With completely wireless earbuds, the rule is: when the battery fails, they have to be disposed of. Not so with the Fairbuds, that allow you to replace batteries in just a few seconds. Combined with a repairable design, the earbuds should therefore have an extremely long lifetime.
  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    6 months ago

    In-ear phones have the potential of having the highest fidelity of all headphone types.

    How so? Isn’t converting from digital to analog better than from digital to digital to analog?

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    • Shurimal@kbin.social
      3·
      6 months ago

      Nothing to do with ADA conversions (and digital-to-digital, eg SRC or bitdepth conversion, is completely transparent if done even remotely adequately). Small drivers close to eardrum with good seal just seem to be easier to manage when it comes to frequency response and distortion. Most open circumaural headphones, for example, seem to have deficiencies in lower end no matter the price.

      • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
        31·
        6 months ago

        Small drivers close to eardrum with good seal just seem to be easier to manage when it comes to frequency response and distortion.

        Are you saying the length of the cable from my phone to my ears has an impact on audio quality?

        Also, is there no loss when converting from the digital audio format to whatever bluetooth uses?

        Most open circumaural headphones, for example, seem to have deficiencies in lower end no matter the price.

        This seems unrelated to jack vs bluetooth.

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        • Patches
          2·
          6 months ago

          Are you saying the length of the cable from my phone to my ears has an impact on audio quality?

          Why of course that is why OP only buys the finest MONSTER Vibranium-Plated Unobtanium-Engraved Analog Audiophile Cables.

        • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
          1·
          6 months ago

          No, they’re saying accurately reproducing sounds for people to listen to has much more to do with the vibrating membrane to eardrum interaction than anything that happens between the source material and the vibrating membrane.

          • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Theoretically, yes. Practically, bluetooth has been way funkier than cable ever has for me. It drops, loses packets, and sometimes tries to catch up on whatever shit it was doing to suddenly have the audio sound like it’s fast forwarding. My ears aren’t the best, but that’s the kind of shit I do hear. Membranes can’t protect you from that.

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            • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
              1·
              6 months ago

              Yeah, they don’t protect you from shorted cables or dirty controls either.

              The person you were replying to was saying that contrary to what the person they were replying to said, in ear headphones can have reproduction quality that merits being a “codec snob”, not that we shouldn’t care about wireless versus wired.

              They even say that they don’t use wireless headphones.