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Faaeal

huh idk what I expected by that description but it was defs something more exotic than 2005-style big round buds

I think Faaeal technically qualifies as chifi but BGVP also has a couple higher end options. I never liked that style though so I don't have personal experience with any of them https://bgvp.aliexpress.com/store/1101353038/pages/all-items.html?productGroupId=10000001069587

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256802602143691.html

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805418464331.html etc. these brands all have at least one or two flat options

Seems like "flat" or "flat head" is the search term

lol yeah bose are the pinnacle boomer dad brand, but they're really closer to beats by dre than good studio headphones

My theory is that its at least partly the incredibly polluted nature of the 2.4Ghz band but bluetooth as a protocol has also always been fuckign atrocious

the Sony flagship WF-XM1004/5's are better,

uh about that

and the glitchiest ones have honestly been the Sonys.

oh you got there lol

Same those are the only individual buds I've ever owned/used for any length of time and I literally gave them away I disliked them so much. I got them for cheap thankfully. I'll keep my wired headphones and earbuds tyvm

its been that way for ages too lol, hardly gonna pass audiophile muster but if you don't mind bass out the wazoo they've been the standard decent in-store brand for >10 years now. I'd still go for the wired ones tho. or go online for moondrops, those things will blow anything in their price range out of the water. Harder to shoplift them from china tho

REAL

and that's 1980s technology, the essentially identical MDR-v6 has been around since at least 85, good sounding headphones were a solved problem lol

yeah the stock ones are pretty rough

model where the two actual earbuds are wired together

yeah those things are fuckin great compared to individual buds

(some) full size headphones get a pass IMO because they actually have enough space for an antenna that has a range greater than 6-12 inches, often have a backup wired input, and are generally held together with screws so you can actually replace the battery when it starts to go in like 2 years. individual wireless buds are the disposable vape of headphones. The sound quality is still likely to be worse, but I can at least understand the tradeoff, and the ANC requires it be stuffed with electronics anyhow so why not also make it wireless.

When they removed the headphone jack from almost all smartphones was genuinely when I stopped buying smartphones. fucking bastards lol

little individual buds with nothing to stop you from losing them down a storm drain or in the grass or whatever and no room for antennas or anything are just like, not that great of an idea to begin with, but fine, some people like them. Except bluetooth is such a dogshit protocol that designing a custom set of chips for both phone and earbuds that extend the protocol and are supposed to make everything run smoothly was the only way to get such a product off the ground and not be a flop. But it only takes one to be a trendsetter and then it kinda doesn't matter if the other copycat products are any good, everyone just wants the cool buds. If they don't work reliably you better just buy the latest flagship, your 2 year old flagship obviously is just dogshit and you can't expect phone manufacturers to actually test their products for compatibility. Oh and they might not work worth a shit with that flagship either, especially with the 2.4ghz band being so utterly destroyed by noise

And of course the batteries are typically completely unserviceable so the lifespan is like 2 years tops, maybe a bit more if you baby them and dont mind the degrading battery performance. All to "improve" away one of those technologies that basically worked great and didnt need it. I have headphones from 1975, another from the late 80s, another from the late soviet union/early independent ukraine, and some more modern examples, and they all work with any device with a headphone jack and reliably sound anywhere from fine to excellent. All but a few of the cheapest modern examples are basically infinitely repairable too, if the jack goes bad it takes 15 mins and little skill to resolder them. Occasionally the cord is annoying, but thats the price you pay for shit actually working reliably and not being a brief transition state of e-waste.

And don't get me started on Chi-Fi, the shit you can get for barely $20 now basically blows the pants off of any bluetooth ever made. And the mic quality of a wired mic that sits right next to your mouth is 5x better too

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it is already compiled/trained. it's open source so you could re-train it but they did spend in the low millions on training so fully retraining from scratch is impractical for an individual. Maybe there's a way to do supplemental/reinforcement training on the released model but I have no idea.