I've been embarrassed for NL several times from various articles but this one is kind of a new low. (And is also the only BT headset the PS4 was supporting last time I checked, but they (hopefully) fixed that in patches after I stopped checking.Īt minimum they're living in a bubble if 'wireless headphones' translates in their minds to 'PC gaming headsets.' At maximum they're deliberately seeking clicks with false headlines that 'can be interpreted' as true if you look half sideways at it. The complaint was about actual commercial wireless (aka bt) headphones that everyone that owns an Apple product has no choice to not own So the article kind of blew its own cover by pointing out it's aware of the complaints.Įven the Sony unit in question is kind of their legacy product, their BT set is their core product. I don't recall a host of those complaints revolving around it not supporting USB receiver dongles. Still the article references the frequent complaints about Switch not supporting wireless headphones. Apple has cranked that normal to 11 of what 'wireless headphones mean.' But the headline doesn't say 'PC oriented wireless headsets', it says 'wireless headphones', which in common parlance in 2017 means bluetooth headphones, as the only wireless headphones on the market that are not bluetooth are either very low end ones, PC gaming headsets, or bespoke ones like the Sennheiser RS line I use with a proprietary radio protocol over 2.4GHz, and DAC/ADC/charger cradle.

Thu 19th Oct Most PC-oriented 'wireless headsets' do indeed use a receiver dongle, because the PC industry still hasn't adopted BT at this point outside laptops for the most part, and since it's a heavily wired device there's little real advantage to (expensive) BT over (cheap) serial over radio, particularly where latency is an issue and AptX adds additional cost.

Sades headset does not exist