Yeah, let's introduce a major structural flaw and a point of failure to a perfectly sound design :agony-shrooms:

And for what?

"Foldable headphones are so convenient and portable when you're not using them!!"

YOU WEAR THEM AROUND YOUR NECK WHEN NOT USING THEM, DIPSHIT

These stupid hinges turn cheap headphones from durable and reliable backups to instant e-waste

Source: just had a pair of cheap bluetooth headphones crack at the hinges because it was slightly below freezing

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Some people hate bluetooth because almost all phone manufacturers have decided to stop including 3.5mm audio ports on new phones, which forces Bluetooth on people. I think this is reasonable because consumer choice is good.

    Some people hate it based on not wanting to have to charge their headphones, or wanting something that works when there's a lot of wireless interference in an area they live/work in. Again, fair enough.

    Some people hate it based on outdated or poorly understood bullshit repeated by "audiophiles" about how Bluetooth is bad quality. Most people listen to music via compressed as fuck mp3s or streaming services anyway. It's garbage in, garbage out - most modern Bluetooth compression isn't going to do shit. Even if you are listening to your glorious collection of locally stored flac files, most people will find more difference with the tuning of each individual type of earphone than with Bluetooth as a class. Audiophile opinions should be taken with a huge grain of salt because a lot of these people believe in bullshit like $10,000 HDMI cables which objectively present the same signal as a $5 amazon basics cable.

    • MoneyIsTheDeepState [comrade/them,he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I do hate the loss of 3.5mm jacks. The cheap shit I've bought and the medium shit I've bought have both lasted about the same time, so I buy cheap. And now "cheap" includes more hardware that I have to pay for

      poorly understood bullshit repeated by “audiophiles” about how Bluetooth is bad quality.

      This part always gets me. Like, it's digital data transfer - a job that can actually be done perfectly - and the audiophile community acts like you're trying to listen to music over POTS