Update 1
I see a framerate/refresh rate bug that occasionally locks the framerate at a low value upon unlock. Fixing it requires a lock/unlock cycle.
I see a framerate/refresh rate bug that occasionally locks the framerate at a low value upon unlock. Fixing it requires a lock/unlock cycle.
In a Qudelix 5K. Ever since phones got really thin and their jacks too fragile for heavy headphone plugs and cables like the ones on MDR-7506/ATH-M50 (mid 2010s), I started my journey into high quality Bluetooth audio receivers. For many years now FiiO has made way better Bt amps than what’s available in most smartphones, even when most had headphone jacks. The Qudelix 5K is one of the best small format amps thess days. On the wireless side, LDAC and AptX have eliminated Bt bandwidth as significant quality constraint. That said talking over such a setup has always been some form of bad.
Thanks, I hate it. One more set of batteries, one more flaky wireless link to troubleshoot. Please take all those fancy electronics, and put them inside the phone where they belong.
Fairphone does make wireless earbuds with replaceable batteries. That being said, does the Fairphone 6 not come with a 3.5mm jack? Sony still ships it’s Xperia series with both the jack and microsD slot, so that is certainly possible.
But they are still using Bluetooth right? That’s a hard nope, it must be my personal dark aura or something, but Bluetooth devices just refuse to work reliably for me. I just don’t want to deal with that anymore.
I really miss the good old jack port, not only does it just work, you can both charge your phone and listen to something at the same time as I do often in the evening. Having the charging port double as the headphone connector is such a step backwards.
I think it was around Bluetooth 5.0 that reliability issues stopped happening, I hear you, but things have improved
There’s still enough space for a headphone jack in current phones. They are omitted as a cost cutting measure.
Latency is still worse than wired. For gaming its somewhat okay nowadays, for making music its not.
The cost is a tiny aspect. There is the space issue and the physical issue. Jacks are holes where dust and water come in, making it harder to make devices resistant and as durable as they can be.
Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting. These are excuses, not reasons. There used to be waterproof phones with headphone jacks. Phones have become bigger since the headphone jack disappeared as well. So space isn’t really the reason.
Yeah latency isn’t and likely cannot be music production grade.