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Any wired earphones that don't insert into my ear canal, just the gentle contact like Apple Earpods, but with working buttons? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 months ago by unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de to c/budgetaudiophile@lemmy.world

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They don't need to be brilliant, just decent enough.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The ear canal tip part is a huge contributor to what makes good sound possible on ear-bud style headphones. So with that in mind, earpods are likely pretty close to as good as you can get with that style of earphone, and will have working buttons. So I guess if, as you say, "they don't need to be brilliant": why not just earpods?

If you're looking for better quality than that, without them actually going into your ears, you're gonna be looking at over-ear headphones as another commenter has said

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Buttons of Apple's earpods don't work anywhere else but on Apple products.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Ahh was that what you meant by buttons working

I believe adapters exist that convert apple's proprietary button signalling (sorta CTIA) to OMTP which I think is what everything else uses.

If you don't mind going via a USB-C dongle, I believe you can plug earpods into the apple 3.5mm to USB-C dongle and it'll work completely on any device