@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbthttps://www.404media.co/airpods-max/
> A pinned post on the AirPods Max subreddit, meanwhile, explains “most hardware issues originate from condensation issues,” then adds that this can lead to “AirPods turning off randomly, refusing to connect, refusing to play audio, needing restarts and factory resets to work, losing audio quality,” and a few other problems.
Are you fucking kidding me
These are exactly the problems I've been having with my own pair, and the 3 replacements I've gotten after.
Now that I know it's not a "bad batch", I'm gonna switch to something else
@hertog@ShadowJonathan At that price? Condensation? Really?
@ShadowJonathan@hertog I've experienced it myself, but I've also experienced these things dying after a month of heavy use
It's not noticeable to me, but if it contributed to these things constantly dying, I'm getting really done with them, tbh
@hertog@ShadowJonathan wtf (I have nothing but another unsolicited recommendation of the repeat audio headsets and a good luck)
@ShadowJonathan@jeder 3
This is my 4th
Every time I went to AMac, which sent it to Apple, and Apple sent a free replacement back, 4 times
When I came back a 3rd time they basically called a team meeting to look at the issue at the service bar (very good service tbh), discussing and asking me how long this problem has been going on, and then going their way and doing another replacement
Maybe I'm the only one to really come to amac for this, but fucking hell, at least the replacements have been completely free
@jeder@miau.jeder.pl@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt jesus fucking christ, i'd probably just bail after second pair and something else
@ShadowJonathan@jeder I would too, but ANC is way too magic
@jeder@miau.jeder.pl@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt eh i mean there's still like sony and bose
@ShadowJonathan May I recommend taking a look at Valco then? Had my VMK20 from them for over 3 years and they survived a lot. And while I did send them in a few times for repair, this was either covered by warranty (2yrs) or at 50€ per repair once warranty period was over (which they'll do as long as at least half of the parts are still usable)
Edit: Plus they're Finnish and customer communication is probably the best I've ever seen
@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt and i thought i got a short stick with my moondrop aria doing that, holy shit :/
how do you even manage to make full sized headphones collect condensate
@ShadowJonathan Can recommend the Sony ANC headphones, the name of the current gen is WH-1000XM5.
Terrible name, but Sony is pretty good at their ANC game.
@ShadowJonathan oh no they had California brain while designing it
@ShadowJonathan Every time I wear my tech gear in the rainforest or jungle they break!