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Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by orf »

notacoward wrote: post #42
ikeboy wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can run the play store just fine on lineageos, which has modifications and isn't official. https://www.google.com/android/uncertified/ just need to register here as of earlier this year apparently

Apparently Play Store is unaffected, but some other apps - banking, streaming, even Pokemon Go - will break. And your warranty (including hardware) is voided. So I stand corrected, and thank you, but I don't think the correction affects the main point.

Magisk takes care of that.

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Post by DanBC »

ricardobeat wrote: post #36

Could’ve spent $199 on an iPod, have high quality audio, load your own music, no “apple tax”. Coincidentally I was looking for something like an ipod shuffle this week and it’s become almost impossible to find, beyond some cheap thrift-store MP3 players.

> I was looking for something like an ipod shuffle this week and it’s become almost impossible to find,

What's wrong with the Sandisk products?

EG Clip Jam: https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Clip-Jam-MP3-Player/dp/B00V...

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by vardump »

sasaf5 wrote: post #45

Are Bluetooth headsets still much behind wired ones in terms of sound quality?

As an owner of Bose QC35... yes.

The headphones themselves sound pretty good. But when playing over bluetooth sometimes compression artefacts are audible. The artefacts are caused by the bluetooth protocol for stereo audio itself, so you're going to hear them even if you play FLAC files.

Also latency is pretty horrible. 200 ms+, enough to be obvious.

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by blattimwind »

baxtr wrote: post #2

> Right now I'm absolutely astonished at how difficult it appears to be to just listen to music with a good pair of headphones. Is it not 2018? The media is full of talk about preposterously ambitious ideas such as AI and self-driving cars and yet I can't even listen to a fuck-damn music track? O_o I enjoyed reading this. The whole time I thought however: that’s not an issue on my Apple devices. Then I read: > If any…

> I enjoyed reading this. The whole time I thought however: that’s not an issue on my Apple devices.

Except newer iPhones requiring a dongle to use headphones.

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by shawnz »

temp0876456 wrote: post #14

Boy does this person need to look at the ‘good headphone’ market. I paid (a very reasonable) $2k for a set of reference headphones and a suitable amp/DAC to drive them. I could have spent a lot more. It is hard to drive a set of headphones with enough SQ to make them worthwhile. You cannot plug a set of headphones into an Android phone and expect anything good to happen. And lots of DAPs suffer from software problems…

> I paid (a very reasonable) $2k for a set of reference headphones and a suitable amp/DAC to drive them. I could have spent a lot more.

Have you done any blind testing against, for example, a $100-200 pair of headphones?

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Post by sureaboutthis »

gear54rus wrote: post #34
ignoreInstinct wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but what really gets under my skin is that every other company out there is okay with producing garbage. Meanwhile, Apple produces things that work comparatively well, doing what you expect and then, claims that reasonable functionality is premium . And then catches shit for being pretentious. So, let's step through that once more: - garbage is normal - functional and interoperable is premium - premium is prete…

Did you really just call apples products interoperable? maybe among their other crap, but sure as hell not among other devices. Which are all interoperable among themselves btw.

No kidding, Sherlock, and that's the point. Apple products work...together...and well.

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Post by solemsigne »

> Shame Maplin closed because now I have to order parts off the internet and WAIT.

Local electronics shops are indispensable when you get a whim to make a curious solution to your particular problem. By the time the parts get to you, you just can't help but think how much easier it would have been to just buy something and just feel dumb.

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Post by bitexploder »

klipt wrote: post #57
agumonkey wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can I blame free market dynamics ? It's been a quite obvious trend since the 2000s. Audio components became commodities to reach bottom prices, no more middle class, good functionality is high end (which is now pushed to higher prices with branding like beats or devialet)

Is Beats even good functionality? I heard they used mediocre components and spent most of their money on marketing...

Tear downs support this. Medium quality at best.
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