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In 2019 I switched to a wireless headset. This year I switched back to wired. The sound quality is better, the latency is better, the weight is better, and I ne
by kibwen 3y ago
In 2019 I switched to a wireless headset. This year I switched back to wired. The sound quality is better, the latency is better, the weight is better, and I never need to wonder whether or not the battery is discharged.
Some things just don't need to be wireless.
- mdgrech23 3y agoI wear mine while working out, walking the dog and doing general chores. Love love love wireless. Cord always got in the way.
- romanovcode 3y agoOpposite for me. After using QC35 4 years ago (now I have QC45 which is the same) every other headphone feels like crap.
- arkitaip 3y agoWhich brand and model?
- kibwen 3y agoCurrently using an Epos H6 Pro, the open-backed version.
- speedgoose 3y agoHaving the DAC in the headset or in another box attached to the headset by a short cable shouldn’t influence the sound quality so much thanks to the recent high quality Bluetooth audio codecs.
- porkbeer 3y agoShouldnt, but audio is suprisingly hard to get right.
- pxx 3y agobluetooth codec support is an entire can of worms and you just end up falling back most of the time. The latency of most codecs is also terrible.
- michaelt 3y agoI don't know if it's still the case, but a few years ago if your bluetooth headset had a microphone, it switched from 'A2DP' to 'HSP' which has trash audio quality. And it would happen almost invisibly - there was no indication in the OS of what was going on. Maybe it's better now?
- kayodelycaon 3y ago> Some things just don't need to be wireless. Headsets are the one area I disagree on. :) Not having to deal with a cord is huge. I've gotten tangled in them so many times and have almost pulled laptops off tables when getting up and walking away. (ADHD means I forever forget there's a cord attached to my head.) Granted, I'm using Apple AirPods with Apple devices... which makes the wireless experience far better than average.
- ghaff 3y agoYeah, I just use AirPods these days. I don't like using a big set of headphones and I found that, on a Mac, just using a good mic and speakers usually works fine but every now and then there's echo so it's easier for everyone concerned to use the AirPods.
- tourmalinetaco 3y agoAirPods give me constant anxiety about losing one or both.
- ghaff 3y agoI'm (probably) not going to lose them in my office. I use corded noise cancelling Bose earphones in a plane.
- pxx 3y agoEven airpods with apple devices get no better than 100ms latency, with some (Apple device to Apple device!) combinations easily going over 200ms. It's nigh unusable for anything other than listening to music or recorded video.
- LeafItAlone 3y ago> It's nigh unusable for anything other than listening to music or recorded video. That weird. I use mine for everything with no problems. Am I doing it wrong?
- don_neufeld 3y agoCan’t say I agree. Headset wires are the. worst. wires. Always getting tangled, etc. As a hard of hearing person, I need the absolute best, fastest audio I can get. After way more research than it should have taken, I ended up with the SteelSeries Arctis Pro Wireless and have been quite happy with it. Not cheap, but for something in my critical path for literally every minute of my work, totally worth it.
- variants 3y agoI use arctis headset at work as well, had my Sony noise cancelling headphones for a while but the mic was horrible so I had work buy me the arctis which I have a set at home and knew they worked great
- teo_zero 3y ago> the. worst. wires. Always getting tangled Had the same issue before discovering flat cables (if you don't know what I mean, they look like linguine, not spaghetti).