Since there's so much depressing stuff going on right now I thought it might be fun for everyone to sperg about audio for awhile. I'm very much in the market for upgrading my audio at some point, I don't know if it would be worth doing a speaker setup of some kind.
You might find this funny but I'm having to remember that yes I am living on my own now and I can do stupid shit like this. My only issue of course is that I often tend to game and relax at night, so it would probably pay off more to get some kind of really good quality wireless headphones.
I have a decent pair now, but they're cheapos and they often break because they're made from the crappiest plastic ever. At some point I want to get myself something nice and long lasting to have that premium sound experience. I wouldn't mind doing some gaming and such or testing my own audio on a speaker system too.
I'm veering towards maybe Logitech and Sennheiser brands generally.
I swear by wires.
I have these headphones that are also OSHA-approved hearing protection I use when I'm doing yard-work, and when you're playing music of even moderate volume through them you can't really hear much else. When I used to travel for work I'd bring them on flights. They also have a 2.5mm jack instead of an integrated cable, so if/when the cable wears out I just buy another male/male cable and everything's good as new.
Love those things.
I totally get the argument for wired, I love the freedom of wireless though, as I've mentioned I'm a 90's kid, so honestly I'm not that fussed about audio quality as long as it's fairly clear. I do wonder though with my setup whether or not I should get an extremely long wire and then that should solve any problems with wired and then I can have the headphones running endlessly. Since I'm somebody who listens to music tons while I research code and everything it can be sometimes easy to run out of battery power which will be another reason why the wireless headphones are probably dying just because of heavy use.
That may be a setup I should think about, I know there's USB adaptors and such that do that, it shouldn't lead to any loss in quality if it's in the same room. I wonder if I shouldn't post it up because I'm quite pleased with what I have now lulz. What I've done is I've got my standard desktop setup and then I drilled a wall monitor mount at the foot of my bed as a second monitor for watching whatever I want. If I god forbid ever want to use a controller, the wire is long enough that I can game on my bed in total comfort. I'm very much a PC gamer though and I like my RTS and simulations.
Yeah, definitely maybe going to look at extending wired as a compromise. So perhaps I'll go for an amazing set of Sennheiser's and a USB extender of some kind.
Edit: As it turns out, yes there are plenty of USB extenders available, hurray! So that's something to consider.