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Happens a lot when I’m just about to doze off
I bought these cheap af OneOdio Pro 30 awhile back and they’ve even got both regular 3.5mm cable and a 6.35mm to 3.5mm cable but I plug the 3.5mm end of the second cable into the headphones so I can connect the 6.35mm end to my audio interface.
I’m listening to fuckin HiFi for what was at the time $15. I might cry when they eventually break.
I had a Focal Bathys. They sounded great, but the build quality was laughable for such a high priced pair of headphones. Some plastic bit broke and they’ve become unusable after only two years.
So I bought some cheaper BT headphones just for home office purposes, calls and such.
And I treated myself to a dedicated USB DAC (iFi Zen DAC v3) plus wired headphones (Hifiman Arya Organic) connected with a balanced cable.
Never going back - I don’t think that kind of sound quality is even possible with Bluetooth.
it’s absolutely possible, since the signal is digital. you can get bluetooth DACs with balanced output.
Also, might I add, I have tried just about all the highend Bluetooth headphones.
Dali IO-12, Mark Levinson No 5909, Focal Bathys, B&W Px8, T+A Solitaire T, Bang & Olufsen Beoplay H100. In a shop which had them all available to try. I’ve compared them with the Arya Organic and the Meze 109 Pro (both wired).
The Bluetooth headphones I liked the most were the Dali. They really came close to the wired ones. But then again, I would advise you to check out the Hifiman Arya Organic at a local dealer if you can. You will definitely know what I’m talking about.
When I mentioned “balanced output” I was referring to the analogue cable I’m using to connect the headphones to the DAC. Balanced means you get separate channels for each ear in your analogue signal path.
With a Bluetooth connected wireless headphone, it’s always balanced by definition. But when I said “that kind of sound quality isn’t possible” with Bluetooth, I was referring to a different problem: Digital to analogue signal conversion.
In my setup, it happens in the DAC which is audiophile quality. Signal path: PC - (digital USB) -> DAC -> Balanced cable (analogue) -> Headphones.
In Bluetooth, it looks like this: PC - Bluetooth (digital) -> Headphones (which do the digital to analogue conversion).
This signal conversion can’t match the quality of a dedicated desktop DAC.
i know what a balanced output is. i am saying that there are dedicated audiophile-grade, battery powered bluetooth receiver DACs with balanced output, which you can plug any wired headphones into, usually through a 2.5 or 4.4mm jack so you don’t blow up your cheap pairs. they usually come with a built-in mic and a lapel clip so you can use them to take calls. FiiO is a big brand that makes these, but there’s a whole market.
Well, but that wasn’t the use case I was talking about at all. I was talking DAC + wired headphone vs. Bluetooth headphones.
You’re talking about wired headphones with a Bluetooth DAC. Entirely different thing.
The only difference in that setup is the connection between PC and DAC. USB or Bluetooth. I could connect my Arya Organic to a Bluetooth DAC, of course. Nonetheless, you completely misunderstood my entire point.
usually if you use bluetooth headphones it’s because you want wireless headphones. you were saying that it wasn’t possible to get the same quality when using bluetooth and i’m telling you it’s entirely possible. you weren’t talking about a usecase to begin with, only that you were not happy with the headphones you had tried.
Again, when I said it wasn’t possible to get the same quality using Bluetooth, I meant using Bluetooth headphones, not a Bluetooth DAC and wired headphones. And this is the second time I’m explaining that to you, not going to waste my time doing it three times.
When mine get to 6 hours remaining you get a reminding beep every 5 minutes that cant be turned off.
Most of my music is 5+ min long so for me this translates to 6 hours less usable device then i paid for.
6 hours is a huge timespan too, I’d imagine this happening around 20 minutes or so
cant sleep with these on. unlike wired headphones they get lost fast. and the ones that dont because they got gps and wifi ringing inside your ear 247 give you cancer
*connecting*
*device disconnected*
*connecting*
I’ll never go back to getting my ears YANKED by the headphones cord while walking around the house. I’ll take a little 1-2 sec beep beep over physically traumatizing me ears any day.
back when solid state mp3 players were kinda new, I wore one to go running. on my way out the door, the cord got caught on the knob and yanked me to the ground.
it was the first time I ever ran, and the last time. never again. 😭
Good god I hate this. As soon as that prompt sounds, your battery might as well be dead. Why does it continuously repeat it?! If my battery is low and I only have a few minutes left to listen to my music, the last thing I want is to be constantly interrupted.
I swear no one who manufactures Bluetooth headphones has ever used them.
Mine say that and then last 2-4 more hours, depending on whether you disable ANC. It helps that the battery lasts around 20 hours in total though. So I do actually think it’s useful.
I dig that about AirPods. You get one sad lil “plink plonk donk” sound when they have like a half hour left, then one more sad tone when death is imminent.
That’s why I love my Bluetooth hearing protection headphones. The low battery warning happens an hour before the battery dies, and it’s only once every like 15 minutes.
That’s why I have wired headphones. My Final Audio headphone survived 2 (!) USB DACs already.
The pair I have (sony wf1000 something) has a nice robotic lady that says: バッテリーが少なくなりました。充電してください。
It’s annoying to hear when I’m still jamming out, but the robot lady says it so pleasantly and politely that I stop listening and charge them out of respect of the request 🤣
Mine is more like. “LOW BATTERY, PLEASE RECHARGE HEADSET” proceeds to play music over my tinnitus.
I always get jumpscared
What I hate the most is android fading the volume of the music before sending the notification sound.
I don’t mind a notification ping mixed with the track, it’s just a few milliseconds, what I hate is this stupid little fade that AFAIK there’s no way to disable.
You can disable it with the LSPosed module DisableAudioFocus (which lets multiple Apps play audio at the same time)
Row battery prease charge
Maybe you should buy headphones made in usa
LOL ITS FUNNY BECAUSE ASIAN PEOPLE SAY R INSTEAD OF L HAHAHAHAH
