I basically listen to music constantly, and when I’m on holiday or riding my bike I generally use USB-C earbuds. I’ve had way too many wireless buds break and I’m sick of them, but these aren’t fairing much better tbh.
Problem is that the cables always eventually stop working, often from my phone being in my pocket while I’m walking or cycling. I’ve been able to partly extend their life by keeping my phone in the thigh pocket on my cargo pants but it often just falls over and bends the cable more sharply than my hip pocket.
I’m looking for either a pair of highly durable earbuds either USB-C or 3.5mm with a USB-C DAC recommendation, or even better a DSP cable that I could use with IEMs with a 0.78mm connector.
I’m also open to any other suggestions at all.
shaling and a few other chifi brands make a tiny ipod clip sized mp3 player that has bluetooth functionality. As a bonus you won’t be wearing out and breaking your usbc port by putting a huge lever on it and if you put it in your pocket, applying force on the lever every time you move yourself.
t. stopped using phones as music players since this is a foolproof method of killing any ports on your phone.