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would you consider the iphone 5s outdated?
Mr Queeba:
a good example of a phone that still has the headphone jack is the google pixel, in their marketing they actually used the fact that the jack was there in their advertising to kind of fire a shot at apple
Insert Name Here²:
Even the loving S8 has a headphone jack and that phone is the top of the line with what you can get lol
Removing an essential port =/= future, it just creates trouble for literally everyone
Trymos:
--- Quote from: hillkill on June 07, 2017, 09:30:30 PM ---the quality can only get so good with stereo lol
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for headphones what the forget are you expecting
stereo is literally the realistic cap for speakers on headphones
on top of that you're talking about loving quality
have you ever used a pair of $200 non-beats headphones then used a $60-70 pair? the difference is loving night and day.
from infinitely superior build quality (one side not going out on you in about shortly after a year but instead actually being built like tanks)
to clarity and superior choice of preferences in sound type (some people don't like so much bass, that's why sennheiser exists among other things)
this also translates over into ear buds too, it's not limited to headphones, and they're all stereo too.
for bonus points, people think no headphone jack is gonna be the standard despite being hated by basically everyone and all the companies are taking the ever-living piss out of apple for it.
Insert Name Here²:
--- Quote from: Trymos on June 07, 2017, 10:44:20 PM ----truth-
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This
Limiting it to just Bluetooth and proprietary connectors removes all of the pros of other headphones have to offer
Trymos:
--- Quote from: Insert Name Here² on June 07, 2017, 10:45:58 PM ---This
Limiting it to just Bluetooth and proprietary connectors removes all of the pros of other headphones have to offer
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oh and for bonus points
3.5MM headphone jacks draw directly from your sound card/chip, which means your sound quality is entirely dependent on how good your sound card/chip is (ignoring the cans themselves of course).
when you use bluetooth/thunderbolt/usbofanytype you're now forcing headphone manufacturers to have built in sound chips since there is no longer a direct source to draw from, this is why you have separate proprietary audio drivers for USB and bluetooth and thunderbolt headphones while 3.5MM doesn't require any additional installation because you probably have sound card drivers already installed and that's what 3.5MM draws from. this makes a huger pain in the ass to use different headphones on different devices and if it sounds a bit stuff it's probably because the manufacturer skimped out on either the cans themselves or the audio chip, since there's now a much higher manufacturing cost involved.