(sips)
- Mm, this tea is really good.
I hope that I won't be spilling any today.
Same Brain Mugs, link in the description.
Do you guys know what's in front of me right now?
Of course you do.
AirPods Max.
They are here, and I can't believe it.
These have been rumored for quite awhile,
but of course they were rumored under the name
of AirPods Studio, and when this name was finally announced,
not only did people have a lot to say about the name,
but they had even more to say about the price.
At $549, they're a pretty expensive pair of headphones,
but are they worth it?
Should we get this unboxing under way?
Thought we would maybe go for something
a little tiny today, just kidding.
I don't even need a knife, do I?
I'm so excited about this!
These come in five different colors,
this is the space gray, there's also a silver,
a pink, a sky blue, and a green,
basically the same exact colors
as the new iPad Air.
Here we go, here we go, here we go!
Oh, wow, ooh!
Wow, okay, okay!
Who says that, who says, "Okay?"
- [Tyler] Lil Jon.
- Yes.
Oh, oh, oh this is paper,
I thought this was the color of them.
Oh, this is nice.
I'm looking off camera at Tyler, he's like.
Pretty.
Look at, here they are.
I'm gonna set them right there
and let's just see what's in here.
I was hoping that they would have
a matching lightning cable for each of the headphones,
but they don't, it's just the basic Lightning 2USB-C.
I do wish that they would've made these USB-C,
but it kind of makes sense
because all of the other AirPods in the AirPods family
are all lightning, and the phone is lightning, makes sense.
(gasps)
It's magnetic.
It's kind of like the Smart Folio case on the iPad.
This soft mesh, this kind of feels like
the Home Pod covering, super soft.
This is the first taking out of the case moment.
There will never be another one after this.
Oh, they're light.
- [Tyler] Maybe do it from the top down.
(beeps)
- Go, there will never be another one.
This is take two.
Wow.
(upbeat music)
Ear cups off.
Speechless.
Okay, let's get these connected.
You basically are just able to bring it
next to each other and they should automatically connect,
here we go!
"Press the noise control button
"to switch between noise cancellation and transparency.
"The media control, press the digital crown once
to play, pause, twice," oh my goodness.
I'm so ready.
They're connected, they're connected, here we go,
here we go, here we go, are you ready?
Holy crap, I'm excited!
(gasps)
Oh.
It's such a nice fit, like you don't even feel this
sitting on your head.
This is why they call it AirPods,
because it feels like I'm floating
on a freaking cloud.
I need to listen to something right now.
Transparency mode is on, Tyler, say something.
- [Tyler] Hi!
- Hey, I can hear you!
- [Tyler] Hello, hello.
- I wish they, and it's like so super clear,
it's almost like I'm not even wearing these.
I don't even feel this touching the top of my head.
It's so wild.
Okay, noise cancellation is now on.
- [Tyler] Hey, Justine.
- I heard you say something, I don't know what you said.
Play Noah Cyrus, "July."
So if you press the digital crown button,
that activates Siri.
I'm gonna turn up with the digital crown.
Oh, it even has the little click sound
that the Apple Watch makes.
(calm music)
I have it so loud,
like I think it's all the way up.
I can't even, I actually can't hear my own voice right now.
You gotta put these on.
Get over here, get over here.
So you're probably gonna have to adjust this a little bit.
I actually never even adjusted it yet.
I was even listening to that over top of my hair.
- Whoa, whoa! - Whoa.
- Whoa.
- I'm waiting, what? - Whoa.
- What do you think?
- I can't hear myself. - Right?
- I can't hear myself.
- I know!
- Am I still talking? - Yeah.
- I'll just keep saying whoa. - I know.
- Play "Laugh Now, Cry Later" by Drake.
- Hmm, the tears of Twitter taste delicious.
- I have them turned up all the way
and I'm yelling, and I can't hear my voice,
and it is perfectly, it's perfectly clear
with no distortion at all.
- This is the loudest that I've ever heard
Tyler raise his voice, I've never--
- I literally have no idea what you're doing or saying.
- I have never heard him talk louder, this is it.
- Okay, okay.
Wait, aren't they comfy? - Oh my god.
- I'm so in shock right now because I knew
they were gonna be good, and I know everyone's expecting me
to be like, "Apple fangirl Justine, you got an I
"in front of your name, like you're gonna like them
"no matter what," no.
I am honestly, genuinely surprised.
Oh my gosh, I can't believe that I can't hear myself.
This is so weird.
You know, hold on.
You know what this fine gentleman Drake once said?
- [Tyler] What?
- "We started from the bottom, now we here."
(laughs)
I mean I don't know what else to say, like I'm honestly,
like I am not being a fangirl right now
because I really wanted to be critical,
I wanted to have something to say.
They're incredibly comfortable,
like I don't feel this on the top of my head.
A lot of headphones, you'll be able to feel
this pressure on the top of your head.
Where I do feel most of the pressure,
it's kind of interesting because it is
sort of like right around here,
but it's giving you that seal around your ear.
I still have transparency mode on
and it sounds like I'm talking perfectly clear, but,
there's nine microphones on here, did you know that?
We're gonna get into the tech details.
I wanted to do that before I do the test.
But now, I'm so shook, I can't even think straight.
When they first announced this,
obviously the AirPods are meant to be wireless
but for me as an editor and for a lot of other people
who do a lot of stuff where you need to have
no latency in editing or in some type of music production,
I need to be able to plug these in.
So this is their lightning to 3.5 millimeter audio jack.
This is crazy because I still have the transparency mode on
so I can kind of hear my hair rubbing on the microphone,
but it sounds so perfectly clear
that it's like I'm talking without these on.
And then when I lift this up,
it automatically disconnects from my phone,
and then as soon as I put it back on,
I hear it again connecting to my phone.
I got distracted, so this is the lightning
to 3.5 millimeter, and I'm looking for something similar
to this style for our podcasts
that my sister and I do, you guys may have seen
that we have mugs now.
Tea has never tasted better.
I wanted to use these for podcasting
that you have to plug them in,
so that's where this comes into play.
So this is a lightning to 3.5 millimeter headphone jack,
so I'll be able to use this and plug this
into our roadcaster so we can use these
as we normally would use other headphones
for our podcasting, and I am gonna try this out
because we're actually shooting our podcast tomorrow,
so this Saturday, if you guys wanna check out our podcast
where I'm going to be using these,
check out YouTube.com/samebrain,
or you can find us on Apple Podcasts as Same Brain,
or you can go to Anchor.fm/samebrain.
All of the places, wherever you listen to a podcast,
it's probably there.
That's gonna be a real test because we'll be wearing these
for like over an hour and a half.
The comfort level, anyway, there's so much more
that I need to tell you about these.
(electronic music)
So the new AirPods Max have high fidelity audio
with an Apple-designed 40-millimeter dynamic driver
that will produce well-balanced sound
across the entire audible range.
These also have a pair of Apple H1 chips
for computational audio that is capable
of executing over nine billion operations per second
to adapt the audio to the fit and seal of your ear.
This is called Adaptive EQ.
This actually measures the sound signal
being delivered to your ears and will be able to adjust
the low and mid frequencies in real time
based on the fit and the seal around your ear,
also taking into account glasses, hair, or even piercings.
So for the noise cancellation, they have eight microphones
that are able to capture and cancel
all of the unwanted noise.
There's three outward-facing microphones
on each ear cup and there's one on the inside
that's able to listen to the sound
of what your ears are hearing.
So using that H1 chip, it's able to analyze the data
and is able to create an equal and opposite sound
that will then reduce the unwanted sound.
Transparency mode is something that is on
almost all high-brand headphones at this point
so this will allow you to turn off the noise cancellation
so you'll be able to hear the world around you.
You're able to turn this on or off
on your iPhone, your Apple Watch,
or even on the headphones directly
with this button right here.
Spatial audio is also something
that is very interesting, and they did announce this before
and it is in the latest AirPods Pro
with the latest iOS update,
but I actually have not tried this yet,
so this is gonna be so exciting,
that I'm gonna be able to test out the spatial audio
for the first time on the AirPods Pro Max.
So what this spatial audio is is it basically gives you
a theater-like experience with dynamic head tracking,
so the sound is always mapped directly to your content,
so as you move your head, the accelerometer
and the gyroscopes both in your AirPods,
your iPhone, or your iPad will constantly
be tracking and comparing the motion of your head
to your device.
So Apple's obviously known for their attention to detail
in design and I really love the look of these.
So this is a stainless steel headband,
and it has a mesh headrest
and these memory foam ear cushions
which magnetically attach to your AirPods
and you can also mix and match these if you want to get
an extra pair, so they're $65 a piece,
so you can get them as a replacement
or if you just want a different color.
The digital crown is a really nice feature
which is pulled from the Apple Watch,
and this lets you adjust the volume by turning the dial
or push once to play, pause, or answer a call,
twice to skip forward, three times to skip back,
and then press hold for Siri.
There's an optical sensor in each cup
that will detect when it's placed on your head
and positional sensors where the headband
meets each ear cup that will be able to detect
the movement and rotation.
There's also an additional ninth microphone
that is used to enhance your voice during phone calls.
So these have a 20-hour battery life
and this smart case for storage.
There's a built-in magnet that activates the case
detect and the sensor in each ear cup
so that it'll be able to place the AirPods Max
into an ultra low-power state to preserve the battery.
So we're now gonna do a spatial audio test.
I've never tried this before,
I know it is in the AirPods pro, but for whatever reason,
I haven't tried it yet.
So today is the day, we've got "The Mandalorian"
all loaded up here.
So in the control center,
when you long press into the volume,
this gives you your noise transparency control
and then you can also turn spatial audio off or on.
Let me turn it off and see what that sounds like first.
Spatial audio is off, turning my head,
nothing is happening.
Now let's turn it on, okay, now it's on.
(gasps)
Oh my gosh!
It's like I'm in "The Mandalorian" right now.
Hold that thought.
Hold that thought!
(light saber sounds)
Try spatial audio once.
(beep)
(laughs)
Becomes a Jedi very quickly!
(beep)
The look on Tyler's face is very scared.
(beep)
Let's see here.
Will I hurt myself or somebody?
(triumphant music)
Yeah!
Where does that leave us in terms of this review?
(beep)
Spatial audio's cool, dude.
(beep)
Ooh, another test.
Podcast test.
There it is, ready for podcasting.
Look at that, it's so small.
Hello, hello.
Turn this up, oh my gosh, it's freaking perfect.
It sounds like I have transparency mode on
but I don't because I'm talking through the microphone
and it's coming through my head.
- [Tyler] What if you put Transparency Mode on?
- Then it's just gonna really mess with me.
Hello, oh this is just weird.
I'm talking to myself through myself.
(laughs)
Oh my goodness, Jenna is gonna lose her mind.
Tomorrow we're gonna get Jenna's reaction
and she's incredibly cynical.
It's hard to impress her, I think she's gonna be impressed.
Try with glasses, with glasses.
Oh, I've gotta try it with glasses.
You have glasses on.
- Yeah, it feels good.
- Podcast game has just been elevated.
Oh man, my head is small. - Yeah.
- This is perfect, I don't even know,
it's been really difficult, I'm sure many people
who wear glasses have had the struggle
of wearing glasses with headphones,
Tyler's like yep, me.
I mean I also wear glasses but most of the time
I do wear contacts, but this is nice.
This is nice.
Well thank you guys so much for watching,
this was kind of just a first look
and a first impression of the AirPods Pro Max.
I keep calling it the Pro Max,
but it's just the Max.
I am honestly way more impressed
than I thought I was gonna be because obviously,
like I knew they were gonna be cool
because they are incredibly expensive, but here's the thing,
you're paying for what you're getting.
- [Tyler] It's crazy.
- I know, I know, I know.
- Like-- - I know.
- [Tyler] It's totally beyond anything I expected.
- Same.
- [Tyler] I thought they'd be nice, but.
(electronic music)