The interior of the AirPods Max revealed a mixture of components that include strategically located logic boards and substantial drivers.
It is now the turn of AirPods Max. In the latest teardown by repair specialist iFixit, everyone got the chance to get an in-depth look at the insides of Apple's latest and premier over-ear headphones. Among the notable things, you will notice with the internal components of the AirPods Max are its massive drivers and strategically placed logic boards.
.@Apple #AirPodsMax are difficult to take apart, teardown video reveals.https://t.co/8opJuA3OMb — News18 Tech (@News18Tech) December 18, 2020
On Thursday, iFixit started its traditional practice of tearing down the latest hardware created by the Cupertino-based company. For the first time, the public saw what the internal components of the AirPods Max looked like and how they are placed. Even with the amalgamation of different components, the public saw the massive drivers of the AirPods Max and its strategically placed logic boards, though at times they appear to fight for space in a crowded aluminum ear cups.
Like its previous teardowns of Apple devices, iFixit started the process by showing an X-ray image of the new headphone. The one who performed the task of taking an X-ray image of the AirPods Max was Creative Electron. At initial glance, the X-ray image showed what seems like a spacious interior with a host of electric parts arranged in each of the shell's outer periphery. Upon closer inspection of the AirPods Max X-ray image, the allotted space within the aluminum cups is actually filled up, with what appears like strategically placed logic boards and massive drivers taking position inside the cup's slender frame.
Repair specialist iFixit found that aside from the strategic placement of the logic boards of the AirPods Max and its massive drivers, they also discovered that Apple opted to place both battery cells in only one ear cup instead of putting one in each cup. What the iFixit team found amazing, however, is that both cups feel like they have the same weight. How Apple engineers can counterbalance the added weight in the other cup is unknown at this time.
The X-ray image of the AirPods Max also revealed the massive dual-ring magnet motor of the drivers, Apple's "ground-breaking" ear cup positioning mechanism, an assortment of alignment magnets, interior circuitry, and internal screws. A look at the interior of the AirPods Max gave the iFixit team a glimpse of the two strategically placed logic boards within each of the ear cups. The team also found massive drivers in each ear cup. The process of identifying the components is ongoing, although the iFixit team found several chips common to both boards, which include an FPGA and what looks like the H1 chip, as well as the power management silicon. The repair specialist plans to continue the process of tearing down the AirPods Max in the coming days, and when the process is complete, iFixit will score it based on its "repairability."
