Your Apple Airpods Max Are Getting A Major Audio Upgrade For Free

Your AirPods Max mightiness beryllium getting a long-awaited free audio upgrade.

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In an announcement this week, Apple said that its high-end AirPods are getting lossless audio and ultra-low latency audio via a package update adjacent month. This marks nan first upgrade to nan instrumentality since it launched complete 4 years agone (except for nan larboard alteration from Lightning to USB-C).

The catch

Unfortunately, this only applies to models pinch a USB-C connector and not to nan erstwhile procreation of AirPods Max pinch a Lightning connector (due to nan measurement nan Lightning cablegram converts nan signal, it's not wholly lossless).

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"With nan included USB-C cable," Apple explained, "users tin bask nan highest-quality audio crossed music, movies, and games, while euphony creators tin acquisition important enhancements to songwriting, hit making, production, and mixing."

Lossless audio is simply a shape of audio compression. Most audio files suffer information from nan original source, but lossless audio is fundamentally audio consecutive from nan accumulation team. Bluetooth connections don't support lossless audio, meaning you request to usage a wired connection.

Apple's $549 headphones will beryllium nan 2nd instrumentality to support this feature, pursuing nan Beats Studio Pro.

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Ultra-low latency simply intends really accelerated information transfers to nan headphones from nan root -- thing that would entreaty much to gamers and livestreamers, making contented "reliably soft and moreover much immersive." Apple said this will beryllium connected par pinch autochthonal built-in speakers connected Mac, iPad, and iPhone.

New Apple accessory

In existent Apple fashion, there's a caller accessory, excessively -- a USB-C to 3.5mm audio cable for $39. You tin usage this to link your AirPods Max to 3.5mm audio sources, for illustration connected an airplane. Any bidirectional USB-C to 3.5mm cablegram should work, though.

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