Apple Airpods Max 2024 - after midnight listening session (Patreon)

Actually the Airpods Max wouldn't be that bad, if Apple allowed for a more reasonable control about the sound. With headphone accomodations the sound somehow improves, but it's too much of everything and seems to add some additional dynamics effect to the sound. With default setting it's simply way too bassy and misses lot of mids which makes them appear muddy despite the treble being quite boosted, while activating headphone accommodation makes the sound too artificial sounding for me. What I definitely love is ANC and transparency mode, which unfortunately I both cannot achieve with the same level for the NH1, but I think soundwise the NH1n should offer a way more serious listening experience to those who actually care about sound.

Please apologize some occasional clipping at the very end, but due to the enclosed air volume with closed headphones there is lots of infranoise rumble captured which I cannot quite avoid.

Update: Due to some discussion regarding the headphone accommodations which definitely have a huge impact on the overall perceived response I added some measurements for the Airpods Max with all settings compensated for the NH1n studio setting:

The most balanced setting would be either "balanced strong" or "vocal slight" which still has too much bass: