About this item

• Apple-designed dynamic driver provides high-fidelity audio
• Active Noise Cancellation blocks outside noise, so you can immerse yourself in music
• Transparency mode for hearing and interacting with the world around you
• Spatial audio with dynamic head tracking provides theater-like sound that surrounds you
• Computational audio combines custom acoustic design with the Apple H1 chip and software for breakthrough listening experiences
• Designed with a knit-mesh canopy and memory foam ear cushions for an exceptional fit
• Magical experience with effortless setup, on-head detection, and seamless switching between devices
• Easily share audio between two sets of AirPods on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple TV
• 20 hours of listening, movie watching, or talk time with Active Noise Cancellation and spatial audio enabled
• Store in ultra low-power mode with the slim Smart Case

Product Description

Technical Details:

• Special feature: Noise Cancellation
• Included components: AirPods Max, Smart Case, Lightning to USB-C Cable, Documentation
• Connectivity technology: Wireless
• Weight: AirPods Max: 384.8 g (13.6 oz), Smart Case: 134.5 g (4.74 oz)
• Dimensions: AirPods Max 168.6 x 83.4 x 187.3 mm (6.64 x 3.28 x 7.37 inches)
• AirPods Sensors (each): Optical sensor (each ear cup), Position sensor (each ear cup), Case-detect sensor (each ear cup), Accelerometer (each ear cup), Gyroscope (left ear cup).
• Power and Battery: Up to 20 hours of listening time on a single charge with Active Noise Cancellation or Transparency mode enabled, Up to 20 hours of movie playback on a single charge with spatial audio on, Up to 20 hours of talk time on a single charge, 5 minutes of charge time provides around 1.5 hours of listening time.

Customer questions & answers

Question:How’s the latency? And can you plug an aux cable into them? I’d like to use them with electronic drums but would need to be very low latency
Answer:Just to clarify, when connecting them with the Apple 3.5mm aux cable, there is no noticeable latency.
I use them for esports gaming as my main headphones and they’re amazing.
Additionally, as a drummer of 22 years, I would not recommend any ANC headphones for use with drums in general tho. You might be able to get away with them with the e-kit but any sounds in the environment around you that are too loud for the ANC mics on the outside of the APM will cause the audio to completely get destroyed for a second or two till they recover. You cannot use them with live drums or in a concert venue confidently. They will almost surely glitch occasionally which can cause loud clipping noises that can damage your hearing.

Question:Sorry if this is a dumb question but it’s not addressed anywhere… Are these just headphones or can I speak and make calls, are they also a headset?
Answer:I use these on iPads, from older ones to latest Pro 12.9”.
Also on iPhone 13ProMax.
And further, on a Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra
ALL have excellent call quality; phone calls & Zoom-style calls.
ALL have excellent music reproduction quality.
This headset can be used while charging battery
Physical buttons to control volume, answer & end call, & control outside sound and on/off
Outside sound can be either ‘Surround Sound On’ or “Noise-Cancelling”
(Surround On is like a hearing aide for me. Works real well)
Yes, Samsung phone missing Spatial Sound. Everything else works.

Question:What is the max resolution?
Answer:It's a Bluetooth device that uses an AAC codec. The codec bitrate is 256kbps, and any transcoding is done on the transmitting device as per Bluetooth 5.2 spec. If you listen to Apple Music with AirPods, the original 256kbps data is simply sent over Bluetooth and decoded at the headphones, so there is no generational loss. Lossless audio is not possible with current implementations of Bluetooth.

Question:Can these be used by non-Apple products?
Answer:I use these AirPod Max headphones with iPhones & iPads for music , Amazon Prime videos, Netflix, YouTube and phone calls.
I also use these with a Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G phone for the same uses as in the Apple ‘eco-system’.
True, there is no Spatial Audio, but I haven’t used that feature yet.
Music quality is great.
Phone calls are great; I can hear, and be heard even in a noisy environment.
Note… I use these AirPod Max in ‘Transparent’ mode.
This is great; sort of a ‘poor-man’s’ hearing aid.
I rarely use noise-cancellation; it isolates me too much. The exception is when I am using power equipment, such as mowers/trimmers or wood-working tools such as saw, planer, drill-press etc.
The extreme noise already isolates, so noise-cancelation is good.
Paired to my phone, it lets me listen to music, hear incoming calls, and still reduce tool noise.

Question:First time of significant use the clamp force became too uncomfortable. curious of others experience. get better over time? or r these not for me?
Answer:Yes. It did get better for me. They are now uncomfortable only for the first minute or two I have them on. One tip is to make sure they sit down fully on the top of your head without a gap. I just push them down with my hand.