{"id":512,"date":"2026-04-25T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/airpods-max-2-vs-pro-3-which-should-you-actually-buy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T13:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:46:49","slug":"airpods-max-2-vs-pro-3-which-should-you-actually-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/airpods-max-2-vs-pro-3-which-should-you-actually-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"AirPods Max 2 vs Pro 3: Which should you actually buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/fernando-airpods.png?w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p>I have avoided the AirPods Max since their original release in 2020. I could never justify the $550 price tag, especially when the AirPods Pro line was much cheaper, offered more features, and had a more convenient form factor. I knew there was a target customer for these high-end headphones, but at the time, it wasn\u2019t me. Then Apple dropped the true successor to the Gen 1 AirPods Max and added a lot of the features and internal hardware that the AirPods Pro 3 received earlier in 2025. So I decided to pick up a pair, and while the AirPods Max 2 are objectively great headphones, what it truly did was show me just how incredible the AirPods Pro 3 are. Let me explain.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"airpods,airpods-max-2,airpods-pro-3,ios\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1046802\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/04\/06\/airpods-max-2-vs-pro-3-which-should-you-actually-buy\/#more-1046802\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have avoided the AirPods Max since their original release in 2020. I could never justify the $550 price tag, especially when the AirPods Pro line was much cheaper, offered more features, and had a m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airpods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}