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I pitted the AirPods Max against my $3,000 audio setup


The lossless audio update unlocks the full potential of the AirPods Max.

(Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)In Hardwired, AC Senior Editor Harish Jonnalagadda delves into all things hardware, including phones, audio products, storage servers, and networking gear. Now that I'm finally able to connect the headset to Windows, I wanted to see how good they actually are, so I paired the AirPods Max against my audio setup, which includes an Audeze MM-500 that's hooked up to a Fiio K19 DAC. (Image credit: Apoorva Bhardwaj / Android Central)The MM-500 has been sitting on my desk this past year, while I took the AirPods Max with me on flights, paired it with my iPad Pro M4 and used it to watch movies and TV shows, and used it while working out.

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