Hi everyone, I need your help with something.

My old JBL headphones are starting to degrade, and so I’m looking for a replacement. As I have a FairPhone now, I don’t have an aux jack anymore. I’m also not a huge fan of audio over bluetooth.

So I’ve started searching for some simple over-ear or on-ear cabled headphones that connect with a USB C cable. I have found one from lenovo, but it is a headset with a boom mic. Ideally I just want headphones, simple and robust. I don’t care about noise-cancelling or other bells and whistles.

Anyone have anything?

Note: I know adapters are a thing. I find them annoying and prone to damage. I don’t want to use one.

  • IMALlama
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    5 months ago

    A number of over-ear Bluetooth headphones support usb-audio. rtings provides a list, but I’m sure there are more out there.

    I resisted converting to Bluetooth headphones for a while and this route provided a decent bridge. Bluetooth LE audio seems like it will be nirvana between low latency, audio quality, and energy efficiency but not many devices support it currently.

    • UNY0NOP
      2·
      5 months ago

      Wonderful! Thanks for the list, this is exactly what I’m looking for.

      • IMALlama
        1·
        5 months ago

        No problem! That list will contain active headphones that have an onboard DAC, so they look like a USB audio device to whatever you plug them into.