To date, the lowest price we've seen for Apple's largest headphones is $429, during the week of Black Friday last year. But right now, the AirPods Max are selling for $449 on Amazon, or $20 more than the best price we've seen on the site. The current price is only available for one of the five colors -- blue -- but the other colors are still discounted by $70.

Will the headphones return to even lower prices in the future? Quite possibly. But with a lot of the biggest sales of the year months ahead, that may keep you waiting a while. The takeaway here is that you're saving up to $100 on some models versus what you'd pay at the Apple Store, where they retail for the full price of $549. 

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The biggest complaint about the AirPods Max has been their high price. I thought they were pretty stellar, with excellent sound and noise-canceling capacity. Some people may find them a tad weighty, but others are surprised by how comfortable they are for heavy headphones. Like other AirPods, they're geared toward Apple users. And while they're Bluetooth headphones that can connect to any Bluetooth audio device, they have some unique features, such as spatial audio for movies and TV that only works with Apple devices. Read my AirPods Max review here.

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This story was posted earlier and is updated as prices and available models change.