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I can barely keep my own phone charged. Yet one more thing that needs charging is a huge turn-off.

The latency on bluetooth is killer. I guess most people don't notice, but I notice. There's a irritating delay between every action, and when watching video the sound is noticeably behind.

There is often interference when in frequency-heavy zones. Busy pedestrian intersections, trains, using the microwave.

I switch between devices with regularity. My computer, my phone, my corporate phone. Keeping one set of headphones paired between multiple devices is a nightmare.

I don't like keeping bluetooth on. Why do I need to place yet one more source of power drain on my devices, and why do I need to enable yet another broadcasting signal from them?

Dollar-for-dollar, lower cost wired headphones are higher quality than wireless ones.

I am prone to losing headphones, having them be miniaturized and untethered is not a bonus. Heaven forbid they're not even bound together and are instead individual unconnected earbuds. I can count in the double digits the number of people I've seen before my very eyes lose one half of their earbuds, to say nothing of the number of people I've encountered who are just dealing with losing one of them from some prior event.

Bluetooth headphones are a product with value, but not to me. Not having a headphone jack felt, and continues to feel, like a heavy handed bitch slap straight to my face every single day.



Bluetooth headsets aren't the only option. I just use an adapter for my headphones.


For me that is yet another thing I can lose. And I havent found a single one with a decent DAC that isn't huge.


DAC circuitry is a solved problem, any USB-C DAC will do. Apple makes one. Even their lightning adapter got good reviews.

They are $10 each. They can be attached to the end of your headphones and forgotten about.


The USB DAC i got with the iPad is not great. I have tried a couple on my phone, and about half of them are actually not great.

Even worse: cheap usb c headphones all have shit DACs and will perform worse than cheap 3.5mm headphones.


I've seen analysis that says the lightning dac from Apple is actually great: https://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/lightning-adapter-audio-qu...




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