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Wired headphone sales are exploding

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Re: Wired headphone sales are exploding

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Post by mitthrowaway2 »

LinXitoW wrote: post #412
NikolaNovak wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- they last forever . I still have sennheiser hd380 pro cans from 25 years ago that sound great. - cannot overstate lack of lag and simplicity. You plug in and it works, perfectly, every time, forever. - easily switch devices. I use my headphone on my phone, tablet, laptop, Synthesizer, Groovebox etc without a blink. And my phone never stops playing music and connects to our car my wife just started the way bluetooth…

They also lack any and all useful features. Even just the ability to tap for pause is critical to my daily life. I just wonder if wired fans just never skip forward a song, or adjust the volume. Or even use active noise canceling.

I just tap a button on the thing the headphones are plugged into. The cable isn't so long that it's ever out of reach.

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Post by tjoff »

beloch wrote: post #83

This isn't a Vinyl vs CD thing where a clearly inferior technology lives on due mainly to sentimental reasons. There are a number of concrete advantages to wired headphones over bluetooth headphones. - They don't need charging. Charging may seem like a minor inconvenience, and we're used to charging a lot of devices. However, even a minor inconvenience is still an inconvenience. - They're harder to lose. When Apple a…

Longevity! The headphones I have on me are 15 years old. Batteries degrade quickly, especially in consumer products that does everything in their power to boost the spec sheet but sacrifice longevity.

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Post by tjoff »

doubled112 wrote: post #357
NikolaNovak wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- they last forever . I still have sennheiser hd380 pro cans from 25 years ago that sound great. - cannot overstate lack of lag and simplicity. You plug in and it works, perfectly, every time, forever. - easily switch devices. I use my headphone on my phone, tablet, laptop, Synthesizer, Groovebox etc without a blink. And my phone never stops playing music and connects to our car my wife just started the way bluetooth…

I prefer wired ones, mostly playing devil’s advocate here. Every pair of cheaper earphones or earbuds I’ve had fail have failed due to the cable. We switched my oldest to a pair of BT headphones because he seems incapable of keeping track of the cord. It gets caught, he pulls, and something has to give. Longest lasting set he had in 2025 was BT.

Expensive headphones have much higher quality cables...

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Post by saysjonathan »

sandreas wrote: post #488
beloch wrote: post #83

This isn't a Vinyl vs CD thing where a clearly inferior technology lives on due mainly to sentimental reasons. There are a number of concrete advantages to wired headphones over bluetooth headphones. - They don't need charging. Charging may seem like a minor inconvenience, and we're used to charging a lot of devices. However, even a minor inconvenience is still an inconvenience. - They're harder to lose. When Apple a…

Here are some lesser known facts about wired headphones that I wish I had known earlier: - there are TRS (3 rings) and TRRS (4 rings) connectors - TRRS has integrated mic, also ofen implements playback control via buttons - Apple headphones volume controls won't work on non-apple devices, because they implement a proprietary protocol based in an ultrasonic chirp authentication chip[1] - 1more headphones seem to have…

Technically TRS only has one ring (Tip Ring Sleeve) and TRRS only has two rings (Tip Ring Ring Sleeve). It does have four separate contacts though, separated by bands.

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Post by bradford »

letmetweakit wrote: post #512

"Bluetooth does not work," Kravitz said in a recent interview, and it's not just headphones, but Bluetooth connections in general. "It's ruining important moments. Imagine the amount of times that you're with someone on a date, you're trying to set a vibe, and then you have to forget the network. On a date!" The quote above makes absolutely zero sense to me, it's like ChatGPT 0.3a decided to write something about Blu…

The quote resonates with me, even though I haven't experienced the exact "set a vibe on a date" scenario.

I have multiple bluetooth headsets that I use with multiple devices. I have collected a series of tricks that I use when I can't get bluetooth to operate the way I want it to: turning bluetooth on/off, restarting the bluetooth device. "Forget the network" is not one of those tricks, but I wouldn't be surprised if others have learned to use it.

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Post by amelius »

odo1242 wrote: post #520
amelius wrote: post #441

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> Wired cans don't need to pair, don't glitch out Cables can wear out. You can get a wire break.

All good wired headphones and earbuds (“IEMs”) have replaceable cables. And the ones that don’t are super cheap.

I once had a wire break in the cable that goes from the left can to the right can (not the external cable).

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Post by [deleted] »

dqv wrote: post #447
LinXitoW wrote: post #412

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They also lack any and all useful features. Even just the ability to tap for pause is critical to my daily life. I just wonder if wired fans just never skip forward a song, or adjust the volume. Or even use active noise canceling.

> I just wonder if wired fans just never skip forward a song, or adjust the volume. This has been a thing in wired headphones since at least 2007 lol

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Re: Wired headphone sales are exploding

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Post by smetannik »

Back in the day when I was in school, I wanted to learn how to solder, so I started fixing my classmates headphones.

This "service" ended up to be quite popular - broken headphone wires were a very common problem.

I think the average lifespan of wireless headphones is definitely longer than that of wired ones.

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