Bragi Compares The Dash and The Headphone to Apple's AirPods

[groovyd]

They both turn off because Apple has it set up that if you take one out, you most likely are trying to listen to somebody or something else- Genius

perhaps then a simple tap on the remaining one would resume playback and only on that one until the other one is re-inserted.

 

[citi]

racist

#blackairpodsmatter

 

[CarlJ]

if the airpods end up being terrible I will return those too. Bragi simply doesn't have enough information to be comparing anything.

Remember this is the company that rushed to have a release a few days before Apple's predictable, scheduled, yearly event. I think they're trying to not get drowned out in the rush to get AirPods. It's telling that Apple doesn't refer to the AirPods as bluetooth earphones, because quite a few consumers have had less-than-stellar experiences with bluetooth (yes, all us nerds can navigate the process). Indications are that the AirPods sound quite good (from the few that have had the chance to try them), but they could simply be decent sounding, and dead-simple to connect, and Apple will sell literal tons of them. Because a lot of (non-tech-forum-inhabiting) people are looking for "sound as good as the included wired headphones, but without wires". And that's something Apple is quite capable of pulling off. And Apple can offer them at iPhone purchase time ("would you like fries with that?"). Bragi is worried about becoming irrelevant, regardless of their earphones' merits.

 

[AdonisSMU]

Remember this is the company that rushed to have a release a few days before Apple's predictable, scheduled, yearly event. I think they're trying to not get drowned out in the rush to get AirPods. It's telling that Apple doesn't refer to the AirPods as bluetooth earphones, because quite a few consumers have had less-than-stellar experiences with bluetooth (yes, all us nerds can navigate the process). Indications are that the AirPods sound quite good (from the few that have had the chance to try them), but they could simply be decent sounding, and dead-simple to connect, and Apple will sell literal tons of them. Because a lot of (non-tech-forum-inhabiting) people are looking for "sound as good as the included wired headphones, but without wires". And that's something Apple is quite capable of pulling off. And Apple can offer them at iPhone purchase time ("would you like fries with that?"). Bragi is worried about becoming irrelevant, regardless of their earphones' merits.

I had the Bragi Dash headphones and my regular EarPods sound far and away better and for 1/10th of the price.

 

[Rigby]

Remember this is the company that rushed to have a release a few days before Apple's predictable, scheduled, yearly event.

Of course. A startup has to make noise to be noticed. Nothing wrong with that.

Indications are that the AirPods sound quite good (from the few that have had the chance to try them), but they could simply be decent sounding, and dead-simple to connect, and Apple will sell literal tons of them.

That may be so, but Apple's sales numbers are irrelevant for my own purchase decisions. In terms of audio quality, Apple's earphones (both the in-ear and the two earbud models they had so far) have never been very good compared to specialized companies. And the fact that they can't block out noise simply disqualifies earbud-type models for many things I use earphones for. The only interesting thing about these IMO is the easier switching between devices (assuming it works well), but that's not really a big deal. The pairing isn't as important because you only do it once per device anyway.

Bragi is worried about becoming irrelevant, regardless of their earphones' merits.

Hopefully they won't (same for Earin, Kanoa and whatever others are out there). We need small innovative companies. But I'm not too concerned, since the Airpods will only show their usability advantages on Apple devices, which are obviously not the only game in town.

 

[Imserious]

Desperate measures from Bragi, Such a shame to see them stoop so low.

 

[oneMadRssn]

You probably didn't realize it, but you can use your phone or watch.

Oh, so I need another $300 accessory to make up for a functionality missing in the $160 accessory. Great.

As for using the phone to adjust volume, yes I know I can do this, but there is a pretty good reason Apple had been putting the 3-button controls on headphones since 2009.

 

[Vanilla35]

Might be just me, but I hear the outside world just fine with my standard iPhone headphones in (and would expect the AirPhones to be similar). Still, I take the headphone out when I am talking to someone, because it is ****ing rude to talk to someone with something in your ear that is noticeably not a hearing aid. IMHO, I'd rather have better noise isolation than more "audio transparency" in earphones.

I see this "audio transparency" thing as Bragi trying to make a bug (poor noise isolation) into a feature.

I believe that's just a social norm. If you think about it, we take out the headphones because we are used to hearing music, therefore take them out to hear the person speaking. The reverse is found that they assume you cannot hear them, therefore it is "rude" to do so. The difference with these headphones (and will soon be the future) is that with pass-through hearing (audio transparency) is that you will just have to do a quick swipe, and then you won't have to take anything out. It will be just as clear to the person who is speaking to you, that you can now hear them.