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Corded earphones: * never run out of juice * never have internal noise/audible hiss * never have trouble connecting * you can hear your vinyl rip FLAC as it
by arpa 5y ago
Corded earphones:
* never run out of juice
* never have internal noise/audible hiss
* never have trouble connecting
* you can hear your vinyl rip FLAC as it is, not subjected to lossy psychoacoustic compression
* you can use a variety of devices spanning decades to listen your music on
- invalidname 5y agoYes! And: * Cheap * Better for the environment by a mile * Much harder to lose The one downside is the damn tangled wire.
- ddingus 5y agoMaterials can help with this to some degree. When good materials are in use, the tangles are fewer and easier to sort out. I like materials that resist bending after a fairly large minimum radius. More could be done IMHO.
- tehjoker 5y agoOnce I learned this trick to folding the wire, I never had that problem ever again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D_oV14dGmM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D_oV14dGmM EDIT: Some people in the comments seem to think this shortens the life of the cable, but I've never had problems with Apple earbuds or Bose headphones (that have a replaceable wire anyway). EDIT2: Another advantage of wired headphones if you want the wire out of the way and to make them less visible: Just thread them through your shirt!
- theshrike79 5y ago* will at one point start mysteriously crackling unless you hold the wire in that one weird angle from that one spot
- atoav 5y agoWho buys headphones without replaceable cable?
- alleskleber 5y agoWired in-ear headphones are difficult to get with detachable cables. The only ones I know about are meant as in-ear monitors for musicians performing live.
- preisschild 5y agoMy SHURE SE215 in ear headphones have detachable MMCX cables. Can recommend. Can be bought for 100 euros.
- lagmos 5y agoThat really isn't true anymore. Chi-fi iems changed the iem market pretty massively and you can get them with detachable cables for less than $20 these days.
- walterbell 5y agoWould appreciate search keyword or brand/model recommendations.
- fold3 5y agoMoondrop, tanchjim, tin audio, dunu
- walterbell 5y agoMerci!
- djmips 5y agoWhoops... started searching for Merci! branded earbuds.
- timemct 5y agoKZ, too.
- ddingus 5y agoAnd can be soldered / repaired. I have patched up my wired gear many times in my life.
- hellbannedguy 5y agoI used to repair, but with the cheap China genetic earphones, I just order 5 at a time. I don't like worrying about earphones.
- japanuspus 5y agoThis has actually changed over the last 10 years: today all but the cheapest on/over ear headphones will come with replaceable cables (2.5mm jack in headphone end). Background: I have a collection of even older "goodish" headphones which I have kept alive with solder over the years. My teenage son recently started buying similar headphones, and they all have replaceable cables. This was me as well until my Yes, this wasIf you have bought a rea
- trasz 5y agoDefinitely not all - DT770 still don’t. And their cables are terrible.
- preisschild 5y agoAgreed, for this reason I modified my DT770 with a miniXLR socket. There are multiple tutorials for this on the internet. I don't think the DT770 will be updated though. Recently Beyerdynamics released the DT 700 PRO X, which seem like the "successor" and they do have replaceable cords.
- batperson 5y agoYou vote with your money. I went through a ton of "gamer" headphones in my teens, all of them meeting their doom because of the crappy cables. Then spent a bit more on ones with a replaceable cable that those lasted until the plastic broke. Then I spent decent money on some sennheisers and they've been going strong for like 6 years with so signs of slowing down, too bad they sold off their consumer product division not that long ago.
- ryanwhitney 5y agoThe dreaded doorknob catch.
- jeffrallen 5y agoOuch.
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- starky 5y agoExactly. Plus they are better for the environment where wireless headphones have a finite lifetime built in due to the integrated lithium-ion cell.
- grujicd 5y ago* have no latency (important for video, gaming, playing music…)
- boudin 5y agoAnd they do not require a bluetooth controller, a battery, wireless headset are much worse for the environment. 2 bonus points: -the chord makes it much harder to lose the headset - when on a call, people around don't think you're someone losing it, having a discussion with yourself out loud
- aequitas 5y ago* can't be used at any place other than sitting at my desk plugged into my computer
- anothernewdude 5y agoDon't cut out when it's "silent" to save battery power, thereby making your music shit when it gets quiet.