• potustheplant@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Dude. The only difference between a normal headphone with a 3.5mm jack and a “usb” headphone is that the latter needs to have its own dac/amp. Guess what? YOUR PHONE ALREADY HAS THAT. Usb headphones are more complex, more expensive and not guaranteed to work indefinitely.

    Removing the jack makes 0 sense.

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      1 year ago

      In my experience, 0 headphones are guaranteed to work indefinitely, and I’ve been using headphones jacks since like '87

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        1 year ago

        The only problem I have ever had with headphones are pad/eartip degradation and cable issues. It’s rare for the driver to fail.

        That’s in stark contrast to battery powered headphones, given thart batteries will 100% fail given a few years and they’re (in most cases) not user replaceable.

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          1 year ago

          At the bottom of your phone (probably? Idk like iPhones and shit), you have a USB-C (or some letter) port. There are headphones that plug in there.

          They are no more battery powered than your phone.

          Kind of shocked this isn’t well known, as this is a tech forum.

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            1 year ago

            Ok, then you’re talking only about usb headphones.

            If you have a dongle and it breaks, good luck fixing the cable. God forbid the dac is integrated to the headphone itself. Also, if the dac fails you’re also sol. So yeah, I wouldn’t call having a more expensive set up that’s also more likely to fail and doesn’t have any added benefits a good alternative.

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              1 year ago

              This is all also true about traditional headphones jacks, which have failed quite often for me over the decades

              My favorite headphones of all time failed in this way, and requires I have the jack in exactly the right spot/depth

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                1 year ago

                Did you forget to mention that fixing a headphone jack costs a few bucks and can be done by pretty much anyone with a soldering iron?

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                  1 year ago

                  No, because in practice that isn’t a thing that regularly happens, and as the tech continues to die out it will be less and less possible.

                  Most people do not own and cannot use a soldering iron.

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                    1 year ago

                    “cannot use”? Where you born without hands? Also, that “practice” is not an ancient tradition. It’s an extremely simple process that takes 15 minutes. Also no, normal headphones will not “die out”.