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bluetardis ,

I do. Every day. Decent headphones that block a lot of outside noise but don’t need a battery.

Constantly thankful that I don’t have to find a Bluetooth setup.

Contentious part is that I listen to high quality (generally lossless) ripped music. Bluetooth and some adapters do weird things with compression and you can really hear it.

SpruceBringsteen ,

Regularly

dgriffith , (edited )

I have a very nice set of Bose corded noise cancelling headphones and use them when I fly for work and at home sometimes when I want to chill out.

The advantage they have over Bluetooth is that the base functionality still works when the single AAA battery that powers them goes flat. Unlike Bluetooth headsets they also don’t switch to low power/BLE mode when they’re supposed to be “off”, so they don’t go flat when they’re in my travel bag for a week or two. They also plug straight into in-flight entertainment systems so I don’t need to use the $3 headphones the airline provides.

The AAA powers the noise cancelling for about 15-20 hours straight and the case has a spot for a spare so the whole setup is pretty good.

restingboredface ,

I have the same kind of headphones. They cost $400 (at the time) and now they are useless with most devices.

I also use sleep phones at night to fall asleep to asmr and those run with cables. If my tablet didn’t have a jack I wouldn’t be able to use them, and those sleep phones are a lifeline. Being able to listen to asmr on headphones while laying on my side makes it so much easier to fall asleep. All the Bluetooth variants are cheap Chinese knockoffs that fall apart after a couple months, but the sleepphones are still working years later.

shortdorkyasian ,

I was in a similar situation. Not sleep-phones, but just a particular type of headphones that I like. Have you thought about getting a Bluetooth receiver for them? It’s super annoying, but it’s the only way I’ve been able to keep my headphones. Just thought I’d suggest it if you hadn’t thought of this solution/kludge yet. www.fiio.com/btr3k

The other option is to get a USB-C adapter. us.creative.com/p/…/sound-blaster-play-4

restingboredface ,

Yeah I’ve been thinking about trying that actually. Even thought about trying to rewire the sleep phones to make them permanently bluetooth but didn’t want to mess them up. May try that or the adapter sometime.

bamboo ,

Most high end noise cancelling bluetooth headphones work as you describe. Noise cancelling and Bluetooth require it to be charged, but you can plug to a cable and listen passively.

dgriffith ,

Yeah the issue we’re slowly running into is that there’s no more 3.5mm sockets in newer phones.

When my current phone dies it’ll be a toss-up between trying to find a decent phone with a headphone socket or trying a USB C audio adaptor and see how that goes.

bamboo ,

A $10 dongle is gonna be a lot better than limiting yourself to the obscure few phones that still have a headphone jack. They make ones that allow you to play and charge too, useful especially in cars.

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.

Cralder ,

I see a lot of people saying the use it every day, probably since this type of post attracts those types of people. So I will break the mold and say that I never use it.

I haven’t had a headphone jack in my last 2 phones and I haven’t missed it at all. Maybe once or twice in the last few years when I have gotten into my mom’s car which doesn’t have Bluetooth. All my headphones are Bluetooth. All my speakers are Bluetooth. If I really need a headphone jack I can still use a dongle but that almost never happens.

GoodEye8 ,

Same. I can sympathize with people who use the jack but me personally, I couldn’t give a shit that companies started removing it. I was an early adopter of bluetooth earbuds. My biggest issue when using headphones with a phone was actually the coord. I’m the kind of person who would get it stuck everywhere and and have it tangled up while in my pocket. I would go through at least one pair of buds per year because the coord would get damaged. I also remember damaging the socket itself on my phone and it became the deciding factor for buying a new phone. So it was a no-brainer to switch to bluetooth because I’m getting rid of my biggest issue, which is the coord.

I’m still using the 1st generation of airpods. That’s 7? years of not buying new headphones. I don’t know what would have to happen for me to use coorded headphones with my phone again.

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.

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