All I want is a high end mic+earplugs, high quality, with a strong cord, even if it's very thick.
Corded headphones are making an unexpected return
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#252I 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 have a pair of really good wired Sennheisers. I never owned or used Bluetooth devices for more than giving it a try. I may be audiophile. But when I put a music on I want to get fully absorbed and hear every little detail while I don't worry about battery life. Sounds weird I know
I'm a bit of a fan! I have:
PX100s for when I am out of the house (but not when driving!) because they sound good but do not isolate me from my surroundings.
HD220s for radio and TV (on tablet or phone) late at night.
HD485s for paying attention to music.
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#253I am used to wearing wired Apple earphones all around with me. I often listen while biking or riding an EUC. I simply must hear the surrounding traffic. These earphones let just enough ambient sound to pass trough yet they have a superior sound quality compare to other "OEM" headphones. Moreover, IMO the mic recordings sound just much better as well compare to earphones when used outside while passing around morning…
The Apple corded EarPod microphone is unfairly good sounding
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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,…
> Put on your wired headphones. Sit down (e.g. on the bus.) Now try taking off your shoulder-strapped bag to hold it in your lap, without first taking out your headphones. This used to bug me a lot but I've found an easy solution. Just route the wire under your t-shirt or shirt or jacket. When I'm not using my headphones, the headphones hang around my neck. If I feel like taking off my headphones and placing them on…
the shortcoming with that, at least in my experience is that you cannot just quickly pull out your phone and glance at something, unless you want to accidentally pull your headphones out of your ears when you raise the phone to your face and tug on the wire that's trapped under your shirt.
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#255Today 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…
> Today I learned that for most people, even on HN, headphones means earbuds.
Yeah, I found that odd. I thought "headphones" very specifically referred to the type you wear on your head (hence the name?). I thought this was going to be about audio quality of headphones versus earbuds (wired or wireless). Instead it's just fashion works in cycles, what's old is new again, we're back to 2005 again etc.
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#256Do people dislike wireless or do they dislike Bluetooth?
Because Bluetooth sucks. It's a shame it's the industry standard.
Bluetooth support is still spotty on Linux, which to me is continued evidence that the stack is complicated and bug-ridden.
Even for my high-end BT devices, there are still lots of problems. In addition to the problems listed elsewhere in this thread, I particularly have problems with:
* Easy, reliable switching between connected devices. * Reliably connecting when a device is turned on. * Audio delays on the order of 200ms.
I stick with wireless almost exclusively, because I hate the wire, but I switch to wired for gaming because a 200ms audio lag for a real-time game is unplayable. 200ms is obvious even just watching someone speak in a video.
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#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
Especially in response to another anecdote
Assuming reliable witnesses, Person A's anecdote claiming event X happened is not disproven by B stating they've never experienced event X. I've never had a harddrive fail, but I still take backups and assume others saying they've had problems are telling the truth.
Who says the goal was to disprove? It's just extra data.
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#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Ignoring the circuit design and fuse location (which I agree with you on), the child proofing of British sockets is much better than Schuko sockets (CEE 7/3), as they require the ground pin to be engaged before protective cover of the live/neutral pins is opened - it's impossible to open just by pushing something in the live socket. How does this work with child proof Schuko sockets (I've never seen them)? Also as so…
> Also as someone who lived in both the UK and now a Schuko country, I do sometimes miss having a switch on the socket :-) We have a floor lamp without a switch, so we have to physically unplug it to turn it off.
I've actually heard Americans make fun of our (UK) switches on the outlets. Usually something to the effect of "need to make sure the electric doesn't escape, when things are unplugged, lol". It completely misses the point. The point of the switches is we have a way to isolate a device without unplugging it. Without the switch the only way to isolate the thing is pull the cord out of the wall like some kind of neanderthal.
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#259I 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.
Being a software developer, I keep seeing bluetooth audio as a Rube Goldberg machine. It's using a battery that you have to keep charged, a lot of software, multiple CPUs, lossy codecs, forward error correction, and an entire stack of mind-bogglingly complex protocols (that no one has ever implemented 100% correctly) that run over an inherently unreliable medium so what? So you don't have to untangle the wire? It never made sense to me. I've never really taken bluetooth seriously. To me, it's a tradeoff that I just don't see ever making. I don't trust software this much. I also prefer something that's easy to troubleshoot when things go wrong.
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#260Can anyone recommend a corded set of headphones with a decent microphone?
I currently have the Bose QC35ii, so something like this, with a cord and no bluetooth. Noise cancelling not required, just need something decent for work.