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Earbuds (reddthat.com)

submitted 2 months ago by 101@reddthat.com to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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We used to have earbuds that don't need to be charged because they had a headphone jack, didn't get lost so easily because they had a cord attached to a headphone jack, never lost the bluetooth connection because they had a headphone jack, and they cost less because they had a headphone jack. https://bsky.app/profile/daisyfm.bsky.social/post/3l3mfjc6sn62k

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[–] plofi@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Don't know where you pulled the 5 year from. I've got mine for longer than that and I have no problems with the battery. Also, didn't notice the lower fidelity, but I mostly listen to podcasts so I not gonna dispute that claim. Why I bought the bluetooth earbuds was because no matter how much I paid for wired earbuds (up to 120€) none of them survived more than 2 years. Approx after a year one would stop working and some time later the other would die too. So yeah, if you enjoy the shitty ultra thin wires that's great, but in my experience even cheap bluetooth earbuds work minimum three times longer than wired ones.

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

Bluetooth as an audio standard is factually lower fidelity
The average expected life span of a Li ion battery is 5 years
I don't know how you kill headphones so quickly, but you can 100% get quality wired earbuds for a third of the price of wireless earbuds with nice, thick, threaded cable. The YouTuber dankpods has a few videos about this with recs for cheap, good headphones.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Bluetooth as an audio standard is factually lower fidelity

Is this an analog vs digital thing? Bluetooth runs at a high enough bitrate that most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference. And especially compared to the quality of the cabled headphones that used to be common any Bluetooth earphone is better

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cabled headphones have gotten a lot better and cheaper, and no it's a compression thing, here's an article about it

https://www.soundguys.com/understanding-bluetooth-codecs-15352/

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

And as I said, they have bitrates high enough that most people won't notice a difference. Especially since the files/steaming they'll be listening to have lower bitrate than Bluetooth.

Regardless, what matters most is the earphone quality and while there might be better and cheaper options now, that's not the cheap bundled headphone people are nostalgic of when they post things like this.

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Apple Earpods are very high quality actually, and are praised as a good cheap option by audiophiles

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