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My company bought me a $150 pair of noise canceling headphones last year, it was my first experience with Bluetooth. After a month I was back to using the $10 e
by gdulli 9y ago
My company bought me a $150 pair of noise canceling headphones last year, it was my first experience with Bluetooth. After a month I was back to using the $10 earphones that I've had for over 10 years. It turns out reliability and convenience was more important than blocking noise.
To be fair there were problems other than Bluetooth. The headphones were trying to be smart, if they sensed you taking them off they'd pause the music for you. Except it didn't always work so instead of pausing the music when I took off the headphones, which is ingrained and reflexive and automatic and no trouble at all, now I had to pay attention every time to whether the auto-pause worked and then either pause myself or not.
And sometimes I'd adjust the headphones slightly to scratch my ear or something and the music would pause. Sigh.
- buryat 9y agoHow is it related to Bluetooth?
- bluGill 9y agoAnother bluetooth device that is not used because it is annoying to use instead of useful. This isn't the fault of bluetooth, but it adds to the reputation that bluetooth devices are more hassle than they are worth. The cheap headphones he went back to don't have the annoying misfeatures that he hates.
- gdulli 9y agoI don't know if the unreliability is the fault of Bluetooth, the product, the drivers, or the OS. Or if it's inherent to wirelessness which can't ever be expected to work as well as normal headphones with any protocol because the problem is just significantly harder. Regardless, headphones have been a solved problem for a long time and I'll use what's always worked.
- emodendroket 9y agoI'll often wear headphones while doing housework or yardwork and not having the wire in your way really makes it much better.
- gdulli 9y agoThe "reliability" problems with pairing/disconnection were one set of problems, "features" were another.
- gorkonsine 9y agoThere's plenty of wired noise-canceling headphones out there which don't have any "smart" features at all. I'm wearing some Sennheiser PX250 headphones now; the only control is the on-off switch. You don't even have to plug it into a music source; you can just wear them and turn them on to reduce noise.