Re:Fairbuds XL review: the excellent noise-cancelling headph...
by voldacar on Sunday May 14, 2023 @05:46PM
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By "huge old school connectors" I assume you mean the 1/4 inch TRS connector? Which is still totally normal on non-cheap headphones?
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Re:Fairbuds XL review: the excellent noise-cancelling headph...
by scns on Sunday May 14, 2023 @06:02PM
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More like 5 pin DIN connectors (MIDI) but different. If you take a lot at old electronics you will see things for the first time.
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by FieryTransition on Sunday May 14, 2023 @06:08PM
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Wouldn't that be too big? A typical failure point of all my wired headphones/buds has been the connector or whatever the connector plugs into. A bigger connector creates more leverage, which in turn creates more force, which has been a problem. So for mobile usage, wireless audio seems to just eliminate a whole range of problems and failure points, so it's not all good to use physical connectors?
Re:Fairbuds XL review: the excellent noise-cancelling headph...
by KerrAvon on Sunday May 14, 2023 @11:53PM
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Connectors break because the materials are cheap, not the force per se. Size doesn’t really matter.
Re:Fairbuds XL review: the excellent noise-cancelling headph...
by voldacar on Monday May 15, 2023 @02:05AM
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I've had a ton of old headphones and I've never seen something like a 5 pin DIN connector. The old IBM keyboards do use a 5 pin DIN though.
Re:Fairbuds XL review: the excellent noise-cancelling headph...
by iamacyborg on Monday May 15, 2023 @02:23AM
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Old keyboards in general if I remember correctly, and mice.
Re:Fairbuds XL review: the excellent noise-cancelling headph...
by wkat4242 on Monday May 15, 2023 @05:04AM
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Keyboards yes, mice no. XT and AT keyboards had a big DIN plug until the PS/2 popularized mini DIN for both keyboard and mouse.
But in the XT/AT days mice just connected to the serial port with a 9 pin D sub. Mice weren't all that common in those days anyway as most programs were still text based.