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- Quality is really subpar
- Battery is dying fast, charge often and throwaway product
- Comfort is relative
- most are already on their second or third pair
- Ear infections get more common
- BT still isn't perfect especially on busy places
- doesn't work too well outside of apples walled garden
- yet the majority likes them
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 don’t know how good they’d be for your use-case, but definitely worth considering the mx4 as distinct from the mx3.
edit: xm4 not mx4. Shows how little I care about headphones :-D
The 1/8th inch RCA stereo jack is the best interface ever created. The fact that it's essentially unchanged from when this 44 year old used it in middle school is pretty good proof.
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…
> Sometimes they will randomly disconnect during use. FYI, that's interference. Wi-fi "randomly" disconnects for a few seconds due to interference just as often, but you don't notice, because 1. the OS hides short disconnects, and 2. most protocols you use are TCP-based, and so use retries. (If you were doing something involving UDP streaming, you'd notice.) Bluetooth audio, on the other hand, is a realtime protocol,…
my biggest gripe with wireless so far, and this might be specific to galaxy buds+ is that their batteries suck after a years use. otherwise, all the things you describe are why they're great.
It is pretty interesting how depending on the direction of the headline & article, a certain subset of readers become more expressive in comments, giving a false perception of the popular opinion. Take this topic, or Apple Touchbar threads... For/Against groups voice their opinions more openly when article matches their opinion. Where are my contrarions, misfits, non-conformists?
Articles have more (fallacious) authority over noname anonymous on the internet. You’re observing the insecurities that people have about their opinion, nothing new.
But it is pretty interesting and good to be perceptive of this, when taking in public feedback.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
* will at one point start mysteriously crackling unless you hold the wire in that one weird angle from that one spot
Who buys headphones without replaceable cable?
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…
I was a white happy owner of the Nokia BH-503 on-ear BT headphones. Sadly they just recently broke, I had them for like 10 years and. My point is, that they just didn't have any of the problems you mention above (with the exception of random sampling frequency changes that changed pitch minimally, but noticable). Sound quality was ok, I think it was one of the first A2DP headsets. Ok, for what it was mind you, my goo…
Is this some idiom I am not familiar with?
At last, I got an ear infection from wearing plugs in the past. Since then any plugs start irritating my left ear very quickly. I basically can not comfortable wear plugs in my ears for more than a few minutes anyway.
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…
Wireless buds "solve" a non-issue while introducing real issues.