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Followup: are there competing technologies that Just Work™? The W1/H1 chips, here after referred to as "Makes BT Not Suck" chips or MBNS, are the reason I put
by mikestew 7y ago
Followup: are there competing technologies that Just Work™?
The W1/H1 chips, here after referred to as "Makes BT Not Suck" chips or MBNS, are the reason I put up with the otherwise unremarkable sound quality of Beats Studios and AirPods. I was reminded why just recently as I took the Bluetooth speaker out to the garage so the wife and I could do yoga. "Oh, yeaaaahhh. I have to go find the last device it was connected to, and disconnect it. Then, and only then, can I pair to her iPad."
If I had a HomePod or other AirPlay speaker in the garage, no matter what the speaker was connected to previous, I could have just told the iPad to use the speaker and be done with it.
- Marsymars 7y agoIt seems relatively easy to have Bluetooth not suck if you only have to build devices that don't suck with other devices you build. The original Wii Remote came out 13 years ago and worked great with the Wii over Bluetooth. Ditto for the 2007 DualShock 3 on the PS3.
- steveeq1 7y agoHow are airpod sound quality "unremarkable"? They sound good to me. . .
- perfmode 7y agoever listened to the shure se535?
- mikestew 7y agoNot bad, not great. I've heard worse, I've heard better. They get the job done, but I otherwise have nothing of note to say about their sound quality. That's the thing about being unremarkable: I by definition don't have much else to say. :-)
- AgloeDreams 7y agoI honest to goodness actually re-pair my Sony WH-1000XM3's every single time I use them. it's so lame.
- geden 7y agoCurious what you're pairing them with? Not had to re-pair my, er, pair at all. I have iPhone 6s and 2012 MacBook Air.
- AgloeDreams 7y agoSorry just saw this, using them with an iMac, iPad Pro, iPhone, and Macbook Air, it's not that they lose pairing but that they almost always connect to the wrong device.
- theslurmmustflo 7y agoIs there a BT device out there that you can't force into pairing mode?