I’m fascinated by this apparently critical sliver of venn diagram between “I value audio latency/marginal improvement in quality highly enough to be inconvenienced by messing with a headphone cable while on the go” vs “a dongle is too inconvenient”.
*Apparently this is a really hot take. My point being the convenience gap between cable vs no cable is so much larger than the gap between dongle vs no dongle that I don’t understand how it’s a dealbreaker.
Using a dongle is in no way a replacement for a real headphone jack. A dongle on a phone is a one way ticket to a broken usb c port. It’s not meant to be pocketed with a dongle attached. Headphone ports are supported and able to better handle the stress (if made properly).
Just give us a phone with the single most common port in use by our species that is standardized across all nations on our planet: 3.5mm audio port. I don’t care if it makes the decice .0000001mm thicker. I don’t care if it adds $.01 to the BOM cost of the phone. Go fuck yourself, manufacturers, I WANT MY GODDAMN HEADPHONE JACK BACK YOU BASTARDS!!!
I’m fascinated by this apparently critical sliver of venn diagram between “I value audio latency/marginal improvement in quality highly enough to be inconvenienced by messing with a headphone cable while on the go” vs “a dongle is too inconvenient”.
*Apparently this is a really hot take. My point being the convenience gap between cable vs no cable is so much larger than the gap between dongle vs no dongle that I don’t understand how it’s a dealbreaker.
Using a dongle is in no way a replacement for a real headphone jack. A dongle on a phone is a one way ticket to a broken usb c port. It’s not meant to be pocketed with a dongle attached. Headphone ports are supported and able to better handle the stress (if made properly).
Just give us a phone with the single most common port in use by our species that is standardized across all nations on our planet: 3.5mm audio port. I don’t care if it makes the decice .0000001mm thicker. I don’t care if it adds $.01 to the BOM cost of the phone. Go fuck yourself, manufacturers, I WANT MY GODDAMN HEADPHONE JACK BACK YOU BASTARDS!!!
I just want a pair of headphones that I don’t need to recharge and that won’t inevitably die when the batteries fail.
Well, I break the cables a lot, so the wireless last longer for me, but for most people, they last longer.
Quite a lot of IEMs have a removable cable, even cheaper ones.