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Canuck ,

I walk through some neighbourhoods with many high-risk apartments, and there is so much interference from all the Wi-Fi routers, Bluetooth devices, and other wireless devices using 2.4 GHz, that even the best wireless headphones skip & stutter playback.

It also takes so much longer to switch wireless headphones to a different device, especially when they all compete to connect to the headphones.

Let me make the decision when to use wireless, don’t make it for me. A DAC USB-C dongle is dumb.

NicoCharrua ,
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I always used it when I had one.

Now, I use an adapter for headphone jack to USB-C. Every day.

nyar ,

I would but I had a terrible habit of getting snagged on things when walking around. I’ll take the worse quality of Bluetooth over destroying my port, my headphones, or my ears.

TK420 ,

This is exactly why I ditched wired headphones, they are snaggers and no, I’m not routing a cable down my shirt.

Oderus ,

I was forced to buy wireless headphones because phones stopped using the 3.5mm jack. I still have a pair of wired earbuds but they’re useless now as I only have 3.5mm on my work laptop.

The positive is my new wireless headphones are awesome and work very well, but they’re over the ear so I can’t use them for snowboarding like I could with my wired earbuds. They charge ultra fast and last up to 30 hours and they come with a 3.5mm jack if the battery dies. You don’t get noise cancelling when using the 3.5mm jack but at least it works.

notapantsday ,

Never ever. It wasn’t the reason why I got my current phone, but I thought I would use it at least sometimes. I don’t.

ShroOmeric ,

Everyday. No jack, no buy.

catonwheels ,

I used it a lot.

I had to buy two pair of Bluetooth earbuds for just lasting through my day.

We used to have a box of headsets for users that could grab and use. Now it headache.

As many say it is one thing if it was replaced by something useful but now world so complicated just to sell more things.

gwheel ,

I like being to leave a pair of headphones in my bag without having to worry about charging or pairing when I switch devices.

Engywuck ,

So Much This

MimicJar ,

So I typically have two sets of headphones, really nice ones that I use for long travel & low key ones I use daily.

At the time my really nice ones didn’t have Bluetooth, but I knew future versions did, so I assumed that problem would solve itself.

For the daily I tried a set a Bluetooth and found them to be mostly ok, but had frequent disconnects and eventually I just got tired of remembering to charge them.

A few years later I figured the technology would have improved, but my problems remained the same. I then accidentally ran one of my buds through the wash and that made things worse. It wasn’t the first time I’d run headphones through the wash, but what was previously a $10s of dollars mistake, was now a $100s of dollars mistake.

I now use wired headphones daily and exclusively.

For my really nice ones I don’t have to remember to charge them. I just plug them in.

Also, when traveling on buses and airplanes, they sometimes provide onride entertainment. It’s not clear to me how wireless only folks utilize that. Sure I downloaded things before I leave, but it’s nice sometimes to just plug in.

Diabolo96 ,

I bought 2 different Bluetooth earphones that I ended up rarely ever using and instead use my standard quality cable headphones.

Shurimal ,

Comes in handy at work all the time when I need to test a piece of equipment.

And the best-bang-for-buck IEM-s still are wired only. Have my sights set on Moondrop Lans for xmas.

Thassodar ,

I loved the headphone jack on the S10, but other issues I had with the charging port made me switch to an S23 at the beginning of this year. I generally do not like wireless headphones due to the possibility of losing them, but using wired headphones and requiring an adapter to use them (because the S23 has no headphone jack) is a pain.

Overall, due to the specific nature of my phone, I’d use wireless headphones to regain the ability to answer and respond to phone calls while walking and listening to music. If I could get a Galaxy S class of phone with a headphone jack again, regardless of the thickness, I’d 100% be all over it.

Nindelofocho ,

I dont have a headphone jack but I have a dongle to use some sound isolating earbuds while I ride my motorcycle my last trip was about 6ish hours and I dont think there are many wireless earbuds that would last that long

The earbuds were like $20 and have an actual nrr my $90 airpods sound way more tinny in addition to not fitting as well and leaking sound

RinseDrizzle ,

Quite frequently for sure. I’m a musician in a band, a DJ, and working on becoming more of a producer. Plugging in for amplifying or sampling happens fairly often. Being an audiophile, I’m also partial to wired connections over Bluetooth which can be more unreliable in performance settings. Never wanted to mess with battery powered phones too. Already have charger fatigue pretty bad.

Blamemeta ,

I have an older car, and I use the aux cord and headphone jack every day.

squirrelwithnut ,

My current phone (Pixel 8) and my previous phone (Pixel 3) don’t have one. My previous phone before those had one but even then I never used it, because I’ve been using Bluetooth headphones for forever.

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