A No Bullshit 12 Month Review Of The AirPods Max

Entirely impartial, honest, straight-up reality after using the AirPods Max for a whole year…

Attila Vágó
Bricks n’ Brackets
7 min readApr 29, 2022

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Photo & edit by Attila Vágó

I really took my sweet time to sit on these and wait with a review until I felt confident enough I’m not going to make an eejit of myself reviewing them only to take everything back a few months later. Wanted to avoid the situation where I had to publish a retraction, and that’s mostly because we’re talking about headphones and in some ways, headphones are consumables compared to pretty much everything else that Apple makes. So without further ado, here’s my straight-up, no bullshit review of the most expensive pair of cans Apple makes.

I briefly introduced them alongside my M1 Pro MacBook Pro 16 a while back, but a year is a long time, also just so happens to be more than enough time to fully assess their value.

If you just want the cost-benefit analysis results — no, they’re not worth their price.

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Attila Vágó
Bricks n’ Brackets

Staff software engineer, tech writer, author and opinionated human. LEGO and Apple fan. Accessibility advocate. Life enthusiast. Living in Dublin, Ireland. ☘️