7 Important Things to Know About Apple’s New AirPods Max

Today Apple announced the release of its long-awaited AirPods Max over-ear headphones, which will bring all of the great features of Apple’s AirPods Pro to a set of full-sized headphones that will likely offer even better audio quality thanks to a number of design improvements.

While AirPods Max may not include all of the features that we’d hoped for, they’re still a solid set of high-end over-ear headphones that should be very appealing to anybody who is already a fan of the AirPods family, or simply looking for something that offers tighter integration with the Apple ecosystem.

However, at $549 they don’t come cheap — in fact, they make the price of Apple’s full-sized HomePod speaker seem much more reasonable by comparison — so even though they’re going fast with delivery times already slipping into 2021, read on for 7 important things to know about before you take the plunge.