AirPods Max
Apple's over-ear headphones with active noise cancellation and spatial audio
AirPods Max are Apple's full-size headphones, with active noise cancellation, a transparency mode that lets the room back in, and spatial audio. Aluminum and steel make them heavier than most rivals. They hand off between devices signed into the same Apple account without pairing again. The price is several times what mainstream noise-canceling headphones cost. Plenty of owners buy them as much for shutting a room out as for how they sound.
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- David SparksDoes it
Apple productivity writer · MacSparky
Owns a pair of AirPods Max, which he calls overpriced while rating the sound and the noise cancellation. Since his studio sits in the middle of the house, putting them on tells the rest of the family he is working. They hang under the desk on an ElevationLab Anchor.
Source: MacSparky: Studio
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