If Gucci would like to send me a sample I’ll be happy to test that out for myself.īut once I separate myself from the old tech reviewer convention of things having to justify in functional terms what they demand in cost terms, you realize that it doesn’t matter. But on the downside, I’m not at all convinced that the connection aperture for the charging cable is in a convenient position. The only improvement I can see is that the Gucci case comes with a leather strap, which means you don’t have to use the headband as a handle and potentially saves it from some wear and tear.
The Smart Case looks like a weird misshapen handbag the Gucci case is a weird misshapen handbag. The Smart Case doesn’t protect the mesh headband, the most vulnerable part of the headphones the Gucci case doesn’t protect it either. That’s especially disappointing because the Smart Case was the most widely criticized part of the AirPods Max package. It costs $980–not far off twice the cost of the headphones themselves–and in strictly functional terms does essentially nothing the Smart Case doesn’t do already. Gucci’s Ophidia case for AirPods Max in GG Supreme canvas, by contrast, barely tries to argue that X and Y should be in an equation together. They’re a high-performance set of headphones capable of pouring audio chocolate in your ears, but it’s tough to argue that X is clearly higher than Y. The AirPods Max are already pretty far down the money-is-no-object road, with a price tag a couple of hundred dollars or so above what their performance and the price of comparable rival products would lead one to expect. The solid-gold Apple Watch is long gone, but now we have the AirPods Max, and more specifically the latest accessory for the AirPods Max from Gucci. And by that rationale, the Apple Watch Edition absolutely delivered.
Things are defined not by what they can do–the ability of the boots to keep out puddles the ability of the scarf to warm your neck the ability of the watch to tell you what time it is–but by what they represent, how they make you feel, and what they say about you to others. The Apple Watch Edition was essentially identical to the Apple Watch Sport-except it cost $15,000 more.īut the logic of fashion is different, and its products are evaluated using a different set of mathematical equations. This product, we say, will increase your happiness more than it lowers your bank balance, ergo you should buy it. We weigh up the good: Does it look nice? Is it easy to use? What functions can it accomplish? And weigh those against the bad: How much space does it take up? How much does it cost? If X is bigger than Y, we offer a recommendation. Tech reviews, by and large, are quite a transactional business. But in time it was recognized as a logical move because the Apple Watch Edition was fundamentally not a tech product, and should not be regarded or reviewed as such. Rather than wooing the conventional tech press for positive reviews, Apple showed more interest in courting image-makers and celebrities. But it became undeniable in 2015 when the first Apple Watch Edition came out, an occasion marked by glossy Vogue ads and catwalk freebies. I remember working on a feature about high-fashion iPad cases near the start of the last decade. This love affair has been apparent for a while. Lifestyle marketing, status symbols, high margins, attention to detail, and the exaltation of the object…are we talking about a slimline laptop or a smart pair of slingbacks? Sometimes, in fact, you feel like Apple would rather be in fashion than tech–which makes sense when you think about the overlaps. Just adores it, as far as I can see, obsessively and almost uncritically. I've already searched for every kind of noise related post on reddit, steam, other forums, but i found nothing, it's always the win32latency noise.Apple loves fashion. I know the single-coil thing that strats have, but when i play in amplitube that noise doesn't exist, all the tones work pretty fine, the problem is only in rocksmith. I can tune my guitar and play the songs, but every song i play, every tone i chose, it gets the same horrible distortion tone, the middles and highs are too noisy and it's like my guitar is always humming. the overall sound is great, I already set the win32lowlatency to 0, already adjusted the lag, the output buffer, it's everything fine, until I start playing the guitar. I'm having trouble with the distortion, it's not that buzzing or crackling sound people normaly have when they start the game. Hi, a recently bought rocksmith and it's been a pain in the *ss to make it work.