AirPods Max Although it was introduced to the world via a press release in December 2020, they are still waiting for their upgrade. Apple should improve in this regard this year and release a revised version, but more and more sources agree that in the end there will be nothing to gain. There will be a lot of upgrades and their attractiveness will be practically zero. This information was confirmed a few hours ago by one of the most reliable Asian leakerat.
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Reliable leaker Instatn Digital wrote on the Asian social network Weibo that the only change in the new AirPods Max 2 should really be just USB-C port, which replaces the headphones Lightning – that is, if we do not count the new colored ones varianty. Then there should be according leakerand for example the newer generation of the H chip, which is available in the latest AirPods Pro 2We are talking specifically about the H2 chip, which AirPods Pro 2 provides so-called adaptive sound – a combination of ANC, personalized volume adjustment based on the environment, and automatic muting based on speech recognition. This is undoubtedly an interesting and extremely useful function, the absence of which is a problem in the latest and, as a result, the most expensive AirPods on offer AppIt will definitely freeze.
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When exactly will the new headphones come out of the factory? Applu will arrive though leaker did not specify, but he is sure that it will happen this year. However, according to previously leaked information, the most likely release date is autumn, which should, in addition to AirPods Max 2 also bring new fundamental Air4th generation pods.
If they can do Lossless and improve the sound to the level of top wireless headphones…
Dali iO-12, Solitaire T, Focal Bathys, Mark Levinson 5909, I'd be happy to buy them.
If they can do Lossless and improve the sound to the level of top wireless headphones…
Dali iO-12, Solitaire T, Focal Bathys, Mark Levinson 5909, I'd be happy to buy them.
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And how could BT headphones possibly be lossless, especially with the AAC codec?
By using audio jackin headphones. Just like other manufacturers do.
Rumor has it that Apple already has a lossless wireless solution...or will have one in the near future.
And lossless via cable wouldn't be bad either...
jo: This has been rumored for about five years. Sony had it with its LDAC, then Apple, now Qualcomm with its aptX Lossless, but so far the deed has escaped. It alludes to the physical possibilities of BT transmission and, above all, to its interference. So the 990kbps advertised by LDAC only works in laboratory conditions, but you don't even have it on your desk at home, or, God forbid, in public transport, and you can't even fit classic flac 16/44,1 or. the latter sometimes does, but there is no more space for communication between transmitter and receiver. Maybe in a secluded place near the forest, where there is no current, because BT is highly susceptible to interference from other BT and especially wifi transmissions. So you will find out that at home you are driving at 30% speed and in public transport it is even worse.
Oskar and you noticed that over that audiojack Are analog data going and the headphones play worse than via BT because the DSP processor in the headphones is not used to iron out their design flaws? And the ADC – DSP – DAC path definitely does not add to the quality and no one uses it. And your proposed solution also has another small flaw. You will lose the wirelessness.
I didn't really notice that I was going to lose wireless. LOL. Well, seriously. If I use a high-quality audio source and connect high-quality BT headphones via cable, I basically use them as high-quality active speakers. If I want to use lossless audio, so I must also have a source that plays it. If I want to use a mobile phone as a source, I have to connect an external DAC to it. If I don't want to use a mobile phone with an external DAC, I have to reach for a good DAP. I usually connect good wired headphones to my DAP, but on the road I carry Sony WH1000XM3, which I connect to my mobile phone via BT and to the DAP via cable when it's on (if the headphones are not on, they play, but pretty terrible). And they play no worse than via BT. However, the question I answered above was about how to get lossless audio do Apple headphones.
And the answer is that it just plays lousy. Not even Airpod Max, nor are the WH1000 high-quality headphones, the quality is somewhere else and especially for a completely different price. But I completely agree that it is exclusively via wire. I would be very interested in what you connect to your DAP and what kind of DAP it is, because listening to headphones and everything around it has been a big and quite expensive hobby of mine for about thirty years.