I hate Wireless devices.

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

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.

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.

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.
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.
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.

Happens a lot when I'm just about to doze off

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. 😭

connecting*

device disconnected*

connecting*

Mine is more like. "LOW BATTERY, PLEASE RECHARGE HEADSET" proceeds to play music over my tinnitus.

I always get jumpscared

Row battery prease charge

Maybe you should buy headphones made in usa
LOL ITS FUNNY BECAUSE ASIAN PEOPLE SAY R INSTEAD OF L HAHAHAHAH

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 🤣

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)

DISCONNECTED

Some show should have someone saying something important on a call and the headphones go “battery low, please recharge “, like all those situations where a car/train drowns out the “ I love you” in shows.

That's why I have wired headphones. My Final Audio headphone survived 2 (!) USB DACs already.

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

Still wired with most of my electronics.

Fuck bluetooth. Fuck batteries.

The thing is, the alternative is a wire that inevitably gets tangled up in my spinning chair. what we really need is the ability to transmit electricity wirelessly.

Are you really spinning in your chair round and round?
Because then you will also not be able to use a mouse and keyboard.
Wireless devices that only go less than a meter are useless.
The alternative is permanent discomfort, Vs this temporary discomfort
- This is permanent discomfort, since you have to keep charging them over and over just to be able to use them.
  And at the end, you throw away yet an other battery on the trash belt that leaks acid in our drinking water.

I stick with wired headset/earbuds so I don't have to deal with crap like this.

@hmmm@sh.itjust.works bluetooth has latency anyways... not good for watching... @animemes@ani.social

Jabra lets you disable the voice in the app, and my old Galaxy Buds had quiet sound alerts

Jabra actually sounds nice though.
- Get em while you can. Jabra is exiting the market.
- Although mine only tell me the capacity left in hours on switch on, and then suddenly go dead. Thought it was the remaining talk time, but apparently it's talk and standby. Some frantic searching for the charge cable followed...
Not all of their headphones though, right? I've checked the settings for my Elite 85t (?) and while there were options for adjusting the notification one way or another, I couldn't outright mute or remove it
- For my Elite 8 Active Gen 2 I can choose between voice, sounds and mute

My gaming headset has an ear piercing bluetooth connected tone, and you can't adjust the volume of it.

My great sounding technics az80 has the most obnoxious sounding voice prompts.

So relatable, especially earbuds since they have much smaller batteries by physics limitations, and they last like 2 hour tops before charging case is needed, heaphone at least last more like 8 hours and just don't forget to charge it and it'll be fine.

Wireless earbuds also cannot be charged while in use, at least some wireless headphones can be charged via USB-C while you use it so it'll just be temporarily a wired headphone (Anker Soundcore lets you do that, Sony doesn't 😕)

Voice chatting after 2 hours of gaming