luckily this is just a 32; i had a 70 from the same brand with the same INSANELY FUCKING STUPID STAND DESIGN that i had to find something for…literally at the most extreme edges of the thing, what the fuck is this? this is so fucking stupid, it cannot be meaningfully cheaper than a proper design and it looks fucking dumb as hell and surely this has pissed off 90% of people that wanted a TV and want to put it on a little stand like a normal fucking person right??
Your ears don’t understand digital signals, you can generally run (unbalanced!) audio over tens of metres without degrading audio quality (because impedance /= resistance) as judged with actually good headphones, and no in-ears have anywhere close to good sound, anyway.
With good muffs the deciding factor (ignoring source material) will be the quality of the DAC, not where it’s placed. And even the shittiest DACs nowadays are good enough to drive the best in-ears, simply due to in-ears having, physically, no choice but being shoddy.
We already do have the same connector for all headphones. Well there’s also 6.35mm jacks but they’re practically the same connector in more shear resistant (it is terribly easy to shear off straight 3.5mm jacks by stumbling over the headphone cord. I recommend a straight plug to straight socket section as predetermined breaking point, and an angled connector on the appliance side).
Headphones neither receive digital signals nor DC power, those are the areas USB-C is actually for… and even within that category we should be careful: Imagine all monitors being USB-C, people nowadays can’t even manage to plug their monitor into the GPU instead of motherboard if every connector is USB-C, and they of course all won’t have the same feature set, they’ll plug it into the mouse our audio port.
What I definitely welcome is the death of the barrel jack, while the form factor is fine they never managed to standardise voltages and polarities. My cheap 10 buck kitchen scale I bought a week ago has a USB-C connector to charge the LIR2450 inside, that’s perfect: No fast charging no nothing it just takes straight 5V meaning it will happily charge off a PC from the 1990s, cheap to implement for the manufacturer and they don’t need to supply a wall plug.
Going all-digital is better for sound quality.
This doesn’t make any sense. All sound signals must convert to analogue at some point. You simply cannot vibrate the air creating sound waves with a digital signal. Technically I suppose you could, but all you music would just sound like unintelligible beeping, and you’d still need some kind of amplifier to hear it anyway.
All we’ve done is move the DAC from the phone into the earbuds, or maybe a dongle. The latter may result in better audio if you have a high quality dongle, but the DAC in a pair of wireless earbuds will almost always sound worse simply due to size and power constraints.
