Apple’s new $549 over the ear headphones might have a significant issue – ear sweat.
Multiple customers throughout Twitter, Reddit (1,2,3,4) and Apple website boards are complaining of water droplets showing contained in the cup of the headphones, however extra worryingly additionally inside the driving force.
The challenge seems to occur with prolonged use of 30 minutes to an hour and is worrying those that are involved in regards to the audio driver rusting or shorting. The AirPods Max usually are not rated to resist water.
The challenge could also be as a result of aluminium building of the cups, with the metallic seemingly selling condensation, vs much less heat-conductive plastic.
So far Apple has not acknowledged the difficulty, and it seems in case your drivers do get broken it is going to be a paid restore.
AirPods Max are at the moment offered out via March, so if this challenge does offer you pause, you should not have any drawback ready a number of months to see the way it performs out.
