<story><title>Fairbuds: In-ear with replaceable batteries</title><url>https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zer00eyz</author><text>Please can we get jacks back.&lt;p&gt;The audio quality on these battery powered blue tooth headphones is fucking awful. IM not a purist by any stretch, but a decent pair of head phones is a whole other world of music vs anything AirPods like.</text></item><item><author>ponorin</author><text>So they finally seemed to have come up with their original design after 3 years of selling non-repairable TWS earbuds, great. I genuinely appreciate that they are trying to give users more sustainable options. Perhaps they can walk back the decision to remove the headphone jack as well so that people can use wired headphones directly which doesn&amp;#x27;t use battery in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zeta0134</author><text>I recently fell off of team 3.5mm-jack when I discovered USB-C headphones! These include their own DAC and that means they have the potential to be *much* less noisy than the usually cost-reduced DAC included in the handset. Plus this way I can splurge for one decent set of headphones and get the same mix on all my devices, which is good for composing.&lt;p&gt;So, the 3.5mm jack can die. I&amp;#x27;m now on team &amp;quot;dual USB ports&amp;quot; to solve the charging-while-listening issue. Let&amp;#x27;s go team!</text></comment>
<story><title>Fairbuds: In-ear with replaceable batteries</title><url>https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zer00eyz</author><text>Please can we get jacks back.&lt;p&gt;The audio quality on these battery powered blue tooth headphones is fucking awful. IM not a purist by any stretch, but a decent pair of head phones is a whole other world of music vs anything AirPods like.</text></item><item><author>ponorin</author><text>So they finally seemed to have come up with their original design after 3 years of selling non-repairable TWS earbuds, great. I genuinely appreciate that they are trying to give users more sustainable options. Perhaps they can walk back the decision to remove the headphone jack as well so that people can use wired headphones directly which doesn&amp;#x27;t use battery in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mo3</author><text>Hm. I have Sennheiser and Bose Bluetooth headphones and found AAC and AptX HD codecs on highest quality settings (on Android in dev tools) to be really good and almost indistinguishable from wired connections.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t call myself an audiophile, but my hearing is pretty good and I&amp;#x27;m sensitive to quality loss</text></comment>