah it's just got the one cell in there
no weights or anything there's no there's no weights
wait yes there are
i thought this was a little shelf in the mold for the cell that's missing to sit
on but it's not it's a weight oh yeah
yeah that's probably like actually lead less expensive it's probably steel
oh yeah uh i don't know alex it looks
really really malleable
we have the super strong magnet bit from the LTT Store screwdriver
ah maybe it is lead i'm not going to put these back together but we did test this
already latency is worse on the knockoffs compared to regular airpods
max though it should be noted that neither of them are great and the
pausing when you take them off your ears as well as battery life monitoring work
on Android so even though the uh what what is it max pro pro max even though
pro max has disappeared it looks like you can still get your hands on these so
the question then is should you well if you don't want to support the
bootleg product industry then the answer is no no you shouldn't but if you don't
care about that and you just want to know if they're good value if your goal
is to kind of pose as an apple airpods max owner then yes i'd say they're a
great value they sound good enough it's not like they're
complete unlistenable but are these a
great value at 200 the answer is no
but you were shopping for airpods max so you probably didn't care about that
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if you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out our original review of the
airpods max they're fine i guess