Alternatively, if your current phone doesn’t have a headphone jack, do you wish it did?
Aha… so now that it comes to wired, the “how are you supposed to know” doesn’t apply anymore?
You bought a shitty wireless and use that to hate on the entire protocol.
I’ve bought bad wired ones where the wire breaks easily, but the same logic doesn’t seem to apply there for you.
Any decent wired headset has easily replaceable cables?
Any decent wireless won’t have the problems you’ve mentioned. And the battery is not going to be a problem for many many years. My boss ones are on their fourth year. Still get out 7-8 hours of non stop usage which is more than enough for me.
But sure. They do degrade. That’s factually true and inevitable. It’s part of the price for the convenience of not having to deal with a cable.
But you hit the nail on the head yourself. “Any decent headset”. Same thing can be applied to wired, as wireless. Buy decent products and you won’t have issues.
“How are you supposed to know” goes for both too. You can’t tailor your argument to only work for one type and ignore it for the other.
You bought a shitty wireless and use that to hate on the entire protocol.
The WH-1000XM5 isn’t a shitty wireless headphone, it has issues but I wouldn’t call it shitty. If it really was that shitty then it wouldn’t have a positive rating on sites like Amazon, WhatHiFi, Soundguys etc. In saying that, I do consider it worse than a wired headphone, but that I believe is because of the limitations of current wireless technology. Thankfully it also has a wired mode which works fine, and the ANC works well too, so it’s not completely useless to the point that I’d call it “shitty”. It certainly is flawed, and annoying at times.
I’ve bought bad wired ones where the wire breaks easily, but the same logic doesn’t seem to apply there for you.
That’s because wires are cheap and easy to repair or replace. What will you do when a wireless headphones breaks or doesn’t work as intended? The only realistic option is to replace it, which will either create more e-waste, or just be a PITA in general, trying to find another headphones that work.
Any decent wired headset has easily replaceable cables?
Of course. I’m not taking about those cheapo $2 headsets that you’d find in a dollar store.
Any decent wireless won’t have the problems you’ve mentioned
But mine did though, and also, lithium batteries degrade over time, and that is an undeniable fact. It’s also an undeniable fact that it’s extremely difficult or even next to impossible to replace the battery on most of these headphones.
Still get out 7-8 hours of non stop usage which is more than enough for me.
Good for you, but that’s not enough for me. Every now and then I take a 16+ hour flight (with maybe a 6-10 hr halt), so that battery life isn’t going to cut it. And with most of these headphones, you can’t use them while charging either.
Buy decent products and you won’t have issues.
And my original point still stands. How exactly is one supposed to figure out what’s a decent wireless headset? The WH-1000XM5 is still rated very highly on pretty much every website. By all definitions, it’s supposed to be a decent headset. If you’ve got some sort of secret website or method to determine if a headset is decent or not, I’m all ears.
“How are you supposed to know” goes for both too. You can’t tailor your argument to only work for one type and ignore it for the other.
Not really, because my experience is primarily with wired headphones, so I’ve already got a winning formula for selecting decent wired headphones - the ones which have a replaceable wire are decent, anything beyond that would be nitpicking on the audio quality like audiophiles do, or minor things like ear fit and noise isolation etc - but all that would boil down to personal preference. On the other hand, I don’t have a working formula for picking decent wireless headphones, so if you do, please share.
You’re so irrationally upset about this that you can’t even see how you contradict yourself in your essays.
And why are you quoting me, quoting you?
Any decent wireless won’t have the problems you’ve mentioned But mine did though,
It’s clearly not very decent then if you have those problems.
Not really, because my experience is primarily with wired headphone
Your personal lack of knowledge and experience in other fields is not an argument against anything. We get it. YOU don’t like wireless because YOU had a bad experience. That’s ok. But why you seem to think your lack of knowledge is somehow an argument against wireless=bad is unclear to me.
If you’ve got some sort of secret website or method to determine if a headset is decent or not, I’m all ears.
I do this cool thing where I go to my store. And I ask to try the headset I’m interested in. I get personal hands on experience. I connect it to my phone, and to my watch. And I see how it handles two connections at the same time. It’s not rocket science.
I do this cool thing where I go to my store. And I ask to try the headset I’m interested in. I get personal hands on experience. I connect it to my phone, and to my watch. And I see how it handles two connections at the same time. It’s not rocket science.
Yeah, that’s not really an option where I live (New Zealand). We have very limited choices of both physical stores, as well as models available. In my case, the WH-1000XM5 wasn’t available in any physical stores when I bought it, also, I ordered it online directly from Sony (another reason for ordering direct from Sony is I get a discount thru my company).
