NRM: "Can we please just realise that the headphone jack is outdated and should have been killed off a while ago?"
CCG writes - "The Sineaptic SE-1 is quite a remarkable headphone. It's an amazing first product from a new company. It does some unusual things like offering Bluetooth and 3.5mm inputs in an audiophile headphone. It offers an incredibly unique driver design at an amazingly low price. Its build quality is fine, but not spectacular, as long as you get one with no production issues."
Four years later and Sonos introduces a new portable speaker, the Move 2, bringing original innovation.
All in all, Iβm a fan of the Cleer Arc II.T Theyβre brilliant at what theyβre advertised for: being the ideal running companion.
Yeah, no. Headphone jack FOR LIFE!
How exactly do you improve on a universally accepted format that works perfectly as is?
Besides being universal it's also much stronger than either Micro USB / Lightning designs
I put this post on his page. He deleted it so I'll put it here instead:
I got news for you mate: SOUND is analogue. At some point between your device and your speakers it must be converted to analogue. Whether it's at a 3.5 jack or after it's been beamed through the air with bluetooth or whatnot is damn near irrelevant. Throwing a link to some noise cancelling headphones means nothing, you know they've existed for longer than bluetooth has right? No, probably not, because you're openly mocking people who have an interest in good quality sound as part of some weak-arse defense of a shitty business decision by a corporate giant who wants to sell more expensive peripherals by taking away consumer choice. What? 85% of wireless headphones where Apple AirPods? Well fancy that, who'd have thought that the people who aren't forced to spend an extra couple hundred bucks don't, despite the option still being just as available to them as iPhone users.
But I like using the headphone jack, keeps it private and doesn't disturb other people around me.