• lichtmetzger@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    At least their bigger WH models (and the MDR1000X) have replaceable batteries. Sony just tends to stop manufacturing those very quickly, but there are 3rd party ones.

    The biggest gripe I have with Sony is their ear pads. They are just so fucking expensive. I wear mine every day because I live in a very noisy neighborhood. The pads are no good anymore after a year or so.

    New pads for the WH1000XM5 cost over hundred dollars, last I checked. And they only had black ones available which is really nice when you bought the white model…

    Added to that, most of the functionality depends on an app only available for Android and iOS. Have fun trying to adjust your equalizer settings when you’re sitting at a PC.

    Also…why can’t I use the most expensive and latest Sony headphone with a Sony PS5? I don’t get it. They want you to buy a different Sony headset if you want to use Bluetooth with the PS5 which is just stupid.

    If it wasn’t for their excellent noise cancelling, I wouldn’t buy these things anymore.

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      11 months ago

      You can’t use the expensive Sony Bluetooth headphones with the ps5 because Sony didn’t enable Bluetooth headphones support at all citing latency issues. The different Sony headset is using WiFi instead of Bluetooth and it only works with that

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        11 months ago

        citing latency issues

        Which is clearly a load of BS, because using these headphones on Windows when gaming is totally fine.

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          11 months ago

          otherwise how they can sell overpriced headphones with a proprietary protocol that can be only used with that console?