I lived a year without jack and I do not want to go back

brow10 (39)in #technology • 7 years ago

It's been a year since the jack disappeared from my daily life and in the conditions of use of a smartphone, I will not come back for anything in the world.

Since the iPhone 7 released in 2016, the phenomenon is the source of all discords and all statements: [insert here the name of a smartphone] he will come out with a jack?

Apple made a posture at the exit of his jet black smartphone and stretched the stick to be trolled with his famous it takes courage, taken thousands of times to laugh drastic changes on a technological object or another.

Since then, the quarrel between the old and the new has not ceased. The existence of the small round socket becomes an argument, a hobbyhorse, as could be the respect of the data of the user or the promise of a production more respectful of the environment and humanity. The port jack crystallizes a fight that everyone understands.

The arguments against his disappearance are far from being null and void.

They can be summarized as follows:

The absence of a jack makes it necessary to buy USB-C or Lightning compatible hardware or to use an adapter.

The absence of a jack makes you lose the quality of global listening.

The lack of jack requires higher latency.

A year ago, Apple forced me to abandon the jack on its annual smartphone. At Christmas 2016, I asked for my first high-end Bluetooth headset, the Bose QC35 with active noise reduction. Today, it's been a year that I use this device on my different smartphones and I have not once wanted to return to the era of cables.

BREAKING THE HI-FI CHAIN

All the arguments of the defenders of the jack are good, but grouped, they unfortunately miss the reconstruction of multimedia consumption today - especially around audio and video streaming services. Indeed, if we do not want to use the jack adapter to Lightning Apple for example, which is still very good according to Qobuz tests, you need to invest in a Bluetooth headset. The advanced models are still expensive, not to mention the Bluetooth headset market that is at best stammering - nothing comes to the ankle of the Apple AirPods use level, but for a sacrifice side sound that few music lovers are ready to do.

Cela dit, ce serait malhonnête d’affirmer que des écouteurs sont des produits qui ont un long cycle de vie. Autour de moi, difficile de trouver quelqu’un qui ne casse pas les siens en moins de 3 mois. Racheter du matériel audio nomade parce qu’il n’est pas solide (ou que les utilisateurs ne sont pas prudents) est une habitude et ce ne sont pas les casques Bluetooth ou les écouteurs USB-C qui vont y changer quelque chose.

On the other hand, my experience with the QC35 has proven me many times its strength: it has survived falls, rain, cold and heat without the slightest trace of wear. Side taken, it's even more true: the iPod I used younger, the port jack was the first weakness of the hardware. I still remember the pieces of aluminum to wrap around the headphone jacks for contacts to be made. With a Bluetooth headset, the wear of the Lightning / USB-C plug is almost zero: it is only used when recharging, a priori quiet, on a desk or a night table.

THE JACK WILL VIVRA WHERE IT MAKES THE REALITY THE DIFFERENCE

As for the quality, I would be lying if I said that I perceived a flagrant difference, in the Paris metro, in a train or in the writing between a listening from a smartphone to jack or on my helmet.

The fact is that with services like Apple Music or Spotify that compress the songs anyway, the hi-fi channel is broken no matter what.

Whether we can see a difference between a Hi-Fi headphone attached to an amplifier itself connected to a Qobuz broadcast system or lossless songs and a Bluetooth headset, even high-end, I want to hear it. However, if you use a streaming service, a smartphone whose manufacturer has not invested in a good DAC (LG has a good on his V30) and headphones or headphones, the difference is probably placebo .

As for latency, difficult to find mobile applications for the general public that will be unusable because of the imperceptible rise.

Music professionals who mix in real time may have to repeat, but it would surprise us that they do not have equipment adhoc for their profession.

7 years ago in #technology by brow10 (39)

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