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Re: Corded headphones are making an unexpected return

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Post by Gigachad »

squarefoot wrote: post #5

Yes, they aren't a novelty anymore, they don't screen from other people effectively, cheap clones are almost identical, too many people use them and the cool factor dropped, yadda yadda yadda. ...or maybe most users after some years realized the true costs of having non replaceable batteries. Making them replaceable on the AirPods would be very easy; and a nice move that would also bring them some more customers incl…

Personally I never had wired headphones last longer than a year before the cable gets damaged. For how much utility I get out of my AirPods, I think replacing them every 3 years is excellent value.

Re: Corded headphones are making an unexpected return

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Post by ddingus »

humanistbot wrote: post #16
squarefoot wrote: post #5

Yes, they aren't a novelty anymore, they don't screen from other people effectively, cheap clones are almost identical, too many people use them and the cool factor dropped, yadda yadda yadda. ...or maybe most users after some years realized the true costs of having non replaceable batteries. Making them replaceable on the AirPods would be very easy; and a nice move that would also bring them some more customers incl…

> ...or maybe most users after some years realized the true costs of having non replaceable batteries Nope. This is a minority preference that HN folks are obsessed about, but most people aren't. The wireless headphone market is huge and booming, and replaceable batteries went out around the same time they did in cell phones. Last pair I had with a replaceable battery were Bose QC15s, sold from 2009-2015. Airpods may…

Wait a minute. If replacement batteries were cooked in from the start, prefs on all that would be different.

Re: Corded headphones are making an unexpected return

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Post by grujicd »

arpa wrote: post #72

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

* have no latency (important for video, gaming, playing music…)

Re: Corded headphones are making an unexpected return

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Post by ddingus »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #50

I use a little Bluetooth to 3.5mm adapter and clip it on to my wired headphones. This one is the fiio ubtr which is nice and tiny tho a little more battery life would be nice. I designed my headphones to be 3D printed on a resin 3D printer and I wired them with a short cable going to a male 3.5mm jack. I can plug them in to a Bluetooth adapter or just use 3.5mm male to female extension to use them as wired headphones…

Cool! Thanks for sharing your project.

Re: Corded headphones are making an unexpected return

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Post by Gigachad »

bjustin wrote: post #104
jurassic wrote: post #68

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…

AirPods do have a feature where this is supposed to work automatically, without having to pair multiple devices, for all devices on the same iCloud account. It’s nice. I haven’t tried other brand headphones that can pair to multiple devices, so I can’t compare.

The AirPods do an extremely good job at this. It’s just a shame there is no standard for switching across all devices.

Although apple makes use of their own servers to coordinate this so it could be difficult.

Re: Corded headphones are making an unexpected return

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Post by californical »

_emacsomancer_ wrote: post #118
roopawl wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had those too. AirPods are incredible and will change your mind about wireless headphones

*As long as you don't need to connect to any non-Apple devices.

They definitely can pair with any Bluetooth device

Re: Corded headphones are making an unexpected return

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Post by jagger27 »

I haven’t found comfortable tips for my AirPods Pro. None of the ones in the box fit properly and the foam ones I bought are pretty painful.

Despite constantly pushing them back into my ears, I prefer them to wires getting snagged on door knobs and the awful rubbing sound against my coat. I still grab my AirPods over my great old IEMs which sound way better and were only $80.

Re: Corded headphones are making an unexpected return

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Post by Gigachad »

bagels wrote: post #67

I'm always amazed that more people aren't bothered by having to constantly charge wireless headphones. Wired ones never run out of battery.

I charge mine about once a week. I have a cable sitting on the desk I work at and I’ll notice when the case is almost flat as I open it which prompts me to plug it in.

Re: Corded headphones are making an unexpected return

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Post by newobj »

fragmede wrote: post #69
jcims wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My problem is I lose them. I bought the Bose QuietComforts earlier this year and have lost one or the other a couple of times already. Right now one is sitting in the console of my truck and i can’t find the other one. No clue where it could be and of course the batteries are dead. It would be nice if they all had Tile or similar tech, but if their batteries go dead just sitting there (super annoying thing about the…

Specifically, Bose QCs can't be charged and used at the same time. If they're charging, then they're off, essentially.

They also charge CRAZY fast.
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