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For me its the other way around - I have wired headphones lasting for many years while wireless ones break down randomly after short use.

We will never see eye to eye

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I have never experienced wireless headphones breaking down. Im on my third pair in years - the first pair failed because the cable that joined the two buds died. The second ones, I traded in for AirPods because I got rid of my android.

Meanwhile in the 10 or so years before that I lost multiple pairs of wired headphones to flaky connections - the most common failure method being “have to wiggle it around to get sound through both ears and they intermittently fail if you move too much”

I've been using the original Galaxy Buds since they launched. That's over 5.5 years now.

I kept a Pixel and an iPad Pro around for too long and their batteries ballooned. I wonder if that'll happen with the Galaxy Buds.

Maybe it is time to replace them.

I owned multiple AirPods Pro units over years. Recent models have strong enough ANC, but in addition to losing buds or the case every unit I owned also eventually had a bud malfunction within first few months of its life. Usually it’s a pronounced low bass rumble, I think from ANC either weakening or malfunctioning (which first happened due to possibly careless use in bed, once following a drop, and other times to my knowledge for no reason at all). In my current pair, I had to swap a bud twice. Not a problem, since I do not buy them without AppleCare+ now, but their reliability record compared to my wired Shure IEMs is poor.

Furthermore, battery anxiety. Wired Shure vs. wireless buds is a bit like a regular watch vs. Apple Watch—one is always there, whereas the other if you forget to charge it in 1–2 days is a brick on your wrist—except in case of the watch it is legitimately much, much more functional, whereas between wired IEMs and AirPods they do almost exactly the same thing.

>Careless use in bed?

What is this refering to? Why shouldn't I use wireless buds in bed?

They are (or were) fragile if ANC microphones are pressed against, I think. That was the only possible cause. Good luck avoiding that if you are asleep, unless you sleep like a log and do not move.

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