Meanwhile, most popular audio codecs that work over BT cap bitrate, making lossless truly useless; most headsets and phones don’t support LDAC, and if you get a lucky combination that does music will likely stutter if you’re anywhere close to a busy area of the city or if your phone is in the wrong pocket.
(Where some wireless headsets do win is state of the art active noise cancellation, -30 dB when you’re in a really noisy place without an option to use IEMs or earplugs can be a bliss.)
Also audio amplification apps provide hearing aid features on even basic TWS earphones while a typical hearing aid can be very expensive.
I was tracking this need on my validation platform[1] and it's one the top most visited problem thread consistently implying many are searching for enabling hearing aid features on their wireless earphones.
[1] https://needgap.com/problems/22-enabling-hearing-aid-feature...
Any day I'll trade any complaints about "spaghetti" against blutooth connectivity, having to charge yet another one more device, the possibility of loosing the base media device because you absent-mindedly left it on the subway chair next to you whilst offboarding onto the platform...
I'm from the generation that had just discovered CD players with "anti-skip" techology and Minidisc. I don't find wires complicated, but I feel wireless earbuds, despite potential loss of quality, more practical for things like commuting or working out. Even for phone meetings I like being able to put in earbuds and walk around, do laundry, etc., without having to carry my device or worry about wires getting caught. I would prefer a set that doesn't have tracking or voice assistance though.
Pedantry aside, the parent comment is clearly in the set of humanity alongside yourself, and they made a clear argument for wires. While you might disagree with wires, this dismissive comment was unnecessary.
I spent 10 years not changing my favourite wired headphones (replacing them probably 10 times in that period).
I've been with my (pretty damned cheap) bluetooth headphones for 2 years now. Zero issues.
I don't yank on the cords of my wired headphones, and they work for decades.
When my last pair of Bose QuietComfort 25s bites the dust, I'll probably stop flying altogether.
Their main default is relative fragility. However the latest I've bought (WH-1000XM3) have incredibly efficient noise cancellation. Also you don't need to install any app to use them. Unfortunately they replaced the easy-to-use play/pause/FF/RW button and volume rocker of the previous models with tactile gestures, but it's bearable.
"You can use the headphones powered on or off when the the audio cable is connected."
I'm hopeful this all means what I want it to mean.
https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/noise_cancell...
""You can use the headphones powered on or off when the the audio cable is connected."
Pairing is annoying but its just the electronic version of unplugging the headphones from one device and plugging them into another.
However, music has frequencies in the range of a few dozen hertz to a few kHz, which is in the "ELF" and "VLF" extremely or very low frequency bands. Some communication occurs at these frequencies, but it requires high-power transmitters with antenna arrays that are massive civil engineering projects tens of kilometers long rather than 2m long. These transmit to submarines towing long wires at small, inefficient fractions of the target wavelength, because these frequencies can penetrate saltwater.
Also, the headphone cables are not a single wire, they're a pair a pair of wires, each side carrying both a signal and the return or ground loop.
You might be able to inductively couple to this loop, like you would inadvertently if you're running unshielded, separated speaker wires near unshielded, separated 60 Hz power cables with poor grounding - but at that point when you're running the receiver wire a few millimeters away from the target's headphone cable, I think they'll notice and object to your tracking attempts...
Also, EMI certification just means that it doesn't generate interference that will damage other equipment and that it's not permanently damaged by external interference. It doesn't mean that it doesn't radiate any energy at all. FCC limits are pretty noisy when you're considering whether or not you can detect emissions with an active antenna.
> Adapt or stay in an older (possibly more insecure) device ecosystem.
Gaslit by bigtech.