Here’s why the AirPods Max don’t support Apple Music’s lossless audio

Apple took the music world by storm last night with its new lossless tier announcement. The company is offering high-fidelity music streaming for all Apple Music subscribers for free. The iPhone maker will offer lossless quality in three tiers.  CD-quality (16-bit depth/44.1KHz sampling rate), 24-bit depth/48KHz, 24-bit depth/192KHz sampling rate. [Read: What’s bit depth? And how does it impact music?] If you’re an Apple fan, you’d expect that its $550 headphones, the AirPods Max, will support hi-fi music streaming out of the box — at least the CD-quality tier. But that’s not the case. Apple said that its expensive cans only…

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