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Digital Trends - Sonos Debuts Its First Headphones, LG unveils 10,000-Nit OLED Display for headsets
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LavitzSlambert
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Big Sonos fan and was looking forward to the headphones. But if they don’t do anything different than the AirPods Max, I don’t see how they can justify the price.
Sleepwalker
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Imagine a 10,000 nit oled TV, rofif will either go blind or say nits are important now
Bojji
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Is pumping 10.000 nits directly into your eyes safe for them?
willothedog
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You need insane brightness if using pancake lenses
Imtjnotu
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No ldac.. No lossless... Thin bass profile. Massively overpriced
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Single button press to output anything connected to your Sonos system to the Ace sounds really nice to me.
I have my Series S, Switch, PC, Apple TV, etc.. all outputting to my Arc setup. Would be really nice to just turn on my headphones and have everything automatically output to those instead.
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LordCBH
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LavitzSlambert
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That is what made me interested in the Ace to begin with. I saw someone posting about how the Apple TV can be used as a receiver for consoles. I don't think it would work seamlessly with my Sonos 5.1 setup, which is a point in favor of the Ace. But my headphone use cases are already covered except for one edge case that is just inconvenient, not impossible.
Apple TV - bluetooth headphones for all streaming
PS5 - wired headphones
Switch handheld - wired headphones
Switch docked - repair bluetooth headphones
I might end up with an Ace at some point, but $450 seems like a lot to ask for the single button functionality.
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Agreed on all points.
Ace has some appeal to me, but I think it’s going to bomb with general consumers and we’ll probably see significant discounts before the end of the year.
If I can get a pair for ~$300 around Black Friday, I might bite.
LavitzSlambert
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That's where I stand too, if they priced it comparably to Bose and Sony I would be all over it. But right now it's Airpods expensive without the H1 chip, with unknown ANC, and it lacks high quality codec compatibility. A 30% upgrade discount would take it down to $315 and at that price, then maybe. Typical 15% discount would still put it around $380 which is a hard sell when there are so many workarounds using other headphones.
Silver Wattle
Gold Member
While the display might be technically capable of 10k nits, I doubt any company that uses it would choose to use such a high brightness.
It's more likely they will restrict it to say 2K-4K nits to increase the lifespan of the display.
It's more likely they will restrict it to say 2K-4K nits to increase the lifespan of the display.
hybrid_birth
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Me booting up Assassin’s Creed 3 remastered on thst tv in a dark room
Del_X
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Mostly agreed and it probably has poor imaging and separation but wireless LDAC is kind of a meme. At least on Apple's iPhone hardware, AAC 256kbs seems to outperform wireless LDAC and aptX-HD.
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