AirPods Max 2 are my Headphones of the Year Award despite their few clear flaws — because when you do everything else this well, it just doesn't matter
I did not expect to love the AirPods Max 2 so much, upon testing them. Nobody is more surprised than me that I chose Apple's new over-ears for Headphones of the Year at the TechRadar Product of the Year Awards 2026.
Bowers & Wilkins has won this award the last few years, and I even hovered over the excellent five-star HEDD HEDDPhones D1 for a moment. But despite being trailblazing cans from a pioneering new audio outfit (and for some, that will fit the bill perfectly) the D1 are open-back, wired, passive beasts. And the thing is, AirPods Max 2 just do so much more for the money.
Even though you, the readers, also voted the AirPods Max 2 for this award in our TechRadar Readers' Choice Awards 2026, I'm certain there will still be some cries of discontentment about this. 'Wait, so Apple's AirPods Max 2,...
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