[NationalPark]

Same boat here. I've already spent thousands of dollars on fancy audiophile stuff. Can you guess what I use to listen to music most? My Airpods, because everything about them is so damn convenient. Can't wait to get these, even if they don't sound quite as good as the ideal set.

[bitcharmer]

I'm not an audiophile myself, but if you yourself claim to be one and then state you settled for Airpods something here rings very untrue.

[NationalPark]

Maybe I'm not as discerning as some but I grew up with music and a lot of hands on experience listening, writing, and producing it, including some professional training. I dunno, I guess for me, the bluetooth experience + noise cancelling + transparency + phone integration all just adds up to being worth more than the marginal quality improvement from the prosumer alternatives people have been mentioning.

After all, anyone who really cares about audio quality is listening on monitors in their sound isolated home studio /s

[petre]

Audiophile and Bluetooth is a contradiction in terms.

[jordache]

>Audiophile and Bluetooth is a contradiction in terms.

Not true.

Yes, bluetooth compression puts a ceiling on audio quality. However, the majority of sound output devices are so crappy that they don't even exercise the full bluetooh potential.

So if you couple quality sound output system with a bluetooh source, they can still sound much better than bluetooth + crappy headphone + crappy speakers.

[bitcharmer]

Yes, that's the first thing that struck me in their comment. It just doesn't sound genuine.

[NationalPark]

Ah you got me, I'm a paid Apple shill, here to spread lies. When I woke up this morning, all I could think of was fooling hackernews user bitcharmer, but it seems I have failed, probably due to your exceptional intellect and commitment to talking about products you hate.

Could it possibly be that I'm actually just a rich guy who owns both fancy audiophile equipment and fancy Apple products, and happens to have his own opinions about them? Is such a thing even legal?

[bitcharmer]

Why the snark? We're just calling out the obvious inconsistency.

[NationalPark]

You called me ingenuine after you misread my comment and assumed I didn't understand the fidelity implications of audio over bluetooth. In fact, there is no inconsistency, I simply prefer convenience to marginal quality improvements.

(Actually, I prefer live performances to chasing after audio quality, which I think is really more of a gear-geek hobby than a musical one)

[bhandziuk]

Spending money on "fancy audiophile stuff" isn't necessarily the same as being an audiophile.