Apple now sells USB-C to 3.5 mm cable for wired AirPods Max playback

Today Apple announced a forthcoming firmware update for AirPods Max with USB-C that will enable lossless audio. As part of that news, the company has now started selling a new cable to enable wired playback on its newest AirPods Max with a standard headphone jack. New firmware will support wired playback, and Apple now sells a USB-C to 3.5 mm cable Last fall Apple announced new AirPods Max with very minimal changes. there were new colors a USB-C port instead of Lightning and support for Personalized Spatial Audio That’s it. For many of us who were expecting a proper AirPods Max 2-level update, it was a big disappointment. That letdown was amplified by a key regression that the new USB-C model brought. While the original AirPods Max could be used for wired playback with a special Lightning to 3.5 mm cable, there was no such cable and no such hardware support for wired playback over USB-C in the new model. Fortunately, that’s changing with next month’s firmware update. And now ... Read full article.