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I have difficulty believing that people actually use bluetooth for audio, but apparently some people love it. Wireless headphones seem strictly worse in every way than wired. They require batteries and charging; they introduce lag; they are expensive; they are easier to lose; they don't have a convenient cable to hang on to. I am completely and totally flabbergasted by their popularity. It's as though millions of people were turning their noses up at fine, free homemade French food and paying for McDonald's instead. Why would you trade something that doesn't require power, has the most reliable, secure, and lossless transmission channel known, and is "configured" by plugging in hardware for something that requires power, has a less reliable transmission channel that can be easily snooped or forged, has to be configured in software? I literally don't understand why anyone would ever choose the latter.
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 10:34 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 03:31 |
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because a gay man wearing spectacles grabbed my phone and ran away cackling: 'ahaaaa, your headphone hole is mine'.
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 11:03 |
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its bad op
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 12:01 |
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[quote="“Maximum Leader”" post="“476677874”"] I have difficulty believing that people actually use WiFi for networking, but apparently some people love it. Wireless networks seem strictly worse in every way than wired. They require batteries and charging; they introduce lag; they are expensive; they are easier to lose; they don’t have a convenient cable to hang on to. I am completely and totally flabbergasted by their popularity. It’s as though millions of people were turning their noses up at fine, free homemade French food and paying for McDonald’s instead. Why would you trade something that doesn’t require power, has the most reliable, secure, and lossless transmission channel known, and is “configured” by plugging in hardware for something that requires power, has a less reliable transmission channel that can be easily snooped or forged, has to be configured in software? I literally don’t understand why anyone would ever choose the latter. [/quote]
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 13:18 |
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I agree w the op the only somewhat reasonable defense is when exercising but I can run just fine w corded headphones
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 13:58 |
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lag? oh no there's lag between pushing play and the music starting, whatever will you do op
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 14:02 |
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cables equals convenience, its time for the manufacturers to "get" that
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 14:31 |
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works fine for me O.P.
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 15:08 |
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agreed op the headphone jack springs on my phone wore out and now i have a bluetooth speaker and it's bad
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 15:59 |
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i never have problems with the aftermarket bluetooth receiver in my car nor my airpods op. sometimes my iphone wouldnt see the receiver in my car initially upon starting it up but that's been fixed for a couple years now.
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 16:43 |
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bluetooth audio is lossy? why the gently caress would that be acceptable?
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 17:07 |
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akadajet posted:bluetooth audio is lossy? why the gently caress would that be acceptable? your ears are lossy
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 17:12 |
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pram posted:its bad op
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 17:14 |
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proposed solution: replace ears with free, open source hardware flac decoder
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 17:14 |
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akadajet posted:bluetooth audio is lossy? why the gently caress would that be acceptable? b/c bt users cant tell the difference. its more than just lossy too, the frequency range is dogshit
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 18:53 |
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akadajet posted:bluetooth audio is lossy? why the gently caress would that be acceptable? designed for low power so there is only barely enough bandwidth for lossless, and there may be more things sharing the link h2dp aptx gets run at 352 kbps and is not a hopeless codec iirc, so it is not terribly aggressive losses
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 19:22 |
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bluetooth speakers are good for loving mate. drink and dance with speaker running from spotifyon phone, then take speaker into bedroom and gently caress to music
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 20:14 |
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uh how else am I gonna listen to Chapo Trap House in the shower?
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 20:29 |
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Jimmy Carter posted:uh how else am I gonna listen to Chapo Trap House in the shower? someone recycled a brand new chinese showerhead that's like a foot wide, puts out 999 gpm, has a manual in only chinese, and has a bluetooth speaker that slots into the middle it is the biggest improvement on the Dorm Room Lifestyle i've managed to make
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 21:08 |
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i dont know op its a very hard problem and while the solution isnt perfect it mostly woBATTERY LOW
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 22:26 |
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you should get better audio, op.
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 22:30 |
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it turns out that a 4' length of thin flexible copper wiring doesn't carry analog signals losslessly, op. barrel connectors aren't great at that either.
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 22:34 |
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i demand an experience beyond studio quality
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 22:35 |
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if you really care about fidelity you have to go to the source. thats why i only listen to music played entirely on the bass guitar E string as it is the largest gauge wire and therefore according to audiophiles has the most fidelity
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 22:41 |
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there has to be a better way
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# ? Sep 23, 2017 23:51 |
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bt suits my needs op
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# ? Sep 24, 2017 00:12 |
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BT audio suits my podcast listening needs. hth
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# ? Sep 24, 2017 00:19 |
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Breakfast All Day posted:i dont know op its a very hard problem and while the solution isnt perfect it mostly woBATTERY LOW have you tried charging your batteries?
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# ? Sep 24, 2017 00:24 |
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my $40 bt phones suit my needs very well, op
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# ? Sep 24, 2017 01:53 |
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AirPods work perfect especially with iOS 11 hope this helps
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# ? Sep 24, 2017 02:26 |
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i use foobar 2000
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# ? Sep 24, 2017 02:55 |
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hifi posted:i use foobar 2000 fooked oop beyond all recognition m8
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# ? Sep 24, 2017 06:08 |
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its almost like the #1 producer of devices that headphones plug into happens to own the #1 producer of wireless headphones and is keenly interested in moving units in an industry that has largely been unscathed by modern tech's 2 year device churn cycle
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# ? Sep 24, 2017 07:03 |
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the problem with bluetooth is the protocol is a huge toilet and real simple features like multisource i/o or even simultaneous switched connections which would be trivial to support with the available bandwidth don't work or aren't officially supported so you get rinkydink daisy chains of devices that try to sync timing with software so you go to your friends house to pretend to admire their new speakers because that's the nice thing to do but whoops somebody coughed in the next building so half the devices desync and then make a full volume bloopbloop or better yet keep working but with a 200ms delay on each link in the chain and your friend seems upset and asks if you know what the problem is so you decide to do a swan dive from the tenth story window because life is already too depressing without having to tell your friend that they wasted a lot of money on what is basically a big pile of garbage lol this is much better than using a coat hanger to fish some wiring behind a wall one time
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# ? Sep 24, 2017 08:11 |
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lol where can I get me one of these ten story windows
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# ? Sep 24, 2017 08:45 |
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Windows 10
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# ? Sep 24, 2017 09:18 |
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Harik posted:it turns out that a 4' length of thin flexible copper wiring doesn't carry analog signals losslessly, op. barrel connectors aren't great at that either. bullshit
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# ? Sep 24, 2017 09:34 |
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Tankakern posted:bullshit yeah they're not actually barrel connectors, you cought me on that one.
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# ? Sep 24, 2017 09:55 |
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my fedelity
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# ? Sep 24, 2017 10:23 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 03:31 |
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Bluetooth audio does suck, but I'm liking the sudden proliferation of headphones where the audio cables aren't hardwired. lovely strain relief is/was the 2 year churn of headsets.
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