• dx1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Audio quality loss and latency are built into Bluetooth. Its only advantage is not having a wire.

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        1 year ago

        Dude. The only difference between a normal headphone with a 3.5mm jack and a “usb” headphone is that the latter needs to have its own dac/amp. Guess what? YOUR PHONE ALREADY HAS THAT. Usb headphones are more complex, more expensive and not guaranteed to work indefinitely.

        Removing the jack makes 0 sense.

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          1 year ago

          In my experience, 0 headphones are guaranteed to work indefinitely, and I’ve been using headphones jacks since like '87

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            1 year ago

            The only problem I have ever had with headphones are pad/eartip degradation and cable issues. It’s rare for the driver to fail.

            That’s in stark contrast to battery powered headphones, given thart batteries will 100% fail given a few years and they’re (in most cases) not user replaceable.

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              1 year ago

              At the bottom of your phone (probably? Idk like iPhones and shit), you have a USB-C (or some letter) port. There are headphones that plug in there.

              They are no more battery powered than your phone.

              Kind of shocked this isn’t well known, as this is a tech forum.

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                1 year ago

                Ok, then you’re talking only about usb headphones.

                If you have a dongle and it breaks, good luck fixing the cable. God forbid the dac is integrated to the headphone itself. Also, if the dac fails you’re also sol. So yeah, I wouldn’t call having a more expensive set up that’s also more likely to fail and doesn’t have any added benefits a good alternative.

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                  1 year ago

                  This is all also true about traditional headphones jacks, which have failed quite often for me over the decades

                  My favorite headphones of all time failed in this way, and requires I have the jack in exactly the right spot/depth

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                    1 year ago

                    Did you forget to mention that fixing a headphone jack costs a few bucks and can be done by pretty much anyone with a soldering iron?

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        1 year ago

        Oh, you mean USB headphones? TBH, way overly complex compared to analog with (albeit negligible) audio quality loss, which still works with legacy tech going back decades. It’s like arguing a bicycle is obsolete because motorcycles exist.

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          1 year ago

          If bicycles and motorcycles competed for the exact same role, with an opportunity cost allowing only one, how would bicycles not be obsolete?

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                1 year ago

                You did, because you’re assuming that you can only choose one or the other. Even though it’s been demonstrated that the headphone jack does not require much space, can even be added to phones that don’t have it (check out Strange Parts on yt) and does not have any drawbacks.

                That opportunity cost is not a thing.

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                  1 year ago

                  If you can add it to a phone that doesn’t have it already, I’m not sure what the problem is, in your view.

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                    1 year ago

                    That it should be there in the first place and that the reassons given for not including it are completely false.

                    At this point I’m not sure if you’re trolling or just plain dumb. Either way, I’m not wasting any more of my time. Bye.