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apple airpods max stylish trendy

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fashionable the ultimate status

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except they're fake these knock off a pull not to be

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confused with apple air max cost less than 200

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all while promising to deliver a one-to-one

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authentic experience whatever that means

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let's see if they live up to the manufacturer's lofty claims

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it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that the market for knockoff apple

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products is absolutely huge if you roll over to your favorite

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unscrupulous ecommerce site be it aliexpress dhgate or wish you will find

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an absolute mountain of fake apple products

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apple watch for 18 sounds good to me

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well sort of these kinds of super budget rip-offs are

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usually nothing like the original product aside from bearing a passing

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resemblance to it the performance and build quality will be terrible the

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battery life is typically non-existent and the feature set won't even be in the

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same universe let alone ballpark but in certain categories if you step up

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your budget a bit there's this weird middle ground of

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premium knockoff devices that can actually come pretty close to the real

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thing and that is what i suspect we have here today

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these specific headphones were sent over by a company that calls themselves

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pro max very clever name by the way and they

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included a little note hi Linus

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we here at promax are excited for you to review our newest headphones

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when we designed these headphones we wanted to make something similar to the

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airpods max and have an emphasis on

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price to quality ratio active noise cancellation different colors sound

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quality we guarantee this will be the best headphones available under the 200

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mark and the closest it will ever get to

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the original airpods max wow same

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material same sound same style just much

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more affordable enjoy promax team available at www.atpromax.com

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um sad story by the way that website appears to be gone honestly speaking

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this note raises more questions than it answers i mean when we designed these

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headphones what does that even mean does it count

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as design if you just scan someone

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else's product and carbon copied it or maybe even somehow gained access to

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their tooling i don't want to be a snob but best headphones available under 200

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and closest it will get to the original airpods max

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you gotta pick one bra because their headphones under 200 that sound a lot

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better than even the real airpods max they're

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they're okay same material same sound same style just much more affordable i

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will be the judge of that because i have both a pair of real airpods max

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and oh right the pro max oh my god i see i got confused i was like wait a minute

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i thought it's airpods max not earpods pro max yes it is airpods max i have

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both a pair of real airpods max and the promax promaxes

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and i am going to be comparing them starting with trying to figure out which

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one of these is the real one and which one is fake because

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not gonna lie i cannot tell based on the packaging

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wait yes i can this has to be the fake

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apple's um apple's paper quality is higher no i'm serious that's a thing

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somehow it looks like they actually got their hands on apple's original assets

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rather than it just being a high quality scan no no no no hold on

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i think there's less contrast in the print it's really interesting to me that

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they didn't have the guts to put air pods like on the name of the product

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because i guess they were worried that would attract apple's lawyers but then

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they so they again they don't put apple here but they put their address as one

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apple parkway cupertino california

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where i don't understand these lines you're drawing

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i think this is actually for like customs reasons so if you're importing

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like knockoff products it's not as illegal if they're not

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called the same thing right but here's the problem it says

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right here airpo oh my god this is hilarious

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airpods max silver with white headband

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designed by apple in california

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apple you don't have a california design

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studio oh my god compatible with iOS and ipad

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os devices apple watch or mac with the

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latest software so i better not try and pair it with an apple watch i better

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make sure i have an apple watch you gotta get immersed in the ecosystem all

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right i haven't actually looked at the airpods max since we did our review

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because why would i so i'm gonna start with the fake ones and i'm gonna see if

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without comparing to the originals i would be able to tell the difference

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to be clear apple's box quality is better but this is

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good so here i've got my smart case

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mesh seems pretty meshy i have our pants made out

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of that honestly the materials feel great like

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this is super soft and the whole thing's pretty like pliable

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like it feels wait a second

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whoa there was a thing it popped the thing popped up did it manage to

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actually pick up just like airpods max when you open them up did you put the

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wrong are these the real ones just double check i i like triple

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checked before but i just want to make sure oh my god these are the real ones

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all right let's try this again oh god

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well for starters the smart case is

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not built to the same standard of quality still got magnets okay like

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functionally it's exactly the same

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somehow they managed to reverse engineer apple's pairing process so it works like

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magic just like normal airpods would

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whoa look at that everything in here

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actually looks legit

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connect press and hold the noise control

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button okay

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wait a second

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these are plastic did promax lie to me

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same material no i need the real air pods hold on a second where'd they go

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fetch me a scale let's start with the pro max pro max's

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400 grams okay official airpods max

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wait what what the hell okay hold on a second

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are they plastic okay now i'm doubting these are so much colder to the touch no

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this has to be how do they weigh more than the than the

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real ones okay just don't don't answer don't answer that i want to figure it i

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want to figure it out on my own okay 385

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oh i'm opening these i want to find out if there's weights

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inside okay this is how we'll tell which ones are

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real

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this feels this feels metal though okay has the resize mechanism they feel the

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same but this one sounds cheaper

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here hold on no no i'm going to quantify this okay david listen listen listen

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hold on here's real airpods max

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you got that okay fake

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for knockoffs though not bad for knockoffs not bad at all also i take

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back what i said about the mesh both of them this mesh is a bad design that's the

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thing about copying an apple product is you're copying everything for better or

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for work wow now

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that's impressive i was just standing here talking while

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the noise cancellation kicked in

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it really works even the sound of my own voice the sound of our hvac here it's

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like no okay you make that face but i have

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yet to encounter a knock-off product that manages noise cancellation that

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works like this try transparency mode okay now hold on a

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second that did not sound very good you're quieter

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but it also sounds like you're coming from over there

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it's really creepy there's jakes all around me in terms of just ambient noise though

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kicks it to the curb it's not bad okay i'm in transparency mode now i'm

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expecting this to be not as good hi how's it going

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it's muffled but it's more transparent

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yeah they're definitely not using the same grade of microphones on these if

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the goal was for these to pass as real

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then as long as your friends don't ever call you on it and like grab them i

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think you'd get away with it they did a really good job of the finish

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on the plastic like let's take a moment to appreciate that for what it is it is

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really really hard to nail down like uh an

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anodized or like a blasted aluminum finish on plastic and these look really

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close like really close oh

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interesting they just totally got the clamping

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pressure wrong because they have a mechanism that

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allows them

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yeah they have it they have it it's just it's just crappier and here on the

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original airpods max it's just it's a smoother mechanism and it doesn't

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require as much force so it means that when they sit on your ears wow this

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transparency mode is so much better when they sit on your ears they sit at the

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right angle whereas these the clamping pressure is

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too much and they don't really sit at the right angle so it puts a bunch of

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pressure at the top yeah this transparency mode is absolute horse poo

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compared to the apple one it's impressive that they have it though

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the fact that they have it at all you're right but here let's just turn it off

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entirely okay talk to me hi how's it going okay

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okay keep talking things and stuff and stuff and things how's it going telling

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you about my day i had a fantastic morning i drank some coffee oh it is it

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is markedly better than just having

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very natural sounding for conversation

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now this is where things might get interesting because if they did manage

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to get their hands on the exact driver

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they probably still sound relatively poo poo because they're not going to be

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tuned properly for this plastic housing the drivers do look identical

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even down to the really fine mesh in front of them

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it's very loud you know if i was into a

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kind of bass heavy kind of muddy mainstream

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sound signature they're not bad

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i am very surprised

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uh okay let's see if they turn off when i

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put them here it works so what i noticed

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the sensors detect that you're taking them all like you take put them on the desk yeah

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but like it has done the beat to tell you that they've taken them off yeah when

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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

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music depending on the app

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they're still going and they're off okay bit of a delay wait they're back

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it's my chin

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see okay hold on hold on hold on

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i figured it out okay you put them face down on the table

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and they play yeah so the sensors are just not tuned

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correctly LTT's airpods max

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more balanced definitely better sounding

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and transparency mode is a universe

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better so much better i still can't hear you just because

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these are pretty loud right now way more balanced sound that's something

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that apple has managed to maintain in spite of their beats acquisition yeah

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they're better they're also 550 like

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a song like this really reveals that even though these are much

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more detailed than the fake ones they are really not great headphones it's

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just there's just too much it just can't can't handle it there's not enough

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resolution here anyway that's not the point the point is

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we're gonna see what we can do to eq the fake ones to at least hit this level

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i see you have what appears to be a suggested eq curve here so i'm going to

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try yours first i i see you've uh really neutered the

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bass just

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goodbye bass with enough tinkering

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you could reach the point of satisfying sounding i'll say that i don't know if

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you could get quite to the level of the regular airpods max

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now the thing i want to know next

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is what have they done bluetooth wise

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to make these identify as a genuine apple product now you did some sniffing

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around in in what's going on there right so i did some sleeping on an Android

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phone because that's all you can really do apple phones don't really give you that much data

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interestingly enough they use the same exact same codec exact same bitrate

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exact same sample as the real one yeah it's all the same

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i wasn't able to determine how they salute it because they don't

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even show apple as the manufacturer

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well there are non-apple headphones

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that do operate like apple headphones like beats for example well they'll work

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in exactly the same way you flip open your case and it prompts you to pair the last magical thing they managed to clone

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is synchronization between your apple devices so if you have an iphone and a

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macbook for example if you pair these to one of your devices it will pair to both

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of them but what doesn't work is switching so you're sitting there with

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your iphone on the desk and you're using your macbook and you want to just like

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use icloud to switch between them that that will not work you'll have to just

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disconnect them from one and connecting to the other okay

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well that was a very straightforward disassembly process

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these bear no internal resemblance

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to real ones i

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don't know what else to tell you about that other than that

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so i used them for like eight hours like a whole day yeah and they had like 25

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battery life at the end of the day really so they last a whole day so they

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last a whole day that's not bad it sounds like they have about half

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of the real airpods back which makes sense the real airpods max are around 20

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to 22 23 hours uh here we go so sun woda

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two cells in parallel total capacity of 664 milliamp hours

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and this is 470 milliamp hours in a single cell okay then

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okay so that kind of checks out yeah that that tracks

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now what would be surprising but

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who knows is if we opened up the other side

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and found that there's another cell in there i really doubt it though

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yeah yeah it's just got the one cell in there

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no weights or anything there's no there's no weights

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wait yes there are

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i thought this was a little shelf in the mold for the cell that's missing to sit

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on but it's not it's a weight oh yeah

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yeah that's probably like actually lead less expensive it's probably steel

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oh yeah uh i don't know alex it looks

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really really malleable

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ah maybe it is lead i'm not going to put these back together but we did test this

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already latency is worse on the knockoffs compared to regular airpods

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max though it should be noted that neither of them are great and the

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pausing when you take them off your ears as well as battery life monitoring work

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on Android so even though the uh what what is it max pro pro max even though

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pro max has disappeared it looks like you can still get your hands on these so

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the question then is should you well if you don't want to support the

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bootleg product industry then the answer is no no you shouldn't but if you don't

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care about that and you just want to know if they're good value if your goal

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is to kind of pose as an apple airpods max owner then yes i'd say they're a

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great value they sound good enough it's not like they're

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complete unlistenable but are these a

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great value at 200 the answer is no

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but you were shopping for airpods max so you probably didn't care about that

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airpods max they're fine i guess