These are the first editions, lightning cable versions but they were hardly used. no sag and seems to be kept very nicely

I’m picked up a pair of Max 2’s yesterday and have been testing them out today. I’ve noticed a periodic and seemingly random issue when listening to podcasts from Spotify on my iPhone, where the audio will glitch or stutter in the left ear, then the right ear, and then go back to normal. It’s a fraction of a second type thing, and I initially thought it might be on the audio track itself. But if I rewind to the spot where it happened, the audio is fine.

Is this a known issue or something that anyone here has experience with?

Hey everybody, I have apple care plus on my airpods max one and have been having an issue with distorted audio and the left side has anc that seems to fade out and then come back on. I took them to apple and made it a point to go in person because i wanted a chance to explain the issue, as it’s somewhat subtle, but they basically just gave me the ear ups and sent them off.

Well that was last Saturday, i’ve not heard a single thing from apple about the repair, have opened multiple support cases where apple asks for the repair id, to which I explain I don’t have which is part of the reason i’ve open said support case, and then they tell me they can’t do anything without it. Today by chance i checked find my and noticed that they are 2 miles from my house, so I opened a phone support case and the guy told me they found nothing wrong and just sent them back as is. I’m so beyond frustrated with this does anyone have any advice?

Is it dirt? I often hear a weird buzzing with them and I took off the earpieces and saw this

Just wanted to vent, can’t believe how this can happen… The NC effect is so powerful that it was easy to notice when it went down to almost no effect at all.

I’m super careful with expensive stuff, so I don’t think I could have caused it. Tried everything like factory reset, taking of the cups but nothing helped. Transparency works, so the mics must be ok? Oh well, hope I was just unlucky, getting a replacement pair since I was so happy with them.

Why is high end stuff so shitty? Bought a Denon cd player last year, and the sled developed problems after one week. 🤪

These are the 1st generation AirPods Maxes, and I hate how this just happened. Any advice works out!!