AirPods Max will set you back a whopping 550 US dollars. What do you get for all that hard-earned cash?

Two 40 mm Apple-designed dynamic drivers

Two color-matched magnetic ear cushions

Two Apple H1 chips

Eight microphones for active noise cancellation

Bluetooth 5.0 with support for the Apple-friendly AAC codec

A soft-touch Smart Case and a Lightning-to-USB-C cable for charging

Notably absent from this list: any sort of auxiliary cable. You'll have to buy a Lightning-to-3.5 mm audio cable at additional cost if you want to do any wired listening.