Tim Cook again sent three shekel wagon, and also - AIRPODS MAX headphones. It didn't even imagine that she was shelled so crispy, and the wireless headset could sound so cool. Why are golden plugs, lossless and cables in hand, if the ears can happily vibrate from Airpods Max? It looks like a breakthrough is not less than MacBook with chips M1. If you went to heit, you can immediately scroll into comments, because the article will be about what the magic product washed again Apple.
Design
Johnny Isaw - Well done: gave way to the young people who give to the British. Airpods Max Place in all design museums that are in the world. These are flawlessly beautiful and minimalistic headphones, to all of them, one of their views of their teaching.
Headband rubberized, bowls of anodized aluminum, stainless steel telescopic arms, clutches are tissue and are kept on magnets - if you can easily replace it easily. A hinge fastening of each bowl is very cool. It is metallic, moderately tight, with clearly fixed extreme positions. Feelings from both dear and high-quality things. Visually and tactile Airpods Max correspond to 180.1%.
Control the simplest and, fame Cook, not touch. Scroll wheel like that can be found in Apple Watch (only in the headset it is larger and without tactile response), is responsible for smooth adjustment of the sound volume. By pressing it on a pause, we run playback and switch tracks. And another button to activate the noise cancellation mode or transparency. Traditionally, if you remove the headphones, the playback will stop, and if you wear it - continue.
Harmoniously, incredibly stylish and never expanded (yes) - this phrase is perfect on the description of the design of Airpods Max. Even there is no apple's logo. Compare with any other headphones that are gladly using surfaces of cups and / or headband to scrub the surrounding about the brand as much as possible.
Practicality here, in contrast to design, there are questions. Airpods Max do not fold. The only thing - the bowls turn the degrees to 60, actually taking two positions - for listening and for carrying in the case. However, there are models in this plan and worse.
About the case is also said much. He is pretty, but not practical. I, for example, did not come up with how to use it. Is that if you go somewhere far and just throw the headphones in a sorry for a bag. And it's just that really may be a pity, because aluminum bowls can be drowning on each other ends. And do it regularly. During testing, the scratches did not appear, but we also treated as carefully - the product is expensive and not ours! Wange, which is not avoided with time.
"Max" weigh almost 400 grams and are felt heavy in their hands. Theer is more important that they seem to be brief on the head. Thanks to the spring headband and the literate weight distribution. In general, on the head of Airpods Max, it is ideally sitting, and there is hardly a head that they will not fit. Telescopic arms are gently stretched precisely how specifically you need.
There were complaints that if you sit in the headphones in a cold room for a long time, condensate appears in the ambush. I am airpods max wore without removing only 9 hours, and in the warm room, and, probably, therefore Condensate did not catch. But I do not exclude that in some extreme (12 hours in headphones and in a cold warehouse - is it extreme?) There may be conditions. For charging, the Lightning connector is used. Probably, Type-C left the next generation. And there, you see, and the wireless charging will appear: it is very very asking for now. One charge of the headphone was enough for two working days for nine hours. Almost always - at maximum volume, sometimes with no noise, sometimes - in transparency mode. That is, 18-20 hours of autonomy have. There are no shutdown buttons at MAX, and they are always active by changing only the level of energy consumption depending on the situation. He is the lowest when the device is laid in a complete case. If the headphones without it simply put and not touch, then the battery sits down at a speed of about 8% per day.
About the noise and spatial sound mode. It seemed to me that they work at the level of the liner
. In detail in different conditions, it did not have time to test both modes, but the noise is noticeably kills the monotone "homemade" sounds like noise of an exhaust, a vacuum cleaner. Sharp and piercing sounds, like the cries of a small child, unfortunately, while manufacturers of headphones do not succeed to drown. I used more often by transparency mode. Thanks to him, it does not need to remove the device to hear something in the external environment. Sounds of the surroundings are even slightly louder. About how Airpods Max seamlessly interact with "apple" devices, you can say anything - and so everything is clear. But I still mention that the "communication" of the devices is organized flawlessly. Headphones easily switch between
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Then when you need it. How does all this sound?
On the Apple website there is a detailed description of the technologies used in Airpods Max. Here and eight directed microphones for the noise, and special drivers, and H1 chips, which adjust the sound, taking into account the position and quality of the adhering of headphones. All this is good, but how does it sound?
Colorful and more accurately, the sound of Max described the photographer Vlad Borisevich. He just has its own very popular in our areas of Sony WH-1000XM4. Together she listened to a ton of music of various genres, except for the classical instrumental.
From the skill it may seem that Sony sounds better. The secret is in the greater volume of volume and fastened bass. But it is worth listening, and everything becomes in place. Next - Vlad Opinion, with which I fully agree with the opinion of listening to AIRPODS MAX:
- If not listen, then in the first seconds it seems that the difference between Sony and Apple is small. I can not call himself a sophisticated Meloman, but it's worth a little listen, and in familiar tracks on Max already hear what I have not heard before.
Airpods has a very detailed sound that is not mixed in the "porridge". Switching attention, you can hook a separate guitar or bass, and they are a variety of here. Sony also has more sound projection, as if you roll out the bulk picture into a flat pancake - everything seems to be in place, but without convex details.
This is not Vlad.
I do not like the skews in medium or low frequencies - something from this usually discovers in the headphones. In Airpods Max, everything is balanced, nothing artificially protrudes on the fore, drowning the rest of the gamut. And a well-known music is heard at all in a new way, really new impressions you get.
I just realized what a surround sound is. If Apple added even at least 5% of bass, then it would be a fake destroying the perfect picture of the sound. And in Sony bass, homogeneous and obsessive - to you as a paddle on the head with a box stretched on the ears drove. The bass in Max are not so aggressive, but at the same time more correct, they also "download", but plus it also allows you to hear a ton of different shades of the lower passage, while Sony is always a monotonous, rolling from afar and eventually stunning "boom -boom". The bottoms in Airpods keep you in a tone, but at the same time felt subtleties, details, shades, a binding to the instrument is felt, some kind of aftertaste from each of them.
And even funny, as from particularly bass tracks in the airpods vibrate ears.
In general, for new airpods, as for most Apple products, versatility is characteristic. They are "out of the box" are configured so as to sound good when listening to tracks in any genre. There are a lot of headphones on the market with more "bass", but Apple bet on the natural sound.
It's amazing that we are talking about the naturalness of the sound in relation to the headphones working through Bluetooth, and with the help of which 99.9% of buyers will listen to the music with a maximum with a bit rate of 320 kbps. Well, this is another proof that in our time solves versatility, convenience and software algorithms for improving sound. All this in the complex makes Airpods Max outstanding.
As a bonus, there is another chip in the headphone - spatial audio with the dynamic tracking function of the position of the head. It works only when viewing Apple TV + on a smartphone or tablet. It is difficult to convey the feeling of words, but the Airpods Max "move" the sound depending on the head turning towards the iPad or iPhone. I listened so a fragment of Greahaound - cool, but still rather a balobiness.
The relative disadvantage is one - on the volume of 2/3 from the maximum and above the surrounding will be perfectly heard what plays in the headphones.
RESULTS
I never thought that a compressed sound, and even transmitted over a wireless protocol, can give so much amazing impressions. Airpods Max were able. I would like to get along with these headphones "dozen", but so far from such an assessment will refrain from the moment of little experience of listening to competitors.
Sony WH-1000XM4 compete with Airpods Max with a stretch - a device from the Japanese company is twice as cheaper (and for its price, it sounds very worthy), but not so ideally integrated into the "apple" ecosystem. In such an integration, the lack of large airpods is obvious - these headphones justify their price only in the case of use with Apple technique. Of course, they can be made up with a Xiaomi smartphone, but the rationality of such a step is in question.
The target audience Airpods MAX is evaluated clearly. You are not able to meloman, but love a good sound and do you prefer Apple's technique, not paying attention to its price? Then these headphones do not disappoint you. Audiophiles still do not exchange their gold-plated plugs, and the owners of Android-smartphones will certainly choose something else - the benefit of the choice is great.
Apple continues to expand its ecosystem and does it very well. Well, the price is yes, it, as usual, is high.
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