Comment by swiley
5 years ago
I love my 3.5mm cables for this reason. No negotiating with vendors (except Apple but it's well known that they really suck) just plug and play.
5 years ago
I love my 3.5mm cables for this reason. No negotiating with vendors (except Apple but it's well known that they really suck) just plug and play.
I can't wait to sit my grandchildren on my knee and tell them stories of the magic headphones that you never needed to charge and just worked instantly with practically any audio device ever made by mankind right up until the iPhone 7 was unleashed unto the world.
They would probably see it like we computers that had memory which did not wipe when powered down. The inconvenience is minor and the benefits large. They will never deal with huge hell balls of cables/headphones. The charging is pretty painless and the airpods pretty much do just work instantly with any Apple device (they can detect which one you are using at the time).
Oh, I love a computer voice screaming into my ear "BATTERY! LOW! " every minute when my headphones reach 30%. Yeah, hearing loss is only a small price to pay for not dealing with tangled cables.
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It's not just charging. You can pretty much connect it to any device in a second without waiting for a minute for bluetooth connection. Maybe airpod is good for single person use who has very limited devices which are all Apple, but I own multiple non Apple devices. Even though all have bluetooth, bluetooth is much more error prone than 3.5mm jack.
It's planned obsolescence. Analog headphones from 15 years will work whereas Airpods will be nigh-unusable after 5 years because the batteries will be spent.
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Between their screw ups and Pine64's successes that hopefully won't happen.
Remember to throw in stories about impedance matching and the differences of A/B and T/D class amplifiers, as well as soundstage, acoustic compression and active correction.
At least some of these things are kind of unrelated to how the audio signal arrives at the amplifier and are still an issue when connecting speakers to a bluetooth enabled amplifier.
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