New Delhi, May 8 -- It's almost a clash of ideologies. On the one hand, you have Sennheiser with the HDB 630, leaning into its audiophile roots with a focus on precision, tuning, and comfort, while on the other, the AirPods Max 2 doubles down on Apple's ecosystem magic, seamless switching, and computational audio wizardry. One chases purity, the other, smarts. And somewhere between the two lies the answer to what great audio really means in 2026. Both cost a small fortune, so which one's actually worth it?

Apple's sole over-ear headphones have, aside from a small USB-C sized update, remained largely unchanged since their launch in 2020, so expectations from the successor ran high. Sadly, the AirPods Max 2 ( Rs.67,900) isn't the ground-up...