Apple has one more thing for the holiday shopping season: over-the-ear, wireless headphones that will test how much people are willing to splurge on for high-quality sound.

The headphones, called AirPods Max, will cost $899 in Australia — far more than similar products from Bose and Sony that offer many of the same features, such as noise cancellation. The lofty price is more than double what it costs to buy Apple's in-ear wireless headphones.

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Apple began accepting orders for the AirPods Max on Wednesday, but they won't be in stores until December 15.

The announcement of the long-rumoured headphones caps one of Apple's busiest periods in years, despite a pandemic that has kept most of its engineers at home to help fight the spread of the novel coronavirus. Since September, Apple has rolled out its next generation of smart watches, four new iPhones and Mac computers that will run on its own internally designed processors instead of chips made by Intel.