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What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by zachimusprime44@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Sony MDRXB55AP Wired Extra Bass Earbud Headphones/Headset with Mic for Phone Call, Black"

Biggest pieces of shit I have ever disgraced my ears with. I'm not even an audiophile or a gear snob or anything. These were just so ridiculously bad that it was offensive. I've owned earbuds from the dollar store that sounded better than these.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Probably won't help, but I find that headsets sound much worse when they're connected as a headset. My (completely different headphones/headset) sounds a lot better in headphone mode.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, there are different bluetooth audio profiles, one for high quality audio intended for media consumption, and one for bi-directional audio intended for telephony (and some others, but these are the relevant ones here). The "gotcha" is that in general, any attempt to consume the mic feed from a bluetooth headset will switch it to the telephony mode, so if you have them paired to a PC and an application is listening to the mic for any purpose you get stuck with much lower quality 64kbps PCM audio.

[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

Or worse: it's in telephone mode now, so obviously you only want the sound from the "call" because there's no other reasons the microphone could be on.

[–] Mycroft@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Good to know, thanks!

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Thank you for explaining that far better than I could!