I must be living under a rock, I wasn't aware that they had gone out (of what, I don't know)
Corded headphones are making an unexpected return
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#232I wish behind head/neck headphones made a return. Seems like they disappeared several years ago, and now only exists as a sports equipment, with neckband connected to earphones, which is not the same. I used to find them much more comfortable than the ones that you put on top of the head.
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#233I have never really gotten used to wireless buds, and still find myself reaching for wires half the time: - Wireless buds don’t connect 100% reliably; sometimes I get one and not the other, or neither. Sometimes they will randomly disconnect during use. - Sometimes the sound glitches out randomly, which is so irritating that I don’t care how good the sound supposedly is the rest of the time. - Gestures and voice are…
As someone who worked as a freelance audio engineer I have certain pairs of (chorded) headphones that I just want to use to hear my mixes (or other music) on. I know how they sound and what they do to sounds. Every in-ear solution I had in my ears up to now doesn't even get close in terms of "resolution" (this is not a technical term but it is true, that some monitoring solutions will let you hear more of the recordi…
As replaceable batteries turned into science fiction audio jack is literally the last thing I look for on a mobile phone.
I got a poco because I won't replace my HD-25 II anytime soon.
Before that I even took a MP3 player with me most of the time. Fiio Xsomwthing. However it broke, and for some reason you don't find good MP3 players with actual buttons anymore either.
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#234Today I learned that for most people, even on HN, headphones means earbuds. All wireless earbuds I have ever used, including Apple Airpods Pro, sucked. Fit, charging stability, not randomly breaking, sound, you name it. By contrast, I have wireless Sennheiser (over-ear) headphones which sound great (compared to my old wired HD25, say), last for 20 hours or so, and plug into USB, Headphone jack and, well, Bluetooth. R…
I can give pretty much the same anecdotes as you. The bulkier over-ear headphones seem to have no trouble with connectivity, brilliant battery life, and great sound. While every pair of in-ear headphones has had troubles. A lot of people I know have the fancy sony over-ear headphones and the issues they have had are very rare.
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#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah. Bluetooth sucks. It has sucked for as long as it has existed, and I don’t see that changing any time soon, if ever. I’m sorry to say it, but welcome to the future of wireless audio.
Apple’s BT has actually been pretty solid for me. My AirPods Pros work rally well with my iPhone, Macbook Pro and Windows laptop. I can switch easily and it already is connected to my last device when I put the AirPods in my ear.
Imagine my Sennheisers working perfectly well with my phone, laptop, computer and even the 20y old radio on my toilet. No connection issues at all, even on busy places.
Just plug the wire and enjoy the very best music quality.
It must be only me who doesn't care about a wire for all the added bonus like quality, stability and no battery.
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#236Corded earphones: * never run out of juice * never have internal noise/audible hiss * never have trouble connecting * you can hear your vinyl rip FLAC as it is, not subjected to lossy psychoacoustic compression * you can use a variety of devices spanning decades to listen your music on
* will at one point start mysteriously crackling unless you hold the wire in that one weird angle from that one spot
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
A burst of packet loss that doesn’t translate into at least a disconnection of current TCP streams is, by definition, not a disconnection.
There are plenty of connection-oriented protocols other than TCP that do experience a disconnect during these packet-loss bursts. RTP, for example. There's a reason IP softphones are always wired, rather than being wi-fi devices — speaking RTP, they can't tolerate the somewhat-normal condition of RF-interference-induced 802.11-PHY packet-loss bursts nearly as well as devices speaking TCP can. They end up dropping cal…
That seems a problem with RTP more than with wireless connections.
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#238Air pods (started the trend) are IMHO also are mostly a status symbol.
Early air pods would arguable sound worse than 30$ Chi-fi IEMs. Yes later sound got better, but even the old ones were selling like hell. It seems also that people don't care that much about sound quality, but prefer convenience. Apple made it less convenient to us corded phones by omitting the head phone jack. I personally think that ATM i do not need a wireless IEM. I use IEMs mostly during sports,and longer travels. There a cheaper IEM is just preferable in my experience,because if it breaks it does not matter and if it gets stolen it also does not matter. Also the cords make it less likely that the IEM fall down and break. I do have a small bluetooth receiver but mostly because it also includes a good microphone.
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here’s a link explaining why the UK Type G plug is so much better: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-the-electrical-plugs-and-socke... Photo of a type G plug (this is an adapter): https://www.rcjaz.ca/jazrider-type-british-3pin-electrical-a...
That link completely glosses over the fact that UK electrical networks are one big ring circuit instead of a radial circuit. This is because during WW2 they needed the metal savings, and this is also why every UK plug is fused and quite bulky. IMO the EU way is the best. Radial circuit, fused in groups, and the plug is either the Schuko plug (very safe since the earth/ground is always engaged first) or Europlug (rela…
Schuko plug (very safe since the earth/ground is always engaged first) or Europlug (relatively safe because it is only allowed for low class power appliances)
the problem is that they don't have contact covers.
What I like about the British plug is that its closed most of the time, and really really difficult to put stuff in the live/neutral. That has advantages for safety, but also cleanliness. It cuts down dust ingress.
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have the AirPod Pro and they reliably try to fall out multiple times in an hour.
Depends on your ear It’s very solid in mine
Yes, sounds reasonable.
I also guess they have tested it on many different persons but not my type of ears.
(I see many people with same ethnicity as me complain about it ;-)