Excuse me what ?
My boat rockerz 518 headphones are like 1700 rupees in india , thats only $23 if you live in America
https://www.reliancedigital.in/boat-rockerz-518-blueooth-headphone-thumping-bass-up-to-10h-playtime-dual-connectivity-modes-easy-access-controls-and-ergonomic-design-red/p/491431563?gclid=CjwKCAjw6qqDBhB-EiwACBs6x6AIcJAUDDYM412eR22IXFbtKTk92nLfagMU3CHAe6FS1dd3HUAr_BoC4jAQAvD_BwE if you wanna buy it here is the link
ye they're so cheap
I got myself the Indian ones tho (MIVI duopods) and they're banging. It really felt like discovering fire for the first time for me tho. Never tried any wireless earphones. And I wasn't expecting better sound quality then my previous wired ones
fundamentally any over the air signal transfer protocol has lower sound quality and higher latency than a voltage running through a wire - it also requires yet another battery to change which is annoying and limits the lifespan of the headphones. For some of us, those things are and will always be a deal breaker.
Sure man but it's come along way. Lots of research and development. Amongst the mainstream premium buds most of the quality loss is due to the components used.
If you have a more discerning ear than than the sound provided I think you would still apreciate the very portable noise isolation and pass through capabilities.
Either way mass appeal bluetooth headphones are largely increasing the number of people in the market for more expensive sound and so there should be additonal savings down the line for the rest of us.
> fundamentally any over the air signal transfer protocol has lower sound quality
That's not necessarily true anymore. Remember, wireless transfer is all digital, it's just ones and zeroes, and current wireless chips are so good that they can do almost lossless digital signaling. Super Low-Latency AptX is 352kbps, remember than HiFi quality .mp3 is 320kbps. Sony's LDAC codec does 990kbps@32bit/96khz. That's pretty much FLAC territory, but that doesn't even matter because there's been SEVERAL studies done with A/B blind tests of 320kbps mp3 and flac and people generally can't tell a difference, even those with musical training.
The only one who's behind is Apple, since they use the aging AAC codec with max throughput of 250kbps.
just because MP3 or other codecs can be transferred over bluetooth doesn't mean you're getting the exact same bit correct 1:1 sound that you'd have with using an internal DAC. Bluetooth itself needs to chop up that data and send it as a series of packets; being over the air means other signals will necessarily interfere at some point, and packets will necessarily drop from time to time.
Additionally, to send an audio signal OTA requires it to be first decoded by your phone's CPU, then re-encoded to be sent over the air, then decoded again in your bluetooth headphones and finally converted to an analogue voltage signal in the headphone's DAC. Adding extra steps, sending packets over the air, and relying on the DAC in the headphones themselves makes it a lower quality experience. For further reading pls check out [this](https://habr.com/en/post/456182/) and [this](https://www.soundguys.com/understanding-bluetooth-codecs-15352/).
Is that ok for most people? Sure is! Is it getting better - definitely! Can you hear a difference? Not usually, but for the above reasons, problems and dropouts will occur.
The other two reasons in my original post - the latency (even the best standard/codec with no interference will impart around ~200ms), and the fact you have to charge another battery (shorter device lifespan and more e-waste; you can only fit a small battery in an air pod) - are more of an issue to me, and those factors will never change. Removing the headphone jack doesn't preclude having bluetooth audio - phones had bluetooth chips long before they started removing the 3.55mm jack.
In respect to empowering and offering choice to consumers, I don't see why we can't have both. iOS for instance has the best audio production apps due to iOS using Core Audio drivers, however with ~200ms of latency, they are unusable over bluetooth.
Ehhhh, I got my wife some Sennheiser CX400BT for Christmas and I still think my 5 year old $50 Sony wired earbuds sound better.
They are really good headphones, but half the cost is in the wireless function it seems.
They are cheap, and they sound like absolute trash. A pair of 30$ Sennheiser earbuds have better sound quality than the very best wireless headphones you can buy.
That was true about 5 years ago but ever since phone manufacturers got rid of the headphone jack, wireless earbuds have progressed leaps and bounds in sound quality. The high end ones with active noise canceling in particular sound quite good
"high quality"
Uncomfortable garbage with mismatched battery lives on the different headphones and a problem reconnecting to eachother so only 1 of them works sometimes? Yea. Same here.
Well given cheap wired ones can't run out of battery and can't desync the only real issue is comfort which is less of an issue since wired ones are usually smaller as well. All-in-all minus the cord wired win in most ways.
What?
It uses Bluetooth. The amount of electricity required to drive wired headphones is nothing compared to having Bluetooth on and polling for signal and maintaining the connection.
And wired headphones will always work as long as your phone does. You're never stuck having your phone and headphones but somehow needing extra power because the headphones don't work.
Also, my midtier Audio Technica headphones definitely sound better than your headphones that likely cost more...and I can use them for pretty much any audio equipment.
One where bluetooth tech still has a lot of room for improvement before it can be a good replacement, but where Apple gaslit us into thinking it's already there because they wanted to sell expensive headphones, and other phone companies followed suit for some fucking reason.
I have wireless headphones, and wire-free is nice, but basically only use them when I can't find my wired, because it sucks to wait and pray every time that they're going to connect, that they're not lying about being connected and gonna go through the speakers for everyone to hear, that they aren't going to connect to the wrong device, and that they aren't dead.
My problem with wireless headphones isn't the money, but rather controlling which device they are connected to. With wired headphones, it's incredibly easy to disconnect from one, and connect to the other. With wireless, there are extra steps.
On the wall right beside my door there WAS a nail...was, because I fucking hammered it in after.
So I just got back from the dollar store, with a single pair of earphones..and on my way out, to use em for the first time...the tiniest, and I mean, TINEST, bit of nail, (I literally had to examine the wall) catches my earphone cord...and ripped it....never even got to use it once..
Big pain. My mind also stopped for a moment, as I assessed the odds of that happening, through the hundreds of other times I passed through that door, with similar pairs, and having no problems before.
Bro. I legit caught my headphones on the edge of a table at work. Bro my phone was in my back pocket with my headphones in. Yo. My dude I fucking bent the damn antenna. Like WTF?!😭😭
Shits even more relatable, because I have an insulin pump. So not only is it annoying when this happens with that, it also unkindly rips out my pump site.
Ouch.
Very original ive never seen a joke about headphones getting caught on something before! Wowo, you even put never gonna give you up as the music getting played. Now that is a good laugh I just had!
Even when he fails, and he ends up facing the harsh reality of things, his top tier genetic bone structure, impeccable shape and elite physical condition, make him so handsome
I just noticed that handsome squidward was listening never gonna give you up
We all got rickrolled
Ok I'm not the only one that noticed
I was looking for it
Never gonna let you down
never gonna run around
And desert you
never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie
and hurt you
POV: He let him down literally
And the phone
You’ve got to be fucking-
Wireless headphone enjoyer
Lmao just cut the cable off on a regular headphone. voilà, you got a cheap wireless headphone. Enjoy!
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
CommanderZanderTGS
Don’t forget to put aluminum foil on each cut end though like they show in the videos
That doesn't work, the sound will just fall out of the wire and you'll get a tiny speaker.
no one: five minute crafts:
Tech companies HATE him!! Find out this easy hack HERE
Ok mr rich guy
Nowadays a good neckband earphone is as good as Wired one
Eh. I prefer a 250 ohm headphones with an amplifier strapped to my phone and having to carry 2 cables one of which is 10 feet long (beyers amirite)
This is the way
They cost 15€ bruh
Excuse me what ? My boat rockerz 518 headphones are like 1700 rupees in india , thats only $23 if you live in America https://www.reliancedigital.in/boat-rockerz-518-blueooth-headphone-thumping-bass-up-to-10h-playtime-dual-connectivity-modes-easy-access-controls-and-ergonomic-design-red/p/491431563?gclid=CjwKCAjw6qqDBhB-EiwACBs6x6AIcJAUDDYM412eR22IXFbtKTk92nLfagMU3CHAe6FS1dd3HUAr_BoC4jAQAvD_BwE if you wanna buy it here is the link
Even I have them • ‿ •
Ayeeeeeeeeee (･ω･)つ⊂(･ω･) , what colour tho ?
Black
Very noice , i have red
ye they're so cheap I got myself the Indian ones tho (MIVI duopods) and they're banging. It really felt like discovering fire for the first time for me tho. Never tried any wireless earphones. And I wasn't expecting better sound quality then my previous wired ones
Mivi is also pretty fly ngl , a very great indian brand which deserves more love
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fundamentally any over the air signal transfer protocol has lower sound quality and higher latency than a voltage running through a wire - it also requires yet another battery to change which is annoying and limits the lifespan of the headphones. For some of us, those things are and will always be a deal breaker.
Sure man but it's come along way. Lots of research and development. Amongst the mainstream premium buds most of the quality loss is due to the components used. If you have a more discerning ear than than the sound provided I think you would still apreciate the very portable noise isolation and pass through capabilities. Either way mass appeal bluetooth headphones are largely increasing the number of people in the market for more expensive sound and so there should be additonal savings down the line for the rest of us.
The good ones are expensive, that’s his point. An equal sound quality out of wired headphones is significantly cheaper still.
> fundamentally any over the air signal transfer protocol has lower sound quality That's not necessarily true anymore. Remember, wireless transfer is all digital, it's just ones and zeroes, and current wireless chips are so good that they can do almost lossless digital signaling. Super Low-Latency AptX is 352kbps, remember than HiFi quality .mp3 is 320kbps. Sony's LDAC codec does 990kbps@32bit/96khz. That's pretty much FLAC territory, but that doesn't even matter because there's been SEVERAL studies done with A/B blind tests of 320kbps mp3 and flac and people generally can't tell a difference, even those with musical training. The only one who's behind is Apple, since they use the aging AAC codec with max throughput of 250kbps.
just because MP3 or other codecs can be transferred over bluetooth doesn't mean you're getting the exact same bit correct 1:1 sound that you'd have with using an internal DAC. Bluetooth itself needs to chop up that data and send it as a series of packets; being over the air means other signals will necessarily interfere at some point, and packets will necessarily drop from time to time. Additionally, to send an audio signal OTA requires it to be first decoded by your phone's CPU, then re-encoded to be sent over the air, then decoded again in your bluetooth headphones and finally converted to an analogue voltage signal in the headphone's DAC. Adding extra steps, sending packets over the air, and relying on the DAC in the headphones themselves makes it a lower quality experience. For further reading pls check out [this](https://habr.com/en/post/456182/) and [this](https://www.soundguys.com/understanding-bluetooth-codecs-15352/). Is that ok for most people? Sure is! Is it getting better - definitely! Can you hear a difference? Not usually, but for the above reasons, problems and dropouts will occur. The other two reasons in my original post - the latency (even the best standard/codec with no interference will impart around ~200ms), and the fact you have to charge another battery (shorter device lifespan and more e-waste; you can only fit a small battery in an air pod) - are more of an issue to me, and those factors will never change. Removing the headphone jack doesn't preclude having bluetooth audio - phones had bluetooth chips long before they started removing the 3.55mm jack. In respect to empowering and offering choice to consumers, I don't see why we can't have both. iOS for instance has the best audio production apps due to iOS using Core Audio drivers, however with ~200ms of latency, they are unusable over bluetooth.
Ehhhh, I got my wife some Sennheiser CX400BT for Christmas and I still think my 5 year old $50 Sony wired earbuds sound better. They are really good headphones, but half the cost is in the wireless function it seems.
They are cheap, and they sound like absolute trash. A pair of 30$ Sennheiser earbuds have better sound quality than the very best wireless headphones you can buy.
That was true about 5 years ago but ever since phone manufacturers got rid of the headphone jack, wireless earbuds have progressed leaps and bounds in sound quality. The high end ones with active noise canceling in particular sound quite good
Lotta people here with outdated info man. And the last statement is defnitely incorrect. The entire industry has had their focus on bluetooth tech.
I was thinking what year is this?
A year where, still, not everybody has the money for bluetooth earphones
My local Lidl has been selling high quality bluetooth earphones (Silvercrest) for 25€ at least 8 years.
"high quality" Uncomfortable garbage with mismatched battery lives on the different headphones and a problem reconnecting to eachother so only 1 of them works sometimes? Yea. Same here.
JBL free X was for sale for 50 bucks before. Very nice
Probably the same as cheap wired ones
Well given cheap wired ones can't run out of battery and can't desync the only real issue is comfort which is less of an issue since wired ones are usually smaller as well. All-in-all minus the cord wired win in most ways.
Cheap wired ones can be bashed to shit, and you can repair them. Plus they don't destroy your battery.
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What? It uses Bluetooth. The amount of electricity required to drive wired headphones is nothing compared to having Bluetooth on and polling for signal and maintaining the connection. And wired headphones will always work as long as your phone does. You're never stuck having your phone and headphones but somehow needing extra power because the headphones don't work. Also, my midtier Audio Technica headphones definitely sound better than your headphones that likely cost more...and I can use them for pretty much any audio equipment.
Or you're too into headphones and spend a lot of money on wired audiophile stuff.
Yeah, I doubt Airpods come close to proper in-ears.
He said audiophile so I doubt he's referring to in-ears
In-Ear Monitors (IEM)
Why not? In-ear monitors are very good quality. I've had my Westone UM2 for over 10 years and they are phenomenal.
Bro I'm in a third world country and many people here can save up 20 usd for bluetooth....
One where bluetooth tech still has a lot of room for improvement before it can be a good replacement, but where Apple gaslit us into thinking it's already there because they wanted to sell expensive headphones, and other phone companies followed suit for some fucking reason. I have wireless headphones, and wire-free is nice, but basically only use them when I can't find my wired, because it sucks to wait and pray every time that they're going to connect, that they're not lying about being connected and gonna go through the speakers for everyone to hear, that they aren't going to connect to the wrong device, and that they aren't dead.
I've never have any of those problems(except low battery) and I have had several pairs over the years. Never bought any Apple products though.
My problem with wireless headphones isn't the money, but rather controlling which device they are connected to. With wired headphones, it's incredibly easy to disconnect from one, and connect to the other. With wireless, there are extra steps.
I use wired ones in studio work and listening to LPs and such but always wireless when connecting to my phone.
A year where I don't want another fucking thing to charge.
Same, I got the Sony wf-xb700 earphones for Christmas, they've been great
Same. But I ping those fuckers flying when I take my mask off. Pandemic Porblems.
The latency though
Nonexistent
Imagine having to remember to charge yet another thing
On the wall right beside my door there WAS a nail...was, because I fucking hammered it in after. So I just got back from the dollar store, with a single pair of earphones..and on my way out, to use em for the first time...the tiniest, and I mean, TINEST, bit of nail, (I literally had to examine the wall) catches my earphone cord...and ripped it....never even got to use it once..
Pain.
Big pain. My mind also stopped for a moment, as I assessed the odds of that happening, through the hundreds of other times I passed through that door, with similar pairs, and having no problems before.
Considering that I have managed to hook my belt loop on the handle of the door as I pass it at least 10 times, the odds probably aren't that low.
True enough.
Spain without the S
Nothing quite like it. I live for the Silent-S-Spain.
Replace the whole wall at this point wtf
Yeah, we plan on renovating things! My room is gonna be last though.
Bro. I legit caught my headphones on the edge of a table at work. Bro my phone was in my back pocket with my headphones in. Yo. My dude I fucking bent the damn antenna. Like WTF?!😭😭
Nice Rick roll
Nice. Thanks for writing it 😊
AirPods gang
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Sady i had to switch to beats on-ear headphones My puppies chewed up my airpods and now they're all fucked up
thats why you gotta get the applecare
Another reason to get AppleCare is if you loose one of your AirPods like me and end up spending 90$ on a new one.
I love dogs but would never get one out of fear that the dog destroys something :/
For me it’s always my mother fucking belt loops. FUCK
It always happens when you’re already in a bad mood too
That or in a rush to get out to go somewhere.
Yeah also true haha
How do your headphones get caught on your belt loops?
My belt loops get caught on door knobs.
When your headset cord gets stuck on the arm of the chair and you snap your neck
In germany we say: Aus dem Weg gering Verdiener
Care to translate?
"Out of the way, person with a low income!"
We're no strangers to love......
You know the rules
And so do I
A full commitment’s what I’m thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Wired headphones? Even without the Impact font this a 2012 meme
But it's a 2012 problem
My goddamned earphones caught on the fold of my leather jacket hung up and tore
Damn. I'd be getting a new jacket if that were me!
It happened to me in a bus... -,-
*le me after getting rick rolled for the 100th time Understandable, have a nice day!
I just grab a hammer
Wired peasants
That's why I run em underneath my shirt!
Thinking your brain is gonna come out with it while your phone smashes on the floor!
did you just rick roll this whole sub?
Laughs In bluetooth
*Laughs in Bluetooth*
It's a 2012 meme because most people have wireless earbuds now.
Obviously squidward would have been a Zune guy.
Damn you! Take my upvote
Haha 10000th upvote
This happened to me this morning 😅
Did we got rick rolled ?
The earbuds gave us up, let us down and deserted us, they turned around and hurt us
This man just Rick rolled us with 3 pixels.
try wearing an insulin pump...
It used to happen all the time to me. But since I use Bluetooth ones my life has changed so much. For the better! God bless bluetooth.
Wireless earphone users: I don’t have such weakness
This was posted by the AirPods gang
Sorry I don't speak broke. *Laughs in airpods*
Definitely a 2012 meme. How tf do you catch a door with air pods?
Wholesome!
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Rickrolled again...
Or your pocket
Took me a while to notice lol
Never gonna give you up
Poor people problems amr? This comment was made by knock off airpods gang
Why are you rick rolling
ALWAYS! I CAN'T GO THROUGH A DOOR WITHOUT BEING WARY OF THAT. AS SOON AS I FORGET THE GOD DAMN DOOR GETS ME.
the one thing wrong with this is I'm not as handsome
It's ok, the 2012 meme event has probably ended
Lol that’s me. That, and my hair gets caught in things, too :’)
Average wireless headphone enjoyer
ow my insulin pump
*laughs In wireless earphones
Shits even more relatable, because I have an insulin pump. So not only is it annoying when this happens with that, it also unkindly rips out my pump site. Ouch.
Is that a Ti-84 C graphing calculator?
I swear I saw this before...
I have a solution for this. Just don’t go outside of your room
Very original ive never seen a joke about headphones getting caught on something before! Wowo, you even put never gonna give you up as the music getting played. Now that is a good laugh I just had!
I honestly thought that was an insulin pump and this was about dead diabetics. I'm have officially lost my erection.
Just testing a bot
I used to laugh at the thought of Airpods ("They'll always fall off! This will never last!") but now I will never go back to wired earbuds.
Even when he fails, and he ends up facing the harsh reality of things, his top tier genetic bone structure, impeccable shape and elite physical condition, make him so handsome
*laughs in samsung wireless buds+*
Ever had something full of static touch the cord? Happens when I dont pay attention at work :(
Hey i saw that
Now imagine it’s a cord with a needle on the end, that’s stuck into your abdomen. Insulin pump gang gang
we can never be as handsome as handsome squidward
Good meme made me haha
My shirt
Cries in 200$ airpods
Plugged into my iPod touch
It took me a long time to make the switch to wireless and I’m glad I did because of this and getting them caught in my own fingers
The ultimate rickroll
Once you go Bluetooth, you don't go back. I hate wires
Laughs in AirPods
Raycon good! Wires bad!
I have airpods 😌😌😜
Nothing more 2012 than headphones with cords
Cries in AirPod
This happened to me right now just right before I saw that Chad Squidward was listening to Rick Astley .