Apple AirPods Max2 -Midnight - A3454 MHWK4 - 2025

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Apple AirPods Max 2 Over-Ear Headphones — Midnight | A3454 | Apple H2 Chip | 1.5x More Effective ANC | Adaptive Audio | Personalized Spatial Audio | 24-Bit Lossless | Live Translation | 20-Hour Battery | USB-C

The Apple AirPods Max 2 in Midnight is the most advanced, most intelligent and most acoustically refined over-ear headphone Apple has ever made — a complete reimagining of premium personal audio that combines the iconic premium hardware of the original AirPods Max with the extraordinary computational power of the Apple H2 chip to deliver a listening experience that is genuinely in a class of its own. Where the original AirPods Max defined what a premium Apple audio product could be, the AirPods Max 2 takes every dimension of that experience — noise cancellation, sound quality, transparency, intelligence and connectivity — and advances it with meaningful, substantive improvements that transform the day-to-day experience of wearing and using these headphones. The Midnight colourway brings a deep, sophisticated dark tone to the aluminium ear cups and knitted mesh headband — the same premium anodised aluminium construction and custom-moulded mesh that made the original AirPods Max the most luxuriously built wireless headphone ever released by Apple — now paired with the most powerful Apple audio chip ever built into a headphone for an experience that is as tactilely and aesthetically exceptional as it is sonically extraordinary

The Active Noise Cancellation system in the AirPods Max 2 is powered by the Apple H2 chip and new computational audio algorithms that together deliver noise cancellation that is up to 1.5 times more effective than the previous generation AirPods Max — a genuinely significant improvement that translates into real-world benefits that you can hear immediately. Where the original AirPods Max could effectively reduce steady-state background noise such as air conditioning hum and office ambience, the H2-powered ANC of the AirPods Max 2 goes further — delivering meaningful attenuation of higher-frequency, more unpredictable and more challenging noise sources such as airplane engine roar, commuter train noise and urban traffic, which are precisely the environments where premium ANC headphones earn their value. Adaptive Audio, one of the most significant new intelligent features enabled by H2, removes the need to manually toggle between ANC and Transparency modes entirely — continuously monitoring the acoustic environment and automatically blending the two modes in real time to give you exactly the right balance of noise reduction and ambient awareness for wherever you are at any given moment. Step into a quiet room and Adaptive Audio relaxes the noise cancellation. Walk onto a busy street and it tightens back up instantly and automatically. The Transparency mode itself has also been improved through a new DSP algorithm specifically optimised for H2 and the AirPods Max microphone array — making the outside world sound more natural, more open and less processed when Transparency is active, with a quality that Apple describes as approaching the experience of simply not wearing headphones at all.

The sound quality improvements in the AirPods Max 2 go beyond the already exceptional baseline established by the original. A new high dynamic range amplifier provides even cleaner audio reproduction with reduced distortion and greater detail retrieval across the full frequency spectrum, while maintaining and enhancing the remarkable acoustic character that made the original AirPods Max the benchmark for consumer headphone sound quality. Spatial Audio content sounds better than ever — with improved instrument localisation, more accurate and more consistent bass response and more natural-sounding mids and highs — thanks to the advanced computational audio processing enabled by H2. For those who demand the absolute highest level of audio fidelity, the AirPods Max 2 now support 24-bit, 48kHz lossless audio when connected via the included USB-C cable — a first for Apple's over-ear headphones and a feature that makes the AirPods Max 2 the most capable wired listening solution Apple has ever offered for audiophile-grade music playback. Personalized Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking uses the headphone's sensors and the TrueDepth camera on a compatible iPhone to create a spatial audio profile personalised specifically to the unique shape of your own ears — delivering a level of immersion, dimensionality and positional accuracy in Dolby Atmos content that generic spatial audio settings cannot approach.

The intelligent features unlocked by H2 make the AirPods Max 2 the most contextually aware and socially intelligent headphones Apple has ever made. Conversation Awareness detects the moment you begin speaking to someone nearby and automatically lowers the music volume and reduces background noise so you can conduct a natural, clear conversation without removing the headphones or manually pausing your audio — making the kind of quick exchanges that happen dozens of times every day effortless and uninterrupted. Live Translation, powered by Apple Intelligence, enables real-time translation of in-person conversations across multiple languages directly through the headphones — a capability that makes the AirPods Max 2 as useful for international travel and multilingual communication as they are for music, calls and entertainment. Voice Isolation uses advanced H2 computational audio to prioritise your voice during phone and video calls — filtering out wind, crowd noise and ambient sound so the person on the other end hears you clearly regardless of your environment. Personalized Volume learns your listening preferences and acoustic environment over time and adjusts playback volume automatically and intelligently for optimal comfort and hearing health. Battery life of up to 20 hours with ANC enabled provides a full day and beyond of uninterrupted listening — with a Smart Case that preserves battery by placing the headphones into an ultra-low-power state when stored.