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I'm always amazed that more people aren't bothered by having to constantly charge wireless headphones. Wired ones never run out of battery.
Apples design genius really shows here. The container that you’d immediately lose the buds without charges them
I just forget to charge the case too.
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It's pretty common for motorcyclists to wear hearing protection- as little as 18mph of wind can cause permanent damage with extended exposure.
Does a helmet not provide that protection or are you referring to riders who don't wear helmets?
After solving for fall protection, hearing is the next thing on a motorcycle.
What kills me about wireless is when I need to switch sources. E.g. from my work laptop to my phone and vice versa. Or from my work laptop to my personal laptop. Perhaps Airpods do a better job here, but my experience with Bose and Sony wireless headphones has been terrible on switching sources... I have to manually unpair from device A and repair with device B. In the case of Bose this handoff is mediated by an iOS…
I don't understand this complaint, are Bose and Sony headphones only pairable with one device? Seems a little short-sighted... My $30 Anker headphones are able to pair to at least two devices...
And I was naive enough to think that the sound from the two connections would be mixed, so you could, for example listen to music on my phone while hearing audible notifications from the computer (without the music dropping out).
As with anything BT, it's a mixed bag. That said, after resisting it for a long time, those Jabras were one of the best things I ever bought.
https://www.soundguys.com/bluetooth-multipoint-explained-286...
What kills me about wireless is when I need to switch sources. E.g. from my work laptop to my phone and vice versa. Or from my work laptop to my personal laptop. Perhaps Airpods do a better job here, but my experience with Bose and Sony wireless headphones has been terrible on switching sources... I have to manually unpair from device A and repair with device B. In the case of Bose this handoff is mediated by an iOS…
Wireless headphones suck. I have a good pair (WF-1000XM3) because my phone doesn't have an audio jack and they are always a pain. They connect to the wrong device frequently, the battery life is barely a few hours and the sound quality is ok. Always have trouble with voice quality on calls too. Often only one headphone will turn on but not the other. They are supposedly easier to carry because no cords, but they are…
The Headset profile's audio codecs are hot garbage. Any time your device uses the microphone it switches to this and audio quality turns to mud.
Until they come up with a high definition profile for mic and audio, wired headsets will always have a place.
Wireless headphones suck. I have a good pair (WF-1000XM3) because my phone doesn't have an audio jack and they are always a pain. They connect to the wrong device frequently, the battery life is barely a few hours and the sound quality is ok. Always have trouble with voice quality on calls too. Often only one headphone will turn on but not the other. They are supposedly easier to carry because no cords, but they are…
> Always have trouble with voice quality on calls too. The Headset profile's audio codecs are hot garbage. Any time your device uses the microphone it switches to this and audio quality turns to mud. Until they come up with a high definition profile for mic and audio, wired headsets will always have a place.
I sometimes really struggle to understand others when they are using wireless units. It is AM quality at best, like 5 to 8Khz bandwidth.
That is not so bad frankly. But, couple it with cell phone call audio codecs and it is a mess.
Wireless headphones suck. I have a good pair (WF-1000XM3) because my phone doesn't have an audio jack and they are always a pain. They connect to the wrong device frequently, the battery life is barely a few hours and the sound quality is ok. Always have trouble with voice quality on calls too. Often only one headphone will turn on but not the other. They are supposedly easier to carry because no cords, but they are…
I 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…
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.
Seriously. More of us would jump on board if it were not Bluetooth.
Corded 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
And:
* Cheap * Better for the environment by a mile * Much harder to lose
The one downside is the damn tangled wire.