https://www.soundguys.com/wired-headphones-comeback-122072/

Can we finally agree that millennials are the worst generation? They're the reason we have such soulless technology in the current year.

>>106010339 (OP)
>Fashion trends and the nostalgia factor are a contributing factor
deadass these wires are bussin fr finna pay triple MSRP to rock the shittiest headphones known to man fr fr

>>106010339 (OP)
i haven't even tried wireless earbuds yet and they're already going out of style? is this what it means to get older?

>>106010339 (OP)
on the surface this seems good but knowing zoomoids they'll prioritize the wrong parts of the tech for the stupidest fucking reasons. They already did this with "retro digital" cameras by spending a fuckton on old cameras with tiny garbage CCD sensors for the "vintage retro" look. Or they went film but decided to buy up all the decent film stock to use with intentionally shitty lenses meant to replicate the $0.05 lenses in disposable film cameras. They obsessively buy vinyl records but don't own turntables and in turn clog up the presses for releases because they *need* the latest taylor swift / charli xcx RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE VARIANT #85 release. A faustian bargain if ever I saw one.

>>106010339 (OP)
>posting an article from August 2024
two more weeks

>>106010339 (OP)
It's a funny trend I've noticed that zoomers will take something that's been around forever, slap a new name on it, and say they came up with it. One recently was "micro retirements". It's where every 12 month, you take 2 weeks off from your job (or quit?) to decompress and reset your life. Sounds a lot like a vacation?

>>106010339 (OP)
I started using wired again just because not dealing with batteries is worth it, you get a solid 1.5- MAYBE 2 years worth of usable battery life before you have to charge them constantly, and they are designed in such a way that even if you have the skills and tools necessary to change out a battery in other devices, modern wireless earbuds aren’t really designed to be opened without mangling the fuck out of them, aftermarket batteries suck for them, etc.

I’ve gone through 4 pairs of AirPod Gen 2’s since they were released because they fit my ear shape PERFECTLY but now that apple stopped making them and it’s a pain to change batteries I just brought out my wired Sonys.

>>106010404
Vinyl was a millennial thing, zoomers unironically think CD’s are retro and now they are doing that on TikTok and Reddit, it’s obviously the superior physical format so I’ll give that to them it’s based

>>106010455
Vinyl Alliance says Gen-Z is now the 'driving force' behind the format's popularity
>https://www.musicweek.com/labels/read/vinyl-alliance-says-gen-z-is-now-the-driving-force-behind-the-format-s-popularity/091294
Why Gen-Z loves vinyl
>https://ctmirror.org/2025/06/17/why-gen-z-loves-vinyl/
From Polaroid to vinyl, Gen Z is making retro tech one of 2025’s biggest trends: ‘These things just have more value’
>https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/15/from-polaroid-to-vinyl-gen-z-is-embracing-retro-tech.html

>>106010339 (OP)
I'm thinking of getting those. I have a Samsung phone without an audio jack.

>>106010455
>can't afford a new pair of headphones every 2 years
stop being poor

>>106010426
>2 week vacation a year
waging in the usa really sounds worse than being a feudal slave

>>106010513
They literally don’t make them anymore retard, are you an esp nigger incapable of reading?
>>106010480
>Citing “journalists”
ok lol, ask a millennial what they think of vinyl vs a zoomer

>>106010404
Fuck it, at least they appreciate the superior aesthetics of early digital tech as opposed to the flat soulless iPad shit millennials lapped up for two decades

>>106010455
>you get a solid 1.5- MAYBE 2 years worth of usable battery life
if you're a retard nigger maybe.

>>106010588
>implying Americans only take a single vacation
Depends on the job and how many vacation days you get. But people typically take a few 3-4 day vacations in addition throughout the year, usually aligned with major holidays like 4th of July, Memorial Day. And a chunk of time off around Christmas and New Year that doesn't really get categorized as vacation. Not like the euro style where people all wander around the same places at the same time for 4 weeks in summer. Wagies here are fucked though yes

>>106010455
my airpod pro gen 2 are two years old and still get me 8 hours of uninterrupted listening. a 10 minute charging break gives me a couple hours more
>>106010749
esto

>>106010339 (OP)
Wired headphones are objectively better than wireless headphones in all possible metrics except for the metric of not being wired, which has value, but isn't worth the tradeoffs for most people. The wireless earbuds craze is a trend that will die.

>>106010339 (OP)

their cables havent worn down yet where the music cuts off and they have to fiddle with it just to get the audio to come out

they have to buy new ones every few months

wireless headphones are here to stay
gen z like disposable trends that have no lasting value
it's all for show

>>106011062
shut up nerd

>>106010339 (OP)
As a millennial, I still use wired headphones. The only time I wireless earbuds is because I want to listen to audio but don’t want to place my phone in harms way while working on my truck and it also helps not needing to deal with the wire/cord getting in the way.

>>106011716
>shut up nerd
No. Fuck you radiocel. Copper for life.

>>106011716
you're based

>>106011774
>The only time
so basically any time you're not at your computer. got it. same here.

>>106011794
Eh, sometimes.
I have some koss porta pros and wear them when I want over the ear headphones and not deal with my wireless iem.

>>106010805
We take 30-60 days a year in addition to several national holidays which don't count as vacations. We're currently at war btw.

>>106010339 (OP)
nigga I've always been using wired earphones, stop trying to earn retarded clout points

>>106012143
Okay

>>106010339 (OP)
"Old this that I grew up with is based. The new stuff is all shit"

>THIS JUST IN: ZOOMERS LIKE OLD THING TOO

"OMG that old shit is shit why are zoomers so redarted?

Yeh us millennials are going down as the worst generation in history.

>financially crippled from crash after crash
>entire retirement plan consists of praying for our boomer parents to leave us something
>knowing our kids are totally fucked
>just old enough to remember when the world wasn't complete shit
>but not old enough to benefit from it
>bitter and rotten to the core because of it all

Yeh we are totally fucking cooked. All the comeupits we wished on boomers will happen to us while they die completely oblivious in luxury. We are going to be remembered as the most bitter and impotent generation in history.

If anything, this just means:
A) Zooms are too dumb to pair bt devices
B) Are too fucking poor to afford TWH and TWE
Im going for both


But, does that also mean we are getting "Wireless Internet Cable" back?

>>106012567
Wireless is simply better outside your home. I still use wired headphones when I'm at my pc btw

>>106010588
Depends on the job. I get 25 days of PTO, 10 federal holidays, 6 sick days, and I WFH 365 days a year with a boss who does not give a shit if I disappear around 2 pm. It's annoying that it's all split up into tiny little buckets but I'll take what I can get.

My previous role was 25 days of PTO, 10 sick days, 7 federal holidays, and WFH 1 day a week.

Below that, you have jobs that accrue PTO at a shitty rate, commonly about 3.33 hours per paycheck (comes out to about 80/year). Below *that* you have retard-tier minimum wage jobs that pay out truly abominable rates of 0.5 hours per paycheck *after* working 6 months.

>>106012702
Wired at home + wireless when outside master race.

>>106010358
i've been using wired for years, i'm just tired of jewish hardware designed to break and make you buy a new one rather than just work. i want reliability, open standards and HONEST design without dark patterns.

>>106010426
we're not millennial niggers that gentrify previously affordable pastimes and food like thrifting then make it a 20x more expensive soulless version of it.

>>106012831
>we're not millennial niggers that gentrify previously affordable pastimes
Only because you faggots are too poor to do it yet. Give it time, you'll ruin things for yourselves just like every other generation. Pretending you're uniquely exempt from immutable problems is classic youthful folly.

>>106011774
i switched from wired IEMs to wireless ANC headset just because the IEMs were fucking my ear canals up.

>>106012567
at least you got to grow up with nice neighborhoods, have active youth without them being glued to screens, dirt bikes, easy sex and dating with alt chicks, no immigrants fucking up your nice countries and with just the right amount of technology which was built to last and respected you unlike today's.

>>106010588
>waging in the usa really sounds worse than being a feudal slave

My first job was working at a fast food breakfast place, I just checked what their benefits are now (20 years later...) and it's astounding how bad they are.

>Non-Exempt Store Team members do not begin to accrue PTO until 2 years of service. Non-Exempt Store Team members with 2 years of service or more accrue 1 hour of PTO per 30 hours worked. PTO is capped at 48 hours.

Imagine looking forward to your 2 year employment anniversary so that you can *begin* accruing PTO at a retardedly-low rate.

>>106012567
>old: actual headphones (wired)
>new: earbuds (wired)

>>106010339 (OP)
>Can we finally agree that millennials are the worst generation?
Yes, and I'm happy to see that they're already being treated as the new boomers.
>t. gen x

>>106010339 (OP)
Only NPCs ever switched, don't know anyone with wireless ones, only see zoomers and thirdies with them

>>106010339 (OP)
>b-but the battery life
>b-but the latency
>b-but the audio compression
>b-but the reliability

don't care don't care don't care, zoomers can go kill themselves I'm not going back to having a wire all over my body while listening to music

>>106012831
Other anon already summed it up, but your gen mobs into whatever is trending on TikTok this week. Just imagine how bad it's going to get once you guys are mid/late career and have real incomes. Like locusts. You can say millennials are retarded gentrifiers and I won't bother to argue with that, but your guys' lives are completely dictated by an algorithm. I dont have any ill will typing this out, it's just the reality of things my man

>>106010339 (OP)
Are those cheap wired sennheiser better than the m2 iebt (hd1) wireless neckband sennys? Anyone have the relevant data?

>>106010588
It is, read voices if slavery 100 spave narratives. Their lives were practically paradise

>>106015557

>>106011775
>Copper for life.
he doesn't use golden monster cables lul
have fun listening to STATIC lmaoooooooooo

>>106012878
>at least you got to grow up with nice neighborhoods, have active youth without them being glued to screens, dirt bikes, easy sex and dating with alt chicks, no immigrants fucking up your nice countries and with just the right amount of technology which was built to last and respected you unlike today's.
NTA but mostly true except for the immigrant part since I'm in Canada. But back then it actually pretty chill and still high trust and no real issues from that to speak of wrt to jobs or anything.
Front doors, cars etc were left unlocked.
Spent all day in the summer outside.
People left doors open with screendoors, you could just walk into your friends house in most cases to see what was up.
Internet was amazing in the 90s and truly something special.
Things are very different now for sure.
Shit does suck now and everything is fucked up in various ways. But I'm glad I got to experience the tail end of a western golden age, at least.

>>106016005
TOTAL AUDIOPHILE DEATH

>>106010339 (OP)
Yep, that's it: we are finally switching to Bluetooth. We HAVE to be contrarian.

>choice of cheap plentiful and powerful usb-c DACs vs the 15c chinky sound chip the manufacturer gives you

>>106010339 (OP)
>>106010358
It's not nostalgia, older tech is just genuinely better. There's a certain spirit to it, a sovl if you will. A millenial journalist cannot grasp the concept thoughever.
We do not wish to "go back", but to carry the flame of revolution into the 21st century. Not to copy the designs of our predecessors, but to continue on in their spirit.

>>106016893
You write like a faggot.

Wired Grados was the best i've ever had, but admittedly too much sound leak in and out. And 100% of my wired stuff wears at the end where it meets the phone. It starts with that cutting-out one speaker each step, and that's worse than nothing at all.

But, I find bluetooth devices cut-out frequently in cities, especially around cars and intersections. So I get packs of 5 wired earbuds for $5 total. One set of earbuds lasts maybe 6 months then onto the next. I've come to invest in the portable speakers I have at home and work.

not just for aesthetic reason, i'm pretty sure all the electromagnetic fields produced by wireless headphones is not good for your brain

>>106010497
You can just get a dongle or a type c cable.

>>106010339 (OP)
I do not miss the annoying fucking wire that tangles and gets stuck everywhere!

I use wired for better audio quality, wireless sounds like ass.

>>106010371
>style
>on /g/
like dog already give up

>>106010426
The biggest problem with the zoomer content is that it's MOSTLY lazy content. So they will say something like "all of the x cameras are D tier". but they literally never ran a roll through even one of them (let alone all of them).

>>106010339 (OP)
Lol, yeah the generation who actually liked having a headphone jack ruined everything, sure

>>106017571
you mean this?

>>106010339 (OP)
>tiktok
>vtubers
>endless e-whores
>retarded social trends
>highest male sexlessness
>microsecond attention spans
>shallow slop games and gachacancer
>can't understand file systems because you grew up on smartphones
>can't even produce a list of reasons like this
nah, it's still you

>>106010601
You’re wrong, you’re only going to confirm you’re not White if you keep this up lol.

>>106016885
>thread about headphones
>how can I twist this to talk about ewaste dacs?!?!?

EMBRVCE EVR DILDO

>>106020398
frfr

>>106017453
bro doesn't read chudvola

>>106010339 (OP)
That's just cause they're unable to get jobs so they can't afford anything but the cheapest option.

>>106011716
>it's all for show
it's because they don't have money

>>106016893
i was going to say "trvth" but you're probably a zoomnigger that doesn't know anything about old tech

>>106010455
I used AirPods, cheap plastic things broke after a few accidental drops. They can’t stay on due to sweat.
Yeah no I’m sticking to wired for a while

>Vinyl was a millennial thing, zoomers unironically think CD’s are retro
I thought it was cassettes not CDs. That sucks

>>106010339 (OP)
>It's Millennials fault!
Millennials are the last generation to experience the soul of analogue technology but they are also amongst the first to be at the forefront of the wireless age. I wouldn't put the blame on them. The adaptation to wireless tech is just another evolution in the demand for conveniency that began with the iPod.

I can imagine it's mostly millennials who are keeping music ownership alive through the advent of private music BitTorrent sites ensuring lossless music is preserved in archival grade format through use of programs like EAC, without which you wouldn't even enjoy the sound quality provided by traditional wired earphones/headphones.

>>106010339 (OP)
I am a zoomer and I still use wired headphones. I refuse to buy audio devices that do not have the audio jack. Not all of us are bluetooth niggercattle, you know.

>>106010339 (OP)
I've never seen a zoomer using wired headphones. The only people I see wearing them are millennial age or older.

>>106022588
>I used AirPods, cheap plastic things broke after a few accidental drops
You are the unluckiest retard in the world or a lying nigger. I've dropped my airpods countless times and they've never received any sort of damage. Each airpod weighs 4 grams, do you have any idea how hard you'd have to slingshot that shit at the ground to impart enough force to damage it?

It's always the same with you retard fucks. "I used to have {thing} but it completely self-destructed after a week, no fault of my own!" I don't think there's a single wireless headphone on the market (outside of chink shit) that couldn't survive a drop.

>>106023110
>the advent of private music BitTorrent sites ensuring lossless music is preserved in archival grade format
psst anon there's a much better way to do this. Get a tidal downloader program, sign up for a trial account, download everything you want in flac on demand. It's awesome.

>>106023626
I guess I’m pretty fucking unlucky then.
It’s strange though, my generation 1 Beats earbuds work fine and they were dropped as well, but they lasted longer than the AirPods. The only thing that broke from the Beats, were the volume/mic buttons, that’s it.

>>106018377
all of these are the products of millennial engineers maximizing retention

>>106023753
>I’m pretty fucking unlucky then.
it's not luck it's just obvious that you're a liar

>>106012776
What if you get sick for more than 6 days?

>>106010339 (OP)
they are cheaper, easily replaceable, they don't have a battery and they are hard to lose

I just wish phones still had the fucking 80 cent sd card and 3.5mm connectors
>>106010404
don't project retard behavior on zoomers

I don't think zoomers aren't bringin back anything. They're fucked in the head and can't be saved.
But yea, wired is cool I guess

>>106018377
>tiktok
caused by millennial social media engineers and chinese
>vtubers
caused by millennial social media engineers and chinese
>endless e-whores
millennial were big on sexual liberation before I could even write my own name and yes they taught that shit to the girls in school
>retarded social trends
such as?
>highest male sexlessness
social media + economy, neither of which are zoomers fault
>microsecond attention spans
retards have always had short attention spans, but again, who built social media and who put the fluoride in the water? who contaminated the oceans with plastic? who tried to get meat banned from school meals?
>shallow slop games and gachacancer
I agree, they fucking suck, but normie cattle are addicted and that's profitable
I am stuck with older games
>can't understand file systems because you grew up on smartphones
normie cattle problem - back in the day people thought the pc case was the harddrive, among other funny believes
so not much has changed
>can't even produce a list of reasons like this
fuck you

>>106024342
The right earbud on the AirPod is broken. The left works just fine. Both batteries are fine. It’s just that the sound doesn’t play on the right ear. Plus, the shell of the right side came off after it slipped off my ear and hit the floor.

Tapping it causes it to work again, but only for a second. I just went back to my old beats cause I am not dealing with that.

Maybe it’s a bootleg repackaged as an official version? I don’t know.

Strangely enough I had two gen 1 beats and only one failed after a few months. Battery died and couldn’t be recharged, but the one I have now works fine.

My conclusion is that, I got faulty airpods. Not buying them again cause of the discomfort after 30 minutes of use and it slipping off if you slightly sweat

>>106024394
Varies based on employer. I have a couple of options. Convoluted and retarded but:

>Option 1:
Use PTO as sick time, take unpaid time off when sick, or have a chill manager who looks the other way while you do the bare minimum 1-2 hours of work a week.

>Option 2:
Short-term disability (intended for prolonged medical needs, such as a surgery + recovery)
>If you become ill or suffer an injury that prevents you from working, short-term disability insurance replaces a portion of your income for a defined maximum period of time. Plan details:
>-Beginning on the 1st day of continuous injury or the 8th day of illness, eligible employees will receive 75% of their weekly earnings for up to 26 weeks.

>Option 3:
Long-term disability
>Long-term disability insurance covers injuries and illnesses that keep you out of work for three months or longer. Plan details:
>-Beginning after 180 days of continuous injury or illness, eligible employees will receive 60% of their monthly earnings for a maximum of $10,000 per month.

>>106010371
Haha I had the same thing with jquery. "One day I should try jQuery... Oh it's obsolete already."

>>106024598
>who put the fluoride in the water
lol nigga I was with you until you said this. Only schizos and troons think that the miniscule amount of flouride in the water (which is naturally occurring in all water sources) is responsible for this shit. Absolute brainlet shit.

>>106024781
>naturally occurring
they add fluoride to the water in the USA retard (they don't do this in most other countries by the way, strange!)
too much fluoride can absolutely be bad for your health especially your pineal gland

>>106023644
Just so you know, Tidal ‘HiFi’ is not lossless. It just streams the MQA version of tracks with some metadata removed to prevent most DACs from recognizing it as MQA and limits streaming to 16 bit. I usually only trust physical media sources ripped with EAC as lossless, or pretty much anything verifiable from Redacted.

As a zoomer, i have stopped using earphones or headphones, i own a house and i have several sets of speakers.

>>106024781
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2828425
I searched for "fluoride IQ" on duckduckgo.
This was the very first fucking link. A government study proving that fluoridated water causes IQ loss.
Keep flaming zoomers, retard.

>>106024598
>caused by millennial social media engineers and chinese
Gen X company
>caused by millennial social media engineers and chinese
Managed by Gen X firms
>millennial were big on sexual liberation before I could even write my own name and yes they taught that shit to the girls in school
No, we were taught about STDs and safe sex in school, not about how evil men are and how getting turned out by a group of thugs is liberating and feminist.
>such as?
Go eat some more tide pods skibidi ohio rizzler sigma roblox minecraft yassified zesty
>social media + economy, neither of which are zoomers fault
And social media was built by Gen X while the economy was ruined by boomers.
>microsecond attention spans
Nobody at my school needed subway surfers to pay attention to the lecture.
> social media
Gen X
>who put the fluoride in the water
boomers
>who contaminated the oceans with plastic?
boomers, chinks and indians
>who tried to get meat banned from school meals?
This never happened, but if this is a Michelle Obama reference, then once again A BOOMER
>normie cattle problem
cope
>fuck you
seething

Stop blaming things done by your Gen X parents and Boomer grandparents on Millenialgods

>>106026693
Of 74 studies included (64 cross-sectional and 10 cohort studies), most were conducted in China (n=45); other locations included Canada (n=3), Denmark (n=1), India (n=12), Iran (n=4), Mexico (n=4), New Zealand (n=1), Pakistan (n=2), Spain (n=1), and Taiwan (n=1). Fifty-two studies were rated high risk of bias
>most were conducted in China (n=45)
>India (n=12), Iran (n=4), Mexico (n=4), Pakistan (n=2), Taiwan (n=1)
>Fifty-two studies were rated high risk of bias
into the trash it goes

>>106010339 (OP)
>millennials
Greedy kikes are millennials?

>>106011774
Nice headphone collection lad

>>106018185
Surprise surprise these things have shit quality control and measure all over the place even in the same batch

>>106023110
It's a cope for zoomers about millenials that like to trash talk us. For older zoomers it's our first "things are changing and I don't like it, who else can we blame?" for the younger ones it's "what the fuck I missed a period of time when tech was cool and actually worked".
Combine this with "THE ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE OF ROTATING A PDF DIES WITH US" attitude of millenials and you get "It's the millenials fault!"

>>106027110
ik it's really the fault of kikes, jeets and monopolies tho

>>106025396
>they don't do this in most other countries by the way
They do in the civilised ones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country

>>106026960
Fluoride deficiency makes you dumber you should go eat some more fluoride to keep those brain cells healthy and happy
What ever you do don’t research what receptors fluoride competes with in the body and the long term effects of blocking those does. Science is a conspiracy to make you dumber.

>>106027163
Asia is swimming in fluoride there is zero reason to add it to anything over there and many reasons to try and remove it from your body over there considering how much exposure there is

>>106027169
>posts faulty study with 52 biased sources
>vast majority of the studies were in places with terrible environmental records, retarded people and completely laced with shit like heavy metal poisoning due to no worker protections and terrible construction and manufacturing
>gets called out
>*spergs*
okay

>>106027198
Why should I give a fuck about asia?

>>106027206
>doesn’t do even cursory research on metabolisms and how your body functions
Go eat your fluoride pills timmy remember to add some bromine that our food supply is swimming in while you’re at it (nigger)

>>106027246
Because it’s swimming in fluoride and it has terrible health effects it’s one reason to never buy anything grown in Asia

>>106027251
Keep sperging dude

>>106027271
No u LOL
Don’t you have coloring books to go play with adults are talking here

>>106027163
>only the USA, Australia, Ireland and a few other shitholes poison at least 60% of their citizens
yeah seems about right

>>106027283
Me reiterating the exact same thing I said previously is not "no u".
Please continue your Duolingo lessons to improve your English comprehension.

>>106027265
>Because it’s swimming in fluoride
Again, why should I give a shit? What has asia got to do with the artificial fluoridation of water supplies that don't contain large amounts of naturally-occuring fluoride?

>>106027300
What would you consider a "non-shithole" country?

>>106010339 (OP)
I still use wired headphones and don’t plan on switching. Wireless was always a gay zoomer trend.

>Bluetooth headphones emit low levels of non-ionizing radiation, which is generally considered safe for humans. Current evidence suggests that they do not pose a significant health risk, including cancer.
20 years from now research will be released suggesting a significant increase to brain cancer from BT headphones.

Take the wiredpill /g/, I just got a pair of Koss Porta Pros, fantastic so far.

>>106010371
It means you’re not a npc obsessed with trend following.

>>106027457
Retards in the 90s were certain that sitting too close to a TV would cause blindness despite obvious evidence to the contrary. Same as those fucking dummies who were convinced cell phones would sterilize your sperm (it's in your pocket ALL DAY!)
How's your fitness anon? Because if you’re fat as fuck (and I mean cmon) then it'll be the cardiac problems that do you in before the spoopy radiation.

The only rational reason you'd want wired shit is for low latency sound while gaming
Otherwise that fucking wire is incredibly annoying especially on the move