Tuesday, December 8th 2020
Apple Introduces AirPods Max, the Magic of AirPods in a Stunning Over-ear Design
Apple today announced AirPods Max, innovative wireless headphones that bring the magic of AirPods to an over-ear design with high-fidelity sound. AirPods Max combine a custom acoustic design, H1 chips, and advanced software to power computational audio for a breakthrough listening experience with Adaptive EQ, Active Noise Cancellation, Transparency mode, and spatial audio. AirPods Max come in five gorgeous colors, including space gray, silver, sky blue, green, and pink, and are available to order starting today, with availability beginning Tuesday, December 15.
"AirPods are the most popular headphones in the world, beloved for their effortless setup, incredible sound quality, and iconic design. With AirPods Max, we are bringing that magical AirPods experience to a stunning over-ear design with high-fidelity audio," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "The custom acoustic design, combined with powerful H1 chips, and advanced software enable AirPods Max to use computational audio to wirelessly deliver the ultimate personal listening experience."
Custom Acoustic Design
From the canopy to the ear cushions, every part of AirPods Max is carefully crafted to provide exceptional acoustic performance for each user. The breathable knit mesh canopy, spanning the headband, is made to distribute weight and reduce on-head pressure. The stainless steel headband frame provides strength, flexibility, and comfort for a wide variety of head shapes and sizes. Telescoping headband arms smoothly extend and stay in place to maintain the desired fit.
Each ear cup attaches to the headband through a revolutionary mechanism that balances and distributes ear cup pressure, and allows it to independently pivot and rotate to fit the unique contours of a user's head. Each ear cushion uses acoustically engineered memory foam to create an effective seal — a critical factor in delivering immersive sound. The Digital Crown, inspired by Apple Watch, offers precise volume control and the ability to play or pause audio, skip tracks, answer or end phone calls, and activate Siri.
Breakthrough Listening Experience
AirPods Max feature a 40-mm Apple-designed dynamic driver that provides rich, deep bass, accurate mid-ranges, and crisp, clean high-frequency extension so every note can be heard. A unique dual neodymium ring magnet motor allows AirPods Max to maintain total harmonic distortion of less than 1 percent across the entire audible range, even at maximum volume.1 Equipped with an Apple-designed H1 chip in each ear cup, a custom acoustic design, and advanced software, AirPods Max use computational audio to deliver the highest quality listening experience possible. Utilizing each of the chips' 10 audio cores—capable of 9 billion operations per second—computational audio powers a breakthrough listening experience that includes Adaptive EQ, Active Noise Cancellation, Transparency mode, and spatial audio.
AirPods Max join the existing AirPods family in delivering unparalleled wireless audio, whether a customer is listening to music, making phone calls, enjoying TV shows and movies, playing games, or interacting with Siri. The magical setup experience customers love with today's AirPods and AirPods Pro extends to AirPods Max with one-tap setup, followed by automatic pairing with all the devices signed in to a user's iCloud account, including iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.
AirPods Max automatically detect when they are on a user's head using the optical and position sensors. Once in place, AirPods Max play audio and can pause once removed or when the user simply lifts one ear cup. With AirPods Max, voice calls and Siri commands are crisp and clear due to beam-forming microphones that block out ambient noise and focus on the user's voice.
Battery and Performance
AirPods Max feature great battery life with up to 20 hours of high-fidelity audio, talk time, or movie playback with Active Noise Cancellation and spatial audio enabled.
AirPods Max come with a soft, slim Smart Case that puts AirPods Max in an ultralow power state that helps to preserve battery charge when not in use.
Additional Features
"AirPods are the most popular headphones in the world, beloved for their effortless setup, incredible sound quality, and iconic design. With AirPods Max, we are bringing that magical AirPods experience to a stunning over-ear design with high-fidelity audio," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "The custom acoustic design, combined with powerful H1 chips, and advanced software enable AirPods Max to use computational audio to wirelessly deliver the ultimate personal listening experience."
From the canopy to the ear cushions, every part of AirPods Max is carefully crafted to provide exceptional acoustic performance for each user. The breathable knit mesh canopy, spanning the headband, is made to distribute weight and reduce on-head pressure. The stainless steel headband frame provides strength, flexibility, and comfort for a wide variety of head shapes and sizes. Telescoping headband arms smoothly extend and stay in place to maintain the desired fit.
Each ear cup attaches to the headband through a revolutionary mechanism that balances and distributes ear cup pressure, and allows it to independently pivot and rotate to fit the unique contours of a user's head. Each ear cushion uses acoustically engineered memory foam to create an effective seal — a critical factor in delivering immersive sound. The Digital Crown, inspired by Apple Watch, offers precise volume control and the ability to play or pause audio, skip tracks, answer or end phone calls, and activate Siri.
Breakthrough Listening Experience
AirPods Max feature a 40-mm Apple-designed dynamic driver that provides rich, deep bass, accurate mid-ranges, and crisp, clean high-frequency extension so every note can be heard. A unique dual neodymium ring magnet motor allows AirPods Max to maintain total harmonic distortion of less than 1 percent across the entire audible range, even at maximum volume.1 Equipped with an Apple-designed H1 chip in each ear cup, a custom acoustic design, and advanced software, AirPods Max use computational audio to deliver the highest quality listening experience possible. Utilizing each of the chips' 10 audio cores—capable of 9 billion operations per second—computational audio powers a breakthrough listening experience that includes Adaptive EQ, Active Noise Cancellation, Transparency mode, and spatial audio.
- Adaptive EQ: AirPods Max use Adaptive EQ to adjust the sound to the fit and seal of the ear cushions by measuring the sound signal delivered to a user and adjusting the low and mid-frequencies in real time—bringing rich audio that captures every detail.
- Active Noise Cancellation: AirPods Max deliver immersive sound through Active Noise Cancellation so users can focus on what they are listening to. Each ear cup features three outward-facing microphones to detect environmental noise, while one microphone inside the ear cup monitors the sound reaching the listener's ear. Using computational audio, noise cancellation continuously adapts to the headphone fit and movement in real time.
- Transparency Mode: With AirPods Max, users can switch to Transparency mode to simultaneously listen to music while hearing the environment around them—ensuring everything, including a user's own voice, sounds natural while audio plays perfectly. Switching between Active Noise Cancellation and Transparency mode can be done with a single press using the noise control button.
- Spatial Audio: AirPods Max use spatial audio with dynamic head tracking to place sounds virtually anywhere in a space — delivering an immersive, theaterlike experience for content recorded in 5.1, 7.1, and Dolby Atmos. Using the gyroscope and accelerometer in AirPods Max and iPhone or iPad, spatial audio tracks the motion of a user's head as well as the device, compares the motion data, then remaps the sound field so it stays anchored to the device, even as the user's head moves.
AirPods Max join the existing AirPods family in delivering unparalleled wireless audio, whether a customer is listening to music, making phone calls, enjoying TV shows and movies, playing games, or interacting with Siri. The magical setup experience customers love with today's AirPods and AirPods Pro extends to AirPods Max with one-tap setup, followed by automatic pairing with all the devices signed in to a user's iCloud account, including iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.
AirPods Max automatically detect when they are on a user's head using the optical and position sensors. Once in place, AirPods Max play audio and can pause once removed or when the user simply lifts one ear cup. With AirPods Max, voice calls and Siri commands are crisp and clear due to beam-forming microphones that block out ambient noise and focus on the user's voice.
Battery and Performance
AirPods Max feature great battery life with up to 20 hours of high-fidelity audio, talk time, or movie playback with Active Noise Cancellation and spatial audio enabled.
AirPods Max come with a soft, slim Smart Case that puts AirPods Max in an ultralow power state that helps to preserve battery charge when not in use.
Additional Features
- Automatic switching allows users to seamlessly move sound between iPhone, iPad, and Mac. When playing music on Mac, users can easily take a call on iPhone and AirPods Max will automatically switch over.
- Audio Sharing makes it possible to easily share an audio stream between two sets of AirPods on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple TV 4K. Simply bring AirPods Max near the device and connect with a single tap.3
- Siri capabilities include the ability to play music, make phone calls, control the volume, get directions, and more. Siri can also read incoming messages as they arrive with Announce Messages with Siri.
- AirPods Max are available to order starting today for $549 (US) from apple.com and in the Apple Store app in the US and more than 25 other countries and regions. AirPods Max will begin shipping on Tuesday, December 15.
- AirPods Max require Apple devices running iOS 14.3 or later, iPadOS 14.3 or later, macOS Big Sur 11.1 or later, watchOS 7.2 or later, or tvOS 14.3 or later.
- AirPods start at $159 (US) and AirPods Pro are available for $249 (US).
- Customers can add personal engraving to AirPods Max, AirPods Pro, and AirPods for free on apple.com and in the Apple Store app.
- Customers are able to find the same great shopping and support services at apple.com/shop, in the Apple Store app, and at Apple Store locations. Customers can get shopping help from Apple Specialists, choose monthly financing options, get special carrier offers for iPhone, trade in eligible devices, and get Support services and no-contact delivery or Apple Store pickup options. Customers are encouraged to check apple.com/retail for more information on the health and safety measures in place, and the services available, at their local store.
- Pickup options include in-store, curbside, or Express storefront, and vary by store. Same-day delivery may also be available. Customers can check apple.com/retail for services available at their local store.
- With Apple Card, customers in the US get 3 percent Daily Cash back when they buy directly from Apple and have the option to choose Apple Card Monthly Installments so they can pay over time, interest-free.
85 Comments on Apple Introduces AirPods Max, the Magic of AirPods in a Stunning Over-ear Design
I'm surprised you're staking your forum cred on someone you don't even know. With the events unfolding right in front of your eyes, over last so many decades, you'd have to be either blind or willfully ignorant to see what (unfettered) Capitalism has done! I'm betting the latter :ohwell:
Sure..... whatever you say. :wtf: :kookoo: :banghead: :rolleyes:
People who don't actually care or want to allow numbers that contradict them into their reality, always seem to gravitate immediately to delusion and conspiracy instead of accepting the truth of the numbers that are in front of them.
So if you would just assume that the numbers are true, at least for a nanosecond, wouldn't you want to rationally own a Mac for significantly better productivity?Don't worry, I always encourage women and my own girlfriend to be more tech-savvy. I'm just surprised how involved you seem to be in her personal notebook buying decision. Don't tell me that she didn't at least feel a bit obliged to maybe go against her own self-interest just to not hear the bitching about it for the next 10 years if she did go against your hate for Macs and buy a Mac. ;)I don't know how old you are, but Milton Friedman is widely acknowledged as the most famous economist of our lifetime. The fact that most people don't know any other economist's name than his speaks volumes. Usually, I wouldn't even have to argue this. But you seem too young to even know who he was... Not to mention that he just died in 2006. Here's a quote from the Federal Reserve's economic journal on his 90th birthday:
"If asked to name a famous economist, most Americans would probably say Milton Friedman. Economists usually make their contributions behind the scenes at think tanks, government agencies or universities. Friedman has done that, but he also has taken his ideas and policy proposals directly to his fellow citizens through books, magazine columns and, especially, television. It is not an exaggeration to say he has been the most influential American economist of the past century. He has changed policy not only here at home but also in many other nations, as much of the world has moved away from economic controls and toward economic freedom."
Source: www.dallasfed.org/~/media/documents/research/ei/ei0202.pdf
I doubt they write this for anyone.Forum cred? Ok, you must really be young if you care about these things. Not to offend you because you're young. Just because you're ignorant and probably easily manipulated if you're young.If you think this, it just proves that you have no idea about capitalism. Or history. Again, I really don't want to get into an argument about capitalism. There's still that interview with him that I posted if you care to listen to an actually good and important economist. But if you still don't want to listen because you don't care, at least stop spreading this trash around the internet like a mindless socialist zombie.Do you think you can trust any numbers coming out of China? How naive can you be? Everything gets changed and manipulated before it comes out of their mouth. You can't trust anything a one-party-system spews out. It's like trusting what either the Democrats or Republicans would say about their own job if the other party just disappeared. If it's already this bad in America, I don't want to know how bad the manipulation of information is that comes out of China.Continue living in denial. It's your freedom, I guess.Wait, how are you still in high school and working for all these companies around the world? You even said that you grew up in New Zealand and are still in high school there. How can you possibly know so much about what other factories pay and the conditions in them? Sounds like a young troll trying to say anything positive about China without possibly being able to say anything real with first-hand experience. Where are you getting the number about wages of Chinese companies compared to Foxconn? From those trustworthy Chinese statistics? Trusting your word on this makes no sense.This was actual fucking research! I can't believe you couldn't even do a google search for it before posting this drivel back. This is not a fucking opinion. You don't buy another 200.000 Macs purely based on an opinion. They happened to have the perfect conditions for a study like this with around the same use of Mac and PC across the company at the time of the study. Who else is doing the research?
More articles on this:
Forrester Research and IBM Studies Show Macs Are Cheaper than PCs
"Although the Forrester Research study found that the upfront acquisition cost of Macs was indeed $500 higher than comparable PCs, when additional factors were taken into account, Macs ended up costing about $50 less."
IBM Announces Research Showing Mac Enables Greater Productivity and Employee Satisfaction at IBM
"Findings affirm that offering choice delivers strategic value in addition to IT efficiency and lower total cost of ownership"
Latest IBM Study Confirms Apple's Mac Are Better Than Windows In IT Workplace
"IBM started to embrace the Mac platform and other Apple systems when it launched the Mac@IBM scheme in 2015. During that deployment, IBM has seen over 1,900 Mac devices deployment per week. By 2016, IBM had amassed more than 90,000 Mac machines deployed."
www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/
Enjoy your ignorance.
Yeah can keep tooting own horn if that makes you feel better so whatever floats your boat man, keep it up.:toast:
Go live in Venezuela where they have universal everything right now. Maybe you won't get killed and stripped naked after 5 minutes. Funny that their president talks exactly like you do. Meanwhile, Venezuela could be the richest country on earth right now having the biggest oil reserves on earth. But let's just leave all of Venezuela to shoot each other because of stupid ideals. Seriously, why can't socialism just die for once? That Einstein quote comes to mind again.
"Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it." - Ronald Reagan
Again you have not reacted to any of my arguments and my personal experiences. But you come with that IBM crap (which is not a study anyways) again and again. And you are certainly trying to make this personal by making baseless asumptions about my relationship. Sorry dude, that is so low. I will not discuss with you anymore.
Anyways, before I put you on my ignore list, let me get personal too: tbh all you have done, is to confirm what I already thought about a lot (but by all means not all) of stereotype Mac users out there, blindness, absolute resistence to reason and the unfounded believe to be somehow better than others. Sounds a lot like other kinds of supremacists to me.
I hope you stay happy in your little world with your gated little ecosystem. And may The Great Jobs in Heaven watch over you. Always.
I'd like to leave all the personal stuff behind because it's mostly sarcasm, anyway. Not sure why you would be so pissed about it. Baseless assumptions lol. Why did you bring her into it even? What's the point of us even knowing that your wife changed her mind? That's like the most anecdotal shit ever. Many people have sensitivities around the topic of their wives. If you don't like it, then don't bring up stupid anecdotal evidence.
But the fact remains that it's a study or they wouldn't have invested into 200.000 new devices. You don't realize that IBM does studies like this for other companies all the time. It's basically their whole job.
And it backs my own experience working on a Mac as a professional. Maybe you don't. Maybe it's not for you. Maybe you don't even work that much on the computer ... Most people actually don't. But then you're not even in the group of people who uses the laptop very much besides their spare time from work. Even if you are, you didn't use a Mac (your wife did). If you don't have anything to do with that, maybe that's why you don't understand the benefits it provides. The daily things you have to do are actually way better solved and designed on a Mac. It's not even a secret. As soon as you have to actually sit and work with it all day at the office, that stuff really adds up quickly. That's why there's a distinction for people who need work laptops.
I don't know why you needed to make this personal. That's absolutely shameful. You have definitely nothing better to do than to insult people online. I'm offering what I know to people. Then you appeared and started attacking and almost decapitating me because I'm trying to spread information that may actually be interesting to others? Why do I have to take shit about supremacy from people like you on the internet? Where's the supremacy in work? How does that make me "better than others"? You're the one trying to tell me how much better you are.
Can't the internet be just a place where people come to exchange actual information and not psychopathic political ideals? I feel like people are literally becoming crazy before my eyes these days. You can't have a civil discussion with numbers anymore. I'm sure if people like you take over, it's the end. I'm saying this from a position where I'm not actually in power or anything. I'm just a humble worker bee. I just produce output all day. I need something that actually makes me happy to go to work. A Mac statistically does that, if it makes you stay at your company longer and makes you more productive at your work, which can mean getting more money. This makes me even happier and lets me pay off the Mac quicker. How exactly does that make me, or Steve Jobs, an evil person? Please explain. Because BOOOOO capitalism, right? Maybe that's why people like you aren't the ones inflating the Apple prices, it's people who need work laptops and who want to feel better all day about them. How horrible! Do you just hate to see people being happy? What else is in your head besides ideology?
Saying that you want to block me is a way to threaten me? Maybe you already did but I have no idea why I should care. Go ahead?