My phone, laptop, & DAP all conveniently have a headphone jack so I can enjoy better quality sound, with no lantency, no spotty connectivity, no pairing lag, no need for firmware upgrades or proprietary apps, a cheaper price, easy to find the monitors since they are tethered together, & with better sustainability without lithium ion batteries while never have to worry about charge either.
Lucky bastard lol. At least my phone is free from the constraints of google and has the bootloader relocked! I’m considering getting a dedicated MP3 player like the good ol days but then I’d need a fanny pack for all the shit I’d be carrying.
I have a $100-ish DAP that works pretty well & I use it regularly for music, & as a DAC, & as a tether from a wireless Bluetooth device to it with my wired IEMs in it. There are things in the category that can work for you on a budget, but I would hesitate to recommend the actual one I have.
I understand the complaints because I hated it when Pixel dropped the jack. But it can be a smoother process than jacks.
I get in my car and no longer fumble to pull my phone out and plug it in. Pairing is quicker than plugging in a cable.
When doing yardwork I used to have to fish my cord through my shirt or it would get caught and yanked out by a tree branch. Even then it was cumbersome because of too much slack or too little slack causing disconnects or snags.
It’s not perfect. A downside that still might exist (I bypassed the problem years ago so I don’t know if they ever fixed it.) was Google’s auto pairing that wasn’t able to be turned off. When I walked close to the house from outside, my phone would decide on its own to pair with speakers in the house. But that’s a Google problem, not Bluetooth. It didn’t exist with Nexus because you could manually control pairing.
My phone, laptop, & DAP all conveniently have a headphone jack so I can enjoy better quality sound, with no lantency, no spotty connectivity, no pairing lag, no need for firmware upgrades or proprietary apps, a cheaper price, easy to find the monitors since they are tethered together, & with better sustainability without lithium ion batteries while never have to worry about charge either.
What was the upside of wireless again?
The upside is “my phone is a bitch and doesn’t have a jack.”
I fucking wish, but GrapheneOS was more important to me.
Edit: oh sorry just realized you’re on .ml, “my phone is a doody-head and doesn’t have a jack.”
Whereas my approach is the opposite where I refuse GrapheneOS since I can’t have headphone jack 😄
Understandable lol, it’s my only complaint (well and no microSD.)
I have both :)
Lucky bastard lol. At least my phone is free from the constraints of google and has the bootloader relocked! I’m considering getting a dedicated MP3 player like the good ol days but then I’d need a fanny pack for all the shit I’d be carrying.
I have a $100-ish DAP that works pretty well & I use it regularly for music, & as a DAC, & as a tether from a wireless Bluetooth device to it with my wired IEMs in it. There are things in the category that can work for you on a budget, but I would hesitate to recommend the actual one I have.
I understand the complaints because I hated it when Pixel dropped the jack. But it can be a smoother process than jacks.
I get in my car and no longer fumble to pull my phone out and plug it in. Pairing is quicker than plugging in a cable.
When doing yardwork I used to have to fish my cord through my shirt or it would get caught and yanked out by a tree branch. Even then it was cumbersome because of too much slack or too little slack causing disconnects or snags.
It’s not perfect. A downside that still might exist (I bypassed the problem years ago so I don’t know if they ever fixed it.) was Google’s auto pairing that wasn’t able to be turned off. When I walked close to the house from outside, my phone would decide on its own to pair with speakers in the house. But that’s a Google problem, not Bluetooth. It didn’t exist with Nexus because you could manually control pairing.
EWaste is a problem.