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Re:AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review by recursive on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @04:48PM (#26007300)
For some applications, people don't settle for wireless either. Probably mostly for latency or battery issues. I use wireless for listening to podcasts, and wired for playing (performing not recorded) music.
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Re:AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review by astrange on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:13PM (#26008380)
Wireless has theoretical advantages for all kinds of playback if you don't care about latency.

- independent of quality of your player's DAC

- amp is designed to match the headphone

- sound can't be transmitted through the cable (microphonic effects, etc)

- you can walk around without keeping the player in your pocket

It'd help if the audio codecs used were lossless of course.

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Re:AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review by asdff on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:50PM (#26008738)
A big con of course is you now have another device to routinely charge and a battery to replace.
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