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BT is good, but anything wired is (and always will be) better and more reliable while being a little less convenient (with some exceptions)
Unless I’m paying for $1600 audio cables my noise-damaged ears can’t tell the difference and I like that I don’t rip things out of them.
audio cables don't matter beyond the $5 range. what you're experiencing with expensive cables is placebo in that case. for me the annoyances with bluetooth are:
i understand there are people in this thread that don't miss headphone jacks, but to act like bluetooth is flat superior is to ignore that bluetooth has genuine downsides that just a wire doesn't
Don't forget audio quality drop when switching from audio only to audio + microphone. Shit drives me up the wall.
Does your fetish extend to pickles as well or in something vital lost in the pickling process?
oh god, it's so noticable
I'm an avid fanboy of Bluetooth on mobile. Its not "better in every way" but when I'm out and about, it is.
Anyways, i don't expect this to change your mind. It just seems like these "critiques" of Bluetooth earbuds have literally never changed even though the tech has gotten orders of magnitude better in the last decade or so.
Lag
So it essentially makes BT win vs wires by 2:1
I've never had a 3.5 fail, are you sure it's not just getting clogged with dirt or something?
The fiddling I have to do when trying to get the audio sounding right on my computer when I plug in my headphones is absolute torture, and if I barely graze the wire with my feet then all of a sudden the audio comes from just the left side, or is muffled, or something else ;w;
that's a broken headphone, treat yourself to a nice pair of IEMs, they're not that expensive
like the metal bit?? how???
How have you bent a 3.5mm connector? They are solid metal. I've broke 3.5mm jacks but never bent the connector.
And so can BT
Tbh i didn't have any problems with 3.5mm. It always worked for me (even when used in odd ways and angles).
To be clear. I actually like BT and the ways it opens in terms of various accessories, but BT has its drawbacks while analog ports. That's why i would prefer to have both BT and physical port (in case of BT failing)
I have never had a port fail. Were iPods really that low quality? I use them just about every day