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Re: Wired headphone sales are exploding

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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…

> Too many android phones copied Apple and ditched the venerable audio jack, but a few kept it, and I've always insisted on it when buying phones. It's old but far from obsolete.

Fortunately USB-C audio adapters are cheap and for headphones where the cable isn't permanently attached you can usually even get a replacement cable that plugs directly into the USB-C port of your phone.

Re: Wired headphone sales are exploding

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Why take it apart? You can just cut it mid line and splice directly to that. Chances are the failure point isn't right on the last bit of the headset end of the cable length.

IME it's either at the plug side, or at the headphone. I've never had a cable go bad in the middle. I think it's the same kind of issue as apple's power connectors: they always go bad next to the connectors.

I've had headphone cables break in the middle as the cable got hard and brittle from body heat / sweat over time.
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