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I used to think this way until I bought a pair of JLabs bluetooth ear buds. Now, I hate using wired headphones because the wire is literally always in the way. I hate being forced to keep my phone right next to me, and snake a wire around.

Now, in the gym, I can throw my phone in my gym bag and not worry about it while working out. I'll never go back to wired.

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> Now, in the gym, I can throw my phone in my gym bag and not worry about it while working out. I'll never go back to wired.

Exactly, doing anything active with wired headphones on isn't fun. They keep getting snagged in things and get pulled off your ears.

Don't think one can be too active with these ones, though. Looks like shaking your head will make them fall out. No silicon that shapes it to the ear, no over-ear stuff or anything that should make it sit.

Many reviews have stated the opposite: that, despite the reviewers feeling like the airpods would fall out when in motions, they stayed in just fine despite shaking heads and jumping up and down.

Wired earphones fall out because the wire is pulling them out. These are wireless, so there's no added weight.

If your ears are ill-shaped for this style of earphone, then they might fall out.

> Exactly, doing anything active with wired headphones on isn't fun.

I do active things with wired headphones all the time, and they rarely get snagged on anything or pulled from my ear.

That said, not having to carry the device that provides the sound source is a convenience that's worth something (though nowhere near the additional cost of these over wired earbuds.)

I still use my HD558s on a very regular basis, including with my phone, but for mobile use that's actually mobile, I'm right there with you - Bluetooth devices do occasionally misbehave in ways that annoy me, but the enormous convenience of not being festooned with wires more than makes up for the occasional transient signal drop. Especially when I'm bundled up in three layers with my phone in my pocket, gloves on my hands, and a beanie or a balaclava on my head. Routing wires is a complex topological problem in these circumstances, and it's nontrivially convenient to just pop an earbud in my ear, start a podcast playing, and go.

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