I never got the hate when Fairphone for example removed the headphone jack. Yeah, batteries. But if the cable of your $150 cans craps out, will you whip out your soldering iron?
A lot of wired in-ears from China have swappable cables now.
yes. who throws away $150 earphones?
Yeah, no, that's utter nonsense.
During the COVID lockdown I was doing a lot of walking around the local woods with my infant daughter in a pushchair. I listened to music on my phone. I was using free conf-swag head phones.
So I bought myself new ones. Absolute top-of-the-line super-fancy Sony in-ear things with bass boost and all the trimmings.
They were about CzK 600, which equates to about £25.
I still use them. 6Y later they still sound amazing. By any objective measure they are better than any in-ear things: excellent isolation, superb sound (in as well through the integrated mic), complete cross-platform compatibility, *infinite* battery life -- no batteries! No pairing, no synching, no updates ever. Come with build-in anti-theft anti-loss device: a cable.
£25. What that is in dollarbucks I don't know as I avoid visiting fascist states that might imprison me. $35?
My Sony wired earphones broke.
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