I will concede a counterpoint
The wire just came out when i tried to chokeslam a bag of rice
I got given some 2 years ago that I didnāt want and I havenāt worn wired earphones since
One thing I just do not get about 2023:
No Tang around here
Are we happy with Xerox/Tannoy/Hoover/Sellotaping this?
i finally caved and bought some
airpod pros this year and let me tell you, they are the best thing iāve ever owned
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I donāt have airpods but I do have bluetooth earphones that are connected to each other by a wire. Best of both worlds imo.
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Have a great pair of Sony earbuds. Miraculous noise cancelling, great for work, gym and anywhere I donāt want to be be bothered by people (or as I also call it, the world outside of my house). Have a great wired pair of cans for at home - better sound, more comfy, good for music production.
I also appreciate that my lifetime spend on headphones is probably about 10x than the average human and Iām ok with that.
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The removal of the 3.5mm jack socket on a mobile phone is the worst development in technology since the introduction of the automatic handbrake. Itās led to another thing I donāt get about 2023: people holding Facetime/ WhatsApp calls on speakerphone in public places.
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Since theyāve taken away headphone jacks from pretty much all mobile tech (apart from Sony, I think, but that makes sense), Iāll use wireless buds and pretend to fucking like it, thank you.
Keep meaning to buy a USBC-3.5 converter (or at least replace the one I lost that came with my old One+ 6T) but CBA.
Yeah Iām on the āWhy not both?ā train. AirPods Pro when Iām listening on my phone and donāt care about latency and am out and about so the quality is never going to be 100% brilliant anywhere because street noise and that, and wired headphones at home for better sound/zero latency when recording.
Transparency mode and noise cancelling are brilliant; as my hearing gets increasingly fucked as I get older, having control over the balance between environmental sound and what I actually want to hear is great. Newer versions will apparently auto-detect speech and automatically switch on transparency mode, which sounds brilliant.
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Ywah i got a headphone amp/dac and big ol openbl back headphonws for home use. Bluetooth preferable when out and about 90% of the time
Wireless headphones: fine
Fiddly little buds that Iāll only misplace/lose: get to absolute fuck
For people who donāt misplace or lose things I imagine theyāre fine though.
WIREDPHONES JACKSON steps out of the deed poll office.
WIREDPHONES: Alrighty, I feel great! (looks to the viewer) I just changed my name by deed poll to reflect the passion I have for Jackson Browne! (starts singing) THEEEEEEEEESE DAAAAAAYYYYYYSSSSS! Hee-hee SHAMOONNE
WIREDPHONES is skipping jauntily down to the train station and he boards his train. All the seats are taken so he stands next to a shady looking character called AIRPODS LINCOLN
AIRPODS: Oh hey I saw you at the deed poll office! Ha! I was changing my name too. I wanted to reflect one of my all time great passions - the actor Andrew Lincoln! I do a great impression of him - listen. Ha! āOh hell, all these dead are WALKING now!? HEE HEE SHAMOOONEā
WIREDPHONES: Wow I bet weāll have a lot to talk about, pal
AIRPODS: No actually Iām a brutally honest guy and I know intuitively that the conversation has dried up. Iām going to listen to some Ted Nugent on my wireless headphones. Do you have wireless headphones
WIREDPHONES: Oh no! I got WIRED headphones so yeah Iāll be jackinā it.
AIRPODS is already listening to his Ted Nugent on his wireless headphones so he canāt hear what WIREDPHONES said
AIRPODS: Whatās that? I canāt hear you over Ted Nugent. And Iām frightened to pause it
WIREDPHONES: I said: IāM GONNA JACK IT. IāM GONNA JACK IT RIGHT HERE ON THE TRAIN.
Heās rustling in his pocket trying to fish out his wired earphones. Theyāre in there somewhereā¦ the railway police dickheads are looking in anger and disgustā¦
Believe it or not, they throw WIREDPHONES off at the next stop!
WIREDPHONES: Cancelled by big tech whatās this country coming to
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Getting ride of the audio jack is such horrible anti consumer behaviour it should have been mandated against by the EU. It is ableist bollocks and should not be allowed.
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Bluetooth works most of the time but itās inconsistent and irritating as fuck when it doesnāt work properly and I canāt work out why
therefore I refuse to to use bluetooth
Iām not a luddite, the tech simply isnāt good enough yet
maybe when I have a phone thatās not old and slow and shit itāll work better?
but like fuck Iām upgrading until my current phone fully dies (probably at a terribly inconvenient time)
Isnāt it something to do with making phones more waterproof or have I totally misremembered that? Like the headphone jack means youāll never be able to save your phone after dropping it in the washing up?
Its to make the phones slimmer / keep the real estate free.
Ah ok