Do you need an Apple phone to appreciate them?

I just tried it, no worries at all.

Have you tried the Bose ones mentioned in this thread, or Apple’s crazy expensive ones?

Yeah, if I lived somewhere where it went under 20 degrees celsius I can see the appeal. It has been 40+ lately which has made using them pretty horrid, so I’ve stuck to earplugs when cycling instead.

I told them as much, and they just said tough shit, essentially. The quality of the voice is also piss poor; why have ‘premium’ headphones yet you have such low quality (and pointless) sounds? The beeping is also harsh on my ears.

I turned off the touch features as I kept pressing them unintentionally. I won’t get the XM5s (or 6, whatever comes next), least of all as they stopped them from being folded up, strangely.

I also turned off the talk-to-speak thing as I just don’t need it. If I want to talk, I’ll pause my music or take them off. The ‘smart’ features are really not that clever nor useful. I don’t want my music to pause just because I’m wiping sweating off one of the ears.

Indeed, another “failed” with error code 1001 blah blah blah.

So, just to ignore your budget, I have the Sony XM4 headphones (over ear), and… they are okay. In the heat, they get very sweaty, and there are annoying sounds you can’t turn off (on/off beep, and a voice which tells you when it has connected). The noise cancellation is good for constant noises but not sudden ones. Overall, I wouldn’t recommend/buy them again, as they are just fine.

I have tried some in ear ones from Xiaomi (not sure which exactly) which I bought for my partner, and they are, in my limited experience, just fine too, especially for the price (<$50). I don’t know about any long-term idiosyncrasies though, so take that with a pinch of salt. These ones look a bit better: Redmi Buds 5 Pro. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Xiaomi-Redmi-Buds-Black-BHR7660GL/dp/B0CQKHK626/

How do you know? Getting publicity for this isn’t a bad thing, no matter how you try to make it out to be. Sit down.

Ah, to replace/move things about? I can see the attraction.

They had another which had a sliding front to reveal the Mega Drive slot. I think it was light grey.

What’s Steam input?

Ah okay. I rarely use the pads and never found a use for the paddles. What do you use them for?

What does that mean?

This isn’t a big developer. There’s no reason to temper this at all when the developer has a great track record for delivering quality.

I went for the GameSir G7 SE, one black and one white, so me and the missus have our own controllers. The black one has a click to the face button which is quite nice.

I thought I would miss wireless, but the batteries draining on my wireless pad (official) and the slight delay means I prefer the G7 instead. The cable is long enough that we can sit comfortably back on the sofa from our 55" screen. Oh, and the pads came with a month of Game Pass Ultimate so really helped justify them (just over $30 each?). Never thought I’d live to see a third-party controller this good, sold my official one for more than I paid for these.

And a special mention for the Samba de Amigo controllers which I only got to use once because… I thought I would be able to pick a set up after seeing two in GAME (for maybe £99.99 inc. the game?), then ended up selling out and never coming back into stock.

This was about a week ago, since then it was unblocked, then reblocked. Note, this is only the store itself (and the store within Steam), you can still play your existing games, so it seems they have blocked the store front to hamstring or reduce sales so that Valve will then pay whatever tax amount is going to be asked for.

Garbage cunts.

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Anger issues are part of autism.

Replace SP with DS. (: