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What kills me about wireless is when I need to switch sources. E.g. from my work laptop to my phone and vice versa. Or from my work laptop to my personal laptop

What kills me about wireless is when I need to switch sources. E.g. from my work laptop to my phone and vice versa. Or from my work laptop to my personal laptop. Perhaps Airpods do a better job here, but my experience with Bose and Sony wireless headphones has been terrible on switching sources... I have to manually unpair from device A and repair with device B. In the case of Bose this handoff is mediated by an iOS app that seems to crap out 50% of the time. It often takes several minutes to get everything working as it should. This does not feel like a $350 UX. It makes me rage when I think of the ease and speed I had in the past with wired headphones that can be instantly unplugged from A and plugged into B quickly with 100% reliability.

julianlam 5y ago
I don't understand this complaint, are Bose and Sony headphones only pairable with one device? Seems a little short-sighted... My $30 Anker headphones are able to pair to at least two devices...
- redisman 5y ago
  Bose experience is very underwhelming for a $300 pair. Mandatory iOS app to change many settings, it fights me every day about the active noise cancellation (I want it off but it keeps turning on), using the microphone seems to bug out 70% of the time, opening the “Input” tab on MacOS sound settings makes them all crackly until I turn them off.. just an absurd amount of problems. I’m very happy with my corded audio technicas over 10+ years I’ve had them and surprisingly the wireless buds I got off Amazon (Tozo T-6). Even though those still have about 25% of the issues the boses have
- morsch 5y ago
  Many more recent bt headphones support multipoint, but I'm not sure any support more than two simultaneous connections. This meant I was back to disabling Bluetooth on my tablet when I wanted to use the Jabra 85hs to the TV. And I was naive enough to think that the sound from the two connections would be mixed, so you could, for example listen to music on my phone while hearing audible notifications from the computer (without the music dropping out). As with anything BT, it's a mixed bag. That said, after resisting it for a long time, those Jabras were one of the best things I ever bought. https://www.soundguys.com/bluetooth-multipoint-explained-28601/ https://www.soundguys.com/bluetooth-multipoint-explained-286...
bjustin 5y ago
AirPods do have a feature where this is supposed to work automatically, without having to pair multiple devices, for all devices on the same iCloud account. It’s nice. I haven’t tried other brand headphones that can pair to multiple devices, so I can’t compare.
- Gigachad 5y ago
  The AirPods do an extremely good job at this. It’s just a shame there is no standard for switching across all devices. Although apple makes use of their own servers to coordinate this so it could be difficult.
  - theshadowknows 5y ago
    Yep they’re very good at it. I won’t say it’s fool proof. But the very occasional times they get confused isn’t so bad I’ll replace them with wired.

julianlam 5y ago

I don't understand this complaint, are Bose and Sony headphones only pairable with one device? Seems a little short-sighted... My $30 Anker headphones are able to pair to at least two devices...

redisman 5y ago
Bose experience is very underwhelming for a $300 pair. Mandatory iOS app to change many settings, it fights me every day about the active noise cancellation (I want it off but it keeps turning on), using the microphone seems to bug out 70% of the time, opening the “Input” tab on MacOS sound settings makes them all crackly until I turn them off.. just an absurd amount of problems. I’m very happy with my corded audio technicas over 10+ years I’ve had them and surprisingly the wireless buds I got off Amazon (Tozo T-6). Even though those still have about 25% of the issues the boses have
morsch 5y ago
Many more recent bt headphones support multipoint, but I'm not sure any support more than two simultaneous connections. This meant I was back to disabling Bluetooth on my tablet when I wanted to use the Jabra 85hs to the TV. And I was naive enough to think that the sound from the two connections would be mixed, so you could, for example listen to music on my phone while hearing audible notifications from the computer (without the music dropping out). As with anything BT, it's a mixed bag. That said, after resisting it for a long time, those Jabras were one of the best things I ever bought. https://www.soundguys.com/bluetooth-multipoint-explained-28601/ https://www.soundguys.com/bluetooth-multipoint-explained-286...

bjustin 5y ago

AirPods do have a feature where this is supposed to work automatically, without having to pair multiple devices, for all devices on the same iCloud account. It’s nice. I haven’t tried other brand headphones that can pair to multiple devices, so I can’t compare.

Gigachad 5y ago
The AirPods do an extremely good job at this. It’s just a shame there is no standard for switching across all devices. Although apple makes use of their own servers to coordinate this so it could be difficult.
- theshadowknows 5y ago
  Yep they’re very good at it. I won’t say it’s fool proof. But the very occasional times they get confused isn’t so bad I’ll replace them with wired.