![]() ![]() If you want a deep tech dive from the horse’s mouth, go here.Įight microphones for Active Noise Cancellation Here, I’ll tell you a little about its use, the tech, and, most importantly, how they sound. Less fancy is our YouTube unboxing video. That said, there is a well-filmed YouTube video review by the irrepressible Brian Tong (bring your headphones/earphones for an interesting binaural experiment). ![]() Since the ballyhoo at the time of shipping last month, there have been numerous website and video ‘reviews’ where pundits bandy the term ‘audiophile’ and rage about price, weight, the case, etc. No, the Twitterverse was pissed because they were expecting the new Apple cans to be priced the same as other popular consumer Active Noise Cancelling (ANC) Bluetooth headphones from Sony (WH-1000XM4 $349.99) and Bose (700 $449.95). ![]() They’re for a different purpose, a different market. We won’t get into comparisons with open back, planar magnetic beauties meant for use with high end headphone amplifiers from manufacturers such as Abyss (the finest headphones I’ve heard remarkable in every headphone way for $5000), T+A Solitaire P (review forthcoming-$6400) Audeze, Focal and HIFIMAN (review of the HE-R10s coming Feb-$5500). Of course, other fine manufacturers such as B&O, M&D and B&W produce quality built, great sounding wireless Bluetooth headphones for the same price and above. In the latest ‘faux outrage’, Apple has produced an over the ear headphone, the AirPods Max, utilizing its array of computational audio and assembled with premium parts for $549. Yet, rarely do the two universes intersect. I guess a two and a quarter trillion dollar company will have its trolls and haters. It’s like the social media universe is poised for another ‘battery-gate’, ‘keyboard-gate’, or ‘bend-gate’ (not forgetting brand new ‘condensation-gate’ attached to these headphones). No company takes as much flack for even the merest misstep as Apple. ![]()
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