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It is my opinion that bluetooth headphones are garbage.

I have several - cheap, expensive, ear buds, over ear. They all suffer from issues between devices, one device out of range weird noises, can't decide which device to connect to. Some of the issues I blame on my phone (Pixel3a).

I spend so much time walking around my house turning BT off on all but one device so I can go outside and listen to something.

Much easier to plug my wired headphones into the device I am using. It is simple, reliable, and I don't have to charge my wired headphones.

For me BT headphones go mostly unused except for yardwork/woodshop time, where the wire poses extra annoyances.



BT is garbage except for very simple products like mice: poorly thought out, even more poorly implemented, generally brittle.

And the audio quality is compromised, although aptX Lossless may finally start changing that.


I'm a Bose QC-35 II convert. Slide forward on the power button and it'll switch the paired device. Also excellent sound quality and ridiculous battery life.




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