The better headphones I have had don't make noise when bouncing around and I'd like to know what you're doing with them them that the cord would be annoying. I can see if it's long enough to get under your feet but a lot of people run with a cord with no problems. If you are that sensitive then that is a niche need. And, yeah I'd rather listen to the outside then be limited to 256Kb MP3. Moreover it is about strong and realistic bass.
If top sound quality is your touchstone, neither Bluetooth, nor any buds sold with any phone is adequate
Correct, I can't use any included buds. I'd rather just not listen to music. I can use included buds for audio books, but I find bluetooth even makes the reader's voice sound dull. The job of headphones should be to adequately reproduce the sound as best as possible. While $20 headphones won't do that, I would expect any headphone above $70 to do a fairly good job of it. If there is some sort of technical limitation limiting the headphone's ability to do that then I don't see the point of spending money on it unless you really need to go without a cable.
Best course of action is to charge as you use. Don't allow them to sit on the charger for days at a time. Use them, then return them. Seems like you aren't getting good battery life if they are significantly worse after only one year. I have a lot of devices HT's, phones, Bluetooth headsets, and they are going strong some 5 years after new. I have one battery pack that is an anomaly - 2007, and it is almost as good as new. But that is for sure an anomaly.
The thing is I take my headset out with me all day in case I want to use them, and I listen to an audio book with them at night as I go to sleep... so when do I charge them? Must I now buy TWO $150+ wireless headsets to do alternate charges? Even if I didn't use them at night, I have no choice but to charge for the entire night. I don't really have time to closely track how long I charge things. They are either on a charger and therefore charged, or off the charger and possibly not charged.
I buy what works. Which isn't necessarily the cheapest. I pay what it is worth.
I prefer to weigh the positives and negatives. The only positive for bluetooth headphones is that there is no cable to untangle. If you are in a situation where you cannot have a cable then that one positive would outweigh all the negatives, yes. I personally have never been in that position, although one situation I can see is if you are at the gym it must be nice to not have a cable when using the equipment. Even then I'm not sure if I could deal with the flat sound. I like a good thump in my bass which bluetooth headphones never seem to have enough power for.
- That's the point. I have a family with devices. I have an 8-port hub that is often full. Enough is enough, I'm not buying any more devices that need charging right now because they will rarely be charged when I have a sudden need to use them anyway.
- You miss the point. Eventually you won't be able to charge the batteries at full strength any more. Most rechargeable batteries fade off significantly within a year of daily charging until you just can't use the device reliably any more.
- Really cheap wires with improper insulation may pick up radio signals et al, but I've had good bluetooth headphones will just cut out and get choppy with no warning and no evident reason.
- Hey you may like spending more money than you have to but I don't. Don't apply your mindless consumerism to me please.
I would be surprised if it took more than $70 to beat most bluetooth headphones in terms of bass strength and clarity. And that is just one aspect of the issues with bluetooth.
2) Because we don't want extra things to charge, because anything with a battery has a finite usable lifetime, because a wire doesn't get interference, COST, because I think the device with the bigger power source and more advanced circuitry should be the one driving the sound.
So PC companies held out and provided ports and functionality until they were absolutely sure no one wanted them? How uncourageous of them. How are they supposed to convince people to buy new hardware if it has all the ports they need??
Except bluetooth has so many drawbacks it isn't really a replacement for a headphone port. In fact in every account I have seen, the bluetooth version of a headphone is inferior to the wired version, especially if you take cost into account.
So then how do you find only drivers with a certain level of english? Or must a person weed through all the comments to find someone who can speak english well.
Subway has done a lot to distance themselves from fast food and have chosen to represent themselves as a healthier choice. The whole Jared losing weight by eating only at Subway thing. I don't really consider them a fast food restaurant, they are a sandwich shop.
I thought Uber's single goal was to put all possible forms of transportation out of business and essentially become a gatekeeper that will exact a toll from people who need to travel around and be mobile.
You hit the nail on the head when you said "keep investors happy". Everyone says that consumer dollars should be the motivating force in capitalism, but it's not. It's shareholders running the show.
Canada and the US. One of them has a per capata rate of accidental deaths due to firearms NINE TIMES the other. I'll let you guess which one is highest.
The point is that I would almost definitely have a gun wound at that point but still have a chance to avoid being stabbed by a knife. So into the 15% for a knife wound factor in the likelihood of being able to physically defend yourself against a bullet versus defending yourself against a knife.
The career criminals who would still have the guns aren't the ones killing most of the innocents. Make it harder for the average person to get a gun and at least the crazies might not be able to figure it out. Maybe they get a gun that they have to reload and can only kill three people instead of fifty. That is who you want to keep the guns away from. Plus it doesn't hurt that you will make it much more difficult for the career criminals to get guns.
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The better headphones I have had don't make noise when bouncing around and I'd like to know what you're doing with them them that the cord would be annoying. I can see if it's long enough to get under your feet but a lot of people run with a cord with no problems. If you are that sensitive then that is a niche need. And, yeah I'd rather listen to the outside then be limited to 256Kb MP3. Moreover it is about strong and realistic bass.
If top sound quality is your touchstone, neither Bluetooth, nor any buds sold with any phone is adequate
Correct, I can't use any included buds. I'd rather just not listen to music. I can use included buds for audio books, but I find bluetooth even makes the reader's voice sound dull. The job of headphones should be to adequately reproduce the sound as best as possible. While $20 headphones won't do that, I would expect any headphone above $70 to do a fairly good job of it. If there is some sort of technical limitation limiting the headphone's ability to do that then I don't see the point of spending money on it unless you really need to go without a cable.
Best course of action is to charge as you use. Don't allow them to sit on the charger for days at a time. Use them, then return them. Seems like you aren't getting good battery life if they are significantly worse after only one year. I have a lot of devices HT's, phones, Bluetooth headsets, and they are going strong some 5 years after new. I have one battery pack that is an anomaly - 2007, and it is almost as good as new. But that is for sure an anomaly.
The thing is I take my headset out with me all day in case I want to use them, and I listen to an audio book with them at night as I go to sleep... so when do I charge them? Must I now buy TWO $150+ wireless headsets to do alternate charges? Even if I didn't use them at night, I have no choice but to charge for the entire night. I don't really have time to closely track how long I charge things. They are either on a charger and therefore charged, or off the charger and possibly not charged.
I buy what works. Which isn't necessarily the cheapest. I pay what it is worth.
I prefer to weigh the positives and negatives. The only positive for bluetooth headphones is that there is no cable to untangle. If you are in a situation where you cannot have a cable then that one positive would outweigh all the negatives, yes. I personally have never been in that position, although one situation I can see is if you are at the gym it must be nice to not have a cable when using the equipment. Even then I'm not sure if I could deal with the flat sound. I like a good thump in my bass which bluetooth headphones never seem to have enough power for.
Brilliant!
- That's the point. I have a family with devices. I have an 8-port hub that is often full. Enough is enough, I'm not buying any more devices that need charging right now because they will rarely be charged when I have a sudden need to use them anyway.
- You miss the point. Eventually you won't be able to charge the batteries at full strength any more. Most rechargeable batteries fade off significantly within a year of daily charging until you just can't use the device reliably any more.
- Really cheap wires with improper insulation may pick up radio signals et al, but I've had good bluetooth headphones will just cut out and get choppy with no warning and no evident reason.
- Hey you may like spending more money than you have to but I don't. Don't apply your mindless consumerism to me please.
I would be surprised if it took more than $70 to beat most bluetooth headphones in terms of bass strength and clarity. And that is just one aspect of the issues with bluetooth.
I see that there are still jobs, but companies expect you to be more of a rock star to keep them.
2) Because we don't want extra things to charge, because anything with a battery has a finite usable lifetime, because a wire doesn't get interference, COST, because I think the device with the bigger power source and more advanced circuitry should be the one driving the sound.
So PC companies held out and provided ports and functionality until they were absolutely sure no one wanted them? How uncourageous of them. How are they supposed to convince people to buy new hardware if it has all the ports they need??
And they'll somehow manage to sell it as a revolutionary invention when they bring it back too.
Except bluetooth has so many drawbacks it isn't really a replacement for a headphone port. In fact in every account I have seen, the bluetooth version of a headphone is inferior to the wired version, especially if you take cost into account.
I'll bet it was black markers. It's always black markers.
If a 200 pound ape won the presidency and wanted to stop H1B, I'd shout "Go, 200 pound ape!" but it doesn't mean I would have voted for it.
So then how do you find only drivers with a certain level of english? Or must a person weed through all the comments to find someone who can speak english well.
I have it upon good authority that they also have less buggy whips.
Subway has done a lot to distance themselves from fast food and have chosen to represent themselves as a healthier choice. The whole Jared losing weight by eating only at Subway thing. I don't really consider them a fast food restaurant, they are a sandwich shop.
I eat vegetables in my sub that I hardly eat otherwise? And no it's not just lettuce.
I thought Uber's single goal was to put all possible forms of transportation out of business and essentially become a gatekeeper that will exact a toll from people who need to travel around and be mobile.
You hit the nail on the head when you said "keep investors happy". Everyone says that consumer dollars should be the motivating force in capitalism, but it's not. It's shareholders running the show.
Canada and the US. One of them has a per capata rate of accidental deaths due to firearms NINE TIMES the other. I'll let you guess which one is highest.
The point is that I would almost definitely have a gun wound at that point but still have a chance to avoid being stabbed by a knife. So into the 15% for a knife wound factor in the likelihood of being able to physically defend yourself against a bullet versus defending yourself against a knife.
Thanks for explaining the woosh to me, I didn't understand what driving had to do with teaching either.
Can you even rate someone specifically for communication skills in the Uber app?
The career criminals who would still have the guns aren't the ones killing most of the innocents. Make it harder for the average person to get a gun and at least the crazies might not be able to figure it out. Maybe they get a gun that they have to reload and can only kill three people instead of fifty. That is who you want to keep the guns away from. Plus it doesn't hurt that you will make it much more difficult for the career criminals to get guns.
Everyone knows accidental deaths due to firearms is out of control in the US. I didn't see the need to feed baby his formula.