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SpruceBringsteen ,

Regularly

lnxtx ,
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Nowadays only in my car. It doesn’t have a bluetooth receiver.

It’s hard to find a wired earphones with ANC. About a decade earlier I used wired a Audio Technica earphones with ANC.

mojo ,

I used to, but now don’t really care. Earbuds are really nice, except Bluetooth pairing is complete ass and you need to worry about it being charged.

arche7ype ,
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I don’t have one anymore. I did not want to get rid of it. The cons of a wire did not outweigh the BT pros for me. Now I know. Things don’t sound as good. Don’t sound bad but wired still has that edge.

ohlaph ,

I used to. Then I bought a new phone and forgot to check to see if it had one. It did not.

Nyanix ,
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I used to every day when I worked at a music shop and would play audio demos from it. The loss of the port made my job VERY difficult to do. Now that I work in a new field and have had to invest in some bluetooth earbuds, I don’t find that I’d need the port very often, though the audiophile in me misses it sometimes, especially since bluetooth can be so unreliable sometimes. Don’t miss the dangling cable, but the thing is, I can bluetooth earbud on a phone that has a 3.5mm jack too, the fact that they removed it from phones as a standard when it’s such a cheap part to implement is baffling, especially when we’re paying tons for phones. I can have 16gb RAM, and 8-cores, bud God forbid I want to be able to plug in a speaker and have my phone plugged into the charger at the same time, like a repurposed old phone for a home audio system or something.

Daxtron2 ,

I used to use it everyday on my old phone, new one doesn’t have it and I hate using the dongle. My USB-C port is already wearing out from it

BlackSkinnedJew ,

I do

onlinepersona ,

There’s probably a lot of selection bias going on right now, but I feel compelled to say “I won’t buy a phone without a jack”.

The convenience of not having to charge headphones is great. I use them so infrequently that when I pull them out on a trip, I don’t want to go “ah shit, forgot to charge them”. But on long trips, bluetooth kills my battery so jack is the only way to go for me.

JohnDClay ,

One every month or two, when I play audio in the old vehicle. It’s nice to be able to charge at the same time.

Lucidlethargy ,

I used it back when they still put them in flagship phones. The audio quality is much, much higher than via Bluetooth.

I use a DAC now, but it’s not great…

Kethal ,

If I’m in the mood for better sound quality I do. Bluetooth has noticably poorer quality on anything but the worst equipment.

I also use the headphone jack when I don’t want to deal with the inexplicably still not addressed after decades terrible Bluetooth connectivity issues.

Artyom ,

Bluetooth has never improved the user experience of connecting. It’s always been super annoying to keep track of connections. Bluetooth is limited to mp3 quality, aka 1/4 the quality of a CD, and that limit will never increase. We can do a little better with fancy codecs, but you’ll always be able to tell with good headphones. A headphone jack is still higher quality than any non-headphone jack alternative, and it will always be that way.

Buddahriffic ,

That’s no longer true. I appreciate my headphone jack, but Bluetooth continues to iterate and 5.0+ has pretty good sound quality. If your specific hardware only supports 3.x, then it’s true that it will never get better, but the standard has improved. Other improvements include better range and security, low power modes, and higher bandwidth.

Also mp3 is a file and compression format and can vary in quality by quite a bit, depending on bitrate. It’s more useful to express quality in sample rate and bit depth, or bitrate. Bluetooth is capable of transmitting 16bit 44khz audio (CD quality) if both devices support the correct optional codecs.

That said, the wired connection supports whatever the DAC can handle as it’s an analog signal, so theoretically even better than CD quality (though not really in practice since the source audio won’t likely be better than CD quality, plus increasing the sample rate doesn’t really improve anything since it would just add higher frequencies and CD quality is already at the limit of the human ear).

Zoomboingding ,
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Only a little. I use Bluetooth earbuds most of the time. I have an older work vehicle without Bluetooth though, so I still have to use the aux cord on some drives.

zipzoopaboop ,

I use it regularly on steam deck, but not phone

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