{"id":12960,"date":"2020-01-13T12:13:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T12:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12960"},"modified":"2020-01-13T13:32:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T13:32:45","slug":"falling-in-and-out-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12960","title":{"rendered":"Falling in and out of love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two years and two months ago (and where the hell did those 26 months go?) I posted about my lovely Bose QuietControl 30 in-ear Bluetooth headphones<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are, without a doubt, the most effective noise-cancelling headphones I’ve ever tried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With noise-cancelling turned all the way up they are so efficient they block out all engine noise from my 1,000-litre motorbike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that I’d ever use them while I was actually riding the bike, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The headphones also give the best quality audio of any in-ear, or over-ear devices I have ever owned or tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But very gradually… I. just. stopped. using. them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For context, my favourite means of listening to music whilst I’m on the go, is (was) my trusty iPod Classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To connect the Bose QuietControl30 headphones to my non-Bluetooth Classic, I have to plug a non-Apple device into the foot of the iPod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This handy Chinese gizmo turns the iPod into a Bluetooth-enabled device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is pretty nifty, I think we’d all agree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except that little gizmo sticking out of the foot of the iPod doesn’t just turn it into a Bluetooth-enabled device. It turns the iPod into a clunk-adverse device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wrong kind of clunk or clank against a solid object could turn the plug-in, or the iPod, into devices that just won’t work any longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So without much by way of conscious decision, I slowly relegated the Bose to the back of the cupboard, and picked up using my usual plug-in Sennheiser earbuds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But lately, alongside my still trusty iPod, I have adopted two new ways of listening to music: occasionally I use my phone because it has acres of storage and an awesome battery life, but much more frequently I use a streaming service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So over the weekend I brought out the Bose, blew the dust off them, charged them up, paired them to my phone and to my laptop and Robert’s your Mother’s brother…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My ears are back in audiophile business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is lovely, obv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mind you, trying not to sing at my desk is proving more difficult than I would have thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later: (just got told off for tapping my feet. may have bee actually thumping them in time to Taylor Swift)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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