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I'll never understand those people who say that Bluetooth is "The Future" and the headphone jacks need to go because they're "old". From an engineering point of

I'll never understand those people who say that Bluetooth is "The Future" and the headphone jacks need to go because they're "old". From an engineering point of view, Bluetooth is just such a ridiculously complicated, Rube Goldberg-esque way of sending audio one meter away. There's a lot of software involved on both sides, whereas with wired there's none. There's so many more points where everything could go wrong. By the way, this video includes a paid promotion. Install this extension[1] to skip these automatically. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...

Spartan-S63 6y ago
Curious as to how Apple implements their Bluetooth stack because I’ve never had issues the end user devices with the Apple wireless chips in them. Their implementation seems to just work for me. I know the Bluetooth spec and most implementations are messy and spaghetti-ish, but I feel like whatever Apple is doing works really well.
bigbubba 6y ago
The heavy coiled cable on my sennheiser headphones has killed the sound jacks on two laptops, I believe due to the strain the weight of the cable puts on the jack when the cable is unsupported. I expect a slim headphone cable wouldn't have this problem, but I switched to bluetooth instead because of this. It also makes me less likely to accidentally pull my laptop off a table. I agree that 'it's old' is a shitty reason to dismiss something though. I've had somebody suggest I replace my USB intellimouse because it's so old, but that's just not going to happen. It still works great.
xtracto 6y ago
I remember reading an article some time ago on how bluetooth audio transmission works. I was surprised to learn that audio is actually compressed (in A2DP and HFS/HFP mode) so for audio some file formats it will effectively be compressing the stream a second time, reducing its quality.
- grishka 6y ago
  The weird thing for me is that modern Bluetooth standards provide enough bandwidth to stream uncompressed PCM in both directions, several times over, but your new phone will still use lossy compression with your new headphones because reasons. Oh and the sample rate will drop to 16 khz when something uses the microphone. Yay future.

Spartan-S63 6y ago

Curious as to how Apple implements their Bluetooth stack because I’ve never had issues the end user devices with the Apple wireless chips in them. Their implementation seems to just work for me. I know the Bluetooth spec and most implementations are messy and spaghetti-ish, but I feel like whatever Apple is doing works really well.

bigbubba 6y ago

The heavy coiled cable on my sennheiser headphones has killed the sound jacks on two laptops, I believe due to the strain the weight of the cable puts on the jack when the cable is unsupported. I expect a slim headphone cable wouldn't have this problem, but I switched to bluetooth instead because of this. It also makes me less likely to accidentally pull my laptop off a table. I agree that 'it's old' is a shitty reason to dismiss something though. I've had somebody suggest I replace my USB intellimouse because it's so old, but that's just not going to happen. It still works great.

xtracto 6y ago

I remember reading an article some time ago on how bluetooth audio transmission works. I was surprised to learn that audio is actually compressed (in A2DP and HFS/HFP mode) so for audio some file formats it will effectively be compressing the stream a second time, reducing its quality.

grishka 6y ago
The weird thing for me is that modern Bluetooth standards provide enough bandwidth to stream uncompressed PCM in both directions, several times over, but your new phone will still use lossy compression with your new headphones because reasons. Oh and the sample rate will drop to 16 khz when something uses the microphone. Yay future.