Is a headphone jack essential to you or just something you like complaining about?

jpaul said:
but doesn't audio quality matter more than lag - no issue for plain music, and don't most video players have mechanism for delaying video (not utube ? but its sound is 128Kbs/poor)
... I'm assuming the bose would take a poorer quality/lower bandwidth audio codec too, (sbc) if you want lower latency.
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It depends what you want to use them for. I wanted them for everything. You just couldn't watch TV with them... it was terrible.
 
Main use for my phone, by far, is podcasts. I have bluetooth headphones at the moment because the darned headphone socket wore out after about 18 months. It means the phone thinks the headphones are in, so the speaker doesn't work. Not the end of the world, but a regular inconvenience.

Not as much of an inconvenience as remembering to charge the darned bluetooth headphones every day though! The list of things to plug in every night is getting on my electroteats.

I only buy £100-ish phones, but I'd pay a small premium for one with an 'indestructible' headphone jack. Can't be impossible... extra bracing around the solder, smidge of high grade alloy for the plug socket instead of a bargain basement alloy of foil, peanut butter and wishful thinking.
 
Almost essential to me. I only watch tv and listen to podcasts on my phone, so high fidelity is not required - I use sub-£20 in-ear headphones. I don't want to spend £100+ on decent bluetooth headphones, and the cheap ones are terrible.

My car is old, and the radio takes a mini jack in - I know BT mini jack receivers are available, but then I have to keep charging them - same for headphones, I don't want to have to **** about with charging too many devices.

I could work around it without, but I'd be ****** off about it. The benefit of no wire is minimal to me, as I basically never listen on the move, the drawbacks are irritating.

Suspect I might have to accept the inevitable at some stage, but am hoping the fashion for no mini-jack reverses before then.
 
I haven't yet had a phone without one, but if they were removed I'd get used to either wireless or using an adapter, but then I am no audiophile. I would think if you are though you probably wouldn't prioritise listening on a phone anyway, but who knows!
 
Would certainly be nice to have, but not a deal breaker.

Both of my main headphones are wireless now. Anker Soundsurge for general day to day use, B&W P7 for home use and travelling. The former are good for the money but short battery life and they do drop out now and again. The latter are just excellent headphones regardless of wireless or not.

Always makes me laugh when I watch YT vids where they bang on about the lack of sound quality from bluetooth while they cry over their headphone jacks, while forgetting the majority have rubbish amps/dacs anyway, and they’re listening through sub £50 earbuds in a loud environment. Yeah, that’s really going to let you hear the superiority of a wired setup innit :D

So yeah, ultimately, I am a little annoyed they’re all getting rid of them but lets not kid ourselves that these were hifi grade pieces of equipment we’re losing out on either....
 
My use case has nothing to do with audio quality difference between the two, simple convenience of something that works without the need for charging anything. Over 95% of the time I'm using earphones and not larger over ear headphones so just something small that I can throw in my pocket, bag, jeans, etc.

Dongles haven't worked well for me for me, for once I need to disconnect it when I'm switching to my laptop and I've actually lost one within a week as it somehow disconnected itself from my earphones and I'm not the kind of person who loses things. Replacement dongle was already starting to look flimsy after a week of use. Also since I use headphones a lot, not sure how I feel using my USB C port so many times a day.

It's easy saying something like, "don't worry about it since getting Sony WF-1000XM3", those things are over £200. In fact a lot of well reviewed headphones are well over £100 mark. Tried some cheaper ones and they sounded pretty garbage, hell first gen of Apple ones were also pretty rubbish, which probably had more to do with just having poor sound rather than the Bluetooth aspect. There's also the issue of how the battery life will hold up after few years of heavy use.

All this when you can buy very competent wired earphones like Soundmagic E10 from £30. Again though, I've accepted the fact that I will more than likely have to shell out a premium for some quality earphones after my next phone upgrade as I doubt we'll have much choice at all, now that Samsung are dropping it across the board on their flagships. LG at a push will keep it but it's a pretty niche phone now compared to the big boys.

There is a possible solution with bluetooth receivers like Fiio BTR3 but it feels like a neither here nor there interim solution.
 
I use some £15 Sony earbuds, have one at work, one at home.
No way am I spending big money on good headphones so some greedy corporation can remove a headphone jack.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Last thing I need in my life is more crap that needs recharging every night, like wireless headphones.
At this rate, with all teh fitbits and smartwatches and wireless bluetooth everythings, I'll need twenty charging sockets before I can even get out of bed...!!
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wireless headphones shouldn’t need recharging every night. A decent pair should have 20+ hours of battery life from the batteries in the headphones themselves and the case. That should last you a couple of weeks between charges.
 
mrochester said:
wireless headphones shouldn’t need recharging every night. A decent pair should have 20+ hours of battery life from the batteries in the headphones themselves and the case. That should last you a couple of weeks between charges.
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Depends what you are doing - if I've got a few days where I'm spending a few hours doing a repetitive task at work and want to listen to music to make it a bit less monotonous I can easily get through the realistic battery life of something like that in a couple of days max. Albeit that isn't something I do on a regular basis.
 
Rroff said:
Depends what you are doing - if I've got a few days where I'm spending a few hours doing a repetitive task at work and want to listen to music to make it a bit less monotonous I can easily get through the realistic battery life of something like that in a couple of days max. Albeit that isn't something I do on a regular basis.
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you can charge the headphone case at your desk then too.
 
mrochester said:
well if you don’t use them there’s no need to worry about charging them!
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I think you are misunderstanding what I was saying. If I'm using my phone for music while doing a repetitive task it is probably because I'm not at my desk and working elsewhere.
 
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