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I am finally hands-on with the Apple AirPods Max 2's, and these have been

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making waves out there. Not all good waves, but there's plenty to be excited

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about here with the headline feature, of course, being the inclusion of the same

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H2 chip that Apple brought to the AirPods Pro 3's. As you may recall from

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this channel, I was not excited by the audio tuning changes that Apple made to

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the Pro 3's, but there's no denying that the noise cancellation and extremely

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natural voice pass-through that the H2 chip enables is a killer feature, and I

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did ultimately end up switching over completely to the Pro 3's. However,

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I think we're unlikely to have a similar experience with the Max 2's. Let's get

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to that in a second, though. First, the included accessories. You get a brazier,

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not a large one, not a comfortable one, but a magnetic one.

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Uh HR, no stickers.

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How much are these again? For $550,

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they couldn't give me a charging brick or a proper case. Sorry, you know what's

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funny is I wrote the title for this video because I was kind of thinking,

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"Yeah, there's a lot of issues with the AirPods Max 2's, but realistically,

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they're no different than the issues that I had with the original AirPods Max

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5 plus years ago, and I just feel like I've grieved them already, you know? The

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lacklustre accessories, the super heavy

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weight, and um [music] mediocre ergonomics." But

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>> [laughter] >> maybe I do find myself freshly offended by them. To be clear, lots of things

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don't include a charging brick anymore, a trend that Apple was at the forefront

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of. And I guess I'm not the only one who feels that way, because one of the main

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criticisms of the AirPods Max 2's is that Apple just plain hasn't changed

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that much over the last 5 years. And for some people, this felt like a product

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that deserved an overhaul. At the bottom, we've got a USB-C charging port,

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but even that's not new because they did do a refreshed version of the AirPods

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Maxes that did have USB-C. We've got some of the whopping nine microphones

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that are studying this thing. Three of them aid in voice capture, while eight

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of them are used for active noise cancellation. So, there is a little bit

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of overlap there. Uh we've also got our [music]

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crown dial and our listening mode button so we can quickly and easily toggle

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between active noise cancellation or transparency. I do like Apple's approach

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to removable ear cups. Uh this material is not my favorite, [music]

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but I also don't find it offensive and oh, there's our optical sensor to detect

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whether you're wearing them or not. I've been told by a fellow whose hair is how

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do we put [music] this? Not as thick as it once was that apparently this mesh

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can be quite uncomfortable. >> It's not even a mesh. It's like the two bars. Like the mesh doesn't provide

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enough cushioning. So, the weight of the headphones just pulls those bars on the edge down. So, like

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>> Oh. Turns out I misunderstood. I thought he was talking about something that was

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unique to people with less hair. No, the bars just go on my head, too.

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>> Okay. Like there it's just not a very good headband. Uh that's all. And

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they're they're not a super strong clamping force headphone. So, you can't

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just kind of like rely on them to hold themselves up. Or

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rather, you might be able to except that they're so bloody heavy that over time

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they tend to make their way down and then you end up with that pressure. Immediately. My god, though.

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That noise cancellation. [music] I don't even have any content playing.

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Sorry, I just get very excited by Apple's noise cancellation because

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there's more to it than just how much noise it blocks. Um it's very

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comfortable in a way that is hard to fully describe other than that they just

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don't really apply that same that ANC pressure that you get with some other

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solutions while also covering an extremely broad band

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>> [music] >> of audio frequencies. I just I just love it. Uh it's so good. As someone who gets

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a little bit of sensory overload, uh one of my primary use cases for my AirPods

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Pro 3s is just putting them in >> [music] >> when the situation is

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too much. And these more than achieve the same

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effect. I just wish that [music] they were as comfortable to carry. Uh I

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have occasionally, over the last 5 years, seen people with AirPods Maxes,

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but based on how few I see compared to AirPods like in-ears, it doesn't

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surprise me that Apple [music] just isn't that focused on this product line.

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And I can see why some other content creators, if they're into over-ears, are

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frustrated that Apple's vision for this product hasn't really changed. And for

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me, the biggest issue is just the weight. One of my classic tests with

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headphones to determine whether they're uh going to be comfortable for me to

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wear long-term is to give my head a shake.

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And, you know, I'm an active person when I'm out and about. I'm not the kind of

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person who's afraid to run when they're late for a bus or a crosswalk light. And

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anything that is not going to solidly stay on and is light enough to just kind

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of grab onto my head and be part of me is just

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not really able to be part of my life. But a lot can be forgiven with

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outstanding active noise cancellation. And, to their credit, they're actually

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really similar to the AirPods Pro 3s in

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terms of the naturalness of my own speaking voice as well. That's very

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cool. And the H2 chip enables some other cool features that I don't care about,

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but you might. Like adaptive audio, conversation awareness, voice isolation,

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and live translation, which are all coming to the Max lineup for the first

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time, along with Bluetooth 5.3 rather than 5.0. But I can see why some folks

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were underwhelmed. I just I guess my expectations were just really low. Oh,

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speaking of needing a new software version on your phone to use headphones,

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if you were hoping to get any of the fancy-pants features [music] of the AirPods Maxes on a non-iPhone. No major

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changes there, unfortunately. While some of them may end up being

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reverse-engineered, like monitoring battery life and stuff like that, it is

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no guarantee that it will work or that it will remain working if it does. Apple

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continues to treat this product like one that yeah, you bought it, but do you

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really need all the features or do you need to buy more stuff from us? Which is

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an attitude that I just can never get behind from any company. Brad lent me

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his phone. That was the solution rather than waiting half an hour for an update.

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All right, connect. What if I don't want to carry this case

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around with me? But like, how how am I going to pair them then? Can you pair

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them without the case? Oh, okay.

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To be clear, you can pair them to your phone without going through this

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process, but you'll only get a Bluetooth connection, so a lot of the special

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features won't work. It'll be just like if you were paired to an Android phone,

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like some kind of pleb. No, I don't need personalized volume.

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Oh, I'll have conversation awareness. No, I don't need that. All right,

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downloading some languages. Let's go. Lossless audio with USB-C, very cool.

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And done. All right. They're on.

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It's on. We brought a French speaker.

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So, translate. [music] Here we go. Live.

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Okay, their language, French. Your language,

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English. And I what? I'm going to go English UK. Hi there. Salut. Comment ça

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va? I am very well. Thank you for asking. Where can I find the nearest

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lingerie shop? >> Je ne sais pas. Je cherche aussi.

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Oh, that's wonderful. Maybe we could go shopping together. Conveniently, I also

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understand French reasonably well. This is like a very good translation. Very

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cool. This is the first time we've managed to get a live translation feature working on the ShortCircuit

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set, too. So, that's a milestone.

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Digital Crown, let's get that adjusted. I don't like it when things are not

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clockwise to increase. Ooh, I'm going to

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throw it in noise cancellation. It's doing a really good job with my voice.

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Like, it's passing it through even though I'm in noise cancellation mode.

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It's almost like too good right now. Am I just in transparency mode? Hey.

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No, yeah, no, it's doing a great job. It just switches over to transparency mode.

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That's That's great. On the subject of battery, they claim up to 20 hours, which is

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pretty nice if you're out and about for a long time. There is no battery in the

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case, unlike the AirPods not Max. All

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right, finally using it. >> [music] >> I already find myself wanting to engage

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in a really bad habit. I want to turn the volume up so that I can hear better,

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which tells me that any criticisms Apple has garnered for the sound signature not

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being improved over last time. Well, you know what? I'm going to leave it to DMS,

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actually, who's going to jump in and give you guys a closer look at the

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acoustic performance of the AirPods Max 2s. Me?

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Yeah. Let's talk about science.

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I'm DMS. I'm Labs' resident audio nerd, and I can tell you exactly how these

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So, here's how we test things. We measure sweeps of sound that cover the

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whole range you can hear. We do it using this guy, this thing, and a tiny

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microphone in my real human ear. I take all that information, crunch it down,

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and build a map of how these headphones perform on my head, on your head, and

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probably some other guy who's watching. So, here's what that data looks like. On

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this end, we have the bass, the deepest part of what you can hear. On this end,

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we have the treble, the the sizzles, the highs.

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preference. If the sound falls within this range, it means you'll probably

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perceive it as being a sound quality. And that's important. This range is

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pretty wide. So, let's break it down starting with the bass. Right here,

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you'll notice this has a lot of sub-bass. That's pretty significant.

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This thing extends down very deep. So,

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you get a lot of that rumble. We have a decent tilt down here going into the

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mid-range, but it's still a bit outside of our average listener preference

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bounds. That means the average person will probably find these to be pretty

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bass-heavy. Now, that might be a good thing depending on your preferences.

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For me, it's a bit too much. The mid-range right here, that's pretty

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good. This is really linear and I don't really have any complaints in this range

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at all. This is exactly what I would expect from a really solid, maybe seven

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out of 10 mid-range. It means that your music is going to sound nice and full.

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There's not going to be too many holes in it through here. Then we have this

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area right here. This is mostly where vocals live. And you'll notice on the

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top of this range, that's where things start to go south, literally. We get a

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huge dip right here in what is very

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close to the most sensitive part of your ears. This. What this means is that the

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upper end of vocals, especially female vocals, start sounding a bit nasally,

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like they're recessed in the treble. It's not really what you want. And on

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top of that, literally, things start trending up pretty strong. The areas

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that make things sibilant, where the s sounds are very harsh and piercing and a

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bit too sharp for the average person. There's a little bit of erratic stuff

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like this that we're getting more on measurements in real human ears. You

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will hear a bit of that and it's going to make it sound a bit more unpleasant, but overall, this is where the biggest

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issue is. And this dip and this elevation side by side make each other

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sound a bit more severe. The result is a headphone that is close to what people

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describe as V-shaped. I think you can see why. Now, I have a bit of a rant on

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this and I'll condense it as short as I possibly can. It frustrates me that a

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company that has this much money is making this kind of mistake. This right

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here is the result of a common mistake that I see of people misinterpreting

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microphone in real ear measurements. Now, there's no way to know exactly what

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it is that Apple was thinking with this or what they were planning because it's

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kind of a black box. We don't have a lot of visibility into what makes these work

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and why they chose to tune them this way, but we know that it's outside of

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the range that most people are going to like. Let's compare this to the AirPods

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Max version [music] 1. These do measure a ton like the AirPods Max version 1.

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You can see the Max 1 here in blue and the Max 2 in red. Realistically, they're

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almost exactly the same through the bass through most of the mid-range. We get a

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little bit of a difference right here based on the placement, but really

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they're almost exactly the same through the bass and through the mid-range. We

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get a little bit of difference in terms of the elevation of some of these peaks

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that thing right there, the head and torso simulator. Now, depending on your

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placement, you could get bigger differences than this, but

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realistically, it seems like they didn't want to change much. They decided to

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keep it as close as possible to the original AirPods Maxes with what some

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might call a slight refinement, but not what I would call an improvement. Now,

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just because they measure very similar, it doesn't mean they're the exact same.

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Some things were retained from the original that I think are fantastic.

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These have the best transparency mode that I have ever heard in an audio

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product bar none. I mean, these sound more open than some super open-back

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headphones, which is just crazy. It doesn't make any sense. And they

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definitely improved the active noise canceling. The active noise canceling

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like on the AirPods Pro 3 is a massive jump over everything else that I

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previously heard before that. And the rest of the competition is starting to

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catch up, but these are truly in a league of their own in terms of ANC. But

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is that worth it for the compromise they make in sound?

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Not for me, maybe for you, and I think it really comes down to things like

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ecosystem. I'm not heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem. I do have a

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MacBook, I do have an iPhone, but I also have a graphene phone. I also have a

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Linux desktop. And with all those devices, I don't really use the

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automatic device switching. The devices I do use have multi-point connectivity

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and are already connected to all my things anyway. These will be H D 630s,

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by the way, from Sennheiser. I love these, but while they're better on sound

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quality, they don't compete in terms of active noise canceling or transparency.

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So, it really depends on what are your priorities. If you're an audio person,

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this probably isn't the headphone for you. And maybe you're a person using

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these for meetings. The eight mic array is incredible, and the microphones

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inside the cup allow these to perform way more consistently from head-to-head,

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especially in the bass. You could be the kind of person using these with an Apple

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TV and spatial audio to watch movies and not disturb your partner. That's

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actually a pretty cool use case, especially because the sub-bass is so strong. But, the best spatial audio

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device that Apple made was the AirPods Pro 2, oh, which are discontinued. It

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just depends on what you're looking for and what you're after. I personally

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don't recommend these from an audio nerd perspective, but

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if that's not really what you're into, does it matter? At $549,

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they're not cheap. You could buy 11 pairs of the Koss Porta Pro, which is a

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cheap audio legend of a headphone that I honestly think they look kind of cooler

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than these, too. But, for some people, especially someone who's really into the

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Apple ecosystem, this might be worth it. Do you want to know about a premium headphone that has some similar problems

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to these, but you can actually fix with software? It's these. These are the

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Nothing headphones, and you can check out their video down below. Remember,

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good sound is getting cheap, cheap sound is getting good, price does not

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correlate with sound quality, and vote with your wallet.