They'll still be popular. The brand is worth a lot to folks.
Not that anybody's asking, but I really think people would be better served with a quality set of wired cans or IEMs (Sennheiser, Audio Technica, Shure, etc) attached to a FIIO BTR3.
As someone who did basically this 7 years ago, I have to strongly disagree. Active noise cancelling is important. It doesn't matter how great the fidelity the headphones are if there's a ton of external noise and closed cans can only attenuate so much. In a perfect something like the Senheiser HD880 would be the best headphones ever but in a noisy office/plane/train/home environment the noise cancelling with lower fidelity drivers would give better total fidelity.
That being said people are probably better off spending hundreds of dollars less for something like a Sony WH-1000X or Bose QC than the AirPoxMax.
But you've complete missed the point. APM are designed for home/offices where noise-cancelling is the critical feature.
You can get some IEMs that will isolate enough to give you a similar effect but almost all of those are not comfortable enough to wear for 8+ hours a day.
On ear/over-ear etc headphones aren't noise cancelling and often have poorer leakage making them inappropriate for home/work.
What's the intended use case for a device like that? Like, ultimately my headphones are still wired into a device I need to carry around, and Bluetooth isn't good enough for me to be able to walk too far away from wherever my phone has ended up.
99_00|5 years ago
I haven't herd of AirPod Max until now, so I'm not in the same context as you.
xanax|5 years ago
falcolas|5 years ago
Not that anybody's asking, but I really think people would be better served with a quality set of wired cans or IEMs (Sennheiser, Audio Technica, Shure, etc) attached to a FIIO BTR3.
GloriousKoji|5 years ago
That being said people are probably better off spending hundreds of dollars less for something like a Sony WH-1000X or Bose QC than the AirPoxMax.
threeseed|5 years ago
You can get some IEMs that will isolate enough to give you a similar effect but almost all of those are not comfortable enough to wear for 8+ hours a day.
On ear/over-ear etc headphones aren't noise cancelling and often have poorer leakage making them inappropriate for home/work.
y2bd|5 years ago
jedimastert|5 years ago