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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by shittyadmin on Friday November 02, 2018 @03:08PM (#18365793)
Is there any decent data on those AirPods? I am considering them against the OnePlus Bullet Wireless if I'm forced to go this way with a new phone. Overall I'm not a big fan of the completely separated earbud style Apple went with and I'm not using them with any other Apple hardware. The OnePlus design seems better, the price is much cheaper and the charging time is much less, but if the quality isn't there then maybe the Apple ones are the way to go.

I just wish they had decent objective quality numbers like I can find for even fairly cheap wired headphones via InnerFidelity. Anyone know if these are widely published for any of the wireless headphones?

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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by screye on Friday November 02, 2018 @03:47PM (#18366125)
Yes. Here it is :

https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/apple/airpods-wire...

They have most truly wireless earphones, but the OP Bullets aren't on there yet.

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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by shittyadmin on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:14PM (#18366330)
That's pretty disappointing, looks like they lose a lot of the lows compared to even the $20 Xiaomi Piston 3 (wired) ones I'm used to or the slightly more expensive VSonic VSD1 series.

This is my biggest worry with wireless - paying a lot more money for a lot less in the quality department. Thanks for the link though, seems like good data and I'll definitely check out some other options.

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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by ashildr on Friday November 02, 2018 @05:50PM (#18367053)
AirPods have no latency issues since the latency is taken into account when playing back video. It seems the video is belt back by the expected latency of the Bluetooth connection.
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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by shittyadmin on Saturday November 03, 2018 @12:10PM (#18370893)
Thanks, that was the impression I got on my phone - it seemed to automatically compensate for the Bluetooth delay, maybe it's more of an issue when using it on a desktop which doesn't have that functionality.
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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by dpkonofa on Friday November 02, 2018 @05:31PM (#18366937)
I think you'd need to specify what kind of data you're looking for. Apple publishes the specs for dynamic range and whatnot but it sounds like you're looking for some kind of mythical "quality" number.
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