hey guys it's max we just got in v-moda's brand new m200 inc
headphones and we're gonna be comparing them to the airpods max and we're gonna
see does apple finally have some serious
competition we're not only gonna compare the sound quality in multiple
genres we're going to compare the active noise cancellation their transparency
modes the microphones build quality value and
much more let's go ahead and get this open these
are my first v-moda headphones and i know they're very
popular they have a great reputation and these are actually their very first
active noise cancellation headphones right in the box we have
this nice case with a zipper not a little magnetic flap
so let's set this aside and it's kind of a mix between a hard shell case and a
little bit soft and bam there are the headphones now if
you want to compare to apple's case this rubbery thing i don't want to talk
about that too much this is the kind of case that i would have wanted with the
airpods max so let's go ahead and pull these out wow
all right i love that they flip in they stay much more compact let's pop
these open i'm going to be careful so i don't break
them oh no i don't want to do it that way there we
go all right so the headband is pretty
springy as far as build quality is a lot of
aluminum here you look at the arms you look at these little shields that
you can't actually replace and customize we do have a good amount of plastic up
over here and it doesn't feel cheap but it also doesn't feel premium
at least for this price tag and i do have both of these listed
down below and i think the airpods max are finally in stock now
and then we have this little cable that connects uh both
together we have this hinge right here that adds a little bit extra pressure
against your head the headband material is like this uh
leathery material and it actually doesn't feel
as soft as i expected there's not too much give here
and as far as adjustability we have a good range here
and it is using the standard kind of click method to adjust and lock it in
and the ear pads are quite soft there's not a lot of room
for movement but they are very soft and we have this unique kind of
hexagonal shape that v-moda typically uses
let's grab the airpods max and see how they compare
right away you could tell they are heavier in the hand we have 385 grams
compared to 310 but the materials do feel nicer we have
all aluminum here we have stainless steel
and this kind of a soft rubberized finish
and the headband as you guys might see my finger just
just pushes up against it you have so much room and flexibility here
and as far as the ear cups that you have a little bit more travel
and they're also very soft probably about the same level of softness now one
thing about the airpods max is you can pop these covers off they are
expensive but you can buy different colors and replace them
so that is really nice and it looks like the v-moda's also have magnetic ear cups
i had no idea that is very cool since you can easily and quickly
swap them out and replace them now before i put these on and test out
comfort i want to mention that of course the
v-modas use usb type-c to charge but along with that they give
you an airplane adapter and they give you a cable if you want to
use it wired whereas apple does not apple charges you extra
all right let's put on the earpods max of course i have used these
a ton now i one day i think i was almost 12 hours of wearing them
these are super comfortable even though they are very heavy they do have a bit
of pressure around your ears but as far as the headband they don't
have pressure build up like most headphones do
which is why i love the comfort of these let's go ahead and take these off and
let's give the v-modas a go so this is the
right hand right here all right okay very interesting
first off okay i'm not gonna talk about the noise cancellation
but um i do feel the headband more so i feel the ear cups a lot less
but the ear cups aren't as deep as the airpods max these are
super deep so my ears actually don't touch the insides whereas here they do
touch but it does still feel comfortable feels
fairly lightweight on my head the headband is more comfortable than i
expected now of course this is just my first impressions we will be doing a
review and in that review we can talk about
long-term comfort after i've worn them for
hours and hours so that's not bad now the v-modas do have buttons
up here at the top somewhere all right there there they are so there's three
buttons not so you can control your volume and
then we have an active noise cancellation button
down below now the bottom button feels quite nice it's fairly clicky but these
top buttons they feel very mushy for some reason
not springy at all now the airpods max they're very simple as far as controls
we have our little button right here to toggle between your active noise
cancellation modes and then you have the little dial
the crown so you can adjust your volume skip tracks things like that so the
controls wise feel like these are a little bit more simple and they're very
easy to find now let me quickly show you guys the app it is
very very basic but it does have an app where the airpods max
does not include one and then here we can go into the sound settings adjust
our noise cancellation we do have an equalizer which is great
and then the other option is auto off so it looks like by default
um is not enabled so you can't switch it to 30 minutes or three hours and of
course you can just shut it off yourself whereas with the airpods max
you don't have a power on or off button it's automatic and you have to wait for
it to go into low power mode and shut off now as far as battery life
both these are rated for 20 hours so they're rated identical
therapeuts max get a little bit more than that 24 to 25 in real world use
but of course you get some drain if you leave them for
a few days without that power button and now let's compare the active noise
cancellation i'm going to start out with the off mode where it's just testing out
kind of the seal and how well they block out noise by themselves so i have the
airpods max set to off and it does block out quite a bit i do
almost have some like self noise or just i don't know a little bit
of weirdness here but it blocks out a lot
surprisingly and let's try the v-modas
all right that's actually a pretty good amount of blockage a little bit less
than the airpods max i hear that vent above me a little bit more so than with
the airpods max let's go ahead and turn on the active
noise cancellation all right wow okay this is interesting
depending on the seal it changes a little bit so all right that's better
it got rid of all the low the low frequency sounds whoa my voice sounds
kind of weird though almost like a rumbling that's added to
my voice i haven't heard that from other active noise cancellation headphones
i hear a little bit of the highs but wow that is better than i expected wow
okay let's try out the airpods max all right and silence
all the lows are also are also gone the highs are pretty much gone too and
my voice doesn't have any of that digital kind of weirdness so let me go
back and forth between these two yep so these are a little bit worse than
the airpods max the lows are fantastic and i presume if you're in an airplane
these are going to do a great job but the highs is where you get a little bit
more coming through and maybe that's just because the seal isn't as good
and then i just feel the the weirdness in my voice when i'm talking i don't
know how much that matters to you guys maybe they can fix that with firmware
but it just sounds a little bit weird now one cool feature of these v-modas is
the ability to put your hand over the ear cup like this and then
about a second later it goes into your ambient
ambient mode or your talking mode so you can hear somebody
and as soon as you put your hand away it goes back into active noise cancellation
now i wish that the airpods max had that be very convenient so you have to keep
toggling on and off uh but oddly enough the v-moda's don't have an ambient mode
that you can leave on all the time that is the feature that
you use whereas with the airpods max you have
apple's transparency mode you could toggle
and it is absolutely incredible the best out of any headphones that i have heard
and you know all of the reviewers say the
same thing it sounds like you literally don't have anything on not digital
or artifact anything like that and in this mode
i hear you know just like in real life whereas the v-modas when you put your
hand over the sides it still sounds a bit digital
and now let's compare the sound quality i have three different tracks
that are no copyright so you guys can listen along i'll keep it short and then
i'll give you guys my kind of opinions and the differences
that i hear so let's go ahead and take a listen
[Music] all right guys well that was
very interesting i have two things that i have to mention
first off uh we had some real weirdness when i started listening to the track or
when those really deep the deep bass kind of kicked in i don't
know did you hear anything vadim yeah it was more sound leakage on the uh
v mode a lot more sound leakage on the v-moda's
okay but you didn't hear any crunchiness uh i heard something weird in the mids
yeah i actually had to turn it down because
i was having almost like a distortion like when you push your sub too far
um it was very weird i haven't heard that from other headphones at least in
this price range so i clicked it down by one or two
clicks and that got rid of that it was still
really loud very loud bass sound is great i think this is
probably the best aspect of these headphones so far
is sound quality uh everything else doesn't really match up to headphones
that cost this much but the sound there was good of course the airpods max they
made me really happy that's why i couldn't return them even
though i wanted to the sound quality is just
awesome okay but with that i don't know if i can call a winner yet
let's go ahead and take a listen to our next song which is going to be more of a
modern classical instrumental track [Music]
[Music] all right all right once again very
interesting now i have to say these definitely sound better than the
sony's the xm4s then the bose as far as sound quality
v-moda they did a great job now this actually with the ink versions they are
40 mil drivers instead of 50s just like the airpods max are 40mm
drivers so the drivers went down but still has really deep
rich bass frequencies are kind of a little bit higher a little bit sharper
than the airpods max they sound fantastic now soundstage-wise
which this track is excellent for the airpods max
are definitely wider that's where i showed like i felt in that song that is
this this far away from me for close backs these are great for our sound
stage these are still good just not as good now there's one part of
the song where a lot of headphones can distort at max
volume and i had this turned down just a little bit not maxed
out it was still plenty loud and i had to knock it down
one more bar because it did distort once again just like in that first track i
don't know if they can fix that in software it can go to the eq
and make sure that doesn't happen but that part of it's a bummer but overall
sound quality both are very very good the sound
signature is a little bit different but the sound stage is better on the
airpods max and now let's go ahead and do the most difficult
test which is rock music where we have a ton
of different instruments ton of different sounds and vocals in there
it's going to get interesting [Music]
till the day that we dream okay okay well they sound good for rock
music uh at first the vocals were a little bit
too high there they're too loud compared to the rest of the track
um then i went into the app because we do have an equalizer
i hit the rock button and bam right there
it fixed that and it sounded fantastic now
uh with the airpods max i actually try to turn them up a little bit more
uh because i want it to be a little bit louder which is not good for your ears
at all you shouldn't be doing that but i love loud music
and with the v-modas they get louder and they sounded fantastic i didn't hear any
distortion um i do wish the mids are maybe a little
bit more rich um so overall i'll say the airplanes max do have better sound
quality a better balance and the reason why they weren't
that loud in here is because they tune themselves all the time they have
an inward facing microphone so they will not distort on you at all
whereas with these i had to turn them down to stop them
from distorting so that could be fixed in the future but
overall as far as sound quality i am very impressed
with these headphones and now for the final test microphone
quality let's go ahead and compare them this is the microphone quality
of the v-moda m200 inks built-in microphones and this is the
microphone quality of apple's airpods max built in microphones so go
ahead let me know down below which one sounds better and
now for the verdict which one of these headphones should you spend your hard
earned money on apple's airpod max or the v-moda m200 inks
now personally i have to say that i would have a hard time spending 500
on these the sound quality is good the active noise cancellation has a
little bit issues which could be ironed out
the voice control feature that is cool uh but
there's no always on ambient mode just yet and what really kind of bugs me the
most is just the build quality for this amount of money you take a look
at the bose 700s those you can buy for 329 right now they
are definitely better built the plastic feels a lot better um and i
don't know it's just that's kind of tough to drop that much
money on something like this whereas with airpods max
we know that most likely microphones are better
the comfort most likely is better as well sound quality you don't get any of
that distortion the active noise cancellation mode is
awesome and the build quality is amazing and then if you're an ios user or you
have a mac you have the extra features built in
which is great but you guys let me know your thoughts
down in the comment section below is there something that you really love
about these that would make it worth it or maybe you've owned other v-modas and
just want active noise cancellation and wireless
headphones that are the same i want to hear your guys's thoughts i have links
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