Neutral is the default setting and works like a charm, but the other two are also worth checking out. The engineers developed a Bass Contour feature, a three-level EQ for bass that is fantastic. The channel separation was also superb all drum arrangements bounced smoothly from the left to right earcup. Harmonies were perfectly layered, which allowed me to distinguish voices on the chorus, and the highs sounded pristine, as exemplary by the upbeat xylophone notes.

Songs like Phil Collins’s “Take Me Home” showcased the headphones’ wide soundstage. Most of my time was spent listening to Spotify on mobile devices and my Apple Music library via MacBook Pro. 5909 comes equipped with 40mm beryllium coated drivers, a metal mesh bass port, and Bluetooth 5.1 with Hi-Res Audio certification for aptX and LDAC streaming.

Voice activation isn’t available (sorry “Hey Siri” fans), though the feature could become available in a future firmware update. Mark Levinson’s four-mic array demonstrates superb speech recognition, picking up spoken commands and long-winded inquiries with precision. Google Assistant, Siri, and Bixby operate fluently for voice-based virtual assistance. It barely ever worked, and when it did, there was serious lag (3 seconds) before auto-pausing or resuming playback. I would be very interested to know if sudo pmset -c sleep 60 (or whatever value you choose) actually works for a Haswell-based MacBook Air.I can see why the on-ear detection feature is disabled right out of the box because it is terrible on these headphones. (You can read more about pmset at or man pmset in Terminal.) I can also set different sleep times for disksleep and displaysleep If I wanted that same setting for when the MacBook is on battery power (not AC/wall power), then I would use Tells my MacBook Air not to put the computer to sleep, even if the display goes to sleep. If I want my MacBook Air to go to skeep after 60 minutes of idle time when it is plugged into wall/AC power, I can set that using: Manipulating computer sleep time with pmset It will show you the current pmset settings and it will also save a copy to ~/Desktop/original-pmset.txt so you can keep it as a reference. Sudo pmset -g live | tee -a ~/Desktop/original-pmset.txt Knodi was close, but pmset sleep 180 does not mean '180 x display sleep time' it simply means 180 minutes.īefore you change any of your pmset settings, I would take note of your current settings.

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