![]() The battery power far exceeds the traditional AirPods with 20 hours of playback-even with all the fancy features enabled-to the AirPods Pro’s 4.5. Was this a feature we needed? I don’t know! But it sure does make that new Tears for Fears album a fully immersive experience. Get up and move and the music stays with you while still sounding like it’s anchored to the Apple device. Play music from the iPad in front of you, turn your head left, and the music appears to concentrate itself into your right ear. Apple is experimenting with spatial audio, a feature which uses gyroscopes and accelerometers to track your head movements and sense your position relative to your audio device. The sound is impressively crisp, even at high volumes, particularly when you’re listening to songs Apple Music has enhanced with Dolby Atmos. And that world is fully immersive, and you can stay there for ages. What the hell’s going on here?Īpple may not be hyping these boys, but I sure will. I’m using a new Apple product, it’s immediately indispensable, and it feels like I’m keeping a secret. Apple’s AirPods Max are their over-ear noise-cancelling headphones, the top of the AirPods line, released in December of 2020 to what must have been some kind of fanfare that I missed. That’s why I’m a little stunned that I haven’t seen wall-to-wall ads or media coverage of what is their best new product in ages. Subtlety is not an Apple quality last autumn’s launch event for the iPhone 13 series was an eighty-minute multi-million dollar cinema spectacular that boiled down to “smaller notch, kind of.” (And that shit worked! There’s a 13 Pro at my side right now!) Hype is at Apple’s core, whether or not the situation warrants it. In all of my years as an Apple consumer, from that Macintosh my family bought in 1984 until today, I have never known the brand to under-hype a new product launch. These picks are the best way to spend your hard-earned cash. They are an astonishing piece of technology – tiny in the pocket but big in every other way – and remain impressive even nearly a year and a half after they were launched.Welcome to The Esquire Endorsement. If you want to make the most of your Spotify library, bring your films to life, or otherwise enjoy the sound from your Apple devices in higher quality than you'd ever imagined, the Max are the way to go.īut for everything else, the AirPods Pro are the best choice. ![]() If you value sound above all, then the Max are a match made in heaven your iPhone has never sounded this good or worked this cleverly. The cases you're likely to want them for are just as different, and that's the real deciding factor. They might share a name, most of their underlying technology, and the same basic functions, but the AirPods Max and AirPods Pro are as different as they are similar. The AirPods Pro's case is a revelation, and perhaps one of Apple's smartest ever creations, charging up the earbuds and keeping them safe and secure the Max's case, more like a strange harness that keeps them bundled up, is mostly useless and a rare and confusing misstep for Apple. ![]() Read more: 8 best running headphones: Wireless earbuds that won’t fall out during a workout The Max come in a rainbow-like array of colours – grey, silver, blue, green and pink – while the AirPods Pro come in any colour so long as it's white. One small but key aspect of the design is colours or the lack of them. But none of those benefits are useful when they're tucked into your bag or pocket. Of course, the Max make heavy use of that extra bulk: they sound better, have bigger batteries, and can be more comfortable over long periods. The AirPods Pro are so small they can easily slot into even the smallest pocket, whereas the Max are likely to have to go into a bag, even when they're squished and folded down into their smallest form. Read more: 9 best smartwatches for kids that have games, cameras and trackersīut it's really when you're not listening to them that the design makes the bigger difference. There's no forgetting the Max, which sit heftily if comfortably on your head, beaming music into your ears. When they're on, that means that the AirPods Pro are so light you can almost forget they're in, so long as they fit nicely in your ears. ![]() They are entirely different: the Max a big set of earphones that sit on top of your ears, a Pro a very small set of earbuds that nestle right inside them. ![]() If the features are the same, then it's the design where the Max and the Pro really differ. ![]()
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