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The comfort in this article is knowing for every boutique german headphone company that insists on becoming a CA, there are thousands of nameless chinese compan
by nimbius 8y ago
The comfort in this article is knowing for every boutique german headphone company that insists on becoming a CA, there are thousands of nameless chinese companies producing superior products at lower prices that do to some measure respect the users privacy in that they arent more than just a USB peripheral.
Sades and Xiberia for example make perfectly useful (if not a little bit cyberpunk) headsets that just operate as USB soundcards with no special CA requirement.
And if you're just in the mood to listen to some music without special software in this foul year of our lord 2018, Might i suggest a pair of Superlux 668B's? for ~$40 theyre easily better than anything Sennheiser produces that requires its own PKI.
- thefounder 8y agoFor the record chinesse products are championing this kid of issues, many times for malign reasons(not by mistake). Remember Lenovo?
- snaky 8y agoNameless Chinese companies' software support is usually rather limited, to say the least. From the absence of firmware updates to the very basic set of the software features. When they will produce comparable software support for their hardware, there will be the same problems, maybe much worse.
- LMYahooTFY 8y agoI know this is really nitpicky, but is Sennheiser really a "boutique" company? I was under the impression their maybe one of the biggest and most prominent headphone manufacturers in the world, especially when measured by R&D.
- rsynnott 8y agoSennheiser makes about 700m euro revenue a year. It's a long way from boutique.