• Carter@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I’ll never understand wireless keyboards. They just sit on the desk? Why go through the hassle of charging it?

  • faith@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    You clearly haven’t used wireless headphones in last 10 years, have you?

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      1 year ago

      If you use the gamingest headphones with proprietary dongles, you can get decent latency. But then you’re sacrificing on sound quality, comfort, and/or ANC, and if you have multiple devices you want to use them with (eg a console and a PC), you have to either physically move the dongle between them, or suffer with Bluetooth lag and connection hassles on one of them.

      Bluetooth is still bullshit in terms of latency. It will get better with LE Audio, but whether it will get good enough is anyone’s guess, and it’s still in its infancy and support is almost non-existent.

      • faith@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t consider Audio-Technica anywhere “gaming” related, can be pricey though.

        I have a ATH-G1WL (wireless) and ATH-AVA400 (wired) and cannot hear any difference in sound quality what-so-ever, except the 3m cable I have to fiddle with now, which I also have to physically move when changing devices.

        Bluetooth also sucks for mice and keyboard, so yeah…

  • Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Wireless headsets are amazing. It is so nice to just be able to walk away from your desk while still hearing the video you were listening to

    • Piemanding@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      The problem with latency is a bluetooth problem. Get one that doesn’t use bluetooth or Infrared and you’re golden. Idk about cheaper ones but my steelseries headphones are amazing with zero latency.

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    1 year ago

    Wireless Mice and Wireless Keyboard are a no for me.

    Not because of latency, but because of the annoyance of needing to charge them.

    I technically have a wireless mouse, that I just keep wired perpetually.

    Wireless sounds nice because it’s clean, but it’s terrible to use because of the nature of a battery being finite.

  • Sagrotan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hm. The only wireless thing on my gaming engine are the headphones, because I stepped over the cables a few times

  • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The latency has been good for a while. The sound-quality has also caught up recently too with stuff like the Audeze Maxwell