Apple Airpods Max special - the final take! (Patreon)

I am really glad that my last pair of microphones is still alive and allowed me to finish this video, but I am no 100% confident with the recording in terms of absolute fidelity. The relative differences between all headphones can be still distinguished quite well here and appear correct to me, but I wouldn't trust the overall timbre of the recording, which appears a bit too harsh to me especially in the 5khz region. This doesn't seem to be that obvious with most of the other  headphones but the Airpods Max appear smoother to me in real life than through this recording. I already tried to re-adjust my usual compensation to bring it a bit closer, but don't treat my sound samples too seriously which is als the reason why I didn't include any original recording samples (besides needing all those songs as files to be able to do this).

To conclude the topic Airpods Max: It is a very competent pair of headphones and I really regret returning them, but they are simply too expensive for me although they are not overpriced either. To me they improve a lot with the inclusion of a personal audiogram, but a direct access to this audiogram data in order to manipulate it and get an indirect way of controlling the response at particular key-frequencies would be the dot on the i.

Maybe we have some iOS experts here who can take a look at the audiogram data and how it is built up and how to prepare it to import it back as headphone correction again.